Category Archives for Art
Digitized Prismatic Painting
An engineer buddy of mine who works at Indeed digitally recreated the mural I have up on a wall there in the Austin office. Here it is Here’s the original
Finished the wooden landscape abstract
Well, this hunk-a-junk is finally out of our garage here in beautiful Portland, OR. For too long it dominated much of the precious garage floor space, so coveted by roommates in need easy access to bicycles. Done now, though. I’m … Continue reading
Started a new art project
I can’t afford canvas, but we’ve got all this wood.
The Sacrament of the Last Supper – Salvador Dali
I’ve never seen this Dali painting before! Crazy. It’s like hearing a hit song by one of your favorite bands, that you somehow missed over the years. The golden ratio abounds in this painting. It’s in the table, the pentagonal … Continue reading
You said it, brother…
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=255285
Astronomical
What a tremendous waste of paper…cool idea though, and beautifully executed. Recycle? http://mishka.lockandhenner.com/blog/?cat=45
First Prismatic Landscape Mural
Just completed a painting. It’s a mural about eleven feet tall and twenty something feet long. I haven’t measured the length. It just looks about twice as long as the height. It’s a landscape. Or it’s not. Whichever’s funnier. Acrylic … Continue reading
Artist Showcase: Max Voss Nester – Surrealism
Max and I have known each other for almost 16 years now. I remember he used to do these incredibly elaborate, fantasmagorical, and somehow realistic pencil sketches that he would spend weeks at a time completing. Well, his work has … Continue reading
Expressing Sounds with Color
I’ve got this idea, but I’m not exactly sure of how to pull it off logistically. I want to turn the sound of two instruments playing single notes simultaneously into a visual landscape, and I want to build it out … Continue reading
Y u no…?
Damn you chain rule!
UFO Guitar Pick
Awesome UFO guitar pick that my beautiful and talented young cousin Juliet Nelson gifted me the last time she was in town. I gotta get up to Dallas and visit her mom Heather, who I adore. Hopefully Andrew, Heather’s … Continue reading
sin b/ tan b = cos by
This is math and art…kinda. right? The expression on his face is priceless. So there’s this… Trigonometric identity: sin x = tan x cos x Therefore, sin x = tan x cos x which means… sin x = … Continue reading
Blue Back Lady sketch
Some lady’s back. I don’t know.
Male nude sketch
Zooooom
Meh
“Wanna hang out later?!” “Meh, I got better things to do.”
“You can’t be serious!” ??
This man is realizing with helpless disgust that he can do nothing to stop this foolishness.
Consternation
Consternation.
Artist showcase: Melissa Lange
It seems like Melissa is in the middle of defining a new style for herself. I love it. Melissa Lange is an Austin, TX based artist.
This is what advertising should be…
I’ve saved these advertisements from a magazine for more than ten years. To this day I still have no idea what they’re advertising, but I thought they were so hilarious that I kept them. I like the dialectic of adult … Continue reading
5 years old sketch
This drawing I did when I was very young, maybe 17 or 18, reminds me of a hilarious advert. I can’t find the pic online, so I’m going to see if I saved it somewhere and take a pic myself. … Continue reading
5 years old Batman sketch
mutha f*ckin’ Batman, y’all.
My work-space
Bless this mess. A few things I’m working on. The long one that’s all trippy is called “Obama Lincoln,” and it’s long due to take it’s place at my friend Brian Hudson’s house on Poquito. It’s comin’ buddy, … Continue reading
Well, my paintings are officially for sale…
http://www.etsy.com/listing/81957017/prismatic-landscape-paintings
“Would you like this cup?”
Here ya go.
Howdy, y’all!
“STOP!…in the name of love…” Sketch from a life-art class I took when I was 11 or 12. Thanks Garage, for all the memories.
Art, Math, Music: Connected~ Who knew!? This guy.
Turns out this Benno Moiseiwitsch guy was pretty amazing. This is his explication on why art, math, and music are all actually the same thing. Very interesting stuff.
Cross Cultural Bowsher
A painting for my friend, Andrew Bowsher. This dude is such a badass. Hope you’re doing well, old friend.
Pipe’s Plus Mural
A mural I did for Pipe’s Plus on the “Drag” in Austin, TX. A gesture of God’s hand that seems to say “Hook ‘em” and “Rock unto thee” as well. That’s my friend Ryan who works down there. If you … Continue reading
Ryan Rooster
If you seen my little red rooster, please drag him home There ain’t no peace in the barnyard, Since the little red rooster been gone.
Oatman Abstract
This is both abstract and overt.
Amanda’s brown and blue painting
I didn’t do this one. My friend Amanda sent me a pic and I fell in love.
Flowers For Sarah
I painted this on a sublime afternoon in the sun.
Back of Painting, John the Baptist
The back of a painting that I thought was more interesting than the front. Is that John the Baptist in the bottom right?
Macro/Micro for Blakers
Macro and micro. Same thing.
Mr. Woody’s Back
This is my high school art teacher, Mr. Woody circa ’96 or ’97, personifying America. He’s turning his back on a world in crisis. He reads about it in the news paper, right in front of him. What an idealist … Continue reading
Evil: Sad and Resolute
He’s an imp. This man must carry out something horrible.
The Ghost of Kyle Fisher
This is the “Ghost of Kyle Fisher.” I think it may be my favorite.
Soft Lightning
When is a door not a door? When it’s ajar.
Maybe Me
Maybe me, maybe not. Either way, I thought it looked kind of Lempicka-esque, so now it’s Devon’s.
Koesterspice Tree
For Steve and Cinderspice.
Bednarbaum
My brother Dan Bednar made this canvas for me when I got back into painting after college. It was the first large format painting I’d done in almost a decade.
Would that it were
One of my favorites, cause it has a little lake between the hills.
Red Earth
Experimenting with different palettes to represent different times of day, and locales.
Even the bravest that are slain Shall not dissemble their surprise On waking to find valor reign, Even as on earth, in paradise; And where they sought without the sword Wide fields of asphodel fore’er, To find that the utmost … Continue reading
Out To Sea
This painting is now safely in the hands of someone who will take care of it. (G)
Happy Accident (rain in the desert)
Rain in the desert. A happy accident.
Chief Rival
This piece is no longer in existence, except as the under girding for another painting. I’m not even sure which one anymore. lol.
Rainy Day With Ballons and spiel
All of these striped paintings are landscapes. It’s as if one were viewing these vistas through a prism. The sun peaks over a verdant pasture. Once you get a little closer you can see that the color lines, where masking … Continue reading
Bob Ross forced to eat own heart out.
(…and if you tell ANYONE those clouds are there…!)