Next couple of phases.

Added a bit of grout, visible in the top image. Not sure I like how the blacks dwindled, but I'll take it for a first attempt. There's much more to do, including adding gray-green tiles to the area outside the comb, and then setting it into the floor, surrounded by larger marble squares.

Progress. Just a bit.

I really don't know what I am doing.

Bee Mosaic

Working on this for the house.

An Army of Patriots.

Article about the need for an "army of patriots" in support of public education.

Self-Regulation

Beneficiary.

Santo Stefano.

Photos from my week at the dune shack.

Spring break.

No electricity, no running water. 
Just mute isolation in the dunes.

Finito.

more

Fugit hora.

Time is fleeting.

I've done a little more work on the painting, but time is short for me these days with all of the paper pushing and such at school. I need to finish.

A new development is that I'm considering reproduction of the Prayer in Latin, as opposed to English. I am concerned that it may read a little holy roller (not my point) so obscuring the language may steer me clear of that trap.

St. Francis Progress

After several days of inactivity (a combination of post-semester and holiday doldrums) I got back in the studio, thanks to the foot or so of snow dumped on us last night. Here's the progress thus far. Lightening up a bit, working things all over. I'm trying to be careful to avoid a coloring book approach, keeping things pretty dark until I can decide what to do with color in its final state.

Head above water.

Good question.

Apology.

The Martyrdom of Saint Stephen

St. Francis Progress

Beginning the Prayer of St. Francis

I'm very excited about this new painting. It's about 4 x 3 feet, based on a sketch done several months ago. Here, I've laid down an underpainting on black gesso as a means to block out the figure/ground relationships. 


Like the St. Theresa sketch shown in a post from a couple of days ago, I'm pursuing some ideas about self-reflection (literally) in dialogue by mystics like Francis and St. Theresa, whose relationships with God were, to my mind, really very full relationships with the self.

The RI6

Finally getting around to posting some sketches and the finished logo for the Rhode Island Six Hour Ultramarathon and Relay, which was held in mid-November.


I did a ton of sketches, and I'm including a small sampling below. The final design (featured last in this post) was an amalgam of a couple of designs preferred by the client. I usually think throwing in too many independent ideas is a little risky, but in the end I think it worked out ok. My favorites were the digital clock ideas—pretty simple and not your typical race logo stuff.