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2016 Portland Building Installation
Benz and Chang won a juried commission to install a piece of public art in the Portland Building starting mid-September 2016. The photos above are different views of a model of what I plan to build for it, except the content will be a little different. The finished piece will be room-sized and be installed in a room. Every year the Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC) puts out a call for artists to submit Read more…
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Painting in Progress – Show Mlle Sabrina
I have a superstitious thing about showing work in progress, so it’s a little deceptive to call this “Painting in Progress” but there it is. With this painting, I’ve got a bunch of source photos to show as well. Show Mlle Sabrina is a reproduction quack spiritualist photograph of the sort that John Beattie, Frederick Hudson, and Georgiana Houghton (among others) made. INSPIRATIONAL PHOTOS REFERENCE PHOTOS TAKEN BY ME PAINTING IN PROGRESS
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Decision Making
I have made four online versions of the Magic 8-Ball. I made them mobile-friendly, so I could put links to them on my phone and get answers anywhere I find myself. My online Magic 8-Ball. This is the traditional Magic 8-Ball with 20 answers. It features a built in 3 second wait to make up your own mind. If you want to ask again, simply click the answer. The Magic 8-Ball Plus. This Magic 8-Ball Read more…
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Painting in Process – Cleopatra’s Needle
The number one question about my paintings is still: “How do you do them?” So I decided to put together a couple of “in progress” kind of posts. The answer is with little brushes and walnut ink. Walnut ink is a traditional ink made by boiling the entire nut and husk that falls out of the tree. At the end something is added to the ink to keep it from growing mold. In the case Read more…