Looking Back is Available on Etsy!

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This is an 8.5x11 inch print from the original 24x36 inch painting.

All prints are signed and dated on the back.

All print sales go to fund future paintings.

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Hey! I am selling "Swarm" as a print on Etsy, if you're interested! $18 + $3 S&H. All prints are signed and dated on the back. Thank you for supporting me! All sales go to fund future paintings. xoxox

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Looking Back

**Edit! "Looking Back" is available as a print on Etsy! https://www.etsy.com/listing/244635607/looking-back-gladiolus-revisits-its **

Hello! I started this painting at the end of a crazy week! I got hit by a car while I was riding my bike (I'm okay, just whiplash), I had an art opening where I SPOKE ON A STAGE for the first time, I found out a doughnut I drew a character on for Fight Club 2 ended up in the comic book...so basically my name is published in a Palahniuk book (WHAT?!), I dropped some paintings off on the set of Portlandia (and the art scout LOVED my stuff, even tagged 2 paintings special and wanted to see them in person right away, d'awww), and an artist hero of mine while I was in college wants to grab coffee while she is in Portland early next month! WHOA WHEW WOW...

In the midst of all the chaos I had to have something grounding, and I'm so glad it was this painting.
I got the idea from talking with Portland artist Ben Sellen (who does AMAZING portraits in pastel and oil) about how beautiful flowers and people are when they are no longer all smooth, fresh, and perfect.

Enjoy!

Looking Back

Acrylic on canvas, 24x36

You Can't Sit With Us

So, I officially quit the Daily Painting Project.

However, I have continued to paint daily. I'm just spending my time on larger, more meaningful pieces.

Meet:

You Can't Sit Here//

To the Weed Patch, the Rose is Just a Weed

This piece came from a memory of sitting with a group of mean, petty girls in high school during lunch. They  hated me simply because I would call them out on their mean comments about other people in the school. Needless to say, I started spending my lunches in the Library and with my Art teacher in the Art Room for more time working on art projects. I count that a pretty fair trade ;)

Oh, where are those girls now? No idea, but I hope better off than they probably are...

Iris

Hello! This is not a daily painting, but I'm definitely glad to have it finished since I've ended the completing-a-painting-a-day project.

Meet,

Iris Thirsting, acrylic on canvas, 18x24

Glass and Dead Iris Bud

So, I've recently become obsessed with painting vases of water with dying plants atop them. Here is a sketch for the series. It's been good research.

Daily Painting #9

Glass and Dead Iris Bud, acrylic on canvas panel, 9x12

$160 + $10 S&H