Aug 17, 2022 | Animation, Drawing, Food, History, Museum, Painting, Teaching
Godzilla Kong Elena Ohlander is an energenic, beautiful, softspoken artist and I needed to post some of her recent work up here just to remind me of her blazing talent. She is in Grad School now and I have not seen much of her lately. She is also showing her work far...
Aug 17, 2022 | Animation, Architecture, Film, Masterclass, Museum, Sculpture, Sound, Thinktank, Thoughts
Copper Box Chas Smith will tell you he is a welder. He is, and a good one. I hired him do do the structural work on a 60′ tall sculpture I was in charge of fabrication for artist Jonathan Borofski. We became friends and as I got to know more found out he was...
Aug 15, 2022 | Animation, Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Teaching, Thoughts, Wood Carving
Thom’s Black Conte portrait It’s such a pleasure to see Thom Buttner when he shows up to our Tuesday Night Portrait session at the Art League. My parting comments to him after a session include, “Nailed it!”. I really admire his drawing skills...
Aug 6, 2022 | Animation, Drawing, Film, Food, History, Painting, Teaching, Thoughts
Van Arno puts everything but the kitchen sink in there. If I were to describe Van Arno’s work as Epic Lowbrow Historic Surrealism it would not say enough. I met him back in my Holyland days in Los Angeles and we were friends from the start. We worked on a few...
Aug 4, 2022 | Animation, Drawing, Film, History, Masterclass, Painting, Sculpture, Teaching
This was the first artwork I saw by Molly Riefler. She came across my FB feed as a friend of a friend so I guessed she was local. I searched out more of her stuff here and found an old fashioned drawing style by a young woman which reminded me of The Fleischer Bros....Oct 27, 2018 | Animation, Featured, Film, First Friday Films, MCM, Museum, Sculpture, Teaching, Wood Carving
2- one hour docufilms by filmmaker Olympia Stone of Floating Stone Productions http://www.floatingstone.com/DoubleTake About the art of Elizabeth King, who was one of my Professors at VCU Sculpture back in the day. http://www.floatingstone.com/CuriousWorlds About...