hiatus

Hello out there (does anyone actually read this blog?)...I've had some difficult things happen in my life in the last few weeks and I can't work on any art-related things for the time being. Thanks for stopping by and with any luck I'll be able to work again soon. D

one more marylin for AH

I'm still working on these, so they're in painting limbo but thought they'd like to see the light of day on the blog for now.

another Marilyn for AH

Evolution of an artomat

How an artomat block becomes a portrait.

Humphrey Bogart acrylic on artomat block


Marilyn Monroe acrylic on artomat block

final Ingrid Bergman, I think

updated Ingrid Bergman

a few more artomats

Ingrid Bergman acrylic on artomat block


Vivien Leigh acrylic on artomat block

Schmoo 6" x 6" oil on board


Way Back 6" x 6" oil on board


Above PV 9" x 12" oil on board

After working on the artomat pieces, these are liberatingly huge in comparison.

Anna Magnani for LL

acrylic on wood, approximately 1 1/2" square

last two artomats

Lenny Bruce acrylic on artomat block



Madeline Kahn acrylic on artomat block

I'm going to send 30 artomat portraits (see my last few posts for specific paintings) out early next week. If you want them sent to an artomat machine near you, let me know where that is by leaving a comment! :)

one more artomat...two on the way

Early George Carlin acrylic on artomat block

So far all together

six down three more artomats to go

Henry Miller acrylic on artomat block



Paula Modersohn Becker acrylic on artomat block



Truman Capote acrylic on artomat block



Bruno Schulz acrylic on artomat block



Jack Kerouac acrylic on artomat block



Jane Bowles acrylic on artomat block

another artomat

Diego Rivera acrylic on artomat block

three more artomats

Louise Nevelson acrylic on artomat block


Allen Ginsberg acrylic on artomat block


Andy Warhol acrylic on artomat block

I'm getting ready to send a batch out...less than ten to go...

More art-o-mats for upcoming shipment...

Simone De Beauvoir acrylic on artomat block


Josephine Baker acrylic on artomat block


Revised Frida Kahlo acrylic on artomat block


Lilian Gish (needs a little revision) acrylic on artomat block

More possible artomat portraits coming up: Diego Rivera, Giorgio Morandi, Andy Warhol, George Carlin, Nathanael West, Lenny Bruce, Gilda Radner, Louise Nevelson, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Anna Magnani, Amedeo Modigliani, Édouard Vuillard, Camille Pissarro, Oskar Kokoschka, Max Beckmann, Paula Modersohn Becker, Rainer Maria Rilke, Bruno Schulz, Anna Akhmatova, Joseph Roth, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weil, Alberto Giacometti, Tennessee Williams, Jane Bowles, Paul Bowles. If anyone is actually out there reading this blog and has a suggestion for an artomat portrait, please leave it as a comment. Thanks.

In progress

Frida Kahlo pre-revision acrylic on artomat block


Lee Krasner (she's so underrated...she's amazing) acrylic on artomat block

updated Isak Dinesen

Sketches for artomat

Anais Nin


Sarah Bernhardt


Isak Dinesen

in June

These little abstractions...most of them I'll use for underpaintings, but a few I'll leave because I find myself wanting to look closely at them. They remind me of so many things, one of which is the Krylon paintings I used to do for Tower Records displays. It's interesting how random color can suggest things like depth, light, objects. This one is 6" x 6" oil on board.


Claude Debussy - for artomat - oil on artomat block


Marcel Duchamp - for artomat - oil on artomat block


Marcel Proust - for artomat - oil on artomat block