post-turkey-day sale!

Posted on Dec 2, 2013 in sale! | No Comments

cyber monday, tardy tuesday… in the spirit of gifting art for the holidays, i’ve decided to slash prices on a few of my paintings that are currently for sale at the magpie furniture gallery in christiansted. now through friday, december 6 2013, each of my caribbean sky paintings will be priced at just $700, and […]

“frosting”

Posted on Oct 27, 2013 in commissions, in-progress | No Comments

continuing work on the ahrens’ triptych: each canvas got two coats of gesso — one to prime the raw canvas, and one to add texture (lisa calls it “frosting”). then i block the background in with acrylics, quickly and with a fat brush.

stretching canvasses

Posted on Sep 17, 2013 in commissions | No Comments

my sister’s very cool in-laws, the ahrens family of oahu, hawaii, have commissioned a large abstract coral triptych. the three panels are each 48″ x 14″. i ordered extra thick stretcher bars from dick blick and unprimed canvas from bigduckcanvas.com. my mom cindy came down for a visit and helped me stretch them.