Above: the unframed "Ultra Pooh" blacklight piece, and below: the individual panels Here's the piece in sketch form, partially painted The final result, in its frame. I want to do more multi-panel paintings; next time I'll have dialogue and a story to link the panels. I'm stoked, though, to have had the ultraviolet Pooh picture work out so well.
"Portrait of Agnes Israelson" (16x20") and, below, two details from same Below, two examples of new blacklight art (both gifts): "Keen's Psychedelic Club Band" a shadow box collage (10x10") "Joe Garagiola" / florescent acrylic on board / shot under blacklight "F O Club" set of four glasses / painted with glass paint " Keen (the Dog)" set of four glasses Below: a sequence of two shots depicting the early stages of a rather large watercolor commission / rough sketch / and then , background mostly done "Yocco House" (24 x 36") watercolor and goache and below, a detail of same. (commissioned portrait of a neighbor's house)
Artist, cartoonist, musician, composer.Formerly maintained an art/music studio in San Francisco from 1985 to 2007. Alumnus of various neat bands like NBC (Neighborhood Bass Coalition),CHOTCHKE, and the noise band BIG CITY ORCHESTRA {1982-1996}, co-composing the cd's BEATLERAPE, THE CONSUMER, and the kid's record A CHILD'S GARDEN OF NOISE with them.
I do portrait commissions of people, animals and buildings in acrylic, watercolors, and allsorts. My studio currently resides in Western North Carolina where I also play old-fashioned country, folk, bluegrass and classic vernacular Americana on the guitar, mandolin and harmonicii.
A gallery of my art is here on Blogspot at : http://mindwrecker-aroguesgallery.blogspot.com/
and I've created several other blogs on various subjects that live in here and are worth a look.
Some of my music lives at: http://www.reverbnation.com/neighborhoodbasscoalition
and at:
http://www.reverbnation.com/chotchke ...
And I do a bi-weekly blog posting at the amazing WFMU's Beware of the Blog at: http://blog.wfmu.org/