Truths

Mixed media, paper and acrylic. I love the wide expanse of emptyness in the middle. I dont think this photo does this picture any justice either, but mostly because of the angle....when I hang them, I am going to take new pics.

Eulogy

This photo really does this painting no justice. Mixed media, paper, acrylic, ink, gold pigment and lace. The gold really stands out, and the lace adds a lot of texture. Each artist has a sampling of their lyrics next to their pic written by hand. Each lyric interestingly enough has morbid overtones to it, as if each person was expecting not to live much longer.

This is my daughter favorite painting of mine.

Queen

This was mixed media, paint, paper, and ink, with 14k gold pigments.

It isn't finished, and additionally, it got damaged in the move from Jersey to Ga. One night I tried to remove the canvas from the frame (with a steak knife) so I could flatten it and put it on another frame and I sliced my pointer finger almost to the bone. I cried like a baby, I didnt want to go to the hospital, but Joe made me. The doctor said I did in fact need stitches and she gave me the shots to numb it....I dont know what the deal is, but I think I am allergic to that stuff (if you know anything about allergies to novocain, email me) because everytime I have ever gotten novocain I have had a severe reaction to it. This particular time, I felt naseaus, I threw up, then I felt a hot flush go thru my body and I fainted.

Long story short, she shot me about 7 times with it, and the finger still didn't go numb, she eventually wound up doing a stitch with no novocaine, which hurt like fuckin hell, and then putting a butterfly stitch over the rest.

I was supposed to go back to get the stich taken out, but i fiddled with it over the next week and the stich came out on its own, lol. Then i got a bill in the mail for over 1000 bucks. This country sucks.

Anyway, this is one of my favorite paintings, I hope to fix and finish it soon.

Joseph

This painting is not finished, i have a few touches left to put on it. It's fashioned after the Bible story of Joseph and his coat of many colors.

It's mixed media; paper, ink and acrylic. and yes, each and every single one of those colors in his coat was done individually, it took me weeks.