For the last few months, I’ve been exploring light and using the color red. I’m especially drawn to lighter, red-orange hues like Cadmium Red Light and Napthol Red. From the first brushstroke it exudes an “oooh” and then I am challenged with how to preserve enough of the color to strike the balance of the… Read more

In August of 2021, I was the featured artist at the gallery I co-own, following the other gallery artists, Jeremy Simonson (July) and Laura Grisamore (June). The body of work exhibited titled Polar Opposites consisted of two separate bodies of work created at the same time; Silent Screams and Abstract Landscapes. Both were direct results… Read more

My latest print, Blueberry Pie is a multi-block and reduction print.  Two of the blocks were reduced to create an additional color (five total) and therefore the edition is limited to 18.  Printed on Kitakata, a cream-colored Japanese paper, the image size measures 8 x 5″.  This print is now available for purchase. As many… Read more

The 100 Day project is now over and I feel accomplished in that I was able to complete what I did during that time.  While I basically explored during this project, I managed to make 2 Coptic bound books, create about 20 plexiglass plates and started another box based on the Victorian sewing box.  I also… Read more

I’ve started a series of prints that I am calling “Kitsch-en” Prints.  The image size is 3 x 3 inches and will be printed on a variety of papers sized 5 x 5″.  I created several plates on plexiglass and will be running them through my etching press in the near future.  These will be… Read more

One of the four projects is completed.  Or you could add in that I created a pattern for a stained glass window of the Spirit Tree that my dad made.  The book is predominately finished, but I am tempted to add a few words.  They would be bold, handwritten using a Lyra graphite stick.  Photos… Read more

I thought I would share a video of one part of the 100-Day project.  I have four projects that I am currently working on (in addition to several at school); this book, a collapsible artwork based on a Victorian Sewing Box, a painting, and a block print.  This will be a six signature Coptic bound… Read more

      The pink houses have now taken on more variety and I’ve allowed other colors to join in the fun.  However, I’ve kept the palette limited but the additional colors have started generating enough ideas to create two projects.  One will be a hand bound book using a bookbinders board without any covering. … Read more

I have no clue why I signed up to do the 100 Day Project again.  I didn’t even think about it, I just did it.  I left a vague description of my project but basically, I said something about “pink houses” and “spirit trees.” I’ve been signed up for about 5 days and during that… Read more

Apparently, my muse is telling me to continue with the Pink Houses.  They have returned, but I have been working with digital images because frankly, the house has been too cold to work with other materials in the studio area.  The temperatures have been sub-zero for a couple of weeks and my house until a couple… Read more

Recently, I invited Laura Grisamore into my art classroom as a guest speaker.  Laura is a photographer/photojournalist that does some incredible work.  She’s vibrant, engaging, and sucks you into her infectious personality. During the course of her presentation, she showed a photograph of a tree that she called her “Spirit Tree.” It is a tree that… Read more

I’ve exhausted the idea of continuing the Pink Houses for now. I am sure it will return and I did create two acrylic paintings that are located at the Serendiptiy Gallery in Pequot Lakes, MN. Over the summer months, I explored that and then managed to cross off a bucket list item, which was to… Read more

Three months ago I started the 100 Day Project.  I decided to explore an idea that has been festering for well over 20 years based on John Mellancamp’s song Pink Houses.  I printed, sewed, painted, drew and played.  I used some of my starting points to use for demos for student projects I developed for an… Read more

As part of a demo for an experimental drawing class, I started layering marks and drawings of a propellor.  After several hours and nearly tossing the work completely, I threw down some of the monoprints that I had sewn on to sort through them a bit.  I had no idea the two would create the… Read more

I completed this. A 6’x 8′ canvas that will act as a prop for the play The Elephant Man which can be seen at The Historic Chief Theater in Bemidji, MN in early February. Back to the Pink Houses now. Read more

I’ve been busy.  I’m still playing with the Pink Houses but I took a commissioned job for a theater piece that apparently needed me to bring it to fruition.  I recently finished the book Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert and am embracing some of the wisdom she shared.  It’s a philosophy I can easily sink… Read more

Oh, why not? Right? Read more