yep, I've been a pretty lazy artist most of May, ever since the end of the Underground show. Aside from this Coffee bag label for the Arsaga's café, I haven't done much.

Toward the end of February, I was asked to show some of my work in the Hive gallery at the Fayetteville Underground Studio/Galleries building. Since I really had nothing to show at that time, I had to hit it hard to have enough finished pieces by April.

I was scared and anxious, sleeping very little, worrying too much, and neglecting to eat, shower or clean my apartment. Sounds dramatic. One would think I should have more than 12 pieces to show for it (one of them is not pictured in this post), but if you knew how hard it is for me to call something finished and move on to the next thing, then you would understand why this was a personally significant accomplishment.

Opening night finally came and half of the paintings sold during that three hour event. Fayetteville Underground was also celebrating their one year anniversary, so it was extra special fun.

I titled the show, It Eels What it Eels.

It will be on display until the end of April.

All of the work was painted on convex wood panels. In this photo, you can how they bulge out from the wall.

I'm slow posting these, but they're better late than never. Unfortunately these are my only photos of them and the quality isn't too good.

These are painted on a barrel that I had cut into thirds. When they're hung, they curve away from the wall by 5inches. On the Clocktopus, the big cogwheel/clockface is actually a circle, but in the photo it appears elliptical because of the curvature.

Toastigator

Refridgiraffe

Clocktopus

The paintings sold at the 11th Art Amiss event held at the Dickson Theater.

These photos were taken with my PANO iPhone app.

I was also part of the PROJECT FEED LOCAL show at ddpgallery in fayetteville, AR.

I did a linocut print on a paper grocery bag.

It's a Jellyhorse, don't poke it.

And these pics from the show were shot from a helicopter at ddpgallery

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All of these photos were processed with TiltShift Generator on my iPhone

LITHO TRIPTYCH

I asked for the sexiest robots they could find. They sent assassins

Spent an evening shooting robot action figures. This is a Star Wars bot that I've had since the year Return of the Jedi was first released.