Green Tiger - a gift for my school

School starts again next week, so I'll be back at work teaching in the art classroom soon.  Yesterday I decided to paint a little present for our school.  Our mascot is a tiger and our school colors are green and white, hence the subject matter.  The stripes of the tiger, and using the white of the paper to my advantage, were a lot of fun to paint.  I dropped the painting off at school today when I went in to do some classroom prep, and it looks like it will be finding a home in the main office. Go Tigers!

Prints of the Green Tiger are available through my Society6 shop.

Ocean View of Aquinnah

This watercolor painting is of the clay Gay Head Cliffs in Aquinnah on Martha's Vineyard.  I used a photo I had taken while deep sea fishing the previous summer as reference.  The painting measures approximately 11"x8".  You can see the less detailed color study that I did for this painting right here.

Prints are available through my Society6 shop!

Prints now available through Society6!

Earlier this week I signed up to join the website Society6, and I am proud to announce that I can now offer prints for sale through them.  My other print shop isn't going anywhere, but with Society6 I can offer a wider range of my art as prints, and there is also the added opportunity of being able to have my art printed on laptop skins, iPad skins, and iPhone skins and cases.  Take a look, because there is art posted there for sale that is not in my other print shop.  More art will be added to my Society6 shop in the coming weeks as well.

And as a bonus, shipping is free worldwide through Sunday, August 26th! 

Print Shop Sale!

There is a 48 hour sale in My Print Shop!


Use the code U985ARUL2S to get 25% off.  The sale ends July 5, 2012 at 11:59 PM Los Angeles, CA, time.

If you've had your eye on a print of a particular painting, or even a coffee mug or some fridge magnets, now is a great time to grab it!

Clay Cliffs - a color study

I painted this small watercolor of the clay cliffs in Aquinnah on Martha's Vineyard as a color and composition study for a larger painting. This was done in my watercolor sketchbook and measures approximately 4 1/2" by 6".

Johnny Cash - new painting

I painted this on and off from Tuesday to Friday this past week in my classroom. I was in the mood to just paint a portrait, and my students enjoyed watching it progress over the week. It's approximately 4 feet wide and 4 1/2 to 5 feet tall (it's still at school, so I'm estimating) and was painted with acrylic paint on super thick corrugated cardboard. This picture was taken with my iPhone, but after I take higher quality photos I'll be making prints available through my print shop.

Swimming Fish - new lino print

This reduction lino print was a piece that I did as a demonstration in the summer of 2011 for a workshop that I was teaching. I forgot that I had never scanned it and shared it online, so here it is!

For those who don't know what a reduction print is, here is a good description. I recently started lessons on reduction printing with two of my high school art classes.

Prints are available here in my print shop.

Sea Otter In Love - new painting

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone!

This watercolor, measuring 8"x10", was painted as a Valentine's gift for my fiance. This is the first chance I've had to paint something non-work related in a while and I really had a lot of fun with it.

Prints of this painting are available in my print shop.