View fullsize 👁 - work in progress, 2pm friday, after Alex Prager



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View fullsize 👋 This recent red one is related to the blue one of a few months back, here they are both. 
 “Astronaut” Acrylic on wood panel, 2022
11.75” x 11.75” And again: “In the blue field” Acrylic on wood panel, 2022
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View fullsize 📽 closeups of the work I just finished, and on the last slide a full view with the head of Klaus Kinski – “I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.&rdqu
View fullsize 👁 A large untitled painting, a detailed view of a little critter on the beast’s forehead, then me twice next to it to show scale; I’m considering a tweak. Acrylic on canvas. 


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View fullsize 👁 Details: the last one was the golden earring painted yesterday with my tiniest brush. In this piece I like the irregular rendering - loose in places, tighter in others – and the medieval feel of that odd little bird (slide 3) and this overse
View fullsize Djeezus. The Doan twins just showed up – à l’improviste as they like to say – and went ahead with the usual Good Van Doan / Bad Van Doan routine but, you know… Just a little bit late. This one’s going to Juarez 

View fullsize 👁 Last time I showed this yellow painting (swipe) @jonah_june_art walked by with serendipitously matching hair; we took a picture, they looked so perfect together that a few days later I had to paint her eyes permanently in there. You’re a gem
View fullsize 👁 @bellquintao looks away from my painting… frightened by the big bad wolf? I think not – she’s known for designing killer shoes. This is one of my quickest improvised pieces. Still a couple of weeks from start to finish, but only
View fullsize 🏄‍♂️ @jaybrockmanart invited me - dragooned me, really – to paint in his studio, he said “c’mon, man, use the big wall.” Thanks Jay! My biggest yet, stay tuned… 
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View fullsize 👁 This one born shortly after I finished “In the red field”, the war-themed piece I posted last week. Both heartfelt images, both with open questions… On the surface this attentive little dude stands in a field of blue but you&rsq
View fullsize 👁 The soldier carried off the field by mystifying spirits isn’t my son, but it looks like him, beautiful boy. We’re doing this to ourselves, to our children, and we know it. I painted the scene around the time when the war in Ukraine be
View fullsize 👁 Here are more details of my painting “Éminence rouge” (other bits shown earlier) and the whole thing. Also seen is the eminent Jakub Józef Orliński, because I just heard him in concert with pianist Michal Biel last Sunday and
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View fullsize … picked up 3 worn camshafts from my mechanic, plus a big old pan from @urbanore; dropped it all in the capable hands of @armachineman and voilà: a wicked and EXTREMELY STURDY little stool among my valuables #soshiny #sochrome #furnit
View fullsize 🛶 this moves away from how I usually paint; different approach, technique… a little excursion to a more distant shore 👉🏿 and it glows in the dark! Bright green first when you turn off the light, then as your eyes adapt, a shift towards a
View fullsize 👁 three close-up bits of a new thing. More soon. 🦑“Éminence rouge” - details Acrylic on canvas, 2022 #wip #detail #red #artobserved #newcontemporaryart #thecompoundgallery #oaklandartist #bayareaartist #artcollecting #artinflue
View fullsize 👉🏿”Prehensile Shootout”, all done - 3 detail shots and full view, inspired by the effervescent music of Thelonious Sphere Monk. 

“Fusillade Préhensile” Acrylic and metallic paint on wood 18x24” 2022 #🤯 #thelo
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View fullsize 💬 The thought of naming this new painting “Le lieu des âmes disparues” (The place of departed souls) was confirmed when the otherworldly Jonah June - author of “What’s it like to be dead?” and other arcane treasur
View fullsize “I heard you twice the first time” Diptych, 9 x 12 per panel acrylic and wax on canvas 2021 I stole the title from Branford Marsalis’ 1992 album. The man, seen here, is apparently first-rate with words, not just with notes…