45 days until Christmas...

Just sayin'.

Night Lights

Some Aurora photos from last night.  Of course as soon as I got my camera all set it started to fade out. 

 

Oh well, enjoy!

 

That Guy

So a quick note...no I am not in jail, under indictment, or under pre-indictment confinement.   My life just isn't that exciting.  And while it's good to know I'm not the only Jason Vukovich out there, even in Alaska, it's bad to find out that someone similarly named made the news for something other than artwork. 

 

Oh well, now I know how John Smith, Sven Hansen Johannsen Larson, Sean Murphy, Mohammed Mohammed, and Doug Mackenzie (if you're Canadian) feel. 

 

Actually, Li is the most common surname in Canada-who knew?

Maybe I should have added "yet" to list of things I'm not...

 

The big idea.

Experimenting with big paintings to be hung outside.  Acrylic on plastic on a pressure-treated wood frame.  Who doesn't like a big bird.  King Eider, 4' x 6'.

Good Idea Fairy Visited

So I totally stole this idea for paint storage off a repost on Facebook.   And now I really see I need some new paint..


Couple of my oil tubes have price tags from my college art store...shout out to Art Coop.

Subject Matter

I've been looking for a theme lately, a direction for building a show.  Last year the Alaska Railroad painting sucked up a lot of my artist energy so I'm looking forward to rebuild a body of work.   I think I found it in some of our local animals.   Stay tuned (or not given my blog view stats lately, jeez, nobody wants to look at stale blogs that never get updated...what's up with that?)


Behold, the artistic process in all it's glory.

Aurora Morning

I may have been a little late to work today after spending a few minutes watching the aurora this morning...how could you not stop to watch the northern lights!   I could even see them from my office downtown, it has to be one of the best perks of life in Alaska.

From last fall, this morning was waaaaaay better!