KANSAS!

holy hell, what a blur of a trip. can't tell you about it yet but here's a fun tidbit, I'm pretty sure I stopped someone from burning down a garage!

covered in fur.

I'm not sure if I just had an epiphany...lemme explain.

I've had trouble painting since leaving graduate school. I haven't stopped making art. I've sketched prolifically and have made about eight paintings. Six of those paintings made their way to the fire pit. They sucked balls.

The reason and epiphany? I was trying to make work that looked like my last body of work and I don't think I can (or need to) recreate what I did for my thesis show. The only two paintings I've liked are the ones that can't relate to my last body of work.

Which lead me to the conclusion, its time to make some new shit.

monsters!

a detailed ball of fish.

The Catfish ate the Shad. I ate the Catfish. Circles.

Mummichuggles is my hamster. She loves hostess snacks. But I don't let her fill her cheek-pouches. Obesity is already an epidemic.

Catfish ball!

Winter wasn't that long ago.

Lake Red Rock. Near Knoxville, Iowa.

Rhyming with otters.
The Hungry Bear, in Burlington (IA), wins the award for best signage font. Check out that "y", the serif is a bear head.

This is the closest I've ever been to an owl. I wish it was in a tree and breathing.

friends.

I feel very close to you right now. blargh.

if only life was like this...

it wants to eat you!

the birds are eating.

Great Blue Heron are spearfishing along roadsides by the DesMoines River. The flood water is retreating and carp are stuck in stagnant pools of crummy sludge water. Heron are spearing fish like crazy.

These drawings were made for an animal that died a long time ago. I never saw him alive. All I saw were his feet laying on a chair. I still think about that day and that squirrel. And sometimes I wonder why everything I draw about or write about are lifecycles ending. Somber tone. My bad?

fightin' in the sky.

eagletwist.

I've been spacing out a lot.

aperchforabird.

barely awake for this one.

drippyfoodpile.

oh and they fell.

eaglespirals.

siamese twins.

floatinglovedeer.