Friday, May 18, 2012

More Humble Beginnings


I just want to say that all these new "improvements" to this blog are annoying as shit. If an improvement is supposed to make the process more unwieldy, illogical and cumbersome then I suppose they've nailed it, but otherwise, I wish they would stop "improving" things. Its like the guys who "improved" this site used to work for the government or something.
With that said, I'm going to try and access my site and get it to work after several aborted attempts. Below is a painting that I finished in February. It is 48 x 96 and formatted like a triptych altarpiece. I finally was able to photograph it, so here is its maiden voyage in the public realm, as it failed to get into the Spring Show at the Erie Art Museum. Its a rather large and heavy piece, so it is a bit of an operation to move it. Nonetheless, I like the piece and I hope at some point to get it out to be seen.


In unrelated business, here is a turtle that I came across while walking out at the peninsula. I flipped him over to take this picture, righted him and set him on his way. Such beautiful creatures. It's getting close to snapper mating season where you regularly see those armored behemoths cruising the Sand-ridge Trail to make their nests and drop their ping-pong offspring. It's quite a sight to see.

In more unrelated business...I've begun the actual building process for this summer's project on the beach. The photos below show the laying of the foundation. Where it goes from here, I can't say for sure. it will be dependent on a lot of variables, most importantly, the amount of stone I can retrieve from the lake after this winter's storms confiscated it.






Friday, May 11, 2012

In Denial

I'm going to make this brief. I have been trying to access my blog, but have not been able to for over a week because of some changes made in the system that my home computer doesn't agree with. I think it has been fixed but I don't want to write some epic, earth-shattering blog revealing the meaning of life, or the exact location of Atlantis, or the last number in Pi if you work it out to the space just short of infinity and then have all of it go for naught when it fails to post. So instead I'm just going to post the finished version of this month's painting including the outer wing panels. The center panel was on the last post. So, here it goes...