bigger and with color

I'm thinking about making this as a 48" round oil pastel changing the flower color.

boat sketch

What I am planning for this at the moment is to build the piece out of 15 smaller framed pieces and assembled on a wall to get the full impact, I think the finished composition will measure 90" x 96" when installed and will most likely be screen printed with color pencil line drawing over it.

A sample of Some new color pencil drawings I've started

its a hungry flower

Panel Discussion 12/16/10

"FLOURISH" PANEL DISCUSSION:
Defining the Sublime with the artwork of Jennifer Davis, Erika Olson Gross, Terrence Payne, & Joseph Siness

Is there a line to be drawn between fine art and design? Is one inherently more valuable to our culture than the other? Does the world of fine art have any influence over how you view your world and the media you view it through? Join the artists of Flourish and the panel of experts they have invited in exploring the answers to these and many other questions regarding the roles of artists and designers in the wild west of modern media today.

Guest panelists for the evening are:
+ Burlesque of North America Founder MIKE DAVIS
+ MCAD Professor TOM GARRETT
+ Space150 Associate Creative Director JASON STRONG
+ bd'm Art Buyer KIM WITCZAK

Each of them will be sharing his or her professional expertise and unique insights on the show. MAEP coordinator Christopher Atkins will moderate the panel and open up the discussion to the audience. Feel free to jump into conversation and bring along your questions!

Fine Art & Design: Panel Discussion
Thursday, December 16, 7-8:30p.m.
MAEP Galleries, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
FREE & open to the public
facebook event page: http://goo.gl/1JZLe

The discussion will be followed by an informal reception with the artists and panel members in the galleries and many other fun things to see and do throughout the museum in conjunction with the MIAs Free "Third Thursdays".

This should be a lot of fun and a good chance to mix it up with the artists and pros at the show.
We hope to see you there!

And so this is the final drawing for the MAEP show

still more

Another finished

Another new one

Victory Will Be Mine

another new one for the maep

The First Group Of Drawings For the MAEP show

for this show I am playing with the idea of having several groupings of drawings that relate to one another but also stand well enough alone. it's going to be all about relationships and their different forms I suppose.

some new work for the maep

these are some sketches for a few of the pieces I am working on for the upcoming MAEP exhibit this coming october

knots

chicken fight

thistle

old squirrel ring

this a screen print I'm working on for my show at Umber at the end of the month. I'll follow it up with a few more

Shorter Than I'd Like But Taller Than I Need

High on the horse ?

Taking Baby To Market

Lets Play Cops And Robbers

You Can't Always Lead If You Carry

It Always Picks Me Up To See You Down

Are Your Fingers That Amazing Or Are You Just A Little Stoned?