Pansy / Pensée

I’ve always loved how the English word for the flower comes from the French one, “pensée,” which, in a pretty piece of poetry, is also the French word for “thought.”  Je trouve ça beau que la fleur soit nommée pour ce qui nous passe par la tête.

You Bag / Comment traduire?

My You Bags are some of my favorite kind of work, especially when David’s face is on the tote and the bag is for me!  You Bag se traduit littéralement par «Vous Sac» et ça n’a pas du tout le même sense.  L’effet est complètement perdu dans la traduction.

Complete

Complete means “having all the necessary or appropriate parts.”  For a painting to be complete, it needs its subject.

The Gitomer bag

This You Bag is a study for a wall-hanging portrait that I’m currently working on.

Good dog!

Joey is still just a puppy, but he taught an old dog (me!) some new tricks.

On making a mark

In between these detail images of two portraits of Jesse are four years and almost two hundred paintings.  They prove that style isn’t something you cultivate, but something that cultivates you.

Second chance

We’re all chameleons to some degree, adapting our attitudes, expressions, and manners to our environments.  A single portrait often can’t capture all the truths about a single person—and especially if that person is a drag queen!

“Hand it over, sister.”

When Kevin Cook says so, I listen!

Making it up as I go along

It’s the only way I know how to paint, but I’d forgotten until recently that it’s the only way to live too.

“Me-tail”

I didn’t make up the term, but it makes sense to me.  Traditional retail appeals to me about as much as much as making (or buying) the kind of open market art that has a factory-made, gimmicked-out feel to it. 

A little pouch of love

Also known as a little pooch of love.

I ♥ Kevin Cook!

Today was part two of the film filming for OPB’s Oregon Art Beat.  KC and the crew documented my interview with the extraordinary Kevin Cook.

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