1/23/2010 - A New Year

• You know its been a busy year when you haven't made one blog entry for more than a year. Its hard to believe that I have had this website that long. Quick update; I am currently engaged to be married on February 20th to Dayna Groom, a very amazing woman. She's a 1st Grade school teacher and the kids and I enjoy going to her softball and ice hockey games. Although she can more often than not beat me in a game of P.I.G., I've got her whooped in the drawing and painting department. We make a good team and balance each other very well. The kids are doing great. Bransen is in 3rd grade and goes to Dayna's school. Scarlett started kindergarten this year and is already reading very well. It's nice to have her at home in the mornings. Eventhough I don't get much painting done, I appreciate that I have the opportunity to spend that time with her.

  Some really GREAT News! I'll now be represented by the Lovett Gallery in Tulsa, Oklahoma in addition to the A Gallery in Salt Lake City. The Lovett Gallery will be very promising and I look forward to them pushing me in my work.

  A few of my pieces will be going down to the Annual Sear's Invitational at Dixie College. Show opens February 12th, President's Day weekend.

6/29/08 - 25th Anniversary Show

• The gallery's 25th anniversary show was spectacular success. Jennifer Rasmussen had some new brilliant paintings. I really like her work. Also, Greg Stocks had some wonderful new pieces and one in particular. He used a green that pushed up against this blue in these trees he had painted. A new combination I had never seen him use before. It was so striking, I just stared at it for a few minutes.

Something inpiring happened on the way to Vernal

• It was late Friday night, about 1230 am to be exact. I was going up to help my step-dad move shops. The drive to Vernal has often been a time for introspection. I was thinking about where I am in life, what I'm doing and how it's working out for me. I have been thinking alot about this same matter for a couple weeks now. I realized as I often have I need to be doing something in art and something more with my own art. Just then a brilliant thought came to me and my mind began to turn with all the potential and great many possibilities. At one point, I had to pull over to write down all the ideas. Eventhough it was after one in the morning, I was so electrified with these thoughts that when I finally got to Vernal the first thing I did was sit down at the computer and email an acquaintance with my idea before I talked myself out of it. I will be meeting with him this coming week to discuss the idea and the possibility of actually making it happen.

6/03/08 - New found inspiry

• I took three paintings to the gallery Thursday and have one more I'll be taking up to complete my contribution to the Summer Show. This last one I'm particularly very excited about. Here's why: other than a large scale commissioned piece of a Lake Powell landscape, I haven't painted any other Southern Utah landscapes. This one is a large scale 60"x18" vertical piece of the Upper Emerald Pools Waterfall in Zions National Park. It was photographed while there with my family a week ago. The landscape composition was inspired by one of the great western painters of our time, Frank C. McCarthy. Thanks Frank. I was looking through one of his books and came across this amazingly striking composition. I couldn't get it out of my head, so when we went into Zion's the next day I was bound and determined to find something with which I could paint a similar composition. I wasn't exactly sure if it would turn out the way I saw it in my head, but I must say I'm pretty pleased. I'll have it photographed and up on the site soon. In the meantime and for the real deal come to the gallery opening on June 28th.

5/15/08 - I've had a lot of things going on in life lately:

• I have been working unceasingly in both real estate and painting.
• I had a long converation with Robert Doak, painter and supplier of fine artist materials. I don't know if he means too, but with his east coast personality and bluntness, he was cracking me up. I'm sure it was annoying to him. I think he wanted to hang up on me many times. At least twice just for using Maroger medium. He is sending me some of his products with which to experiment.
• My kids are doing great. Bransen is excelling in school. He is at a third grade reading level in the first grade. Scarlett, my little pony, is as full of life and personality as ever. They are wonderful children and keep me busy.
• I took three paintings up to the gallery last week. Show opens tonight. I have two weeks to get one more painting finished and then I'll be taking three more up for the big 25th Anniversary Show on June 28th.

4/18/08

• It's been two months since my last blog. It feels like last week. Time really goes by. Some new things in my life. I got custody of my two amazing children about 6 weeks ago. It has changed my life, so much for the better. It's a lot different having a daily responsibility for two young children from just looking out for oneself. It has made such a positive and incalcuable difference in my life. It's opened many opportunities for me.
  I have been working on getting as many pieces done for my gallery's, the "A" Gallery, Summer Solstice Show which also happens to be their 25th anniversary Show. It opens on Saturday, June 21st from 6 - 9 pm. So far I have two pieces and hope to get two more done by then.

2/20/08

• I'm going to start a blog here. There are a few different things I want to incorporate into my website, so I'm still trying to decide whether to make it all part of the blog or to make them separate.