Latest Works

Icon IV: The Fruit Bat



"Impala and Bird"



"Red Fox, Gold Birds"

Art of the Gecko

Just a bit of news on my end:

I will be featuring some gecko artwork at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, PA, USA from July 25 through September 7, 2009. The Gecko art show runs in conjunction with the Academy’s live gecko exhibit (see http://www.ansp.org/geckos/highlights.php). Opening night reception and sale is July 24, 5:30 to 7:30 PM.

This art show came about when the Academy put out a call for local artists to take 12” “blank” resin gecko sculptures and decorate them in whatever manner they wanted. I painted my gecko gold and then embellished with paper and foil cutouts, which I then coated with some layers of Modge Podge (a type of sealer) to keep in place.

Having not worked with any sculptures before, it was a bit of a challenge for me to work in 3D. I have some more ideas of what I would do differently if given another chance, but overall, I think the result is interesting. I call him “Golden Gecko”. Below are some photos:







It is also looking likely that I will be in a juried art show in the Philadelphia area in July. Details TBA soon.

Icon III: The Rabbit

Third artwork in my new ICON series. Prints are available for purchase here.

Logo

Hot off the drawing board: New logo I designed for a start-up childcare/tutoring facility that is slated to start operations next spring. The client chose the colors and wanted a logo that projected diversity. Their name, Alpha-Philia, means Beginning Friendships.

Icon II: The Panther

I've been busy all week working on a logo design for a client, but I found time to finish up a second artwork for my new ICON series. This one depicts a regal panther in royal purple hues set against a golden background. You can purchase a matted print, poster or canvas print or card of Icon II through my RedBubble site. I have a bunch more of my artwork available through that site as well. You can also buy a tshirt featuring Icon II through my zazzle shop.

I was at the art store the other day and picked up some 18K gold leaf, so expect shinier artworks to come ;) Also I am in the midst on working on a project, that, if all goes well, will be at a new exhibit on Geckos at Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences this summer. Details TBA.

I am also currently working on having some giclee prints made of Icon I and II as well as The Puma (see below) for retail sales. For those of you who may wish to purchase a giclee online, I signed up with a new webstore on ArtistRising.com. This site features standard giclee prints on matte paper for reasonable prices. Check out my gallery and store by clicking here.

ICONS

Icon I: The Ram


I started working on a new series of artworks earlier this week, and I completed the first one earlier today. The series, called ICON, is inspired by the stylized portraiture found in religious icons, as well as in art nouveau. I have also started experimenting with adding colored foil embellishments to the mixed media artworks.

My first ICON portrait is The Ram. Other animals likely to be included in the new series are a rabbit, a fox, a magpie, bull, and some sort of big cat (perhaps a cheetah or lion).

You can buy a card or print of ICON 1: THE RAM on my Red Bubble site.

I am also now working on getting giclee prints created of five artworks for my upcoming show at Dragon Con. Read about it and view selected artworks on my exhibitions page on my website.

Artist Profile: Joseph Barbara

I joined the online art gallery/artist community of Redbubble a few weeks ago, and since that time have been amazed at some of the quality of work on the site. So I'm profiling one artist who I met virtually, and whom I think is deserving of some recognition for his talents.

Joseph Barbara is an artist from the island of Malta in the Mediterranean. Click on this link to visit his Redbubble profile. Visit his official website here.

A self-described "dream colour expressionist", Joseph's work vision is unique and colorful. Works vary from the surrealistic to the mythical to prismatic to abstract.

Some of my favorite images are below:

Pendragon

Finished "Pendragon" last night. It is one of my smaller works, measuring 8 1/2 x 11" and is made with ink and gold paint on recycled paper.

Melusine, Edward Gorey, and Pendragon

I finished another artwork a few days ago. Entitled Melusine, the image depicts the mythical water spirit, who had the upper body of a female and the lower body of a serpent or fish or sometimes even a dragon, depending on the story. Read one of the Melusine myths here.

This is another piece that will be coming with me to my art show at Dragon Con this September. I was organizing my list of artworks last night, and it looks like I'll be bringing 32 pieces with me. I am working on the final five now (no cylons involved lol).

For inspiration, and just because I think he's awesome, I went to the Edward Gorey exhibit at the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, PA (they are most famous for their Wyeth collections). Unfortunately, the exhibit is now over, but while there I saw some excellent original works of well-known and not-so-well known Gorey works, as well as preparatory sketches etc.

So I am going to try my hand at pen-and-ink work next, in honor of Gorey. I started one last night, which I am calling "Pendragon."

CaddyCorner

I recently updated professional sculptor Bernard Corman's website with a photo gallery of his latest project, CaddyCorner. CaddyCorner is a life-sized, surrealistic homage to a vintage Cadillac, 18 months in the making, that has to be seen to be believed. Check out the photos here: http://bernardcorman.com/featured.html



Above photos by Jeff Gross.

You can also see some behind-the-scenes footage of the making of CaddyCorner via youtube. The completed sculpture was shipped off recently to a Kuwaiti businessman.

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