I was going to call it Neon Cookies but Neon is actually bright red/orange, so I went with Xenon which is naturally blue. This was a first experiment taking advantage of the flexibility of latex molds to create a mold with multiple shapes, and also an attempt to try mixing my own colors a little…

The original “Carpal Splash” was so fun to make, I wanted to try a larger format version of it but the satisfying gestalt of that painting has proved elusive. I tried to make it one single Zen-like smash of paint, but just didn’t fill the canvas as well the first time, so I kept adding…

I’d successfully done several raised shapes, and was inspired by this slender canvas to try an experiment where the shape could go around the side of the canvas. I like the sides of the canvasses and have tried painting the edges different colors. I just saw a corporate painting in Chicago’s AON building where the…

I lived long enough with a super beige painting in my living room and I knew it was time to spice it up. I loved how my initial chrome-paint experiment The Second Seal went, and wanted to expand that into a large-format painting and correct the mistakes of my first latex mold painting. I made…

I believe I’ve stolen the mantle of “most alarmingly ugly painting produced” from my previous work, Happy Little Accident in Hell. I’m trying to experiment with piping paint onto a canvas as an impasto technique, and also committed to just doing my tests on real canvases so if I get lucky I have a painting.…

My first painting, “Over the Fireplace” got damaged inadvertently! It was a bit of a psychic blow, but I realized I should make a new painting out of it. I watched videos on how to repair a torn canvas and carefully gessoed a patch of canvas to the back of it. The Japanese idea of…

My sister and I had been wanting to do a collaborative painting since I’ve been painting and we finally got the chance when we visited recently. I wanted to show her the fun of painting impasto with thick gel media. We took turns applying color in big chunky patterns in a “yes and…” approach. The…

This is the first painting I made for another person: a birthday present for John Stout. The title is a joke about art store Culture Hustle’s “Pinkest Pink” and the amount of gayness of the birthday boy, which is high. (Our joke about his level of gayness is shared and appreciated.) The upside down pink…

This is probably the most normal painting I’ve made. No gel media, no 3D trick effects, just a little stiff paperboard canvas, and the brushes and paint that came in a cheap acrylic set. I just picked 4 colors and made even horizontal globs of paint. I considered making one big thick red line for…

This was my first time making molded impasto and then painting it afterwards I’d been using sheets of dental wax stacked up and cut out with a hobby knife for a mold to stack paint in, and it’s a lot of work. My friend and fellow artist Kevin suggested using liquid latex for molds and…