Finished Commissioned Triptych

Posted on October 11, 2013 by Micah

Three 18 x 42″ acrylic on canvas panels

The week has come to an end and I have finished this guy up! The parameters for this commission weren’t too restrictive, which allowed me to put a lot of my style into it. There were really only two items I needed to keep in mind on this project:

1. The client has a red couch so didn’t want too much red in the final piece.

2. She also didn’t want anything real masculine

In making this work, I aimed for the atmospheric background to have as much of an impact as the foliage. This meant keeping the foliage pretty simple. The red leaves against the background have grown on me and overall and I think the greens in the work will be a great contrast to her red couch. I’m quite pleased with the finished piece – I hope the new owner will be as well!

Work in Progress: Three 18 x 42″ acrylic on canvas

Work in Progress: Three, 18 x 42″ Acrylic on canvas

Work in Progress II

Posted on October 9, 2013 by Micah

Work in Progress: Three 18 x 42″ acrylic on canvas

I’m continuing to work right along. I plan to add more leaves and vines but feel like Friday is not an unreasonable time to have this finished up. That is, of course, unless I need to let things marinate along the way.

Work in Progress: Three, 18 x 42″ Acrylic on canvas

Work in Progress

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Micah

Work in Progress: Three, 18 x 42″ acrylic on canvas

A friend of mine commissioned me to create a piece for her living room. After looking at the wall, I decided that a tryptic would be great for the space. We decided to go with something that was flowing and organic feeling.

Step one

With Wheels – Work in Progress

Posted on August 8, 2013 by Micah

18 x 24″ Acrylic on canvas

The piece has gained some wheels! It isn’t quite finished yet, but is getting closer. I don’t think I’m going to do a whole lot more to it, but I might add a few more wheels and clean some edges up a bit. A few more highlights and shadows will also get thrown in the mix.

Cooling Colors as a Base for Some Bike Art

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Micah

18 x 24″ Acrylic on canvas

I’ve got a long, long way to go before this piece is done. Eventually though, it will be bike inspired art that will hang happily in an office .

Originally I had planned for the base composition to be comprised of many, many rectangular shapes (you can still see some of the lines which I might still include,) but as I got going I realized I wanted to incorporate the green/blue wash. I worked backwards and had to tape off all of my blocks and then add the wash. Needless to my order of operations got all outta whack, but it still works just fine.

Cora the Dog and a Fish

Posted on July 11, 2013 by Micah

~12 x 24 Acrylic on wood panel

This piece – with it’s landscape, fish and dog – is not a typical piece for me, but it proved to be a lot of fun and a good challenge! I like that as a viewer I am left wondering what Cora is looking at off of the painting. I realize this approach to the layout is a bit unusual, but I wanted something slightly unexpected.

Work in Progress: Dog and Fish

Posted on July 9, 2013 by Micah

This painting is LONG overdue! I promised the dog/fish/landscape piece to someone an embarrassingly long time ago and am finally getting around to doing it. I wonder how shocked the recipient will be to get this sucker in the mail!

Arting for 365 Day 361: Sit and Chat

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Micah

Day 361, 10 x 10″ acrylic on canvas

Goal: To create one piece of art each day for 365 consecutive days

They sit on patios to lounge – coffee in hand, sunglasses on

Smiles reflect an appreciation

Of sun’s longer hours

Light bathes them as they chat

The only discomfort – if it can be called that

Are bare legs that stick

To chairs warmed by the spring

Arting for 365 Day 305: Who’s Leading Who?

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Micah

Day 305: 12 x 28″ Acrylic and ink on canvas

Goal: To create one piece of art each day for 365 consecutive days

Life abounds

With here and there

A gaggle of jugglers

A three ring circus

A herd of elephants

Running wildly

While a ringmaster searches for his suspenders

As the show goes on

You can buy this piece!

Arting for 365 Day 286: MAX, Painted Wall Letters

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Micah

Three 18″ x 13″ acrylic on wooden letters

Goal: To create one piece of art each day for 365 consecutive days

Another friend, another baby, another project!

Some wonderful friends of ours were hoping I’d be able to paint a mural for them in their baby-to-come’s new room, but because they are renting their place, it wasn’t possible. Instead, they came up with the great idea of buying letters for me to paint.

They gave me free reign as to the direction I could take, which is always fun! After looking at the theme of the room, which is adorable African animals with a variety of sports balls, I came up with this. The imagery is definitely a bit older than the rest of the room’s decor, but I’m thinking this means he’ll be able to grow up with them a bit.

I’m hoping they’ll like them as much as I enjoyed making them.