Precious Robert

Robert can be soft
easily chafes and bruises
red splotches with blue

Susan the smart girl

Susan should play dumb
dumb girls have lots of boyfriends
put some lipstick on

Kate's little sister

Kate's little sister
gave under shirt over bra
warm love on a bus

Michael Williams

Michael F. Williams
he knows a certain secret
guilt and pleasure swirl

Her

tender little her
a her that can be spiteful
I feel for that her

school marm

she is soft and cold
a warm mouth with icy breath
hollow cage of breasts

I feel something

worms can't separate
they divide and feel nothing
what a sweet creature

a place to stay

a few blocks away
around the corner on Gull Street
where the Bowmans live

sugar coated

she wears her love hard
a loyalty that sickens
she can feel her death

surfer boy

something about him
he has a style that moves me
dreamy surfer boy

Gen Art Vanguard Miami

Art Basel was insane. I saw some amazing works. It was so great to see all these amazing pieces together. The best part was of the trip was the Gen Art Vanguard Art Fair and Charcoal Studios. The Satellite Gallery was there with works from artists in Asheville. It was great to see Asheville represent in such a huge venue.

The show was sponsored by Bombay Sapphire Gin. There were models dressed in blue green dresses in swimcaps walking around handing out drinks. And some of them did this amazing water ballet.........

....this is how they stir your drinks

Me and Sas Christian, she was so nice and I was super excited to meet her.

Doug and Oscar posing with some street art.

Bill giving props to Oscar........

Oscar wrote on some buildings with this cool laser pen.

Doug and a Bombay Sapphire model.

This was an amazing Colin Christian piece that was
At the entrance of the show.

Here are my pieces dispayed in the Satellite booth.



It was such a fun night. I have some more pictures that I need to sort through but these are a sampling of how cool the show was.

male pride

the most desired
never lonely in the woods
females will battle

fur fish

kind white soft fur fish
swim alone in cold waters
tears with salt water

Art Basel show.......

So Wednesday I leave for Miami with my family. I am so so excited about the whole adventure that I'm about to go on. Doug and I have been planning to go for about 11 months. We started to prepare and plan for it. Doug and I have wanted to go for the last three years but it was so hard to organize around life. I am so excited to immerse myself in art and absorb it all. The best part is I am going to have some pieces showing in Miami ( Vanguard Art Fair Charcoal Studios 2135 NW 1st Avenue Miami, FL 33127 Wynwood Arts District). My paintings will be hanging with some amazing artists. I posted two pictures above of my newest pieces that will be on display.

The one with the whale is a painting called "Tragedy of a Love Affair". It's about a girl and a whale that are lovers. The torment of their relationship and their differences drives the whale to beach itself and implode from the pressure.

The painting with the unicorn girl is called "Parents". It is about a girl and her dark relationship with her parents. She is the result of misshapen creatures. She is awkward and mysterious and she feels connected and drawn to the ocean.

Anyway.....I'll keep this blog updated on the show....:)

she grew up

a woman grown up
she thought she would be pretty
life padded her up

soft lover

bloated blue-gray eyes
I love her sweet swollen gaze
a soft crooked smirk

her act

so entertaining
watch her flip flop about
she cries but its fun

deep sea beast

a beast from darkness
enhancing certain features
the depths can do that

restful evening

he sleeps so soundly
she listens to him breathe
she can't stop crying

sweet pink

escaping her dress
soft pale skin breathing at night
unwrapped pink silk

pinhead

choosing some sweet scent
following candy colors
lovely rusted thought

this is my new bike
it has a banana seat
and spokes that click clack

parasitic twin

she carries him close
she holds the weight in her thighs
warm blanket of skin

the couple

this is not my mom
mom loves rainbows, dad loves fish
this is not my dad

shelf of books

containers of words
naked staring at my books
flocks and herds of books

cornucopia

his yawn was fatal
sharp cornucopia spear
he was full of fruit

The Bearded Lady

he wanted some proof
he knew she was a woman
but he liked to look

tragedy at sea

the sea was not kind
her love was taken away
she drowned in sorrow

Grace sits

Grace Bowman sits here
she is just a teenager
she knows solitude

Grace Bowman

Grace, she has no friends
but she can be so friendly
she's just a large girl.

daily sketches and haiku .....

I have been neglectful of my poor lil blog lately. I've decided to start posting daily sketches. It keeps me in practice and keeps my brain breathing. I decided to accompany each sketch with a haiku. Just some random thoughts illustrated and verbalized. Each image is right out of my sketchbook......... here we go.

hotel tattoo

So I found some pics from when I went to LA last year. I stayed at this little hotel on Santa Monica blvd. with my friend Erica. We met up with a couple of other artists who stayed at in the room with us for the night. Mildred and Ert do a lot of street art and we soon became major hooligans in a wonderful way....Have you ever heard of hotel tattooing? Well, the art was all hidden, but if you looked hard enough you could find it.....soooooooooo....if you are ever staying in a hotel on Santa Monica blvd. look behind the pictures and under the furniture...hehehehehe.