Monthly Archives: June 2011

Thursday. Getting ready to camp at the boat launch.  

Watercolor and ink on paper. Starting tomorrow, I will be off to the Yampa River for a five day river trip. See you when I get back!

Acrylic, ink, and thread on canvas. 36″x36″ Finished sewing this painting today … I have five paintings up at The Other Side Arts at 1644 Platte St in Denver for the month of July.

Acrylic, ink, and thread on canvas, 42″x28″ Finished this painting today

Collage on Paper. Through this project, I have realized how much I really love making collages. Using images that are already in existence and changing them, sometimes only slightly, can totally change the meaning. A good reminder that a change of perspective can mean all the difference.

Collage and Ink on Paper. After returning from my most recent trip, my mother said something to me that I have been thinking about since. She said, “It must have been nice to be in the real world for a little while.” Yes. It was. And I started thinking about the phrase “welcome to the […]

Marker on “The Last Dragon” children’s story From a collection of stories found in Childcraft, Volume 4: Animal Friends and Adventures, 1949

Digital collage This piece is a play on Joseph Kosuth’s, One and Three Chairs, 1965 An example of conceptual art, the piece consists of a chair, a photograph of this chair, and an enlarged dictionary definition of the word “chair”. The piece is visual expression of Plato’s concept of The Forms. One and Three Chairs […]

Collage and cut paper I found a book called Animal House by Catherine Ledner at a thrift store the other day. It  is a series of animal portraits. There were a few different shots of a flamingo …  I combined two of them to make Flamingo Dancers.

Sol+stice derives from a combination of Latin words meaning “sun”+”to stand still”. As the days lengthen, the sun rises higher and higher until it seems to stand still in the sky. As a major celestial event, the Summer Solstice results in the longest day and the shortest night of the year. The Northern Hemisphere celebrates […]

Vintage photograph with digital collage. In honor of this past weekends Pride Fest in Denver. Love is Love is Love… I don’t know who these guys are, I found this photo in a vintage shop today.  

Pen on Photograph  

Collage, pen, and watercolor on paper.

Pen on Paper. Most squid have three hearts.

A mini shadow box, playing card size. Pajamas drying in the sun.

Found Objects – Assembled. I have a habit of picking up various things I find while I’m walking around town. Some people call it junk … I like to refer to it as art supplies. I found this headless dinosaur a few years ago and have hung onto it. A few weeks ago, I found […]

Found Butterfly and Ink on Paper. Silas found this butterfly in the parking lot at Grafton Pond last week and gave it to me. I’ve been thinking a lot about my family and my father today. George Little Ayres. October 21, 1951 – June 13, 1994

another collage and watercolor. The Sacred Heart (also called the Sacred Heart of Jesus) is one of the most famous religious devotions meant to represent and emphasize the unmitigated love, compassion, and long-suffering of the heart of Christ towards humanity. I found this image of an ancient world map (Nova Universi Orbis Descriptio (1531) by […]

I just watched the documentary Marwencol. Really great film – I recommend watching it (you can currently get it on Netflix instant watch). “Marwencol” is a documentary about the fantasy world of Mark Hogancamp. After being beaten into a brain-damaging coma by five men outside a bar, Mark builds a 1/6th scale World War II-era […]

Collage and Pen on Paper. Some things just can’t be fixed by man-made contraptions or technology. It is scary to think that bats and honey bees, among other creatures, are in serious danger. They are a presence that many of us take for granted and it is hard to imagine the repercussions of their decline […]

Pen on Paper. When I was really young I wanted to give myself a hair cut. So I took some scissors and chopped off a huge chunk right in front. I was really worried that my mom would find out and get mad, so I figured the best plan would be to dig a hole […]

Pen on Paper. First day back in Denver. Got back in the wee hours of the early morning. Trying to recover/not go mad from all the mosquito and black fly bites I got during the past week in New England. This is a sketch of the house I grew up in. There’s a little swamp […]

Pencil Rubbing on Paper. There’s a really old cemetery on Cider Hill Road near my house in New Hampshire. I went to do a grave rubbing and found a lot of young people buried there. This little guy (literally little Guy) was only 9 days old. Its a good reminder that we are all a […]

Watercolor and Pen on Paper. Another staple of home – Sculptured Rocks.

Watercolor and Pen on Paper. Just a quick sketch. One of my favorite things about New England is all of the water. My cousin Abby graduates from High School today! CONGRATULATIONS ABBY!!!!

Watercolor and Pen on Paper. My very dear high school friend Brent Battis got married today. Congratulations Whitney and Brent! It was a beautiful day with lots of really great people … and BLUE FROSTED CUPCAKES!  

Found Objects. There is a house on Cider Hill Road in New Hampshire that my father used to work on. It was a beautiful old farm house from the 1700s. We used to go to work with my Pop and he would pay us $1.50 an hour to paint the place. A man named Sam […]

Photograph. This is the cabin my father built. We lived until they had their third kid – Silas, and then they built the house. We cooked down here because the gas to the house is not hooked up right now. On this particular morning, we made bacon, eggs, kale and coffee. We forgot to bring […]