Flash Tales

Paintings from my ‘Reflections’ Showing @ Cocktail

kaotikdizine — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:51:05 +0000

This is a piece using the color of the wood as the light and only black paint to make the last place Townsend and I got to fish - which happened to be one of the best fishing spots we've ever come across. When I close my eyes and go there... this is where.

Ladies and Gentlemen the beautiful Lauren Mayer!

kaotikdizine — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:14:21 +0000

Laurens New Headshot that Im in love with!

Pieces of the City: Reflections

kaotikdizine — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:31:08 +0000

My first year long series of transforming found pieces into art.

The first event in my year long 'Pieces of the City' found-art series

Painting in Progress – Moonlit Falls

kaotikdizine — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:29:13 +0000

Painting in Progress – Anglerfish

kaotikdizine — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:23:53 +0000

Early on in the process.... general shape and color

Add some more color, some light, and jankety teeth (yes jankety is now officially a word, at least in my book)

Add gold paint to make him pop off the page more and final details. Isn't he adorable?!

kaotikdizine — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:39:31 +0000

On the Run, the band that played after Band Called Catch had me paint this drum head to hang in their rehearsal space. They are great! Check them out!

Milwaukee St Arts Festival with Band Called Catch

kaotikdizine — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:47:50 +0000

The man in the cowboy hat was a riot to watch. The only way I can think to describe his dance is a seductive hokey-polka-waltz; if you can even imagine. He loves the ladies!

Painting a black base coat on all three pieces.

Deep Blue Night Sky

One of those paintings where you have no idea where its going... you just keep adding color until you say done.

oh so serious... I really need to try to be more conscious of trying not to look so crazy while I paint. But I really just zone everything out. It'll be interesting trying to break that and talk to people while I paint.

Stylized flowers - its much harder for me to let myself go and do stylized or abstract work so this was really a test for myself to see if I could experiment with people watching.

Tropical Moon painting which ended up with one of the guys from On The Run.

Small Silhouette of the Chicago Skyline bought by a lovely woman from Australia who guarded the merchandise table.

Another painting of the St Johns River in Florida

CHECK OUT BAND CALLED CATCH @ http://www.myspace.com/bandcalledcatch

Painting @ LaSalle Power Company with Band Called Catch

kaotikdizine — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:10:31 +0000

Some good friends of mine have an awesome band! Check them out at www.BandCalledCatch.com They asked me to play during their 45 minute set Thursday night, so we could auction the painting off afterward. It was a lot of fun! We’re doing it again tomorrow at the Milwaukee St. Arts Festival from 3-5. I’m either gonna do a really big painting or a few smaller ones. Hope to see you there!

Cabaret Vagabond’s New Leadership Promos

kaotikdizine — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:23:24 +0000

This past weekend Nick and I did a shoot with Cabaret Vagabond. They were looking for some artistic new promo shots of their core members. It was a lot of fun because they are currently in the middle of a two week residency at the University of Chicago, which means that they have access to the creative facilities and staff. So they scoured the props and costumes and we hung and focused lights on each of the sets that were created for each character/member. Keep up with what they’re doing @ http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cabaret-Vagabond/28460247101

Here is what came of the shoot…

Tropical Backdrop for Teatro Luna’s Benefit

kaotikdizine — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:36:27 +0000

So many palm trees!

Luna Tropical Backdrop

I painted this drop this past week for The Luna Tropical Benefit TL threw this past weekend. The Center section hung in between the two folding closet-doors that stood on the sides.