Ahem...

so much for picking up the blog in November.

Anyhoo...

Over Spring Break, I was exploring galleries in the Heights with another artist-teacher friend of mine. While we were wandering through M2, one of the guys that owns it approached us, asking if we were artists. My answer was a halting, "Kind of, well, I teach it." This response, for which I was later scolded, led to further conversation and an invitation from Max for the two of us to show collaboratively sometime in the not-to-distant future. We left promising to get a proposal together by the end of summer, since that would theoretically give us enough time to get our crap together so to speak.

After we left, my friend said to me, "We're going to have to use the term 'artist' at some point, you know. We may teach it, but we make it, too."


Point taken. To that end, I have a couple of good friends who have agreed to check on my progress for our presumed show via this website. They both live far away so this method will let them see what I've been up to as well as let them harass me unmercifully by phone and email in the absence of posts showing new work. Perhaps this way, come next fall, I can more comfortably call myself an artist because will have what amounts to a "body of work" and will have had at least one show.


Thus far I have done four pieces using the collage process I would like to show next fall:

This is the first. I gave it to KK for her wedding. Sorry John.























The next was a demonstration piece for my students. I call it "Caesar," although he looks like he could be related to my dad.



















The third is "More Than They'd Seen." It's from a photo of my oldest daughter during Halloween at the Houston Zoo last fall.























And the last is this one called "Free Falling." I gave it to my daughter's school to put in a silent auction at the spring fund-raiser. If it sells, it will be the first piece of art I've sold outside of college ten (or so) years ago.























Now for the rest.