Archive for the ‘Blog’ Category
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RICHARD KIRK
I’ve been wanting to shout out to Richard Kirk, my best friend I’ve never met. He’s been pretty busy, but he sent me some images to share with you a couple days ago. Shortly after the release of the Mars Volta’s album Amputechture, (AKA My Big Break), I began […]
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Showtime
Jack Bentley, the Main Man at Eureka’s First Street Gallery, approached me late last year, wanting me to participate in a show with Jesse Weidel and Seanna Burden in April. That’s next month. I’ll be ready. This painting, the Black Angel, will be the centerpiece of my part of the […]
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Survival Knife
I got a call late last year from Kris Cunningham, a great drummer and an old friend, wanting a cover for Survival Knife, his latest band. (If you’re of a certain age, Kris was the drummer for local heroes Couch of Eureka a long time ago.) His wife Meg plays […]
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Collage to Painting–Big Mutant
This is the collage for the Big Mutant painting that became the cover of the Mars Volta album Amputechture. Most of the people who might read this Blog will probably know the image as the TMV cover, but not many people have seen the collage that inspired it back in […]
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THERE WILL BE BLOOD!!!
TWbB sent me an email not too long after the Leprous Coal cover. I checked them out and really loved their music, so I was happy to let them know I was interested. Blue Ribbon, the painting they wanted for the cover of their new album, Without, is one of […]
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John Flocken–Zonezar
This happened a couple years ago, but the album came out late last year. We were in the middle of the house remodel, as I recall. One of the few paintings I was able to complete during that weird experience. John approached me at some point and I asked to […]
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Mission Statement/Brief History
I suppose the mission of this Blog, which I’m calling Burning Down the Couch–soon to be complete with tif graphic–is the same as my Artist Mission: painting/drawing/etc, what I’m thinking about rather than what I’m looking at. Humboldt County, Northern California, where Nancy and I live, is a very beautiful […]
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Leprous Coal
I’d done a cover for Leprous’ previous album, Bilateral, in 2012, so we had a working relationship already. I was attempting to regather my skills after the home remodel, feeling sort of lost, when I got the email. Einar Solberg is my Main Man in this band–singer/keyboards. Based on the […]
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Safe Journey
Sorry for the delays in continuing the Blog. Basically I’m not a computer person, so I encountered the need for further instruction, and the need to wait until my Instructor could fit me in. Hopefully I’m back……… So anyway, at the point Protest the Hero dropped the Volition album, my […]
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PTH Continued
When Luke Hoskin, my contact from Protest the Hero, and I were trying to figure out possible illustrations to add to the Volition package, one of their concerns was the Illegal status of the Pit Bull breed in Canada. As I understand it, Pit bulls are put down just because […]