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portfolio of work: grauel villages

My "Villages" series seeks to document the narrative of the emotional and spiritual man. Each work depicts a different location, landscape or architecture containing one or more travelers in a given moment of life. The archways, paths and structures represent the "Traveling Man's" decisions on the journey. 

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  • I have always loved the good Dr. and like most graduates I too received “Oh, The Places You’ll Go” upon my exit from high school. I loved the story. Even then the whimsical structures, winding paths and archways where making their way into my sub-conscious. Many years later they reappeared feeding my own inner and outer journeys with a visual vocabulary to call my own.
  • Add to your collection. This peice began as a group activity during a Art + Aperitif showing at Charlotte’s Evoke restaurant. I invited vistors to the show to leave their mark. For some it was their first time ever doing something creative on the iPad. Afterwards I constructed a grauel village on their foundation allowing the groups color choices, line quality, and shape to influence my own.
  • Ready To Enter
  • There Is A Worm Turning In The Garden Of My Mind
  • Premises Promises
  • Add it to your collection.
  • This painting was created for January's juried show at Ciel Gallery - Animal Planet. I wanted to push my villages in a slightly different direction by allowing the influence of the abundance of animal life that surrounds me. And it is also fun to pay homage to my pets. The painting not only was selected, but received an Honorable Mention in the show.
  • My Elephant Has A Room
  • sometimes we stumble aboutnot fully aware of the figures next to usor of this strange conflict manifesting aboveAdd to your collection
  • puff and floatpuff and floatsome hike oversome tromp undersome stay home and just wonderpuff and floatThis painting began from a mini-session with the Middle School students of Trinity Episcopal. Add it to your collection.
  • Standing Hope
  • Entreat Not Retreat
  • what am i becoming
  • trek of the trine
  • ewe croquet?
  • Created as part of the FreshPaint Project.
  • color starts the conversation
  • The Clouds Have Landed
  • Six Figure Under
  • multiple sizes & surfaces available
  • Arrival of the Significant
  • Created as part of the Fresh Paint Project.
  • Created as part of the FreshPaint Project.
  • One Step Forward
  • Volcano Cole
  • Over
  • Created as part of the Fresh Paint Project.
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  • Created as part of the FreshPaint Project.
  • Created as part of the FreshPaint Project.
  • Created as part of the FreshPaint Project.
  • 6{quote} x 9{quote} unframed w/ stand
  • Just Us
  • willing to ask why
  • the greatest & the least
  • mini cause, maximum effect
  • Reversing the plank
  • Activity Below
  • hungry_ghost
  • Upward Movement
  • Authority Over Me
  • No Less
  • 6{quote} x 9{quote} unframed w/ stand comment on flickr
  • Rook Relations
  • Seeing Fruit
  • activate agape
  • Looking For A Level Plateau
  • Created as part of the Fresh Paint Project.
  • Caution Speaks To Mr Stop & Mr Go
  • 6{quote} x 9{quote} unframed w/ stand
  • 6{quote} x 9{quote} x 1.5{quote} unframed - (sold)comment on flickr
  • They Became Buildings
  • prints available in multiple sizes & surfaces
  • Bring Out Your Dead
  • giclee prints availablecomment on flickr
  • 6{quote} x 9{quote} unframed w/ stand
  • Cloudy Thouhgts
  • 6{quote} x 9{quote} unframed w/ stand
  • Sometimes the River Is Deep
  • Conversations I Am Not Having
  • consulting banter
  • some level of life actual
  • using Adobe Ideas
  • prints available in multiple sizes & surfaces
  • Continuing the {quote}sermon sketches{quote}, this drawing began during a talk at Warehouse242 in the Drift Series, Wk 6: Love.
  • 6{quote} x 9{quote} unframed w/ stand
  • touch of tenebrea
  • not hungry anymore
  • Prickly Pair
  • Five By Five
  • Continuing the {quote}sermon sketches{quote}, this drawing began during a talk at Warehouse242 in the Drift Series, Wk 5: Freedom.
  • iPad painting for the LiveBirds Exhibit. LiveBirds is a new business IGA- Income Generating Activity to enable sustainable income for orphans and vulnerable children with HIV/AIDS in Odzi, Zimbabwe. This is a partnership between Warehouse242 and Hope for AIDS.
  • iPad painting for the LiveBirds Exhibit. LiveBirds is a new business IGA- Income Generating Activity to enable sustainable income for orphans and vulnerable children with HIV/AIDS in Odzi, Zimbabwe. This is a partnership between Warehouse242 and Hope for AIDS.
  • 12{quote} x 12{quote} canvas completed for Project Art Aid Auction to raise fund to fight breast cancer.
  • (available as Giclee print)
  • (available as Giclee print)
  • prints available in multiple sizes & surfaces
  • 12{quote} x 12{quote}. Completed for Project Art Aid Auction to raise funds for Breast Cancer Research.
  • (available as Giclee print)
  • happy is the man...
  • (available as Giclee print)
  • displaced dialog
  • a visit in the town of non-time
  • This iPad painting began with a visit to a 6th grade art class. I let them each have a 1min to make marks, then I built a village upon the results. Leave a comment on flickr View process video. (available as Giclee print)
  • prints available in multiple sizes & surfaces
  • outside the inside
  • awaiting unexpected arrivals
  • speaking in blue tones
  • Friday Feeling
  • sermon sketch series. comment on flickr. view process video .(available as Giclee print)
  • (available as Giclee print)
  • (available as Giclee print)add comment on flickr
  • (available as Giclee print)
  • (available as Giclee print)won 2nd place in 2010 Festival of Pocket Art, Mostar Croatia
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  • matted & framed
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  • (available as Giclee print)
  • (available as Giclee print)
  • (available as Giclee print)
  • (available as Giclee print)
  • stages of seven
  • uncommon engagement
  • complementat comments
  • (available as Giclee print)
  • ruling tension
  • (available as Giclee print)
  • (available as Giclee print)
  • (available as Giclee print)
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  • middle moment
  • (available as Giclee print)
  • framed
  • sold
  • inspire insight
  • framed - $325
  • framed
  • framed - n/a
  • framed - $325
  • enduring disappointment
  • visit to elation city
  • (available as Giclee print)
  • 13{quote} x 16{quote} framed$325
  • morning moods
  • 14{quote} x 18{quote} framed - $325
  • trying to decide
  • inside man
  • prints available in multiple sizes & surfaces
  • framed - $325
  • Negotiations Between Public & Private Man
  • Sad In The City
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