patch somerville

Vermont Studio Center residency

2012-02-05T17:09:00.000-06:00

A shot of my studio and details of work from my January residency at the Vermont Studio Center.
Expect better images soon.

N.O.L.A. Open Studios

2011-11-06T00:41:00.000-05:00

Saturday Nov. 12th come check out our studios at Dauphine and Desire in the Bywater, and while you're at it check out a bunch of other artist studios in the area. Noon - 6 PM.

www.nolaopenstudio.com

a portrait

2011-10-31T17:53:00.001-05:00

If you want to see these larger, click on them and then click the "show original" button to the left of the image

2011-10-31T17:42:00.000-05:00

in the studio

2011-10-19T16:05:00.000-05:00

a few large paintings in the works

small paintings

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from the past few months, during which i've been making frames while

looking at

Fairfield Porter

Bonnard

Lovis Corinth

Morandi

reading

Justin Spring's biography of Fairfield Porter

T.S. Eliot's Wasteland and other poems

watching

Twin Peaks

Freaks and Geeks

True Blood

and listening to

Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem

Mount Eerie - Song Islands Volume 2

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F# A# ∞

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven

Paul Simon - Paul Simon

Sandy Bull - Re-Inventions

7 x 6 in

oil on paper

7.5 x 9 in

oil o paper

oil on linen (on panel)

oil on board

oil on linen

new website.

2011-03-27T13:39:00.000-05:00

an easier way to look through my work from the past few years - patchsomerville.com !

camellia throne

2011-03-17T16:25:00.000-05:00

photo collage

53 x 44 inches

patio set

2011-03-17T16:20:00.000-05:00

photo collage

59 x 60 inches

postcards

2011-03-13T15:31:00.000-05:00

some postcards i've mailed out in the past few months

first 2 are watercolor and the rest acrylic

new collages

2011-03-10T17:36:00.000-06:00

Royalty

5 x 5.25 in

Morning

8.25 x 6 in

Rabbit Ears

8 x 8.5 in

Untitled

16.5 x 13.75 in

sunbitten and frostburned

2011-02-20T18:45:00.000-06:00

after spending a couple of snow filled weeks in the northeast i returned to a sunny 65 in nola. best of both worlds, really. these first four are the warm nola pieces from the past week, and the last was done in ithaca, ny - it was fun until my brush finally froze... you can see spots where the watercolor melted

12 x 9

10 x 10

9.25 x 9.5

8.5 x 8.75

9.5 x 13.5

early stages

2011-01-23T12:45:00.000-06:00

49 x 30ish

53 x 64

12 x 14

scraps

2010-12-27T17:43:00.000-06:00

some washes

2010-12-21T15:52:00.000-06:00

Come to the Bywater art market

2010-12-09T17:49:00.000-06:00

and see these hanging on a fence in some sunlight

torero

2010-12-02T18:10:00.000-06:00

Bywater Art Market & Main Street Gallery Small Works show

2010-11-19T17:19:00.000-06:00

Here's a couple of paintings I'll have for sale at the Bywater Art Market tomorrow. There will be many more, along with some wash drawings (bywatercolors).

Also, I have a few paintings going up at the Main Street Gallery in Groton, NY for their National Small Works Painting show, Dec. 3rd - Jan 4th. http://www.mainstreetgal.com/links.php?2819

still workin

2010-11-19T16:43:00.000-06:00

31 x 38 inches

details:

40 x 30 inches

details:

17 x 19 inches

works in the works

2010-10-29T15:25:00.000-05:00

I want to add at least a 1/4 inch of paint to both of these.

both are around 3 feet

even more

2010-10-28T17:55:00.000-05:00

more bywatercolors

2010-10-16T13:12:00.000-05:00

Most of these were done at Satsuma, the cafe near my apartment in the Bywater

Dears

2010-10-13T18:09:00.000-05:00

A wedding gift for my brother and sister-in-law.

New Work

2010-09-23T13:28:00.000-05:00

Bywatercolors

2010-09-23T13:23:00.000-05:00

interior of the artist's studio

2010-08-21T13:52:00.000-05:00

my last uptown painting. have to finish it in the next week before moving to the bywater.

about 6 x 5 feet.

detail

fake plastic lemon trees

2010-08-04T15:27:00.000-05:00

and a view out of my studio window

finishedish

2010-07-16T02:29:00.000-05:00

36.25 x 44.5 in

34.4 x 44.6 in

studio visitors

2010-07-01T15:12:00.000-05:00

48 x 72 inches

bearfoot

2010-06-13T23:37:00.000-05:00

here's the hanging state of a collab started in 2005. it has seen a

few stages, and i would guess it'll see a few more.

painted simultaneously with Will Goertzel... www.willgoertzel.com

awful photo. go see it for real in the PrattMWP cafeteria
in Utica, NY... you may have to pay for lunch

titles aren't important

2010-05-26T02:21:00.000-05:00

I can't promise these won't change.

recent work

2010-03-10T11:35:00.000-06:00

can't seem to finish anything lately...

36 x 44 1/2 in.

19 x 16 in

44 1/2 x 34 1/2 in

38 x 30 in

12 x 11 in

10 3/4 x 10 in

10 1/2 x 13 3/4 in

'10 so far

2010-01-29T20:48:00.000-06:00

only one of these is finished, and it is the one that is least finished.

i'm putting stuff on my walls so they will be more interesting to paint

things around the studio

2010-01-10T03:20:00.000-06:00

happy present day

2009-12-25T13:53:00.001-06:00

wish i could find my john waters christmas album...

work in progress

2009-12-12T02:34:00.001-06:00

here's some stuff i'm working on in new orleans. click them to make them big. i'm also working on a website so look for that soon.

47x72

64x53

58x37

fun way to recycle

2009-11-04T01:40:00.000-06:00

i've been doing some small paintings on cardboard alongside larger ones on canvas. the texture of the cardboard makes for interesting scumbling and such. i would guess you can tell the scale based on the look of the cardboard...

2009-09-14T14:17:00.000-05:00

2009-09-03T15:58:00.000-05:00

group show

2009-07-16T23:29:00.000-05:00

automatic

2009-06-04T15:04:00.000-05:00

bmore inspired pt 1

2009-05-26T13:34:00.001-05:00

poor photo of a start on the bmore inspired still life

2 paintings

2009-05-23T12:20:00.000-05:00

here's an image of Hey Light, and an updated version of the painting below, Dining Blues

66 x 46 in

MICA show

2009-05-15T12:45:00.000-05:00

up 'til monday. go to Main 140.

pt. 3

2009-05-10T19:49:00.000-05:00

it's possible that this is the final stage

change

2009-05-04T11:11:00.001-05:00

new stuff

2009-04-21T16:35:00.000-05:00

trouble

2009-04-06T21:50:00.000-05:00

an early stage of a fairly troublesome painting so far. i think it needs more hands and feet

Urbanite

2009-04-02T13:16:00.001-05:00

Urbanite published my painting next to a short story in their "green" issue, though I'm not sure if my painting relates to any green issues... check it out if you live in baltimore.

Mr. Freeze

2009-03-24T14:34:00.000-05:00

This painting from '07 reminds me of the old heat paths Mr. Freeze used in the Batman tv series with Adam West. Hence the title... 60 x 37 in.

collaborgoose

2009-03-17T14:21:00.000-05:00

a collaborative pillow made with margaret hull for my grandmothers birthday

old things

2009-02-22T22:49:00.000-06:00

these are all from 07

except this, from 06

currently

2009-01-26T16:10:00.001-06:00

just painted this the other day, i think it's called 2 cups Beer.

here's a detail where the pink is more accurate. the rest looks pretty good though.

2008-12-15T11:56:00.001-06:00

process pt.2

2008-12-08T00:41:00.001-06:00

some updates

detail - click me

process

2008-11-10T16:32:00.000-06:00

here's a couple in the works. don't mind my photos... couldn't be bothered to find a tripod or lights

about 56 x 43 in.

maybe 40 x 38 in. ?

PrattMWP Alumni Show

2008-10-11T16:57:00.000-05:00

Will Goertzel, Kate Norton, Sara Pfau and I are showing some work at the PrattMWP School of Art Gallery in Utica, NY
Had a good time at the opening and dinner afterwards

Will and I did some collaborative pieces for the show...

2008-09-25T17:06:00.000-05:00

the other paintings of mine going in the show...

2008-09-25T08:04:00.000-05:00

2008-09-22T23:13:00.000-05:00

2008-09-04T11:50:00.000-05:00

2008-06-28T22:58:00.000-05:00

i've been working on this one for a pretty long time, and it has a ways to go. 6' x 5' i think

2008-06-21T21:56:00.000-05:00

part 2

Drawing with Raoul Middleman

2008-06-21T13:27:00.000-05:00

some figures...

some landscapes

2008-05-12T19:10:00.001-05:00

some landscapes from 07. oil on paper.

these last few are about postcard size or smaller.

2008-05-10T18:51:00.001-05:00

some details of The Aeroboat. they're a little more accurate than the image of the whole painting

some work

2008-04-28T19:31:00.000-05:00

a few larger paintings from the past couple of years

Park Ave
2006, Oil on Canvas
48 x 36 in

Studio Visit
2007, Oil on Canvas
42 x 48 in
(this piece no longer exists)

Boy Meets Sloppy Drunk
2007, Oil on Canvas
80.5 x 70 in

Untitled
2007, Oil on Canvas
30 x 30 in

Bolton Pl
2007, Oil on Canvas
40 x 41.5 in