Snow

This isn't a painting, but a picture of the snow at my house. I just thought it looked interesting.

Airport

This plane was one of my favorite toys as a kid.

Sunday Driver

This one features the Fisher Price garage. There is an orange ball lamp in the background that my parents had around the house when I was very young.

August Carnival

Around the end of 2005 or beginning of 2006 I bought a bunch of vintage Fisher Price toys on eBay. I have many memories of playing with these toys in my early childhood. My mom had long since thrown my old toys away, so it had been years since I had seen them. It was amazing to receive these toys in the mail an examine them closely. Each little detail or feature of the toys that I examined brought back a flood of distant impressions and memories....it was really cool! The next few paintings I will post are from this "Fisher Price" series. They were a lot of fun to make. This painting is entitled "August Carnival". It is approximatley 48"x50".

Hooray for Toast!

I think toast is way underrated. This one is from 2005

Come and See

I found a really cool "Dick and Jane" compilation book at a Wal Mart grocery store, of all places. I made 3 or 4 paintings that centered around the artwork in these books. "Come and See" is 47"x48" and was painted in 2004.

I Saw Inside the Tower

This one was painted in 2004. In these toy paintings, I often used things like plastic sharks, mouse traps, "barrel of monkeys" monkeys and Chinese food containers. Some of the objects have special meaning to me, I like other things for their visual qualities. Sometimes the interaction and inclusion of certain objects is purposeful and sometimes an interesting connection is unintentional.