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New American Paintings: my submission

February 20th, 2011 · View Comments · Uncategorized

New American Paintings is a popular publication showcasing emerging and established artists from around the country. It’s essentially a book, and if you pay for a subscription, it comes in 6 different issues; highlighting artists from each of the 5 regions of the U.S., and an MFA edition, showcasing artists in the process of receiving [...]

New Phone Art – Abstract Interiors

December 31st, 2010 · View Comments · Uncategorized

I’ve been following a handful of design blogs in my Google Reader, and as I scan through the images from time to time, I have found there to be a lot of possibilities for abstraction. Sometimes really clean hard lines, other times intricate patterns. I love abstraction, but my paintings are usually pretty bland and [...]

Painting start-to-finish – Detroit Institute of Arts

December 15th, 2010 · View Comments · Uncategorized

I recently finished the painting below of the Detroit Institute of Arts building, and recorded the process via my Flip cam. The idea for the painting came out of my desire to take a Detroit landmark, and represent it in a slightly abstracted manner. Check out the video below to watch the painting develop from [...]

New Painting – “A Welcomed Explosion”

November 3rd, 2010 · View Comments · Uncategorized

Lately I’ve sort of veered off the path of straight abstract painting, as I’ve been doing more food paintings. This painting in more reminiscent of my work back in 2006/2007. Felt great to be getting my hands all caked with paint once again!

Pancakes painting in progress

October 8th, 2010 · View Comments · Uncategorized

A friend of mine recently told me in reference to a previous painting of pancakes I did, that her and her husband bond over pancakes in their marriage. I think that’s really cool. I’m trying to think what my wife and I bond over… perhaps sushi, since our first real date occurred at a sushi [...]

Azoni Briefs

September 24th, 2010 · View Comments · Uncategorized

No I’m not starring in a Hanes commercial… unfortunately. But I have begun somewhat of an experiment. For a while now I’ve been looking for a way to sell paintings at prices accessible to the every day art lover, while still maintaining the integrity of my regular prices. So here’s what I’m rollin’ with: A [...]

Recent phone art

July 21st, 2010 · View Comments · Uncategorized

I recently got the new HTC Evo 4g for Android and have been loving making quick ‘paint’ sketches using an app called Paint Joy. Here are some recent doodlings.

Back from hiatus

June 7th, 2010 · View Comments · Uncategorized

I took a brief hiatus from making new work so I could focus on getting married. See proof below. The wedding was pretty amazing. I am a very proud husband of my wife, Laura. Now that we’ve been back to normal life for about a month, and I’ve cleared out a lot of old paintings [...]