Cosmic Duck

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Edinbourgh Blackrocks Bar Boulder Library Park Black Bear Mine 11 Lady Victoria 12 Loxahatchee Sawgrass 13 Loxahatchee Fishing at Night 14 Cabe Museum 1 15 Cabe Museum 2 16 Cabe Museum 3 17 Cabe Museum 4 18 Cabe Museum 5 19 Cabe Museum 6 20 Tavolinos 2019 21 Licenses One 23 Rhythm Flow 25 Gina Hennesy at the Revel Room 26 Massive Cedar Tree 27 Vancouver Skyline 28 Stanley Park Totems 29 The Power of Totems - Color 30 Dancer with Long Mask 30 The Raven Mask 30 Masked Dancer

30 Yuxweluptun Man 31 Transformation Dancer 31 Owl Mask 31 Mask with Mask with Mask 31 Flat Fan Mask 32 Bill Reid Study 33 Mask with Prism 33 Thunderbird 33 Transformation Mask - red 33 illustration of Mask with Horns 34 Birdman 34 Parrotman 34 Snakeman 34 Flowerman 35 Three Amigos 36 Transformation Mask 37 Let Me Dream - Bookplate 37 Let Me Dream - Bookplate 38 Killer Whale and Thunderbird 39 Killer Whall Wants To Be A Rockstar 40 Killer Whale Playing Sax 41 Killer Whale with Drums 42 People Talk / Tribes Listen 43 Ruby on Rails 44 Two Eagles 45 Killer Whale and Thunderbird 47 The Temple of Time 48 Emma Jenson 49 Portraits of Shoosty 49 Self Portrait 49 Shoosty with Headset 49 by an Unknown Artist 50 Howard Goldman at Home 51 Mitchel Pierce at Global Response 52 Nobide Band 53 Nobide Guitar Player 53 Nobide Drummer 54 Orange Sadhu 55 Green Sadhu 56 Yellow Sadhu 57 Pink Sadhu 58 Jerry Garcia 59 Tom Hart and Molly Rose 60 Diane 61 Jorge Garcia 62 Alligator Dancer 63 All the Kings Men 64 Conceptual City 65 The Devil’s Millhopper

COMPARISON OF HAND PAINTING WITH VECTOR PAINTING

HAND PAINTED 1987 VECTOR PAINTING 2019

CONCEPTUAL CITY WAS CONCEIVED IN 1987 BUT IT WASN’T UNTIL TACHNOLOGY CHANGED THAT I WAS ABLE TO ACHIEVE THE GOAL IS WAS SEEKING FOR THE PRECISION OF THE WORK.

2019 Artist Statement

2019 was the last year of my working career. I was very stressed but making art as much as I could. I was also writing my father’s biography every morning for about two hours. I was compelled like nothing else to get it done. If I could just do it again, I would have been so much more careful with the time we had together.

The artistic highlight of the year was the continued learning of the iPad pro using the Apple Pencil. I tried a bunch of apps but I settled on Affinity Designer, a vector-based app with some great features. My work took on new levels of professionalism. At first, the technology slows you down but once it’s mastered things speed up making the transition well worth it. Conceptual City is an example of an old painting redone as a vector.

For many years I have been making art that requires perfect shapes. I did my best to hand-paint them but I always felt like the result was less than what I was aiming for. When I discovered vector art that changed. I could now do everything with far more precision. I believe the vector version of my old paintings represents the current state of the art in visual art.

I did some significant traveling including a trip to Vancouver for a week to study NW Indian art at Emily Carr University. Emily was a painter that created iconic art based on the region.

Of note in 2019 are the six paintings I did of the Cade Museum, Railroad Depot Park, Gainesville, Florida. I admire the design of this building. It is a science-based museum located in a city park with lots of green areas, biking paths, a few places to eat, and plenty of dog walkers. Sitting on the lawn I couldn’t help but start drawing it.

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