Chicago Land Photos Part 1

Photos taken at 7:00 Am this morning.

Chicago Wall

After a bike ride this morning I came across a white and blue wall near Western Ave. This is what happened. There is a love hate relationship I have with Chicago. For me, this represents a view of Chicago. Dirt, wet and smelly, something shines through.

American Bandana

There is a French soldier that seems to be getting a bad wrap for wearing a skull bandana in Mali. I felt it necessary to contribute something. I've seen a lot of skull bandanas on bikes and soldiers. I don't know the rules and I can't speak for the soldier but, I could understand wanting to wear something like that. In anycase here is my interpretation of something I would rock on a Bike, maybe one day.

Maintain the Marbles

Hey all, just worked out another piece while trying my hand at acrylics again. A combination of  water color techniques and what I'm guessing is acrylics. Just plain fun.

Vector Politics

 It feels like forever sense I worked on the PC to create some work. The frustration came back real fast, but thankfully I used a program called Inkscape that was very is easy to jump into. It is freeware that likens to Adobe Illustrator. If your broke and don't want to pirate copies of adobe check it out at http://www.inkscape.org/.

 The point of these icons were to offer something valuable in the realm of politics. I was one of the people who refused to vote this recently past election because I plan just didn't care for ether candidate. This is my attempt to bring some attention to the other options. The animals are representative of the parties. At least as far as my opinion is concerned.

The pig for the Libertarians. An animal that is anything but picky and is happy to just do it's own thing.

The pronghorn for the Green party. This is an animal that works together and is seemly very equal in the wild.

The bald eagle for the  Constitution Party. A very American animal that is pictured as strong and fierce.

Still confused six months later.

An experiment with Gouache on gessoed hard panel. I used a video camera and had fun with different poses  for this piece. This was probably the loosest painting Ive done in a long time.

Random photos on a night walk.

I have not updated in quite a while here is some Fun photos I shot just walking about Chicago one night.