forty dave cooper characters for Paris, 2011 is a 1-colour fine art Serigraph Print that was made to commemorate my visit to Paris in September of 2011. i was there attending a really exciting group show put on by the amazing “Hey” magazine. Hey is a wonderful periodical that chronicles the goings on of weird […]
i always say- the only thing that could improve this place is if i opened the drapes and was looking down on Central Park- click to enlarge
my buddy Conor mangled his thumb a while back. he sent me before and after snapshots of the nastiness. so i adjusted those two pics and then made the third with my family– as a get well triptych. (click to enlarge)
holy crap, even I can hardly tell the difference between these 3 separate days of work! no wonder i get so bummed out during the middle phases. it’s always the same: in the beginning there’s TONS of great progress, at the end it’s like you’re wrapping a kickass gift. but in the middle i’m just […]
here i keep adding some semi-opaque and translucent glazes to whatever areas seem to cry out for them. i push things back and pull some things forward by making them diffuse or sharp. again, these stages have no rhyme nor reason, and they can’t be easily quantified or rushed. i get really zen and just […]
the good people at “Hey” invited me to paint on one of their blank, plaster Venus sculptures. it’s for a Parisian breast cancer fundraising organization. they send the blanks out all over the world to a bunch of groovy artists like me. we do our […]