Stirrups finished

Here is a piece I just finished. It is 27 x 22" and I haven't cut it out of the frame yet. It is one for the antiquities series. Now I have to paint a Snow Leopard. I really like to mix these realist paintings in between traditional works.  I'm still thinking of adding shadows but I like the orange line instead. I will cut it out of the frame and look at if for a while.

Acrylic on canvas.

Here's a close up.

Unfinished.

Puffy Q

I painted this for my friend's daughter. She loves her cat and we love this girl. This thangka is small, 10" x 8".

For me all animals are like Buddhas so I painted this cat like a Buddha. I think it turned out nice. Next I want to paint a snow leopard. But I will paint him in the mountains and not on a lotus throne. It's a little hard to paint fur but I'm learning.

I am interested in spray paint.

A couple of weeks ago I met Joey Nix and Jeff Jacobson. They are two graffiti artists from Seattle who came Nashville to do a wall piece for our friends' house. They did one last year this time but I was in Bhutan. They use spray paint and their work is amazing. It took them a week.

I gave a brush I made with cat hair to Joey.

They are working hard.

I'd like to bring them to Bhutan so they can see our wall paintings there. Also, I'd like to do a mural with them. Maybe some dragons and a rocket.  Go to Facebook and like the page Outside 734. It is the site for this mural and it has other things.

Here's Jeff Jacobson.

Joey Nix and Chris Word a videographer who made a video.

This is the house with nothing on it.

Finished.

The butterflies on the left side are because last year when they finished and Jeff sat the last spray can down a butterfly like these came and landed on it and stayed for a long time. Then our friend's daughter was so happy. So Joey painted butterflies for her.

Here and There

Visiting the Painting School in Thimphu. Here are two teachers with me.

My brother-in-law made this box.

Buying vegetables at vegetable market in Thimphu

A party in Nashville with Ron Porter, Bob Durham. These are great artists.
Ron is looking at the camera.

My good friends William and Marie Brown.

Painting in Nashville.

Here Be Dragons

These are a few of the dragons I've painted over the years. I like to paint them big. Why should we have a dragon if it's not big?

This one is playing in the clouds.

This was a commission and then the people asked me to add gold. 

So now his scales are golden. When you walk by him he shines.

This dragon is holding a Hummer. I like this because I tried to do

photorealist for the first time. I am grateful to Shelley and Donald Rubin

who bought this one.

This is the flag of Bhutan. In his claws he holds the norbu, which are precious jewels.

I wanted to do the dragon's face. This is dragon portrait.

Blending the Ancient and Modern

Hi, Here's an article about my art in THE CULTURE TRIP. You can also see a lot of things about Bhutan and a lot of other places in the world if you look on the website.

I did this thangka many years ago in 2001. Now I want to do another one like this.

Happy Female Water Snake Year!