Inspiration

People always ask me where I get ideas for my paintings. Well....the anaswer is everywhere and everything. Anything can spark an idea that can go on forever. With this post I wanted to show off a few paintings I finished about a week and a half ago. One of the painting was inspired by a Kookaburra that we saw at the Tracy Aviary in Salt Lake. How I was inspired to use the colors I picked for the kookaburra piece is kind of a funny story. One day I walked into my bedroom to grab something for one the many projects I am working on. I looked at my laundry basket and thought "Man, I need to do laundry again". There, on top of the pile was my blue p.j. shorts and my rust colored t-shirt sitting next to each other. As I looked at those two pieces of clothing laying there together, I thought to myself, "Those colors look great together, I need to do a painting."
The name for the piece comes from my childhood. My dad use to always sing the old nursury rhyme, "Kookaburra in the Old Gum Tree" to me.

The other painting I was working on was inspired by one of the many colorful things my brother and sister-in-law send me from Chicago. This is my Kid Robot Kitty, it's my favorite. So I thought that I "Why not do a painting of it?" and totally change the colors around. Because face it, it's already awesome and I need to do something to make it my own.

To see the finished paintings check back in a few days. I was going to post them, but they are still on my camera and the printer that we use as our SD card reader images is out of ink. The printer refuses to do anything until it is fed with black ink.