The Portrait of Your Life — Theoretical Works of Art pg1

Colorful companion to my memoir The Incompetent Psychic

At the Panini Museum 2011

“Every person who has ever lived has a painting to portray their life. About a hundred billion people have existed on Earth since humans began living here. That’s a lot of paintings.” — From the Foreword

This is an intro to the next 170 posts that illustrate my memoir, and here is an into to me:

I have been making images for about as long as I’ve been walking (mom taught me to swim before that). Being a painter, illustrator and designer has been a full time vocation since 1982. I‘ve supported myself as a freelancer for almost forty years. During Covid vacation I wrote a memoir like I make art — with thick, wild strokes and small details described with colorful whimsy. This foreword is akin to a quick undercoat to establish structure, and is set in a museum just outside this reality. It will get coated over with subsequent layers, but flecks will peek through as we go along.

This title image is an acrylic portrait of my Faux Louvre art series. It was done during the winter of 2010 in Benicia, California, and inspired by Giovanni Panini’s masterpiece Modern Rome from 1765. I saw the original during a sketching trip to the New York Metropolitan Museum the summer before, and recognized…