Acrylic on wood… 2 panels, each 34″ x 47″

Gunflint Pines. 42″ x 48″. Acrylic.

My favorite iPhone App is called Hipstamatic. “Digital photography never looked so analog.” This amazing app replicates the look and feel of those plastic cameras I remember from my childhood. The shots have an unpredictable beauty, because there are a variety of film types, lenses and flashes available. If you shake the camera while shooting, you can get a random combination for even more of a surprise. And it only costs $1.99. Crazy. Beautiful.

A year or two ago, my friend Jess took pictures of Madeline and me, and I really wanted to do just what hipstamatic does. So I took some of those crisp, perfect pictures into photoshop and desaturated them, blurred parts, created lens flares, cropped them to square, and even added the white border with the retro style date… Well, hipstamatic does all that for me. I obviously wasn’t the only one with the idea, and I’m glad someone with the know-how created this application.

These are a few of my favorite shots so far. But I’ve only had the app for 2 days. Want to see more? Keep checking back here.

Inspiration for my paintings comes from everything I’ve experienced and everything that surrounds me. These paintings are stops along my way. The natural beauty that surrounds us here on the North Shore blends with my memories and then spills out onto the canvas.

I’ve always lived near water. Fish represent the life beneath the surface. Certainly the surface of the lake, but also the surface of ourselves. These colors run deep in me, and when they surface, they tend to bring with them memories of places I have been and people I have loved. And unlike fish, the trees are rooted and stable.

Thank you to everyone that came out to the Java Moose today!