some upcoming events that i'll be featured at

EVENT #1:

This next Sunday is the BOOK SIGNING for the book I illustrated.

What: "Formation Generation" Book Signing 

with Author Robert Michael Kurz & Artist Lisa Marten

When: Sunday March 1, 2009

Time: 10:30am-11am AND 12:30pm-1pm

Where: Boise Vineyard Christian Fellowship

Copies of the books will be available for you to purchase at the book signing.

The book will be released to all major bookstores and on-line at Amazon.com as of March 3rd. 

<http://www.amazon.com/Formation-Generation-Robert-Michael-Kurz/dp/1606965565/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233809712&sr=8-14>

EVENT #2:

WHEN: Saturday March 7th, 2009 

WHAT: The Forerunner Café will be presenting: 

The First Dessert Theater in Boise , Idaho

TIME: 7pm

WHERE: The Water Cooler in downtown Boise

COST: $8 

PURPOSE FOR THE EVENT: It is a semi-formal event to give you an evening of entertainment, 

and to show you what can be done when you pursue your passion and use the 

talents that God intended for you to use to make a difference in this world!  

The performances will encourage and excite you to pursue your own!

Artists that will be performing are:

Lisa Marten: Nationally and Internationally known local artist who owns Revelatorart.

Natalie Wickstrom: Dance Instructor and Choreographer who owns Carpe Danza Ballroom in Boise, Idaho

Matthew Le Baron: Actor and MC for the night and who is also a local Real Estate Broker

Chuck Cathcart: Videographer with Clear Creak Productions

Samual Fortner: Local singer and guitarist

This is just to name a few of the artists and performers...

WHAT TO EXPECT: Shortly after the performances, there will be a time of networking 

intended specifically for you to meet the artists and other prospective talents to help you pursue 

your personal desire to grow in that area.  The night will also be topped off as with 

specialty desserts, exquisite coffee and drinks.

BONUS: Watch me create a painting. You could win the painting in a raffle!

EVENT #3:

What: JERRY FEE CD RELEASE PARTY

Where: The Record Exchange, Downtown Boise

When: Friday, April 3, 2009

Time: 7:30pm to 9:30pm

Cost: It's FREE for ALL ages. 

Why: Come listen to Jerry play and pick up

his new CD titled "Still Alive" 

Opening Band: Low-Fi 

BONUS: Watch me create a painting to his 

entire set of music. And you could win the

painting I create in a raffle!

Check out Jerry's music at:

<http://www.jerryfeemusic.com>

word UP

the photo above is of a mural that i was hired to paint in a bookstore this week. it was a challenge to paint on a cement block wall (with all the bumpy nooks and crannies) but it also gave a cool texture to the Dead Sea Scroll and Clay Pottery Jar that i painted. i enjoy painting murals...it's the ultimate HUGE canvas! with this particular mural i got to do more detailed work compared to the abstracts i've been doing lately. it was fun to work on something different. 

doin what i do

this week i've been doin what i do.

it's a good week.

the beginning stages of prepping a 3ftx3ft canvas for an upcoming art event where

i'll be a featured artist. i wrote out lyrics, phrases, scriptures onto the canvas with ink.

then i covered the whole thing with various colors of oil paint with my fingers

(that's what you see in the photo above). i rubbed the paint off leaving a thin layer,

 allowing the words to show through. then i brushed on various colors of 

latex house paint and let it tack up. oil and water don't mix so i was able to rub away

some of the latex paint giving it a peeling paint kind of look with the oil and words

showing from underneath. i will finish the painting during a performance that i'll do

on March 7th downtown Boise. i'll layer on images, words, objects, and acrylic paint to 

give it the final thematic look i'm goin for. i'll be painting live to a song medley. 

look for my post about it soon and i'll put up a photo of the finished painting. 

Painting Scotland

recently i've been a bit nostalgic. it seems like everywhere i turn i am reminded of Scotland. last fall i traveled to Paris & Germany and even there I came upon a bagpiper playing on a bridge in Paris and men in kilts at a castle in Germany. this week a friend gave me a cd of a Scottish bagpipe band and I've watched "Braveheart" twice. the weather today made me think of Scotland...it was a bit damp and cool and had a musty smell in the air. it was brilliant! i guess you can say i miss Scotland.

you see...i used to live there. i lived in Glasgow for 9 months. in the big picture of life that's really not a long time...but it was long enough for me to know that I will always be going back. it's a place near and dear to my heart. in fact...if you're ever interested in reading more about all of that, visit my blog dedicated to my time in Scotland: http://www.streetsofglasgow.blogspot.com or my travel blog of my return visit: http://whatswhat-ukandireland2005.blogspot.com/

all of this Scottish nostalgia has made me think of the paintings that i've done of that beautiful land. i've painted so many i can't even count. but a few stand out as my favorites. so this post is about that...painting Scotland. 

"The Presence of the Future" 18x24 oil on canvas

Isle of Mull looking towards the Isle of Iona, Scotland

while living in Scotland i had the wonderful opportunity to visit some beautiful places in the Highlands and in the Hebrides Isles. i took lots of photos and would spend time painting while i lived in Glasgow. my paintings began to change from the ones i did after my first trip to Scotland. originally i tried to capture the romantic beauty of the "bonnie isle" but what transpired was a ruggedness & a wildness of what i came to know as the Scottish spirit...the kind we all learned about in "Braveheart". i got to set foot on some pretty historical battlegrounds and explore some pretty ancient sites. some of the paintings I've painted I did while I was living there. others i completed when i returned to the States. they speak of what continues to live deep in my heart for Scotland. as i know i will always be going back to Scotland...i know i will always be painting Scotland....like a "warrior poet"!

"History Maker" 22x28 oil on canvas

waterfall in the GlenCoe area of the highlands, Scotland

"Breakfast on the Beach" 11x14 oil on canvas

beach on the Isle of Tiree, Scotland

"He Says Come" 11x14 oil on canvas paper

the falls of Dochart, Scotland

"Can I Ascend?" 11x14 oil on canvas paper (and again 14x18 oil on canvas)

the GlenCoe area of the highlands, Scotland

"Breathe Again" 11x14 oil on canvas paper (and again 18x24 oil on canvas)

beach area on the Isle of Coll, Scotland

"Break These Chains" 18x24 oil on canvas

ancient broch on the Isle of Tiree, Scotland

touch screen for a tactile finger-painting artist

so i've joined the 3G network with my new Blackberry Storm thru Verizon Wireless. i've got internet access, text & pix, Facebook, an 8GB memory card, and an international chip so i can use the phone when i travel overseas, and much much more. i've been trying to get used to the touch screen and all the doo-dads. it's a little intimidating...but i think with practice i'll get the hang of it. being that i'm quite the tactile touchy-feely finger-painting kind of artist that i am...i think i'm gonna become good friends with this phone. i'm sure that before long it'll have paint smudges all over it. makes me smile just thinkin of it.