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December 2006
Well, December was a long month. I made my first trip to California, I decided to drive across the desert just for the hell of it to get there. While there I did a small job for one of my brothers and got to hang with them and their families for awhile. Then I drove to Paducah for Xmas with my Rachael. It was a fun trip, took 2 weeks, 6 days of it driving, but all in all a very nice experience. And now I'm back in Lafayette, I've finally gotten the internet and cable hooked up at my apartment. And it's time to go into the studio for awhile. I'll post some of the new work as it progresses. Hope everyone's new year has started well.
November 2006
Brett Chigoy and I are back in Vicksburg this month, and work has begun on the new mural here, "The Sprague, The Big Mama of the River". The Sprague was the largest river boat ever built and pushed the largest tow ever at some ridiculous tonnage. After it was retired it was purchased by the City of Vicksburg, and used as a floating restaurant and theater. In other news, our show at The Warehouse on Garfield went very well, we seemed to have had the largest crowd for ArtWalk that night. We plan on possibly having quarterly shows, possibly every 3 months. When the next one comes up, I'll post it here and on my other pages.
And for our big announcement, The Warehouse on Garfield ( where we have our studio and where I have my apartment) is having our big grand opening gallery show for the next Artwalk on the 11th. We now have 6 or 8 artists in the building and Ken and Debra Simeral have finished putting together our gallery space, so it's time to let the public see what we all do. Come on down saturday night and enjoy the art. It's at 625 Garfield and should be starting about 1:00 pm and going to 10:00. I'll be there and so will lots of other fun and exciting people. So come on down and see us and the art. In other news, it's approaching the end to our time on the road in Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia this summer. The days have grown short, cold and rainy, and we are currently spending more time working inside on an installation job for a client in Georgia. We are reproducing the 18th century french wallpaper cycle of the Telemachus myth. The Hermitage ( President Andrew Jacksons house in Nashville, Tn) has a set in their entryway, and our clients wish us to reproduce it for their entryway. We'll also be starting the projects in Vicksburg, Ms very soon.
Read the The Daily Advertiser article about our show.
October 2006
On the road again, this month looks to be a busy one. Currently we are trying to finish up for the year in Covington, Ky, and Pt Pleasant, WVA. The weather seems to be rapidly turning bad on us and we shall be making our annual return to the south very soon.
I've finally gotten around to adding a Guest Book for ChromeSun Productions. So go and leave me a note.
September 2006
Mike Doherty and I finished the Marineways mural in Paducah Ky this month.  It shows the marineways dry dock facility for the steamboat industry as it looked at the turn of the century. In other news, my sister Amanda Roe and Tom Wilson were married on June 30th in Portsmouth, Ohio. And my friends Mike Doherty and Sandy Hoskins were married on August 29th at the Outer Banks of N. Carolina.
August 2006
August 19, 2006 was the dedication for the new buildings for the Portsmouth High School, including the 3 new murals I did in the main student entryway. Doug, Mike, Sharee, and I completed all of the murals on time, which was a major challenge, because we crammed about 8 weeks of work into 5. The last week was sheer misery,  with long hours, deadlines creeping up, strep throat and then a case of pinkeye, to top everything off. But we did it and they look fantastic if I do say so myself. Below are final photos for the mural in the entryway, of three 23ft tall trojans welcoming people in the new building. Thanks to everyone who helped out. It is much appreciated.
July 2006
Thanks to Mr. Fisher at the Solid Concepts Tattoo Shop in Downtown Portsmouth, Ohio, I have a new tattoo. It's an Amerind design originally on a shell gorget from a mound in Spiro, Ok. The creatures are Uktenas, underworld serpent monsters( singular uktena). Thank you Mister Fisher.
Work has finally begun on the first ChromeSun Productions murals!!!! I've done murals before on the side, but not since using the ChromeSun stuff for all my personal projects, including illustrations, graphic novels, etc. , and now murals. By the time we finish, we'll have done 3 murals in the new Portsmouth High School building in Portsmouth, Ohio. The main mural is 13 ft high by 33 ft in length, and has 3 very large characters dressed in Greek armor beaconing people into the building, as befits the schools mascot, The Trojan. The second mural will be a painting of the old P.H.S. building. The third mural will be at the entrance to the basketball gym, and will consist of 5 or 6 sports related figures in P.H.S. uniforms. Special thanks to Josh Justice and Christy Turvey for modeling for me, not just anybody will come and play dress up in ancient greek armor.  Doug Dafford and Mike Doherty are assisting me with this project. And Sharee Price plans to help when she returns from vacation. The murals will be unveiled during the grand opening ceremony for the building in late august 2006. Keep checking back, I plan to get back to posting progress photos for this one. In only slightly related news, The Black Sun-Chapter 2 probably wont be ready for an august release date, because as you can see, I'm a little busy at present. But I will be finishing it, I promise. Really. Hope everyone is well.
June 2006
June is almost over and it's time to head to the Portsmouth, Ohio area for the rest of the summer. We finished the 1913 Homecoming Mural here in Paducah and nearly completed the Marine Ways Mural. I'll put pics of them up when I get my camera uploaded, hopefully in the next week. The next projects are the news Pt. Pleasant , W.Va Project and some more to add to the Baseball Mural in Portsmouth. I may also possibly be doing a mural in the entryway to the new high school building in Portsmouth.
May 2006
The yearly migration north has begun with our new murals here in Paducah, Ky. During the next month we'll be painting the Homecoming 1913 mural and starting the Paducah Marine Ways Mural. I'll be posting progress shots here as the murals progress.
April 2006
It's spring now and almost time for our yearly migrations north. It's been quit a busy month so far with trips to Austin and Paducah, the building and finishing of my apartment( there are picture here for you to see) here in Lafayette, and soon Festival International De Louisiane. After that we should be heading to Paducah to do a few new murals there. I have a show up right now at The Green Room here in Lafayette of some of my photorealist work, I also have several large new paintings on display at Artmosphere, including American Dreams-White and Allegory. So if your here in Lafayette for Festival, make sure to go by and check them out. Hope all is well and can't wait to see all my friends up north soon.
February 2006- Apollo Ball, New Paintings
Mardi Gras is almost here!!!!!!!!! The company had our annual party and we all went to the Apollo Ball, I guess one of only times in my life I've ever worn a tux. So far it's been a relaxing winter, I've been taking time off from my duties at Dafford Murals and concentrating on some of my own paintings. So far I've started on a trilogy of photorealist works "American Dreams". The series will be 3' x 4', oils on masonite, with each being a different color and model of car. Below is a progress shot of "American Dreams-White", which shows the left tail light of a 1958 Oldsmobile. "American  Dreams-Red" is also started, it being  the right tail lights of a 1964 Impala. I'm planning on having the 3 finished by March or April of 2006, and having a show here somewhere in Lafayette.
I've also been working on an interpretative sign for the Kincaid Mound Site in Massac, Co, Illinois. It's to be 3ft by 4ft and will be next to the road which runs by the plaza. I'm not sure when it will be installed, but I'm looking forward to going to the site when I return to the Paducah area to see it. ( click here to go see pics of the sign on the news 2007 page, it came out great)
January 2006
My mothers mtDNA results finally came back, and we seem to be Europeans on that branch too. Or at least 50% of the population in Europe are in the same haplogroup, which is H. But it's geographical location also stretches from Northern Africa, the Middle East, and into India. So, more than likely my mothers mothers, mothers, mother, etc. came from somewhere in that large geographical area, whose highest concentration is Western Asia and Eastern Europe. If you'd like to find out your own, here is a link  National Geographic Genographic Research  Project.
December 2005
It's that time of year again, we're in Vicksburg, ms and freezing our little butts off. This time of year if it gets warm enough outside to paint, it rains. But we plug away at it anyway. I'm going to be in Lafayette a lot on the weekends for the next month and then probable in Laf. full time as soon as we finish the new Vicksburg mural, a gunboat battle on the Mississippi river during the American Civil War. In  other news, I've had my family participating in the National Geographic Genographic Research Project lately, and my dads Y-chromosome test has finally been completed. We belong to haplogroup R1b (M343), which is about what I expected, 75% of all european males belong to this group, which are the descendants of the first homo sapiens population in Europe. We were Cro-Magnon hunters!!!! Oh well, still waiting for moms mtDNA results to come thru. That's where the surprises could be.  Anyway, my moms, moms, moms, etc. could have been almost anything, native american, middle eastern farmer, european neolithic hunter, african, hard to say, but when I know, I'll post it here. If anybody else is interested in their deep genealogy, go order the test. It only costs $107.00 a kit,  and part of the proceeds go to fund the real purpose of the project, tracking the migratory path of homo sapiens out of Africa 70,000 yrs ago and every where they went since then. Merry Xmas, Happy Holidays,  and all of that, now go buy something from my ChromeSun Store and send it to some one special.
The Black Sun-Dead Leaves released Aug. 16th, 2005
As of August 16th, "The Black Sun-Dead Leaves" is available at the new store. So find store button to push and go to the new store. I've gotten my first copy and everything looks o.k. And after you get it, drop me a line to tell me what you think. Also go tell all your friends to buy one. Come on, do it now.  Whiney babies.
This painting is now on sale on the Store Page for $1,000.00, plus $15.00 shipping. It shows a reconstruction of what the Kincaid Site in Massac Co. Il.  may have looked like circa 1150 a.d.
	Also new in the Store Page is the print of Shadows in a Mirror. The print is a limited edition of 500, glossy 16 in. x 18in. print, signed and numbered by the artist,  suitable for matting and framing. At $20.00, plus $3.00 shipping, it is quit a deal. Get them before they're all gone.