O M A Y ' s    S T U D I O

CAUSEWAY UMBRELLA   -  oil on board.

KABUL 9/11/05  -  oil on board.

diver triptich   -  oil on board.

   MORE TO COME 

I AM SURE of THAT

ORANGE MAN GROUP    OIL on CANVAS

BAD ART

A 15 minute frenzy of painting.   I actually like this one more than I dislike it - it may get sent back  to the 'good' painting section again some day, 

A cold and bitter woman trudging through North Station on a colder and more bitter day.  Rendered in 15 minutes, this is another one that I love/hate.

The view seems askew.  This is a spot I used to stop at and exercise during a run.   The purple mountains majesty of the Swampscott shore in the background totally doesn't exist.  I think I remember throwing real sand into the paint on the beach portions.  

So not every piece of work is a home run...I have made and will continue to make some art that just sucks.  I got nothing to hide and here are some of them - some are composed well but the execution was shit.  Some were just poor renderings,  some have crappy colors, some have awkward compositions.  I have gone back to some and recreated them in a better way.  There is a Museum of Bad Art in Massachusetts that I hope to hang one of these in some day.   Many of these used to be in the 'Painting' section of this website, but as I have improved I thought it would be best to keep the good stuff there, and the not-so-good-stuff here (although I still like a lot of these misfit pieces).

This was fun to make, but hard to look at.

Oh this poor guy!  He was nice enough to stay up all day and night protecting me and what do I do?  I turn him into one of my least favorite paintings ever, that's what I did.   I really liked the composition on this, but boy did the execution fail!   I re-made this when I got home from overseas as a large spray painting that I like a whole lot more.  That better version can be seen in the 'Grafitti'  or 'Military Paintings'  sections of this website.   Sorry dude, I hope the revision makes up for me butchering you in this version.

I like the orangutans, but....I painted them first and had to squeak the background in afterwards.  Then I made up some completely fictional vegetation that look like giant soybeans sprouting from poorly rendered bamboo.

GARDEZ TOWER 4   -  oil on board.

FRIGGIN JIMMY   -  oil on board.

  HORATIO   &   MILLICENT

   ACRYLIC on CARBOARD

This is another one from the paintings I did overseas that I think missed the mark - I re-worked it digitally and it appears in the 'Military Paintings' section of this website in that improved version, this is the original.   I have something against the small wall in back of the group of soldiers, I think its the same screwed up wall from the 'Causeway Umbrella' picture above.  I am usually pretty good at perspective - but the walls on these 2 pieces seem to be 'off'.