Illustrations from Aaron's Book of 21st Century Demons

From Aaron's Book of 
21st Century Demons WIP...
For your consideration...

Xenophobia...

Gambling...

Alzheimer's Disease...

Gun Violence...

Portraits of Homes, 2D and 3D

I have been creating portraits 
of homes since 1982.  I created 
a sculptural series of historic 
architecture for the Boulder, CO
Arts Commission, the city of 
Aspen and more than 200 
commissions for private collectors. 
This is a small selection of the 
commissioned homes.  
Media include porcelain, watercolor, 
pen & ink, pastels, graphite

Van Gogh in true 3-D...

I worked on a film about 
van Gogh's life in the 1990s 
called Crow in the Storm.

Laid out as a path through 
his life by way of his paintings, 
envisioned through 100 pages 
of color storyboards for 
traditional animation-
save for a final scene shot 
depicting van Gogh's death,
to the music of John Fogarty,
Long As I Can See The Light.

The movie never got made.

But from it sprung a need to create 
Vincent van Gogh and his world 
in actual 3-D to accentuate the 
concept. Some three dimensional
versions, in clay, of Van Gogh...
Most of the photographs are taken 
by Jerry Downs.

Vince: Go Ahead...

Glazed porcelain, mixed media

Available

Vince: Hey Buddy...

Glazed stoneware, mixed media

Available through Zenith Galley, 

Washington, DC

Vince: I Think He Was A Little Hard of Hearing...

Glazed stoneware, mixed media

Collection of Maggie Wilde, Boulder, CO

Vince: I Think He Was A Little Hard of Hearing...#2

Glazed porcelain, mixed media

Collection of Steven Weissman, Takoma Park, MD

Self-Portrait, Vincent Van Gogh

The original 

National Gallery, Washington, DC

Vince: Out Into The Cool of The Evening Strolls 

The Pretender (After van Gogh and J. Browne)

Glazed porcelain, Mixed media

Collection of Tom Verica/Kyra Arne

Portrait of the Artist as a Van Gogh painting

1997

Photo: Jerry Downs

Buddha and the Sacred...illustrations

From the Buddha and 
the Sacred Series...

The Smile

The White Tara

The Visitor...

The Green Tara

Buddha in the Curl 

from Sean Daly's memoir,

What We Talk About When 

We Talk About Cancer.

Many of the models for these 

works were statuary that at one 

time inhabited the Sacred Space 

of Summerland, California.

Some of the images shown here 

are from murals and are lifesize. 

Modern ARF thanks them for

their spiritual and artistic inspiration.

The artist also spends time 

haunting the Asian collection 

of the Norton Simon Museum 

for additional inspiration.

Illustrated books...

In addition to Romancing 
The Smoke: Reflections 
of a Nicotine Addict, 
I recently illustrated Sean 
Daly's memoir, What We
Talk About When We Talk 
About Cancer. (2016)
Both books are available on Amazon.

Select illustrations from 

Sean's memoir...

Raining Cats and Dogs...

Some portraits of beloved beasts...

Garbo in "Vince Gotta Biscuit?"

Eddie Spaghetti

Cooper

Carli from What We Talk About When We Talk About Cancer by Sean Daly 

W.G.

Lucy and the Raven

Cheshire Kitty, Glazed porcelain, lifesize

Angus

Taj, detail...sculptural relief 

George

Outdoor Shower becomes Modernist Painting...

Mark and Marcia Benkert 
of Ojai, CA commissioned 
a large geometric Mondrian-
style wall about 9' x 12' that 
integrated the colour scheme
of their cozy yurt into the 
private courtyard that is the 
backdrop for the outdoor 
shower...the water pipes 
defined the geometry; and 
it resulted in a wonderful 
collaboration...