I always told myself I needed a body of work before I could worry about getting a show but I was able to do enough one offs this summer in addition to my past work to get a choice spot at the Tim Faulkner Gallery for a solo show in June. Once I have that accomplished I can shop that show around in other cities and see what happens as I begin work on another solo show for 2011.

The short term deadlines of the past summer burnt me out to a point of exhaustion. Now I have a longer term goal set. I have the floor plan of the gallery laid out and plans for how much work I will need to go where. I just need to produce slowly but steadily through out the fall, winter and spring to put together a top notch super A+ okey dokey #1 show. But I also need to produce smaller one offs for group shows and Sunday Salons to keep my stuff out there in front of people. Hopefully I'll sell a few along the way too.

Currently I have 6 painting in various early stages of completion:

• A dinosaur fossil piece with devils as a remark about Christian Apologists who blame every piece of evidence that disproves their superstitious beliefs on the devil.
  
• A 4'x4' Buddha a friend ordered years ago but I never got around too. Now is the perfect time in my conceptual and stylistic evolution to execute it. Just have the Buddha holding a devil and angel in a closed jar.
  
• A smaller painting featuring a close up of 1968's mirrored angel and devil shooting each other.
  
• A 6'x4' painting of my wife lying on a big red couch in a rather not-so-dainty pose watching her Twilight Zone box set.
  
• A point of view piece with empty taps dripping their last drops onto a half empty/full pint glass with a devil and angel expressing their opposing opinions of such a situation.
  
• The head of Klimpt's Judith wearing a tie that features his mass produced overly consumed Kiss.
  

This weekend I have to have two older pieces framed to fill in some space at the 640 Gallery during the East Market Festival or whatever the hell is going on. Then I have to collect "Cities of the Dead" and "Ash Wednesday" and deliver them to Evansville for a show my high school art teacher is putting together in a downtown office building.

Tonight I'm watching the Colts. If it is over early, I'll go down and start painting on the beer piece.