crude oil from the golf spill

This painting is still in progress. It is obviously inspired by the recent BP Oil spill in the Golf of Mexico. Below you can still see the Oil Rig and the spill as well as the “burn off’s” in the distance. I would love to mix in some real oil form the spill, so if you have any [...]

The First Supper

Medium:  Oil on Panel (Framed)
Size:  48 x 24 inches
Date:  2007-2010

The composition was modeled directly after Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Last Supper” but that’s where the similarities stop.  Each group of apostles deals with the differences between themselves, while not relating with the central figure.  The visual dialog is meant to be read from right to left.

The [...]

change in signature

Trying out this new “identi-pen” for signatures on paintings.

people experiment

Run a test of ten people both kids and adults. Put them in a circle and let them paint or draw for ten seconds. Then pass to your left the now paint over as much as you like, for ten seconds. Then pass to the left. Again draw what you want to ten seconds. Repeat.

Portland Bridge Festival

I just submitted this painting to the Portland Bridge Festival, at first I wasn’t going to submit anything because I don’t really paint bridges. Then just yesterday this mossy bridge came out of nowhere and I love it, so I thought I would now give it a try. This oil painting belongs in my “Northwestern [...]

Henrys Twitter Collage

At the top you see this collage now takes on the symbol of a god like being. Both male and female are present in two different states. The male is the photo of chuck close and the bull, he looks at the viewer and studies man kind. She reads and her alter ego is this [...]

Urban Grind Coffee

Getting lunch and a latte while talking with the owner Kevin about the gallery scene in Portland. Thinking about the best fit for a gallery for my work.

The Northwestern Myth of the Floating Cross.

Painting in progress…

First it was called the pool of galkyd and now this. To the left you can see a large waterfall that feeds into the river and an evergreen tree that is in direct relation to the Human Figure on the Cross. These two images both represent the natural and super natural.

Loving this new Portland band!

Check out the Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside band.

http://opbmusic.org/performances/129-Sallie-Ford-the-Sound-Outside

testing the camera and photo upload process

Up loading media to the wordpress for blackberry not simple. For example you can’t first go to your blackberry library and select the image to add to media. pa href=”http://samroloff.com/beta/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/IMG00005-20100505-1236.jpg”img class=”alignnone size-full” src=”http://samroloff.com/beta/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/IMG00005-20100505-1236.jpg” alt=”” title=”IMG00005-20100505-1236.jpg” width=”2048″ height=”1536″ //a/p