"The Collins Cure"

The milk goes down smoothly,
   A Phillip Milk of smooth lyrical content.
Managed solely for my palate,
available on cassette
     and compact disc.
I clearly love the thin sound of vocal clarity
    as well as the crisp beats like a tribe.
I am going to manage my day
according to its dictates
and collapse into a mealy mush
of gravelly riverbed madness.
Gladly blathering all the way,
Visibly touching the firmament,
and swirling amid the gray.

"The Red Rocker"

A sullen Sammy Hagar,
   Haggard.
Floating in crimson flags of eagles flying.
Big Red lightning of sockets glowing.
Murderous chords projected from
   ancient ideas.
Eagles flew previous,
But presently they glorybound fracture
The malignant orb of despondency.
Flags fly full.

"Proto-Musician" 2012

"Man Gazes Upon the Monolith" 2012

 

Forays into color



"Electric Beasts" 2012--Sold




"Duck Monument" 2012




"Triangular Fellow" 2012



3 recent pieces.



"Gator Boy" 2012



"Slow Creature-Creep" 2012

"Anger Canopy" 2012

"Arbeiter"

"Arbeiter" (a rather arbitrary title)

Pigeon Pk.

Pigeon Pk.  Done mostly on-site from the overlook nearing the Cascade Wye in the Weminuche (added shading later)

Art Show at the Sideshow in Dolores.

"Saurischian Fossil-Birth" 18"x20" 2011

"Saurischian Fossil-Birth" 18"x20".   2011

Previously Titled piece: "Virtue is for Suckers".

"Previously Titled" show (in which artists were randomly given titles to create an art piece of) at & Studio in Durango, CO.  The title, "Virtue is for Suckers", was provided to me 2 months ago by local dignitary, Ted Holteen. 

The Durango Herald reviews the Dan Groth Art Spectacle at the Lost Dog

Last weekend's Lost Dog art opening went quite well. Durango Herald A&E editor Ted Holteen did a very nice write-up, which can be seen by clicking the link below

http://durangoherald.com/article/20120117/ARTS02/701179991/What’s-he-thinking?

Art Show:

January 13th-Feb. 2nd

Opening night:  January 14th, 6-9pm

Lost Dog Bar and Lounge

1150 e. main ave Durango, CO

I am on Etsy

I have an etsy page, which I am currently selling prints on.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/warmgrimace

Art opening in Portland, OR! Nov 4th, 6-9pm

Yes, I'm doing an art show up there in Portland with my artist friend Allison Dewilde.  It should be X-cellent.  It'll be up from Nov 1 through the end of the month, EXCEPT, that I'll be taking my part down on the 14th as I'll be leaving town and will need to transport.

"Emerging Whale"

"A Convening."

"I Have Come From Afar to Give You Relaxation"

Poodles

A little more than a year ago (July 2nd, 2010), I posted something on this "blog" which pondered the future of my artistic self--specifically from exactly a year after I wrote it.  Well, the date of July 2nd, 2011 has come and gone without me having taken note--mostly because I've been quite busy in my actual life (as opposed to my computerized life).  I won't go into too much detail, (but egads!  That's a year already?!  Time flies when you get older).  I will just say that I now live in lovely  Durango, Colorado, where I moved to Portland from in October of 2004.  Boulder was a decidedly bad place for me to live--but more importantly, Durango has turned out to be pretty good.  I just moved into a new space where I have plenty of room and few distractions, and the New Horizons are glowing off in the near distance.  That is, sometimes life takes one in unexpected directions, and my move to Durango has been a rather serendipitous thing.  Not much about specific art and techniques in this blog post... maybe some posts in future editions. 

Pledge 30 dollars KDUR 3-5pm Friday April 15th (91.9FM in Durango and at kdur.org) and receive one of these small framed pictures of moustachioed gentlemen. 970-247-7262

 

 Good TIMEZ!!

 KDUR 91.9/93.9FM

kdur.org

Friday 3-5PM MST

A Radio Show on KDUR Durango

I have a radio show where I play music:  Indie, Psych, Prog, Obscure AOR, Classic Country, and random stuff.  It is on KDUR 91.9/93.9 in the Durango, CO area; and for those who live elsewhere, it can be listened to online at kdur.org
It is called the Friday Afternoon Party and will be Friday from 3-5pm Mountain Time--the time slot will likely change in May.
Thankz

"Flowing-Dude in Snake Country" 18.5"x19.5"

Full Size

close-up

2010--A Year of Year Years.

I ripped so many bags in 2010 that my world will never be the same.  Year.  Year.
The tone of Steve Perry rips in a florid guitar ripping crusher.
A perfect sound of 2010 years.
A technical ripp-crush of perfect technical riff-ripping
Crush.
Perfect production in synth-land.
Excellence.

Upcoming Art Show! January 7th Opening Night!

Hello:

I got accepted into the Ice Cube Gallery 2.0 show:

http://www.icecubegallery.com/i/Upcoming_Exhibit.html

I am showing three pieces:

"Smerdy"

"It Has Disturbed My Sleep"
and

"Beast Battle"

All of which can be seen by clicking on the titles above.

I am quite excited to be showing in the Denver area for the first time EVER, (if one doesn't include the yearly St. Vrain Valley School District Art Shows which I had pieces accepted to when I was a youngster)

I looked online at some of the other artists whose work was accepted and it looks like I'm in pretty good company. (or bad company, if you define "bad" as being really good...or if you're a big fan of the band Bad Company, which I am not except for the song " Shooting Star").

Sincerely

Dan Groth

Habadasher

Hats, hats, hats!

Smerdy, finished.

Smerdy, finished.  Scroll down to see earlier versions.  Take note of the large ink splotch on the neck in earlier versions.  I used Chinese White Gauche to cover up it's immensity.  Also take note of the earliest version, which seems really different to me.  It ended up being more grotesque.

Other Art from the Past Year.

CLICK ON IMAGES FOR FULL VIEW

All pieces are 11"x15"

This piece is called "Dude, Stuck in the Arroyo", created in June, '10.  It is inspired by Durango, CO, Southwest US culture, and Kraftwerk's song/album "Autobahn.  It is a wedding gift for a friend.

This is a quick-sketch pen-and-ink wash off of a photograph I took of Haystack Rock at Cannon Beach, OR.  I did it in about 45 minutes and bested any effort to replicate it with watercolor (I was rusty in the watercolor department)

This piece is the result of a tragic occurrence, but I actually like how it looks.  I was putting a lot of effort into this odd little piece when a tea-bag tragedy struck.  That is a saturated tea-bag fell out of my mug and onto this picture.  I actually did some brush work to make it look a little better.  So yes, it does look kind of good--but not really something I want to hang up at an art show.

Restarted work on "Smerdyakov" (Working title).

Piece is approximately 18.5"x20"

Click on it for full view

I restarted work on this piece which I "finished" back at the beginning of June '10.  It's working title was "Smerdyakov", though that may change as I don't feel like it befits that character from Brothers Karamazov as much anymore.

Click on it for full view

This is the original "Finished product" that was Displayed at the Stumptown and Beulahland art shows, finished in one week's time--tons of dots rendered in a short amount of time.  I felt like I needed one more piece for Stumptown, and it seemed finished enough for display.  After having to look at it a lot, I realized I'd need to work on it some more.

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A close-up of the updated version

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Even closer.

Let me emphasize that I'm not finished with this piece.  I need to darken the neck, the "shirt" and the background some more.  It's quite an undertaking, my friends.  It's quite easy to get sucked into the minutiae and lose sight of the big picture, so to speak.  Such is the nature of doing large-scale dot-detail.  I look forward to starting a new one soon--possibly doing some color-work.  I owe my Aunt and Uncle a piece of artwork, so I need to get crackin' on a landscape pretty soon.

"Parable of the Blind", by Pieter Breughel

I did not paint this.  Pieter Breughel the Elder did.  This piece is an inspiration.

I have finally set up my art space at my new dwelling.  I am working on "finishing" a piece I'd made last summer--one that I made the week before the Stumptown art show which I never felt was fully complete.  I will post the results of that revision, along with the original, once I am finished.