New Bedroom

The old bedroom used to be almost entirely white - we simplified the whole room and painted the walls a greenish french gray. We also rehung all the artwork using the picture-rail.

New to Our Collection

We are now the proud owners of a Sarah McKenzie painting!

Glass and Stone

This would be a nice place to weather the snow. Source. Origin.

Project finished

Three rolls of masking tape later:

a small drawing of a broken statue done on canvas as an experiment

Although we never made it to Cafe Greco in Rome (pictured below), I ran across it in a book and it loosely inspired our new dining room. Rome in general inspired the wall painting.

photo source.

Current Project

Inspired by all of the elaborately painted interiors of Rome, I've started adding some decorative painting to our dining room:

lots of tape

part one complete

part two complete

This and That

photo taken with our new camera.

Best-of 2010 music list in the works. Should be up soon.

New painting above the couch

New interior pictures

Our living room- Iron folding chair is from an antique store in Central City, the bench is from a used furniture store in Denver, the credenza is from ModLivin, the long highway painting is mine, the chairs are vintage - found in Savannah, Georgia and the coffee table is Lane.
The view from the living room looking towards the dining room - the dark painting in the dining room is mine and the framed painting in the dining room is by Alan Kitchen.
The couch is from Room & Board and there's a Mammoth tusk in the window sill on the left. The dining room table is from ModLivin. The painting above the couch is by Kay Tuttle.
The dining room - with a cast resin antler by Lauri Lynnxe Murphy. You can see the pigeon racing trophies in the window sill on the left. The room on the right of the photo is my studio. Our place isn't usually quite this clean - ha ha.

Whale Vertebrae furniture

Ever since a visit to Wartburg castle in Germany in 1999 the image of Martin Luther's footstool stayed with me. He used a whale vertebrae as his footstool while translating the Bible (pictured below). It has a beautiful sculptural quality to it and for reasons I'm having trouble articulating, using the backbone of a whale as a footstool while translating religious texts seems poetic.

On a related note, I came across a great modern stool inspired by the whale vertebrae - by Alda Hall.

Langreyður - kollur


Langreyður - kollur


Langreyður - kollur

New Alexander Binder works

Alexander Binder recently posted a new series called "Allerseelen", including this owl work that I am happy to say hangs in my living room right now.


The owl photo is located in the lower left corner of the bottom row of the arrangement on the right hand side in this photo:
Another one of his photos hangs in our entry way:

Photo of the Day

New Dining Room

This move seems to be the only creative thing I've been doing lately, so that's why I keep posting about it. I'll be starting new drawings in my real studio this week.


We matched the green-gray Farrow&Ball paint color to Harriet Maxwell Macdonald’s home which was featured in a 2007 issue of Domino magazine. The local paint store was able to copy Farrow&Ball's specs and we opted for the environmentally-friendlier option which actually had very little or no odor (worth the few extra bucks). The color really looks different in different light.

Score + Update

I just scored four pigeon racing trophies at an estate sale today. And here's a photo of our new dining room and how we're hanging some of the artwork in that room:

The Constant Gatherer: Artist at Home feature

Our apartment is featured this weekend on the blog of my friend Katie Runnels -The Constant Gatherer. Katie is a fellow SCAD grad and artist. Thanks Katie!

Salon style

We reworked our dining room a couple of weeks ago and put up a lot of small pieces to replace some of the large works that are in my show at Rule gallery right now. Here are the labeled works:

Living Room update

Living Room update, originally uploaded by nathanabels.

Living Room update, originally uploaded by nathanabels.

New Couch, etc.

Here's what our living room looked like with the old couch:
We got a new couch yesterday and moved a lot of the room around. Having a couch that sits higher off the ground really opens up the room. Where the wildfire painting hangs in the photo above we've re-hung the eight foot long highway painting. We moved the credenza (and tv) underneath it instead of on the opposite wall. What we're still planning on changing is the rug, the lampshades and the curtains. Changing the rug to something larger and more neutral will make a big difference - I'm dreaming of these rugs. We're even considering re-covering the side chairs with a softer fabric. For now, we'll just have to imagine those changes because shipping and back-orders mean we won't have this room quite how we want it for another couple of months.

Recent Interior Inspiration

We've been changing our decor around lately and today marks the arrival of a new couch (photos soon). Yesterday I retired an old thesis-show painting to our basement storage space.

Our interior inspiration been Harriet Maxwell Macdonald’s home from a 2007 issue of Domino magazine. These rooms balance a variety of textures with a calm, airy feel and the palette is muted but not bland:

Photo of the Day

via artversusme

For the Love of God

Thanks to this tip from C-monster, I stopped by Z Gallerie at Cherry Creek on my walk over to the bank today and picked up my very own Damien Hirst knock-off. And for $25 ! That's about $100 million dollars cheaper than the original! It's approximately life-sized (death-sized?) and made of some resin/metal finish combination. Shiny skulls are not my typical decor aesthetic, but it's good to mix it up I suppose.