James Robert Rogers

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Hello! My First Name Is Distance

Hello! My First Name Is Distance
Acrylic on Board

I was sketching while watching a movie, and listening to music... I know, right? Great multi-tasker haha! I drew an eye with long eye lashes like hair flowing below it. I then thought it would be cool if they were tentacles, so naturally the next one I drew, did. So that's how I came up with the eye monster. I painted the first one on my 'Full Collapse' painting and liked it so much I had to do another. It kind of reminds me of a movie, The Mirror Mask. Go watch it, it's amazing! I took the name for this painting from lyrics of the song: Mercury Rising by the band, From Autumn To Ashes. If you don't see the inner meaning of this painting, just listen to that song... But I like the thought of "Dandelions", how in some cultures they're considered a vegetable, and here in the USA they are considered a weed. We all look at something and see it completely different. I see great beauty in seeding dandelions, I've just decided if I were to have a favorite flower, that would be it! But I don't. So, so that's that.

TheFamilyRuin

TheFamilyRuin
24" x 24"
Acrylic on Board

My Assassin
Acrylic on Board

Full Collapse

Full Collapse
Acrylic on Board
Featuring guest Artist Quinn Rogers!

Full Collapse took over a year and a half to finish. It's my most thought through painting to date. It's basically my whole life on one board. My daughter who often paints/draws with me inspired more than a few aspects of the painting. While I was finishing it, she had drawn a robot version of me holding hands with her and she duplicated the bird on my shoulder. It was so cool that I just had to have her draw and color on this painting. What better way to wrap up my self portrait!!?? I took the name from my favorite album from the band Thursday.

Say hello to HENRIETTA

Gunslinger Girl: Henrietta
24" x 24"
Acrylic on board
Fan Art

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Elephant Skyline Hive hushpuppies haha

Zombie Girl Shoe

I had a clothing company many years ago that I designed and hand painted many T-shirts, I even sewed a few articles of clothing. I always wanted to create shoes, and it was only a matter of time before I actually got around to it. This was my first official attempt.

Sha sha shoes...

Friday, November 25, 2011

Uni

This last summer I took my daughter to the county fair. We watched some of the auctions for the sheep, pigs, and cattle (yes, it is a predominately farming county haha). She especially loves horses and thoroughly injoyed seeing all the girls riding their "pretty" ponies with their manes all tied with bows and ribbons. The high light of the expedition was the mary go round!

County fair admittins: free

Hot dog: $6

Mary go round for two, two rounds: $24

Look on daughters face as she rides: PRICELESS!

She has a deep love for all things horse related including unicorns or pegases like beings. If she ever met a magic jeanie she'd ask to be turned into a horse! lol. I knew I wanted to paint something for her birthday, and the memory of her face at the fair just popped into my head, it was perfect. So this painting is for her. A freed mary go round unicorn; strong, elegant, and full of hope!

Thursday, November 17, 2011

our wings are undone and who's to blame, the wolf for chewing its own leg or the captor its all the same

Created: Tue October 19, 2010

split the distance. its to great to feel. the sun, it burns so strong, burning out some light years away. bitterness of the cosmos hold all our thoughts tight. in that great expansion we loose all we once had, no chance for future in this dim light. seclusion becomes our companion, we hold hand in hand. our deep love now holds a name within contact. keep searching in the distance there's nothing. nothing but failures, it doesn't matter the distance, pulls our poles.

i close my eyes and all i see is a future where you won't love me. all i see is a dismal path where i'm led astray by subtle whispers, loosing my soul to capture a falling star that couldn't be kept, it burns a hole, you cant keep a bird that longs to fly. i've clipped your. i've clipped my. our wings are undone and who's to blame, the wolf for chewing its own leg or the captor its all the same. believe it or not i gave you all that i am, and i cant give anymore. i spent my last cense floating this broken raft down the white rapids, every one could see it miles away, why am i so blind? the forest groans, as it is burned to the ground, all seeds consumed in the fury of this whirlwind, thieves in the night. i saw something i could fix, i've never been more wrong.

Hungry Hungry Hippos

Acrylic on Recycled Cardboard

I normally don't share my rough sketches for my paintings, but I just thought it was funny and ironic that I drew this on an insurance letter haha. I have to note that I have been infatuated with the imagery of ghosts for as long as I can remember, but this particular style of ghost came from a good friend of mine, Shaun Kyle. I had asked him to do a painting for my daughter for her first christmas present, it involved some ghosts and he came up with this style. He has been a big influence in my life, if it weren't for him, I don't know if or when I would have ever started painting again. It had been several years (since I was in high school) that I quit painting. I wanted to start again but didn't have the confidence or motivation. Shawn asked me if I would like to sit in and watch as he painted, I accepted. It was just what I needed! I started back up and he would graciously come to my house to critique my work and give me different angles or ways to view what I was trying to portray. I would like to acknowledge his great influence in my spiritualness and art!

Ghost Ship

Acrylic on Board Framed

9" x 9"

Ghost In The Shell re-post

Ghost In The Shell

Acrylic on Board

24" x 12"

This is an older painting that I finally took a better photo of. When I originally posted this, it looked all faded and you could barely see the body and the red just didn't pop like it does on the painting.

Fordirelifesake

Acrylic on Board Framed

9" x 9"

Dressed For A Friend Request

Acrylic on Board Framed

9" x 9"

Dimmer Light

Acrylic on Board

12" x 12"

City Of Make Believe

Acrylic on Board

12" x 12"

Cherry Kiss

Acrylic on Board Framed

12" x 12"

Beat The Devil Out Of It

Acrylic on Board Framed

9" x 9"

Anatomy Of A Tidal Wave

Acrylic on Board

9" x 9"

This is a flier for one of my gallery shows that Jacob Wayne Bryner put together and participated in. He also painted the art in the background of the flier.

Do You Have Clouds That Stop His Voice

I grew up on a modest farm out side of a small community. We had two horses, a cow, some pigs, rabbits, chickens, and a few different dogs. We had almost an acre garden, it was my Dad's dream (himself being raised in L.A.) to raise his children in a way that we could learn responsibility, roam free and be safe while doing so. We had twenty or so fruit trees of a wide variety, along with many giant towering willow trees that doubled as my friends. I spent most my childhood days scrambling up their enormous trunks, swinging and hanging from branch to branch often from tree to adjoining tree. We had a tree house that was connected to four separate trees, spanning close to fifteen feet wide. It was the most ideal setting for children and I will always be grateful for my parents choice in raising us there! Naturally I have a fascination with trees and tree houses. It would be pretty rad to see a tree house like this.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

light a candle and put on some screamo

The name pretty much says it all: When One Eight Becomes Two Zeros

Acrylic on Recycled Cardboard

The sins of a generation. Cascade...

I painted this on a cardboard box because firstly, thats just cool, but mostly I had wanted to paint a scene inspired by a video game that hit me deeply and the more I thought about the emotions it just seemed ironic. A girl left alone in a dark cold forest. Feeling abandoned, filled with self doubt and thrown away. How fitting it should be painted on a used up cardboard box.

We don't even realize how every little action we choose, forces others down a new road. The streets are filled with discarded families and coupons for childcare. -Silver and Cold- Acrylic on Recycled Cardboard

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Remember Remember the fif blah blah blah

A lot of peps have been saying i should explain or talk about what my paintings are in reference to or what they mean to me. In short. They are pieces of what little soul I have, and with each brush stroke I sell a bit of it away.... Welcome to the nothing that is me!

As cities burn: Timothy

It's not the cold making my legs shake, It's Timmy's ghost taking his place in our hearts forever. It's not the sound keeping me from sleep, It's what Jesus said about hell underneath. I think I'd rather believe it's some imaginary place, Made up to make children behave, So our souls are safe to wander off, Wherever they might please. Your soul is safe wherever you might be. Come now, sleep. Come, now sleep. Tell me I'm only dreaming. Tell me he's just sleeping. And when morning comes, We'll both wake up to see the sun, And love that's enough to keep our friends alive. Phone call. I pull my car to the side of the road. No, it's not the cold making my legs shake, It's someone I love being taken away. A ghost taking his place in our hearts. Where inside he moves from room to room. But sometimes he climbs our spines, To remind our grieving heads, That in this way he hasn't left. Tell me I'm only dreaming. Tell me he's just sleeping. And when morning comes, We'll both wake up to see the sun, And love that's enough to keep our friends alive. Then take me back to where I was, before I was born. It's like sweet and dreamlessly, it sounds like heaven to me.

As Cities Burn - Timothy

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Gallery Showing May 14

I am having an art show this sat. Soon after I will post pics of the paintings and the gallery shenanigans! I haven't been posting for almost a year exactly, due to many life changes. Expect to see a lot more coming soon!!!

Friday, May 7, 2010

The Plan 6 1/2' x 4' Mixed-media on Board

The Plan -as seen is four 6 1/2 foot verticle panels connected at the top and bottom. When hung, each of the panels are seperated on the wall, two to six inches apart (parallel and symmetrically) to visually create one painting.