Today artist Jay Rolfe finished painting his new Pop Art 3-D painting "Euro Tan." The photo of the day shows Jay Rolfe putting the finishing touches on his Pop Art 3-D painting "Euro Tan."
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative Pop Art 3-D paintings, on his website at http://www.jayrolfe.com/.
Yes, artist Jay Rolfe paints on Saturday and Sunday. He really enjoys creating his Pop Art 3-D paintings, so, time permitting, he does it every day of the week. Today's photo is of artist Jay Rolfe working on a painting called "Adam and Eve" today.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative Pop Art 3-D paintings, on his website at http://www.jayrolfe.com/.
Where to put the body parts in Jay Rolfe's 3-D Pop Art painting "Tan Lines." That's the challenge Jay Rolfe is working on in this photo of the day. Here the artist is measuring for proper placement of the body parts that will provide lots of 3-D for this Pop Art 3-D painting.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative Pop Art 3-D paintings, on his website at http://www.jayrolfe.com/.
Artist Jay Rolfe started a new Pop Art 3-D painting today, "Tan Lines." The photo of the day is Jay Rolfe painting it.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative Pop Art 3-D paintings, on his website at http://www.jayrolfe.com/.
Today's photo depicts some of the drudge work of an artist, making the paintings so the collector can hang them. Here is a photo of artist Jay Rolfe attaching hanger rings to the back of a canvas so he can attach a picture wire. Rolfe has found it "safer" to attach the hanging rings and wire before painting, as there is less chance of damaging the finished painting than when attaching them after completing the painting.
This is just a glimpse of the myriad things that need to be done besides putting paint on the canvas. With Jay Rolfe's large Pop Art 3-D paintings, he must create a 3-D framework on which to stretch the canvas. That takes a lot of time and energy. Fortunately, with the 3 feet high paintings he is working on today, he can use pre-stretched canvas.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative Pop Art 3-D paintings, on his website at http://www.jayrolfe.com/.
Artist Jay Rolfe completed several paintings today. Today's photo is of one of them. It's called "Cosmos (Milky Way)" and is 24" x 24" x 1 1/2" deep.
Jay Rolfe loves depicting the infinite, and especially in deep rich colors like the night sky.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative Pop Art 3-D paintings, on his website at http://www.jayrolfe.com/.
"Cosmos 8" by Jay Rolfe was completed yesterday. Here's a photo of it. It's a small (18" x 24" x 1.5") painting of the Cosmos. Some of the creative process was described in yesterday's post.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative Pop Art 3-D paintings, on his website at http://www.jayrolfe.com/.
Jay Rolfe completed a new painting this morning, "Cosmos 8." It is small for Rolfe's paintings, 18" x 24" x 1.5". Today's photo is of him painting the stars on it.
Artists could call the process of painting the stars on this painting "process" art. That is, the artist removes himself (!) from the decisions of where to place the stars and lets the Universal force decide where his hand goes. It is true that Jay Rolfe didn't have a preconceived notion of where to put the stars, but let the feeling come over him. Does that make his paintings more valuable since the Universal force helped paint his painting of the universe, "Cosmos 8"? Would you pay more knowing this?
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative Pop Art 3-D paintings, on his website at http://www.jayrolfe.com/.
Jay Rolfe's new Pop Art 3-D painting "Far Corner of the Universe" is unusual. It is designed to hang in a corner, and so it may appear as a far corner of the universe. It is 16" high by 13.5" wide and has 13.5" of depth. For more information, see the large photo on Jay Rolfe's website linked below.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative Pop Art 3-D paintings, on his website at http://www.jayrolfe.com/.
One of the four 3-D Pop Art paintings Jay Rolfe completed last week is this one, "Before the Fall." This is a 3 feet high version of his Adam and Eve series of 3-D Pop Art nudes.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative Pop Art 3-D paintings, many on shaped stretched canvas, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.
This morning there was a lot of variety at cars and coffee. Three Ferraris, 2 Maseratis, a brace of Porsches, a Lotus, a Viper, a Corvette, and some others.
A young officer of the local constabulary stopped by with his undercover police Dodge Charger with a Hemi and chatted. He loves the car. At first glance one wouldn't know it was a cop car, but if you look at the police-only issue wheels, you know. 
Today's photos are of the variety of cars and the undercover police cruiser.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative Pop Art 3-D paintings, many on shaped stretched canvas, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.
"My Little Corner of the World" is Jay Rolfe's newest painting, completed yesterday. It is small, 6" high by 7 1/2 inches wide by 7 1/2 inches deep. And it's clearly a landscape. This, and my other corner paintings, are designed to fill a gap. Lots of walls have something in the center, but nothing near the corner. In fact, people sometimes think of the corner as dark or dirty. Isn't it cool to put something awesome in the corner and watch people see the corner differently?
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative Pop Art 3-D paintings, many on shaped stretched canvas, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.
Today's photo is of Jay Rolfe's small size (for him) 3-D Pop Art painting titled "Princess Pocahontas and John Rolfe Uncovered." It is 3 feet tall, and the first to be completed of the four he is working on in different sizes. He finished the painting on Tuesday, took photos yesterday and intended to post one yesterday, but they turned out to be blurred - always use the tripod! Another set of photos today taken using the tripod did work out, and here's one of the photos.
Many people have heard of Princess Pocahontas and the false story of her saving the life of Captain John Smith when she was age 12 or less in 1607.
The really romantic and interesting story is that in 1614 Princess Pocahontas was captured by the Virginia colonists, held hostage near Jamestown, converted to Christianity and given the Christian name of Rebecca, and fell in love with the gentleman farmer who helped the minister teach her Christianity, and married the gentleman farmer, John Rolfe, with both the permission of her father, Chief or Emperor Powhatan, and the Governor of the Virginia colony. Two years later, Princess Pocahontas visited England with her husband John Rolfe and their son Thomas Rolfe. Princess Pocahontas and John Rolfe were received by the King and Queen of England.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative Pop Art 3-D paintings, many on shaped stretched canvas, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.
The photo of the day is artist Jay Rolfe painting his very large, 8 feet high, Pop Art 3-D painting on shaped stretched canvas of "Princess Pocahontas and John Rolfe Uncovered."
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative Pop Art 3-D paintings, many on shaped stretched canvas, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.
Jay Rolfe is creating a small Pop Art 3-D painting of "Princess Pocahontas and John Rolfe." This one is only 3 feet tall, so it will fit in any room. Today's photo is of artist Jay Rolfe painting this small version of "Princess Pocahontas and John Rolfe" this morning.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative Pop Art 3-D paintings, many on shaped stretched canvas, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.
Artist Jay Rolfe is painting his new Pop Art 3-D painting on shaped stretched canvas titled "Princess Pocahontas and John Rolfe." This version is 8 feet tall. As you may know, Princess Pocahontas married John Rolfe shortly after she was baptized as a Christian, an important step for her to be acceptable as a bride for the gentleman colonist John Rolfe, on April 5, 1614.
Jay Rolfe also just completed a new website for his very accomplished and very talented wife Randy Rolfe. You can see it at www.randyrolfe.com/.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative Pop Art 3-D paintings, many on shaped stretched canvas, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.
It's so hard to choose which beautiful piece of sculpture to feature in this blog on Saturday. Jay Rolfe saw so many beautiful examples of Ferrari, Porsche, Lotus, and other makes this morning at cars and coffee. Today we'll show a classic beauty, a 2001 red Ferrari 550 Maranello. What great lines!
Maybe next week we can feature the red Ferrari BB512i, a red Ferrari 308, a "smiling" yellow Lotus Elise, a blue Porsche GT3 which was just acquired this week, a black Porsche Turbo S 
cabriolet, or a black Porsche Turbo coupe. They're all beautiful rolling sculpture which we haven't featured yet.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative Pop Art 3-D paintings, many on shaped stretched canvas, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.
Jay Rolfe often cuts wood pieces for the framework of his Pop Art 3-D paintings. Here Rolfe is cutting pieces this afternoon for several Pop Art 3-D paintings he is creating.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative Pop Art 3-D paintings, many on shaped stretched canvas, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.
Artist Jay Rolfe is ready to paint on his new painting "Princess Pocahontas and John Rolfe," a Pop Art 3-D painting on shaped stretched canvas. The 8 feet high 3-D canvas is ready to go. That's the photo of the day.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative Pop Art 3-D paintings, many on shaped stretched canvas, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.
Well, the big slab of ham is front and center and very prominent in Paul Gauguin's painting from 1889 "Still Life With Ham" which artist Jay Rolfe saw on a recent visit to the Phillips Collection in Washington DC. The yellow walls reflecting on the painting make it look yellower than it actually is.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative Pop Art 3-D paintings, many on shaped stretched canvas, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.
Today artist Jay Rolfe took photos of many recent paintings. Today's photo shows him with his 18" x 24" painting "Cosmos 7." Rolfe enjoys creating paintings of the infinite cosmos, the night sky to most of us. He's particularly fond of the color of the cosmos paintings, although the camera doesn't quite capture it accurately.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative Pop Art 3-D paintings, many on shaped stretched canvas, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.
Jay Rolfe's painting on a shaped wood panel of "Falling In Love" is a humorous look at the lust of falling in love. It's the photo of the day.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative Pop Art 3-D paintings, many on shaped stretched canvas, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.
"Black Hole" is by Jay Rolfe. It is 30 inches round painted in acrylic on a wood panel. It's the photo of the day.
Artist Jay Rolfe is fascinated by the night sky, the cosmos, the universe. He has created several paintings on these subjects.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.
