just another post

I've been tinkering with images again. I have been primarily a realistic or representational painter. That is what sells. If you are not following your muse then painting is a waste of time. Sure, you make images that people like and buy. But most of the time you are just painting what everyone else does. You may have a style that no one else has and that's great but I want to get completely out of the box. I want to create images unique and I want to do them fast. That eliminates oil painting. I am not interested in the medium but the image itself. The method of creation is secondary to the image itself.

The image above is a combination of accident and technique. It was created on a inkjet printer. The letters printed when I wasn't expecting it. The printer gremlins did it. I incorporated the print into the design. (I'm real cheap and did not want to was te a piece of watercolors paper.) I completed the work by printing colors over cut and torn newspaper masks.

Listening Matter

• Hank Williams
• Frankie Laine
• Patsey Cline
• Doc Watson
• Ya Ya Ma

mono update

I have continued to work on my monoprints. The one at the left is based on a rock formation in Utah. We had a Charleston French Quarter Art Walk this past Friday evening and it was great. We had out-of-town guests. It was good to see what local artists were doing in the production of new works. They always present a new ideas. I am beginning to think as a mixed media artist and maybe moving toward multi-media.

Studio Listening Matter

• Mozart
• Wagner
• Blind Boys of Alabama
• Hank Williams
• Ibrahim Ferrer

Reading Matter

• The Murder Book--Jonathon Kellerman

other things

There has been some water under the bridge since my last post. I've been working on some new projects. One of my projects is a Redneck Zen Garden. The project requires a lot of cigarette butts and I don't smoke anymore. I finished my Thumper Motorcycle Poster. Whattaya think?


One of my newest projects in this vain has been the "Diet Patch" This diet device is guaranteed to work. Weighing in at 260 at a height of 72 inches, I had to do something. Therefore, I developed the Patch. It is guaranteed to work. You'll find yourself fizzling away like and Alka-Seltzer.

I've been continuing to load music into iTunes and making some compilation disks. The labeling program has been giving me fits. Guess I'll have to study the directions.

Studio Listening Matter

• Alan
• Better Than Ezra
• Train

Current Read

The Murder Book--Jonathan Kellerman

some other things

I was just cleaning up the studio when I saw my old stack of sketchbooks. Curiosity got the best of me. I yielded to temptation--I lost a couple of hours productive time looking at these old books. I started them is the '60's. They are almost autobiographical. Maybe not almost. My sketchbooks remind me of where I was at a certain point in time. And, of course, some things are purely imaginary. My books also have recipes and other written stuff. There are rubbings too. (What is that Italian word for rubbing?) I use a lot of post-its to index certain things such as maps, hand-drawn , ofcourse. There can be for bottle labels and other stuff that can be stuck inside.

Studio listening Matter

• Imbrahim Ferrer
• Texas Tornadoes
• Webb Pierce
• Diana Krall
• Mozart
• Carbon Leaf
• blue Dogs

Current read: The Murder Book by Jonathon Kellerman

Back from awhile ago...

It has been quite some time since my lst entry. We have been quite busy. We drove across country, from Goose Creek,SC to San Diego, CA. We visited friends and relatives in AL,TX,AZ and CA. And we camped out about ten times or so. We had never camped out together before and determined that when we returned we would either be happily married or ready for a divorce. Thankfully the resultant was the former.
There were many painting ops but very little time. i did take over 400 pics, many for reference purposes. A full jounal of this trip written by Claudette and illustrated with my photos is available at www.geocities.com/ttt01us/candtpage.htm The above is from our journey. We camped one night in Palo Duro Canyon in north Texas. In the painting I replaced the motor homes with teepees. Currently I'm updating web sites and creating slideshows as well as videos while getting some paintings ready for some of the fall shows.

Studio Music

• Frank Sinatra
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Tony Bennet
• Billie Holliday