Spring frustration
Arrgh. I'm at that place where you work and work and paint and over paint and still something isn't right. Well, that's anything, I guess. The garden is a work in progress too. I'm slowly finding out...
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Getting back on the aircraft, back into back and forth. Finished a painting. Started several others, mostly still life pieces, my favorite at the moment. Maybe the stability of still life is...
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Here is a story about a dog. This dog, a big shiny black lab, romped up to my son the day after he graduated from University of Texas at Austin. My son was unsure about what he wanted to do, which...
View ArticleStudio cleanup so I don't have to paint.
Moving things around in the studio is, according to mood:1. Destructive.2. Invigorating.3. Hair Pulling.4. Renewing.5. Baffling.I find I don't really need to buy new hanging apparatus as there are...
View ArticleLooking after mom.
Back in California visiting what my mother calls the "loony bin, you know the one that flew over the cuckoo's nest" and she knows it well. She resides there in the loony bin with Lewy Body...
View Articlethere is no place like home
Houston is heating up for the summer. It happens fast, like someone opening the glory hole at a glass blower's. One day it's a balmy 72 degrees and the next: 95 and sucking the air out of you. Then...
View Articlehot hot hot
Needless to say, it's hot. We are in a record breaking drought in a place that is normally sub-tropical. Scary thoughts seep into one's mind when thinking of tornadoes, floods, droughts and...
View Articlethe morning after
It was one of those nights when the air conditioner was broken in the record heat wave in June. When reading, nor listening to my MP3 nor watching tv would coerce me into sleep. Sleeping felt like...
View Articleto ipad or not.
It finally rained here. Grateful us. Only downside is the mosquitoes are back. And I'm back working in the studio on drought banishing paintings. Can't help but be influenced by what is happening...
View Articlelearning to speak Ipad
Well, I went and did the unthinkable. I bought an Ipad with the intent of joining the 21st century. I get along great with my simple cell phone and my computer, but doing art work on the Ipad is...
View ArticleNew wallpaper paintings and no damn Ipad.
What a difficult summer! No rain here, too much there. And there. Well, the calendar says it's pretty much over, reality says it isn't. But onward. I now use the IPad for reading books and playing...
View Articlethe quiet place
A little cooler now in Texas. Had a chance to see some of the scorched land left by the wildfires here lately. But ....although many sad and horrific things are on my television, alerts on facebook,...
View Articlesnoring irritating men
This has nothing to do with painting, except that it has been one of my subjects for the last 35 years. The painful subject is relationships. Two adults living together and creeping up on each other's...
View Articlestanding proud
My, my, my. What a lot of time we have to mull over what we post in haste. I'm so over my out burst about the bumpy ride through my household relationship with the person who snores. It was only a...
View Articleheaps of good food
I am here in Palo Alto, home of Stanford who just ended their 11 game winning streak to Oregon...not that I usually know anything about football, but it was hard to ignore all the RV's and tail gating...
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December. Houston. Cool, cold even. The difficult summer forgotten. We seem to dwell only in the present where we are ok, or not ok. I find myself thinking forward when in uncomfortable moments:...
View Articlesoothing still life
New Starts. Painted over a partly done canvas and did a large still life.....something I could control, to bring in the new year. Combining the hills of California and some objects in the studio....
View Articlelittle satisfactions
The days grow longer already. Perhaps more noticeable in the places I inhabit....Texas and California. It's nice not to be driving in the dark at 5pm. Little satisfactions. The structure of bare...
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still life out of style
Whatever the crazy world has been up to, I've been in the studio making still life paintings like they never went out of style. And they did. But what the hell. For me it's like knitting, not that I...
View Articleconcessions to getting older
Don't know what happened to winter here in the bottom of Texas....we didn't get the freezing temps to kill off the mosquitoes....oh well, the upside is that the plants are happy. And I'm still in the...
View ArticleTree hugger me
Ah. After turning my back momentarily on still life and anonymous people, I find I am embracing trees. Tree hugger me. But there is a reason. We went thorough such a drought from hell last year,...
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Houston has returned to a rainful summer. No complaints here.Paintings of trees, nature, nurture continue to be my focus for now although I guess I finally really see how out of the loop I am, feeling...
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We have been lucky with rain this summer....the trees live! No taking it for granted though. Only have to look northward to see drought and southeastward to see flood. And still we drive big cars and...
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Well. Lots has transpired since I last posted. My mother died and thus endeth my monthly trips to California to look after her. She was 93 and of course I knew it would come...but geez you are never...
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