You Know It is Hot . . .
I wrote this last August – you probably remember our hot spell. I am back home today. It was wonderfully cool and beautiful in Maine. Anyway I will try to come up with some bon mots to rival the Jeff Foxworthy’s You Know You’re a Redneck when—— You know it’s hot when the greeters [...]
Hot Summer Night at the Fair
Despite the fact that we have been going to Busch Gardens since it opened it never occurred to me to see the park as a subject for my art. Then through my daughter I became friends with the family that runs the fair that comes to Hampton every year. The carnival at night was more [...]
Chinatown Memories in Art
Chinatown started as something else which is par for the course in my painting life. It started as another New Orleans street scene but I guess I must have added a sign with red in it that spoke more of memories of chinatowns in various cities. So if you will forgive my unedited use of [...]
An Inspirational Trip
Bourbon Street Tango is a work that resulted from a trip to New Orleans in February. I was walking in the French Quarter and happened upon a group of musicians and a dancing couple. I joined the crowd to watch them perform for the next hour and bought their CD. I play their CD [...]
I will be adding new art
Now that I am getting more familiar with the act of blogging I hope be be a frequent blogger (do I get miles??
the Manta
I have refused for years to ride the coasters at Busch Gardens- the Alpengeist, Apollo’s Chariot, Griffon. But there we were at SeaWorld standing beneath the riders on this thing called the “Manta” with everyone around me commenting on “how smooth ” it is etc etc blah blah. So maybe it was the heat (94?) [...]