Artistic Shower Insight
You step into the shower having removed your glasses or contacts and proceed to wash your hair, but OMG which bottle has the shampoo (because you can’t see a thing and they ALL LOOK ALIKE). The nerds who design the tubes and jars and bottles either bathe with their glasses on or don’t at all. [...]
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?) [...]