red flags and long nights.

For those who were waiting, the Betty Stalker Notes have been made into nifty cards, just in time for Valentine's Day. Or, the entire month of February, which is the unofficial Stalking Month as decreed by me.

I love my blogger friends who manage to capture their life with photos. As much as I love to read, sometimes I don't want to. Especially if it looks like a particularly long passage, or if I have my Bad Glasses on, like today. It is my goal to tote my camera around wherever I go, and I am not worried about the implications of manhandling it all day long, because it is really an awful camera. If I trip on a sidewalk line and crush the lens under my jagged hipbone, I might then allow myself to get a new camera. But THEN and ONLY then. Kind of like, how my converse are covered in paint, but I am convinced that they don't need to be replaced until I can see my socks through the soles.

I want to post a photo for you, but I can't. I forgot to bring my camera on the first day of camera-policy inception.

It doesn't look promising, gang. Not at all.

Check in January 10th for new art postings!

recent work

These two pieces were created exclusively for and sold to the Great Mister Manchester.
(he promises to make the cross country trip for my next show, top hat and monocle in place.)

inspiration

I sought inspiration for most of my Tacoma show artwork from the skillful eye of the Dance Commander. These were taken in a Honduran jungle.

occupy your every sigh, rent some space inside your mind

November 2010 show at The Viceroy in Tacoma, Washington.
Also known as "How to go without eating or sleeping for a month and produce an army of artwork".

We Are Secret Agents

We are, aren't we?
Or did I dream it all?
I put the final touches on these two lovable monstrosities (each 36x48) this morning.
First, there is an original piece of artwork called "We Are Secret Agents"....

and the second, is called, "For Safe Keeping"





I won't be posting these on Etsy, just by way of their size, but will be showing
them at either Hopfengarten or Sixth Street Art Gallery in Prosser.

As I finished these projects, I was inspired by another favorite classic film, Charade,
starring Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant. When I lived in Baltimore, there was a "Little Italy" part of the city where people gathered in the street to drink wine and watch various classic films as projected onto the side of a brick building. Don't you think that is marvelous? What a great opportunity to put on a red beret, some dark sunglasses and a pair of gloves....and pretend you are a secret agent hiding in the unsuspecting movie-goer crowd.

Emotional Weather Report

A glance through the peephole at works in progress in the little studio out on the edge of the farm. On the tiny television plays "The Great Race" with Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis. The heater keeps it nice and toasty in there as the leaves fall and the cold whispers from under the crack in the door.

"...things are tough all over
when the thunder storms start
increasing over the southeast
and south central portions
of my apartment, I get upset
and a line of thunderstorms was
developing in the early morning
ahead of a slow moving coldfront
cold blooded
with tornado watches issued shortly
before noon Sunday, for the areas
including the western region
of my mental health
and the northern portions of my
ability to deal rationally with my
disconcerted precarious emotional
situation, it's cold out there
colder than a ticket taker's smile
at the Ivar's Theater on a Saturday night..."

-- "Emotional Weather Report"
by Tom Waits

Shut up and paint

have to run but wanted to end a morning of
painting with a clip from one of my favorite artists...
this art in motion stuff takes my breath away.