sit a spell

after Matisse

stolen view

As the new house reared up next door,

I watched my view up and disappear.

Nothing left now but a memory.

So I painted over my in-progress landscape
with a house.
It looks awful, too.

tangerine man

Happy Friday.

meanwhile

I noticed on my stats page

 that this blog is close to flat-lining.

I am still here, painting away.

And always sketching.

I know... it would help to post.

martian

George Nick once said,

"Paint more like a Martian."

So I did.

barn door sunset

A simple iPhone Drawcast sketch 

out the barn door.

Dog People at the Dog Park

shshshhhhh!

a Mardi Gras self-portrait

studio elf

Do any of you have studio elves?
Or is it just me?

Elves are hard to peg.
They ride the fine line in between things.

So while you may not necessarily
want them on your team,
you sure as hell don't want them
playing for the other side.
Just sayin.

I inherited this one.

He previously lorded it over two other studios that I know of.

I am the only surviving artist.

Hmmm...

Meet MoJo Jim.

fish on the floor

After forty-four years here,

my oldest best Boulder friend up and left town.

Put her dog and her cat and her fish into her car

 and moved to Apalachicola,

 of all places.

The fish were so thrilled,

 it took one of em just a couple of days

to launch itself up out of the bowl

and onto the floor.

I used Caran d'Ache pencils 

to memorialize the poor little tyke.