Color and Energy

Color and Energy

Oil on canvas

4 ft by 6ft

1360.00

A tree for you

A tree for you

Oil on canvas

24" b7 36"

450.00

Crafty friends

Crafty Friends

Oil on canvas

20" by 20"

300.00

Meet my new secretary, Ivy!

A walk in the park

A walk in the Park

Oil on canvas

38" by 20"

630.00

Another beautiful day of Bedazzling the border!

This time with  documentary film maker Grace Jackson, and a visit from Reuters!

Something simple

Come on, Let's go!

Love on a day like today

Heaven is exactly where you make it.

Count me 100% completely and totally IN!

The Border as beauty.

A walk in the Park

A walk in the park, a talk in the park.

I like to imagine what these two are saying to each other.

A walk in the Park

Oil on canvas

650.00

Bisbee Plein Air Painting

The Plein Air Painting Competition is over, and everyone is taking a breather.....phew!

It's an intense weekend, full of crazed painters gobblling up as much of Bisbee scenery as we possibly can.

I won second on "The People's Choice" Award with this painting of Marsha's garden.

Although it's not big money, in my opinion "The People's Choice" is the most rocking award.

Marsha bought this one, thanks Marsha!

I sold this painting too. In a year when people just aren't buying art as much, this is a good thing.

It' s my opinion that The Bisbee Plein Air Painting needs a wine garden. We need to lubricate

people's wallets.

Afterwards, it seems the whole town broke out in spontanious dance parties everywhere we went! Be it Seth's expresso bar ( where we danced to 80's music for a set) The Screaming Banshee Pizza ( where we took it over and danced for hours), or Hot Licks (where we danced all night long!) I love Bisbee!

Pluto Mist

Pluto was a lovely Planet to be on last night, (Pluto is a Planet, and that's that).

The mist was dreamy, the air was a cool blue, the people were colorful and fun.

The drink of the night, aptly called "Pluto Mist" is a blue Red Bull/ tequila/Absolute Citron /blue caurcao martini, served up in a blue glass.

The band was invented just a few days ago. There was no practicing, and no songs were written. Brilliant. It stars Kuiper, Misty, Cranius, and Pluto .

I'm a Special guest (who would like to be in the band now that I see it is all fun and no practice).

Dig it!

Kuiper set the tone with her bad-ass horn-playing. My favorite new song she sings is called "Hamburg Leather Party".... where the party, and the song, never ends.

Misty is the genius behind the band. His killer techno-wizardry makes everything sound groooovy!

I played a couple of my new hit singles. This one is called "Ponies on Pluto".

And of-course my smash hit, "Janimal".

Kate sent everyone into deep space with "Police Beat", in which she sang the police beat from the local paper. I thought she made up the bit about cows seen wearing ponchos and sombreros, but I am told that in-fact a complaint was filed. Hmmmmm....

Cranius's song "Sierra Vista Dating Scene" was hysterical. Even he couldn't keep a straight face!

Pluto wore a "Cloak of invisibility", which made him very difficult to photograph.

There were some exotic Plutoian dancers in the house.

As promised, the scene was laden with special effects.

I would love to strap on a jet pack and visit this mystical, blue Planet again very soon. I hope to see you there!

Monsters and Mythical Creatures

Yesterday, Art Envoy Lily and I played a game on Facebook called "Monsters and Mythical Creatures".

In this game ( which I made up yesterday) we asked people to write in their imaginary monsters and mythical creatures and we would attempt to paint them.

Julia wrote in first, asking Lily to paint her creepy childhood boogieman, who peered in through her window.

I love this one!

Wendy asked me to paint a "Three-legged, camel-toed juice sloth".

Next, jade asked Lily to paint a be-jeweled faun.

Lily in action.

Pauline asked for a creature who had butterfly wings, a fluffy body, a lizards tail, a red panda's head, a duck bill, and otter legs.

Jade asked Lily to paint her childhood nightmare of a "Foot-eating crab".

Denise wanted a "Flower-breathing, pomegranate -eating dragon".

Alison asked for "The twin brother and sister of a Mermaid and a Gryphon".

We went in order of who wrote in, and we still have lots of creatures left to paint.

What interests me most is that lots of people are recalling the bizarre creatures that lived in their childhood dreams.

I'd love to get all the Art Envoys on board at once to take on painting everyone's childhood monsters and mythical creatures.

The perdy pictures

Shawnee made these pages for a project I'm working on. I don't think they are legible at this size, but you can look at the perdy pictures.

There's more where these came from.