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I like to write about life when you have a job, some kids, a fixer upper and a fatal disease.

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  • beautiful vinyl

    i peed myself a little laughing at this collection of bad album art.

  • pride and prejudice

    poor Mom, she's so proud but she can't go around saying too much, can she?
    -"Guess what, my son, my pride and joy has the greatest new big important job in Hollywood where he helped produce a film that's on tv this week!"
    -"Really?! What's it called?"
    -"Porno Valley".
    his company is also working on a documentary about the original in porn movies, Deep Throat. imagine her asking someone to tape THAT for her!

  • Maison des Arts, round two


    i wish every week could be like this one was.

  • Bert: “THAT is YOU!”


    Abstract/Expressive Self-Portrait, acrylic on paper, 20" x 25.5"
    i didn't intend to look so cross, that's just my natural expression when i'm concentrating. i'm pleased with this one—a good example of academic study with my own personal expression and preference for strong line, composition. blah blah arty farty blah blah blah… i think it's pretty cool, that's enough said.

  • more naked ladies


    Marta, seated, oil on paper, 20" x 25.5"
    Seated Sophie, acrylic on paper, 20" x 25.5"

  • figure studies


    Vanille, oil on paper, 20" x 25.5"
    Reclining Woman, acrylic on paper, 25" x 20"
    Sophie, reclining, acrylic on paper, 9.5" x 22"

  • this is not what the brochure described!!

    lightening, rain, gale force winds, African sand storms, high seas, closed roads, broken shutters—this is not what i was promised! yesterday morning the previous night's storm lingered, blowing red Sahara desert dust over the rooftops and cars and sloshing down large terracotta puddles in the street–the sky was glowing orange, yellow-green and gray–no way to describe it here, but it was eerie and beautiful.
    and then it was just crappy, wet and cold.

  • Elizabeth Taylor (young) meets Liza Minelli (aged and drugged out) meets Velma (of Scooby Doo fame)


    Then: Classic Self-Portrait (not completed), acrylic on paper, 20" x 25.5", May 2003
    Now: Classic Self-Portrait, oil on paper, 20" x 25.5", February 2004
    self-portraits suck. even I don't want to look at myself in the mirror that much. the double mirror approach (so that the true image of yourself–how others see you–is shown) doesn't help the matter of the double chin. it is an important academic exercise and good practice but it's making me dizzy and giving me a headache. or it could be all those fumes—the weather has gone crap-ola and we can't open up the studio windows as much or as often as in the summer time.
    update: marked improvement from the first session at Maison des Arts to this one, if i do say so myself. just having completed it this time is an improvement!

  • what day is it? where am i? did i just stir my coffee with a paintbrush?


    view of St. Paul from the bus stop in La Colle sur Loup
    i'm taking a week's intensive painting course again at Maison des Arts in nearby (only one train then one bus ride, not too bad) La Colle sur Loup this week—long days–up at 6:30am in order to get the doggie out before i go each morning–then lots of work with new live models each day and then back home late. i'm exhausted. but a happy exhausted–sleeping very well. and painting not to badly either. more updates and posts of new work to come when i am less nicotine and caffeine dependant next week.

  • those are some serious lemons baby….

    there's alot going on this week–Carnaval in Nice, Menton's Lemon Fest—too bad i'm going to miss seeing all those girls in bikinis on parade floats.