Rainbow Faerie
12 x 12
Apothic Dark wine pour, conte, marker, pencil
Funky, beautiful faerie, leaving a cloud of rainbow behind her as she moves.
Ahoy
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12 x 12
Apothic Dark wine pour, conte, marker, pencil
Riding the rough seas defiantly.
Carnival
20 x 16
Wine pour, conte, marker, pencil
A nod to "Something Wicked This Way Comes" for the title.
I Dreamed of the Desert
24 x 36
Coppola red wine pour
My dreams are crazy like this. Cactuses, tutu's, spirals of wine.
Visitor
45 x 60
Guinness beer pour on #400 watercolor paper, unframed and unmounted
They say cardinals are visitors from loved ones who have passed on. This very large pour is done with conte crayon, rather than my usual Copic marker and pencil. You have to see it to get a sense of its size.
When Autumn Comes
45 x 60
Shiraz and Guinness pour on #400 watercolor paper, unframed and unmounted.
My first experiment in using Conte Crayon within a wine pour.
Sweet Little Darling (Do Not Cry)
Guinness beer pour
Lots of my childhood favorites in her hair.
No Bad Dreams
20 x 16
Apothic Dark
I used to pull "no bad dream balls" out of my pocket to sprinkle on my children's heads before they went to bed. They had quite a magical effect.
Can't Get it Out of My Head
45 x 60 dyptich
Guinness
Grasping tightly to the med bottle that keeps his head on straight and not focused on distractions.
Somebody Spoke and I Went Into a Dream.
11 x 14
Guinness Beer pour, copic marker, colored pencil and acrylic paint on cradled Aquabord. Ready to hang.
There's Someone In My Head (but it's not me).
30 x 40
Apothic Dark wine pour
I was listening to Pink Floyd while working on this one, and the lyrics inspired the title. Sometimes we all have voices in our heads, to different degrees. Some good, some bad, and the trick is to know which ones to listen to.
Gamer
3rd Place, Strathmore Museum Juried Show, March 2023
22 x 30
Guinness beer pour
So many people playing video games, meeting their significant others on gaming platforms and jobs being created in the graphics world. This gamer is 1/2 himself and 1/2 his alter-ego while deeply involved in a game.
Objectification
30 x 40
Pinot Noir
Suggesting the objectification of women and girls, starting at birth (see baby) into old age and death (see shrunken woman with hanging head) and everything in between. All ages, all races. A perfectly blonde, smiling woman or puppet dangles from a marionette string, held by a naked man and intently watched by another.
Come Tomorrow
22 x 30
Guinness beer pour
Named for the Dave Matthew's song "Come Tomorrow"
Old man spat and cursed as he spoke
It's all going to hell and the whole world is broken
Little kid is busy making plans
Save the whole world along with that old man
It's far as I can see
A better way for you and me
Is to let the children run the show
Not too long and we'd be good to go
All the girls and boys would sing
Come tomorrow we get everything
So as long as we survive today
Come tomorrow, we're gonna find a way
Yeah, as far as I can see
We should let the children lead the way
Bang bang you're dead now could be real
I got a bag of smoke come on let's make a deal
Yeah, bridges burn but tomorrow is another day
To feed the world and then go outside and play
Yeah, farmers farm and dancers dance all night
Lovers love and the firefighters fight
Let the children run the show
Not too long and we'd be good to go
All the girls and boys would sing
Come tomorrow we get everything
So as long as we survive today
Come tomorrow, we're gonna find a way
Yeah, as far as I can see
We gotta let the children lead the way
Storms will rise out of innocent skies
Times will change as you let the children play the game
All the girls and boys would sing
Come tomorrow we get everything
So as long as we survive today
Come tomorrow, we're gonna find a way
All the girls and boys would sing
Come tomorrow we get everything
Espionage
Guinness beer pour, wine drops and collage elements
The news makes my head spin.
Harley Duck
36 x 24
Apothic Dark wine pour
After the Marshall Tucker song, "Can't You See", Harley Duck cooly rides south.
The Bones Brothers
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What Are You Looking At?
40 x 30
Pinot Noir
An Elmer Fudd looking hunter with his chill dog stare down a large, handsome moose who is calling their bluff. It's hunting season as this is completed and deer are running everywhere.
Let's Go to the Beach!
16 x 20
Guinness
Completed on August 1 when beach crowds are at their peak.
Living With Secrets
Pinot Noir
Now on display at Int'l All Media Juried Show, Walter Piehl Gallery, Minot, North Dakota
Holding a secret in shame can feel like you spend your life running from it.
Ladies Night
22 x 30
Malbec
From the Barflies Collection.The beautiful woman enjoying Ladies Night.
Climbing K2(020)
30 x 22
Gnarly Head Black Wine Pour
2020 felt like climbing the side of an exploding volcano.
Very Fine People
12 x 24
16 Mile Tiller Brown
"Excuse me, excuse me. They didn’t put themselves -- and you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. You had people in that group. Excuse me, excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name." - Donald Trump
Ugh. No, there's not very fine people "on both sides".
I Wear The Chains I Forged In Life
22 x 30
Milk Stout
The drama continues. Putin, Flynn, the Saudi Prince and the murder of the WP journalist, Individual Number One in the Mueller probe.
Nesting Season
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8 x 10
Guinness
Created in spring 2021, while all the tiny blue eggs were in the nests around the yard.
Coiled
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30 x 40
Dogfish Head Worldwide Stout
Someone who will remain unnamed is lying coiled, in wait to rear his ugly head again. Note the tiny little heart, created by the beer pour, in the middle of the snake. That's my heart hoping he will go away for good.
Covid Cupid
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16 x 20
Dogfish Head Worldwide Stout
Love goes on. Happy Valentine's Day!
Zoonotic
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10 x 10
Dogfish Head World Wide Stout
Humans interactions with animals leads to crossover viruses like Covid 19.
Firewater
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20 x 24
Cabernet
From the Barflies collection. fire + water, a calque of a Native American language term, probably Ojibwe ishkodewaaboo (“alcohol”), from ishkode (“fire”) + aaboo (“liquid”, glossed in older works as “water”). A number of other Algonquian and Siouan languages also refer to whiskey with compounds that mean "fire-water".
Gin Blossoms
30 x 40
Malbec
From the Barflies collection. The older dude who's drank so much in his life, that his nose is full of gin blossoms.
The Jester
22 x 30
19 Crimes Dark Red
This follows "While the King Was Looking Down", a previous pour. (The Jester stole his thorny crown.)
Bob Mueller, where are you.
The Basket
Vanish Milk Stout, artist markers, colored pencil on #400 watercolor paper
Inspired by handing my daughter a basket from her childhood that was full of well-preserved toys and memories that immersed her in childhood memories.
I'm on the Pavement (thinking 'bout the government.)
Cabernet and Guiness mix, artist markers, colored pencil on #150 watercolor paper
Lots going on in this one. Lyrics from Pink (Dear Mr. President), Bob Dylan (Subterranean Homesick Blues and Like a Rolling Stone) and some ramblings from myself regarding systemic failures of our outdated patriarchal society. The dove of peace carrying an olive branch is at the top left, animals that are hunted (bear and elephant) for trophies are present, a man with a red tie symbolizes our current Pres and those who support him, African patterns that represent our roots, and a pensive female face taking it all in.
One Went Out
16 x 20
Vanish Milk Stout, artist markers, colored pencil on #400 watercolor paper
Capturing the recent horror of the Southwest Airlines emergency landing, and the pilot's statement to the tower that "one went out", meaning a passenger.