8 x 10
Dogfish Head WW Stout
Pinocchio and his desire to be a real boy - reflecting on this and a great deal of violence being brought on by men in 2021. What's a real boy?
30 x 22
Dogfish Head Worldwide Stout
Many secrets lie beneath the breaking waves on our shores.
11 x 15
Cab Franc wine pour
'Cause I'm still in love with you, on this harvest moon.
22 x 30
Gnarly Head Black wine pour
Vaccinating, trending toward kindness, making progress.
22 x 30
Night Harvest Red wine pour, marker, pencil
When Pigs Fly....hey, it could happen.
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22 x 30
Dogfish Head World Wide Stout
....low rider drives a little slower
....low rider is a real goer
22 x 14.5
Dogfish Head World Wide Stout
From an expression used by a dear friend.
3 30 x 40 panels, depicting images from "King of Pain" by the Police
Dogfish Head World Wide Stout beer pour
10 x 10
Dogfish Head World Wide Stout
Summer dreaming during a 4-day snowstorm in February.
Available at District Arts, Frederick MD
16 x 20
Dogfish Head Worldwide Stout
Inspired by an increasingly difficult time getting a full night's sleep.
Available at District Arts - Frederick MD.
8 x 10
wine pour
The wildfires in Australia became lost in the crazy of 2020.
Available at District Arts, Frederick MD
30 x 22
Merlot wine pour
Isn't he a beauty? His name is a play on words - I was listening to the Nutcracker while working on this wine pour, but he also looks like he could live up to his namesake. :)
22 x 30
Dogfish Head World Wide Stout
From a lyric within "Say Goodbye" by Dave Matthews Band.
Now showing at "SouthWorks" National Juried Exhibition, Watkinsville GA
16 x 20
Cab Franc wine pour
After the Counting Crows song, Rain King. A young girl jumping up and away from her troubled childhood home.
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
30 x 40
Gnarly Head Black wine pour
After Led Zeppelin's song of the same name. He also looks a whole lot like my dog Hanks.
Now showing at "SouthWorks" National Juried Show, Watkinsville GA
22 x 30
Dogfish Head World Wide Stout
Created during the Covid 19 quarantine. The figure on the right, wearing gloves and a mask and trying to move away from the figure on the left who has no gloves or masks, and is yelling aggressively (with a peace t-shirt.) This illustrates the division (another way we're divided) regarding the quarantine. Some folks are currently storming government offices in Michigan, demanding the government "open" the state. Some of the protesters wore masks (ironically) some did not. Many toted assault rifles, trump flags, etc. How did a virus become political?
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30 x 40
Gnarly Head Black
Elton John was one of my first musical loves. His albums had some of the best artwork you could find (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, specifically). I would pour over the lyrics and the art while I wore the albums out.
This fantastic fellow is a nod to both Elton and all the guys who fancied themselves to be fantastic in the 70's.
30 x 22
Barbera wine pour, marker, pencil
After "Roxanne" by the Police. They started my love of the New Wave moment in the late 70's.
30 x 40
Dogfish Head World Wide Stout
From "The Trial" by Pink Floyd.
"Crazy
Toys in the attic, I am crazy
Truly gone fishing
They must have taken my marbles away
Crazy, toys in the attic he is crazy"
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".
30 x 40
Middle Sister Rebel Red
From the Barflies collection. We've all started over before - getting our lives right, post-addiction, post-divorce, post empty nest. The metamorphosis follows.
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.
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.
22 x 30
Malbec
From the Barflies Collection.The beautiful woman enjoying Ladies Night.
FIRST PLACE WINNER, OCEAN CITY ART LEAGUE, OCEAN CITY MD, MARCH 2021
WINNER BEST IN SHOW, GALLERY UNDERGROUND, ARLINGTON VA, FEBRUARY 2021
30 x 40
Dogfish Head World Wide Stout, marker, pencil
The Dream Weaver is deciding what his pupils will dream tonight. Will it be a nightmare? A lovely dream? Close your eyes and find your fate.
8 x 10
Malbec
Daddy's flown, cross the ocean. Leaving just a memory. - props to Pink Floyd's The Wall album, which is ultra-relevant today.
16 x 20
Vanish Milk Stout
In the Night Kitchen was one of my favorite books as a child. This is a nod to Maurice Sendak, but there's a political twist. The old woman has a presidential face, and the "batter" is being poured over a cake that looks like Earth. Her slippers stand on the back of a terrified creature whose name is Citizen. And then there's the baker, baking it all into a nasty cake. The bakers were the scariest thing in the book for me as a kid, in a weirdly fascinating way.
8 x 22
Gnarly Head Black
Stephon is jamming out to Ben Folds in his Ben Folds t-shirt.
(3) 22 x 30 vertical panels
Dogfish Head World Wide Stout Beer Pour
The first panel shows multiple witches, some young and of child-bearing age with tortured souls waiting to be birthed. Behind these young women are the old crones, wise and watching.
The second panel shows a child being observed by a Coven member for "recruitment, a warlock in a grey robe and a drunken witch.
The third panel shows a prominent Leader of the Coven, looking to a former Leader for guidance and another old crone.
22 x 30
Gnarly Head Black
A red elephant and blue donkey, sharing the same body - one right side up, one upside down, both pulling in different directions.
A child with a Don't Shoot! t-shirt with a bullseye in the center.
A newly pregnant woman with an embryo that's up for debate.
A hooded individual and a shooting gun, referring to the rise of white supremacy and the Nazi movement
The devil - always making a show in any pour that I perceive to speak out against evil.
An old man shouting at the news because the world is changing.
A uterus with an "egg factory". Well regulated. Who does it belong to?
Eyes wide shut - a non-voter with closed eyes...taking whatever is handed to them.
11 x 14
Daring Escape Red
Completed during the hot, wonderful month of August on the historic grounds of the Rehoboth Art League. Native Americans used to live along the banks of the canals.
16 x 20
16 Mile Tiller Brown
So many women getting recognition for their power and strength. In politics, in business, being strong and capable leaders. Makes me smile. Keep rocketing!
8 x 10
19 Crimes Dark Red
I was such a fan of Saturday morning cartoons and Sunday comics, that my brain felt like this....full of activity, completely stimulated by the colors.
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".
16 x 20
Vanish Milk Stout, artist markers, colored pencil on #400 watercolor paper
A giant stuffed rainbow lizard, a wild shirtless guy, dads with backpacks and other strange creatures. A typical day on the boardwalk.
11 x 14
Petit Verdot
From the Barflies Collection. The young guy who keeps ducking out of the bar to vape.
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22 x 30
Apothic Red
The once fierce dragon is now becoming docile as the tiny tamer works his magic. I have fantasies of what's right in the world battling what's wrong in this way.