40 x 30
Apothic Dark wine pour
Just a cool creature, riding a cool bike with a burning chain and melting wheels.
30 x 40
Apothic Dark
Reading the news of the Covid variant and thinking - This fourth, pale horse, was the personification of Death with Hades following him jaws open receiving the victims slain by Death.
16 x 20
Guinness
Completed on August 1 when beach crowds are at their peak.
40 x 30
Apothic Dark (and rain)
A big, dangerous wave is referred to as "heavy" by some surfers. I poured Apothic Dark on this sheet outside and left it out there to dry, when a summer storm showed up a few minutes later. The wine got splattered by the rain, which made for a very cool stippled effect and lightened the color of the very dark plum colored wine.
40 x 30
Apothic Dark wine pour
Title from Candy-O by the Cars. And yes, a double-entendre with the pour.
Can be purchased from District Arts in Frederick MD.
10 x 8
Apothic Dark
My daughter's horse is happily out to pasture. Going on 40 -- a long life for a horsie.
30 x 22
Pinot Noir
Holding a secret in shame can feel like you spend your life running from it.
8 x 10
Created in spring 2021, while all the tiny blue eggs were in the nests around the yard.
16 x 20
Pinot Noir
Listening to Stephen King and creating some creepy wall shadows.
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.
22 x 30
Night Harvest Red wine pour, marker, pencil
When Pigs Fly....hey, it could happen.
10 x 10
Dogfish Head World Wide Stout
Humans interactions with animals leads to crossover viruses like Covid 19.
22 x 30
Dogfish Head World Wide Stout
From a lyric within "Say Goodbye" by Dave Matthews Band.
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?
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
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"
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.
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
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.
Sold out
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.
22 x 30
Malbec
From the Barflies Collection.The beautiful woman enjoying Ladies Night.
30 x 22
Gnarly Head Black Wine Pour
2020 felt like climbing the side of an exploding volcano.
20 x 16
Los Dos wine pour
An evil little Covid preying on the beautiful and innocent.
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!
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".
11 x 14
Petit Verdot
From the Barflies Collection. The young guy who keeps ducking out of the bar to vape.
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.
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.