Working on the Compo...

Getting The Drift

Under The Bare Blue Tree

The Character Gets A Spot

Bink to explore...

Character Study

More Messy More Often

Searching for the Darkness * * *

The Endsville Express

When we were kids, my best buddy's dad decided that he'd had enough of being broke in the winter when work died down. So, in the spirit of unregulated free enterprise, he slapped a wooden sign on the roof of his car and went into the taxi biness. Being an incurable eccentric and part time misanthrope he called his "cab" the "Endsville Express" and he took great delight in driving right by potential customers of high standing in favour of drunken bums who were headed for the one and only bar in town. The taxi would park at the bar until closing time and he would drop whoever climbed aboard off on his way home. The taxi clientele ended up stranded more often than not, sometimes at his place. This lasted a coupla weeks until the cops visited town and put the kibosh on his venture.

The "taxi" went back to civilian life and ended up in the collection of the magruder who bought it for 25 bucks in 1962. Someone took the sign and all that is left of any indication of the brief service is the door.

A Reduced Tableaux

Sleep My Pretties

Barn Fresh II * * *

Bink to explore the inner reaches of my colour fixation...this is amongst my favourite paintings, exploring the possibilities of deep dark watercolour...

Darken My Doorstep

Light Play in Wreckville

 

Caddy Reversed

Halloween is Near * * *

Big Rear End

This Caddy Has Run It's Course

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Waiting For A Tow

For some reason, I was thinking "Waiting For Godot", so there you go, gone. Bink to explore.

Feeling a Little Wrecked

Stopping Before Ruination

DeSoto Wanders No More

Shady Rest Estates

Under the Influence of the Ol'Alvaro

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There is so much fuss about the big two in the cyber-waterworld that a person (namely me) can't help but be influenced. I like Castagnet's ideas about deep, rich colour. But I also like some of the traditional breeziness that is possible with watercolour. Who knows? This is a full sheet of Arches cold press and W/N paints. Oh and I painted this with some kind of synthetic no. 36 brush that is huge...

Once Upon A Time * * *

Painting While on Drugs

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Okay, fine, not hallucinogenics or however you spell that, but painkillers for kidnoid stones. I woke up in the middle of the night with cultured stones in inconvenient locations and my computer also crashed at the same time. They gave me some totally useless pills at the hospital after giving me a useful shot in the...I painted this while on the good stuff.

I doodled up the ridiculous house, another logger production with Gothic Victorian influences and bushwacker finishing touches.

I was actually exploring the concept of shadows changing the shapes of objects and how this affects composition...before it all went down the drain...

Here It Is...Again

Micro Barn and '56 Chev

 

Bink, just for the fun of seeing...

Endsville Expanded

I just had to blast off another version. I had a coupla hours to burn while waiting to go to work. So bink to explore the inner reaches of my micro-manias or not...

See Ya in the Funny Papers

It occurs to me that I probably wanted to be a cartoonist. "See ya in the funny papers!" was a favourite parting comment in my family. Seemed like a grand objective to a child. I also "interviewed" a famous cartoonist as a kid (I was the kid). I also have loved all things automotive since childhood, especially the designs of American cars. And of course watercolour. So I guess painting dopey car pics is natural. I am after the entertainment factor. No mask, little reference material just draw and paint. I am avoiding the inevitable, which is plein air landscraping.

Crayola Bollard Fencing

Don't blame me, I only record the facts as I make them up. The loon who built this shack way back in the day fancied himself an artiste who specialized in using ordinary building materials to whimsical effect. So he decided to build a fence using cast iron pipe and concrete with chain connectors. He then painted the "bollards" to look like crayons and used the same colours to highlite the house. You can only see traces of colour on the house...if you squint, but there is still paint on the posts.

All Busted Up

Bink for an exploration of the inner workings,,,

House on Lazo Road

Bink me!

Rusty Acres

This is 16"x 38".... bink to grasp the microcosm. 

End of the Road

I think I will name my home gallery "End of the Road" watercolours...bink to explore

Do Not Disturb II

Version Two

I redid this compo in a more illustrative style, just for fun...

Parisienne at Rest