Thursday, October 28, 2010

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.

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Sunday, October 17, 2010

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...

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Saturday, October 09, 2010

Friday, September 24, 2010

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Waiting For A Tow

For some reason, I was thinking "Waiting For Godot", so there you go, gone. Bink to explore.
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Monday, August 16, 2010

Shady Rest Estates


Under the Influence of the Ol'Alvaro

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...

Friday, July 09, 2010

Painting While on Drugs


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...

Thursday, July 01, 2010

Micro Barn and '56 Chev

 
Bink, just for the fun of seeing...