anther stormy night

well its another stormy night last night, built a fire and the tempiture just dropped and started picking up the wind,

I even painted a little last night, late at night the rain and strong wind made it feel as the roof is about to come off, i an now feeling the unorganised way i put this cheep tin roof on this building, with odd drips comming down from the ceiling,
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I have to go in ot Austin to take that show down at the Hideout, i hate that drive up there , in weather like this, last night while i was laying in bed think man i am going to get this building done once and for all,! branchs and rain skraping the building, and my poor chickens man it must be cold out there,

Freddy came over last night, he was abit tired and we chatted a while i showed him the Sudduth painting, he liked it, i told him that if a 94 year old black man living out in the boone docks of Alabama could produce this kinda work, its something very noteworthy brilant!,(as a matter of fact) i went on to tell him that "with all the fancy suberban universtiy edu'ma'cating, look what its done, i bet no professior here in town can paint a bit past 70, " .
I always have the rural primative appeal, Fred's is like reserved clasicalism, kinda like armchair modernism. Alot of the work i bought recently has been these back woods Black older men (folk art) types, Toney, Perkins. I don't know why but i love this kinda work, i went on to explain to fred, i suppose its myth that prepels the work you cann't see the work with out understanding the myth,( but make no mistake about it your work will out live the myth) unless somebody destroys it. I explained that if i made a painting it was my last and i killed myself, you bet that painting would take on a more powerful significances, its the myth thats been attached to it., kinda like Van Go's ear. is it good work???? i am not qualafied to create such an opinion in these times , we only know what we like,.

I had to plea with ol Fred, i am not a raceist, but i love the old bluseman myths/stories/characters of the 30's , its had a porfound effect apone my work and habits to say the least, Freddy's work is like classical modernism, he like to put forth the idea of "valued content" over viod abstrctions, . I have tryed to convence hime to go crazy and spit painitngs out like a Picasso or P,Young, but he cann't, he is a refined artist, i talk about rambling with a brush , his is a more studied surmon. so this agressiveness on my part to push him into this role he has got Fred worked up over Race issues from time to time., its all apples and oranges, when it comes down to it

Jimmy Lee Sudduth

wow! it finaly came , "Angry Woman". i am totaly broke in dept! and its no time to start obsessing over my favorite folk art on ebay , Damn that Ebay ! Damn! it to Hell!

Scarecrow

this painting is called fallen over scarecrow,
i started it last week, part of this Halloween thing i am into this year,

I think i am going to go over to the warehouse and start some bigger works and smaler thinkgs, all inspired from pfa's i invent here, i like to get out of this little studio and ride my bike down to this other place, drink a coule of beers listen to music and paint a while,. i miss that , talk to some folks,. i cona fore see the completion of these two new massive sets, comming up

I nlike to sip coffer and play with these toys some how an amzing painting is spun from it, and now i figured using a proper line and alot of enamle white paint i can make these models into life, its all here before me

man with pumpkin

Well, its a bright morning here in San marcos, everything is damp from the rain that must have slamed the area, I sat around last night and watched this old DickMiller movie "Buckets of Blood", you can get dvd's as cheep as 4-6 dallars, they are rereleasing all these old movies,.

I am also trying to figure out how this December will fall out, and i realise on dec 28, Chicken Dead Chicken is one year old!

this painting isn't done yet

the movie reminded me of a thougt i had out in Brenham while i was painting, i was thinking of trying to rent a space here in the local art warehouse where all my pals work, i am a bit older than them but it would be fun to hang with the young urban expressionist, and show them a thing or to, In that movie made i think in the late 50's its about the beetniks artys crowd vs the squares i think they are making fun of it, but they had all these paintings on the wall of this cafe they hung out, kinda like Picasso and Miro copys, but i bet some one made them , a friend of the studio. i got me think about how many hero's of primative expressionism they must have been since 1950 , how many artist turning out houndreds of paintings like this? where did it all go

back of painting, another self poit of me with chicken head pyrmid

I guesss in the context of history and ambition , lifestyle and simpley enjoying art making can cram one own need to find self worth other than just jacking off, but as i have believed you really have to love this stuff to survive, and as a lifestyle, well it will changs as some one changes cloths to fit there growth. A lot of the paintings i have gotten into this year i see as a set , i get into numbers and placing pictures in a balanced number scheame, its just being satified in making them complete! thats the task..

stormy cold night in Brenham

Well i got back on the horse and am painting away trying to complete, what i figured is the last two sets of the year, FV(revised) and this other collection pulled together with the bar show

One night over there in Brenham, , the rain came pouring down off and on, these photos were taken at the end of a painting session, it was hailing on the tin building real loud

I rember getting a strong beer buz and listening to techno music as loud as it gets, and saying fuck this , and i put AC/DC on back in black, the wind kicked up and and it felt as if the building was showwered with rocks, but i didn't care, cause "giving the dog a bone" was playing,. the lighting struck and thunder, but "have a drink on me" was roaring, i sat in a psyochic daze looking at these new goat studie paintings for the other main larg painting, called "Land of Reject" nothing could stop me as i explaned! loudly this is what painting is all about, then the electicisty went out
and it was loud and pitch dark
ahh ohoo
then back on again, well its time to go on in,.

I love the march threw the land and all the cool freashly fallen rain under a darken and flickering night scape of a land relaxed from storm, .

There is one main PFA made for all this work and a larg painting inpired from that and several studies
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i worked on completeing this diptic, large , started it early this year.

above is my work bench ,

chickens

A couple of nights ago, it rained real hard, and the coup colapesd out there, i had to go and prop the thing up like a tent, while it was raining,. the chickens don't mind the lights they walk around the whole time, my roomates said it looks like a nativity seen from the other side of the yard.

i think i am going to build a mini chicken pen to make it more secure, last nigh i found a dog out by it, . i sllep real lite, and can leap out of bed at the slightest noise, and , one of there panic crows went off and bam i am out ther with my machie, i freaked the dog out,. he was still on this chain , like he made himself loss or something, he coward when he saw , me
i went GRRRRRRR!!! and when i realised he was just broken lose yard dog i started " com on boy lets go , get outta here"
then i said fuck it and went back to bed.

chickens

Boy, the weather has changed to being real humid, . last night i an attack came apone my new chickens, i know the yell, i ran out there and had to kick a stray cat out of the pen, . i think i ma going to put up these christmas light in the pen so the chicken can at least see the critters if they attack, it might work as a deturant. i made a small 10x10 pen for them , two hens two roosters.

It Reminded me when i had those other birds,(97) i had four cochins roosters, (worst impluse buy ever) but they were fun, for nearly a year i kept this routine , were , everynight i would get up at the sound of the first crow, I knew there crows, and i would run out there grab one off the fence and put him in a box to buffel his blast, well i didn't realise that when you put a rooster in a box they get real mad, they hate it. after i collected each one and put them in the box at nigh they would still crow, just not so loud.
but the problem came when i kicked over the boxs in the morning and let them lose, it was like an outta control gang bar brawl in the morning and they would chase each other around and it would spill over into other peoples yards, it was funny to watch but , i started gettin nervious they would take there unrulely behavior out to the street.
One time when they went into someones yard , its like 7:30 in the morning i started to chase them this one bird "little boy" was runnin all over and i had this stick to sorta guild him back in the direstion of the yard, but he made a break in the opisite direction, so i threw the stick , right before him to reverse his direction, but ended up clockin him in the back of the head, and he fell over, i thought
" oh my God i killed little boy! " i was very upset and then i ran over to him and lifted him up and saw his little cute head dangling , i broke his neck, , so i took him back in ght morning and set him in a box to watch him he seem to be altight but very diorinated, sorta like he was blind , i must have just given him a chicken concusion, .
I had to keep him in the room casue one thing i noticed was that as soon as i dropped him down with the other birds they sinced he was wounded and started whopping his ass, so i had to keep him in my room for a while.
but if i would be damn that even with brain damage the bastard would crow. late at night in my room,
backkahaaah! bachaaaa!
i would wake up and right aside my bed put my hand on his little body, to let him know to stop
after a while he would go off again!, nothing effected these birds
one thing i concluded was that you will never condition a chicken not to crow no matter what.

man with chicken head

well, its friday night , i know this week i am going to go over to Brenham and colect this work for the bar show and also slid some stuff up, so i migh be gone for a while, may leave on monday,
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this painting was done early this year, there is another one done like it in the wake, its taken form a photo of me standing next to the chicken head pyrmid thing , made out in Marathon Texas.

studio

well tonight i started and complete some older pic, its all 2003-2004 work and it will end this year, its, kinda like halloween personalised,

i just woke from a nap, earlier in the day i was weedeating this guy propertie out in the hill counrty, a real mess but the weather made it fun, so now i am having a couple of beers wondering if i am drunk enough to start burning off all these sticks and yard clippings, hjum is tonight a good night?


this painting is almost done, front and back

this painting reminds me of this other painting i did a while back, , i might go and shoot this collectin of work that this couple has of mine, "the Loisel Collection"
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These two pictures called a plce to burn the Voodoo dolls, , ,, sorta a pits and witch looking apon this midnight bonfire.

last night

last night i went to work trying to bust out, these last paintings but ran out of white paint, i hate that..

it must be the sing song halloween work i like but a litttle off, this one painitng, called "jack" i am going ot complete with a falen over scarecrow,
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i am up early cause i have gottne four new chickens in the back yard two roosters and two hens, i forgot what the crow was like at 4 am in the morning, , i don't mind , i just get worryed about the nieghbors, there is another whole story to this way back,

I am just going to take my time with these paintings, piece them together one at a time,

I guess the cool air is comming in, and the chickens are a crowing, !

this new bar show

i have this new bar show comming up, i figured its gonna take something like 13 pieces seven big'ins and 6 med , i am going to throw all the stuff cartoon things at the show, the show is probaly going to go up in december,
which means its time to go over to Brenham! i have some stuff to comple, mainly whirlie gigs etc, i owe them to some people,. I also have up the Hide out show up

View image(man with hose 1999) Made in Brenham Tx
View image Twine 2000 Made in Redford Tx, (sorta the begining of these abstracts)
View image (curly Que Cigs) 2001 Brenham Tx,wood
View image (pigs in field 2001) Brenham Tx, wood

View image Goats on shed) 2001 Brenham Tx
View image (for rent) Brenham Tx 2001
View image (Ghost at door) Brenham Tx 2001
View image (Fall of Rome Brenham Tx 2001

View image"chickens flight over the city"2002 Brenham Tx
View image FV 2003
View image FV 2003
View image FV 2003 Black top
View image fv 2003 Black Top
View image fv 2--3 Black Top
View image fv 2003 Black Top

The hide out coffee shop
617 Cogress
Austin Texas
512 476 0473
show up till dec

well i am painting, got a six pack and about five new Fatboy Slim cds, man i love this music, next AD/DC of course. i am trying to figure out what the hell this work is where is it going, , but i found out i have a new show comming up at this bar in Austin, sounds interesting, cause they throw you a 100 bar tab! free!, i have a collection of new work i am gonna throw the place, so i gues i will take my fav babe T and we shalll sorta have a good time at the place when my worK is up.

the stuff here , i am trying to complete these project i started a while back i like the five to six set, its sorta nastalgic, from the old, i like the idea of a set talking as one
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these are two works i started this weekend

collecting

well, to change the topic a bit i spent the most ever for a painting last night off ebay, i just had to have this picture by Jimmy Sudduth, i have started to collect what i consider really good folk art, by some of my hero's now while i can afford it, i don't know how many times they stuff i liked sky rockected as time goes on, i have already got Seymore Perkins and Tonney, one thing of note, alot of these fellows, the main ones happen to be ol' black men stuck in some way out place and a bit eccentric, why?

One of my good buddies Freddie McCoo, talked about this, i think its like the old likings of the primative modern, except this is the old south, which is disapearing. Something i noted on my drive over there last year. I think with artists like Sudduth they have appeared, sincer in approach and constant in style. kinda like a backwoods Giacometti ,. too attact fans , now crittques?, naaa, not thier style.
Also it helps to be a bit crazy, but i like crazys, it adds more flare. And its more inspireing , as an artist, this conitation of a lifestyle, the rual folk artist.
There is a whole southern seen to it,.

One of the funnyer note about going an working out in the big Bend Desart, is you really feel , something gong on and your this character inside this movie, , hey i think its alright to pretent to be in some movie, its like religious reactment , its romantic. and it may be the only thing real about art anyway.

nov

Old pumpkin next to boots

Last night as i drove back from wimberly its real late, i was looking at al the night time landscapes cast from all the hidden street lamps and house lights, they have almost surreal look of them, i wizzed by this bar, and watching the last of the bar crowd leaving. wondering what kinda drama's these paople life must have... hummm

this is an old card board pices i am working on ,
i been fantisying about painting in a mask and throwing a web camp on me, there is some guy on the net where you click to his site and tell him to do stuff he is dressed up as a chicken its real wierd, , i noticed Matt Sesow has a studio cam, i wouldnt mind dressing up as a witch, and painting or like Davros

friday

today i started working on these four pieces, i call redhouse pumkins made in a halloween mind
this ohoto is the start from a blank canvas see below todays work etc

these are four work i started today,

nov.

Well the weather is great!, great weather to drink coffee and paint, The show at the Hide out is up , and i landed two more gigs this winter, the show looks good,. i think i am going to just stay put and work on some stuff here in the studio,
i am ready to declare the next pfa set,

I have been having these ideas about this new bright orange intiors sorta like pumpkins intiors , oh i also mounted a pumpkin on my fence i wanna watch it as it decays and all, i plan on shooting insulation fome in it to keep it up and paint it, , might look neet,
this new set, hummm

the day after Halloween

i was driving and i ran across this burning log pile on the side of the road, outside of Luling.