skinny dippers cont...

one surprise i got this weekend was i was included in the Orange Hill roster of artists, i take joy and pride in this accomplisment
so there is another show due in about two more weeks
yeaks!
i ll get a link to there site, here,
plus i am refineing the skinny dippers, for a big collection, with scruffys help of cource, she is making bulimic bowels, (cermics) told her to just take you problems and make art out of them , you won't have real problems when you do that ,its like puttting them (your problems) in there place, or on display humm, i might start making paintings of dallar bills,
but its on to the skinny dippers!
yet again

structual dynamics Eshow

well its finnaly done!
View imagedrawing for Yars revenge
View imagedrawing for "Phoenix"
three plaster sculptures
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View imagehead of gator
View imagebear

I think this is going to the bases for being here i have now realied this is it, take this and run with with it complete a body of work before the time is over,
i can see this kinda work like being spirtual super structures,

side view of phoenix
two more inventions, to quat hearld, one being this thing that makes things and a bullet factory, made like these refinery out on the coast,. but useing alot of cardboard and paint,

close up of the starship inside the "phoneix structure
the back of the structure

one problem i have discovered is what to do with it?, i am pondeirng making creats and storing them back home.

close up of Yars revenge

bear, i used alot of Christmas tree lightson these guys, i like this one the best, its in the K Little zone

skinny dippers revised

yep i am back at it again,
but this time with some help

i guess if i had to explain it, this kinda work, see a year ago Aug.2005 , its like happy fun river party paintings,
again

not a new theame of mine but what i have figured the real battle in the art of it is going to be placing th figures perfectly in the landscape, thats all i am concerned about, it has to look good in the end,
scruffy presents an excelent oppruntunity to say, hey she is the one who , painted the crazed redneck chick, puking int the river, . while a guy might be banging her,.

its all sorta perverted in the end of it, ,

oh i can hear the echos
form a distant land
from a windy city
, the cackles and skreets of the wicked witch of fine art saying
" where is your moral responciblity to all this yoou asshole!"
you made the painting you commited this crime , why don't you live up to it and be a man, admit you made it, so i can cut your nutz off and parrade them to the comunity!"
is this what you think art is some twisted perverted fanticy, no one care! its not about you and your bullshit!, the world doesn't want your imature sick paintings"
and quit infecting that sweet girl with your mind games!"

ohh the echos of distant ghoasts,
may they ever stand by,
as i am up to my ussal dasterly deeds....

...Done dirt cheep...

belcourt pics

belcourt show is on its way, and there might be a show over in Atlanta orange hill, the ruralist group,
View image catching another water macason
View imageexpect great things
View image we both gonna die you idiot!
View imageburried bones

my hommage to danny the bucket man.

so whats going on, hummm
the scruffy deal is fun, now more productive

i included her in on some work of mine, last night she was painting on one of my smalled canvases, she does these figures sorta sexy, fat , slutty, but enjoying themselfs,(strippers hiphop) perfect fo the the skinny dippers set i started a year ago, so i had her basicly draw some figures in to the canvas, and i am cropping them and creating little white trash skinny dippers , bathing in a ol muddy pond, sorta lucid porn like , with beercans sprinkled in.

Scruffy is perfect for the role in all this, when i asked her to draw a figure and place it in there, do it like this?, she said "sure!",.
I never do colabratives, tryed it once with serg, back in the day, it won't work to much ego invloved,. i like to make a good picture in the end, and sorta dictate the end game in the deal, be the master contractor so to speek.
I was explaining it to scruffy why this is so difficult to have colabratives she just nodded her head, and said she was honnored to work on some of my paintings, and she is not a bad drawer too, in creating these wavy burleske women, sorta fat, they fit right into the picture..
plus
i can coast on a smooth combunation of sexual fustrations and wanton desires as i stair at her perfectly taned body.while she burst out laughing , and belches,. and calls me bitch! oh the may I dream the dream ,live on!

so maybe by the end of the deal i am going to re-open the can on the skinny dippers, and make a solid set of work based on the theame, with scruffys twinkling little eyes to help,
yea i know what it sounds like , ..
but hey,
its an adventure, and something differnt,
Scruffy is all about repression and control or attempted blown the cover sexual anxiety, the walking definition of a tease, bold or boyish, but guarded and intoverted. so i figured her spirt would be good pysche material for paintings,.

its these old sentiments of drawing the contures of a womans hip, knowing you just had your blessed bee hands places apone them.
oh lord save me now!,.

its one of the funny things about her, is i am controwated into these role playing, and it gets carryed over to the canvas eventual. like your speeking into the events that took place in any of these skinny dipping seens, its that extra umpft! than makes it personal, alot of extra details .,
but of cource with a paint brush, it maybe the pictortial moment over crafting a seductive narritive,
ahh we shall see.,

www.nashvillescene.com

Ruralists Collective Including painters from Tennessee, Texas and Alabama, the Ruralists Collective combines an academic understanding of contemporary art with a folk aesthetic to create a largely narrative body of work that draws from Americana, frontier mythology, rural iconography and agricultural traditions. The collective comes to the Belcourt Theatre lobby through founding member Harry, a local painter whose work has been finding its way into the hands of new collectors via shows at The Art House and Plowhaus alike. Including work by Franne Lee and Merrilee Challis, the shows highlight is the bizarre and brutal body of work by Texas painter Chicken George, whose mythic pieces are populated by snakes, goats and roosters and seem to be torn from a childrens book your parents wisely kept out of reach. An opening reception takes place on 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 4. JOE NOLAN

chickenhouse

still constructing the E show called structual dynamics
and
the belcourt pics are about done

chickenhouse drama
one funny note , i went back to san marc and i figured out pk's girlfriend is moving in, he had been staying over

at her place for about a year,
i think she figured it was cheeper to revamp the chicken house, and live there, but , ohh the surprises,

When i first heard news of this happening, viola ,wanted to move in, i thought is this woman tuff enough to clean this place up, well, its not the cleaning thats the problem as it is the two gearhead volovo geeks that live there Dan & pk, i own the chicken house with pk, we got it together about ten years ago(in a nongay pact), Dan used to owen Valentino's pizza in san marc but is regrouping and now living at our place, we all know dan real good , he is a trusted friend and very hard worker, he had to be owning a resturant, but he sold the place and is figuring things out,
but one thing pk and dan have in common is the hording/clutter complex, they must have thousands of half baked projects in the house, ranging from reparing old applances to tools to everything bike and car related, pk is an avid dirt bike colector too, so the house looks more like a garrage workshop than a house, i always wanted it to evolove up to a wacky art house, but it takes two to see the vision, but hello!
pk has a girlfriend who is an wacky artist in her own right and wants to country cutify the place up, and throw out all the crap,
I gave up along time ago, when every you touch anyting of theres they snarl and whine about how they need this item its very important, like an old bent ten speed rim,
"hey man i was gonna fix that!"
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among other bad habits both pk and dan got into the slippery slop of car reparing, you buy one car and then buy another for parts, and sell it off while building your main car, hummm,
its great if you own a junk yard
lets count the proijects at the house, pk, first got a ford blazor in 00 then another for parts, had to hault that proiject cause of gass prices but got into volovo britonioes(sp) some rare volovo made in Italy so he hunted down parts for that, then bought another one, both of witch sit in the bay of our garrage, and is used for a closet, and he has two other volvos one that runs, and the other , this mystery red one thats parked downtown somewhere, the colecting is so bad that both he and dan rotate parking in odd crawlspaces in down town, places no zoning has take place. dan from what i figured has, three volvos and some white sports car, and an wild asortment of amusement bikes motercycles and gadgets.
i guess its the illisions of selling off all this that makes them hold on to everything, of cours our house hold way over the limit of cars,.
but back to viola
She want to clean the place up,
and when i went down there on monday i was watchin it happen, its hot as shit , dusty and crap is laying all over the place, smells bad

cleaning and organins isn't the ansewer, a massive dumpster everything in the house should go in there short of the studs in the wall.
she told me that the frigde in the kitchen used to be hers at one time, about seven years ago she curbed it, way before we knew who she was, and i rember, pk saying hey look at this used fridge i found curbed!, way back them
she couldnt belive it was back,.!
by the late afternoon, she, was exsosted had a headacke her neck was cramping up and was dowing a fourty. i told her you cann't quit now,!
pk was moving things around sorta uncomfortable as to whats going on ,and dan was ???
but none the less she is moving in,
its gonna be fun to watch, i told her she has my total suport, if i had it my way i would walk though there with a flamthrower.
kudos viola!

rounding the corner

well its monday or comming up on monday,
man this months is gonna be tight, i am still on the e gallery show, and five piaintings for Nashville,
i have to get a lap top i am too tierd to write anything interesting,
lets see a quick scan on topics of interest,
hummm
the chicken house is going to go threw some changes, PK's girlfriend is moving in to clean the place up, if that can be done,
news on that as it developes,.
The scruffy deal is off and into the can, its just better to wait, i know i am getting old now,.
the Radious show was a low turn out,(it was a group show, Drek, jason Wilicomb and Edwardo Rodgiquez(sp)) i think my work in tha gallery is alot like playing a banjo in a rave, my shelf life might expire in Groana.
And talking to some of the profs i realised, that time is gonna be over before its begun, how to conclude this adventure,.

Things comming up!

Well i have this one last art party at the end of the month,
and
a possible show at Orange Hill in Atlanta

and a profile on VM's work over in Lombardi

and
oh kathys studio pics,

so
how to make this site more interesting
any comments

radius show

Well its done and up and moving
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yea, its up, i am about beet, and i still have to put together the e show, on these three pieces i have been working on, man!
i also went back to San marc for the day, brough scruffy along, i was trying to tshow her what a typical San Marc day was like going from the river to the cornerstore for beer, and eating somewhere nice, i was paetly terrified at what she might think of my house, but she lieked the place, said it had potential,.

View image photo of my table

VM had a show over at lombardi here is a link

VM being Vincent Martinez, i need to figiure out how to drag all these photos form one email he sent to my site to up load all the images of the show, i want to look it over, as a review
I would partly credit my comming here to him , cause when i showed up at the warehouse, in San Marc, i forgot i was older now and had tons of wittty drunken painter talk, i like to get myself all worked up over, and yell at vincent at, he was a good sport at it, laughed alot,.

View image Dreks painting, in the show, he had a couple of more,

I guess there are two more months left of the sumer, what have i done?
i know for sure i have to wrape this stuff up some way,?
humm as for drama's
maybe later, i think i might go inot some of my old stories,

whats comming up next for CDC
some photos of Judith catrails show over at I2I
the belcourt work, and E-gallery show
and this wacky party called green eges and cam at the end of the month,

i didn't get the rev symore perkins pics, Darn!

View image Brian jobe show over at groana

i know the site must be getting borring now, but am so tierd, to come the f up here and write,
i am seriously contemplating getting a laptop by this fall and go cordless, its much easyer
some of my best writings are doen in a certian mood, its hard to acheive it on the run,

belcourt show

i have a colection of works like this rolling, along,
all on wood, should be quiet nice
last night,
i sorta had to bust out and get done with this last paintings, and the two goats , it was tuff,
oh and the ussaly drama's that go along with it,

radious show

Two goat paintings going to the radious show, not fin, yet

but it think i figured out, what is going to be the final climatic monsterious project, for my stay here, a massive minature animals and cart sculpture,
more detail later

and the e show, i think its going to be called structual dynamics, based on these three main projects
geeeeze, i am jugling alot of stuff,
its been one year here , and what the fuck have i done,?
one of my main ambitions late at night is to try an reorganised this stuff, in a presentable package, i might have to get another website this one is to complicated,

drek

Cam month is apone SA, right now and there are tons of arty actititys, around like Drek durhams cheese show, it was actualy in gallery E in the fall, but he has improved the show, and is up at three walls
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a local gallery
so for the next couple of entrys its gonna be a voyage of the SA art seen

this one solo artist played called bunnyphonic, at Cactus Bra
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its like "hello kitty" meets night viking(see later posts) but i might be wrong, she plays around SA or performs,
check out her site!
BUNNYPHONIC

jimmy from the nacho volcano show check out Dreks eye hole ,

yeaaaa, the scruffy deal is over, no more maddness,
i have really enjoyed talking and watching her in class, she is so strange, very emotional, like a caged tiger, leaping from one pitch to another, we got along good and shared a mutaul respect for each other, and we both like to drink alot too, that always helps but it also speeds things up a bit,
but i am a bit too chicken to go leap back into something again, chicken is a bit more wiser, but none the less hornery either but, my ego won't allows such trivialitys when my heart is on the wire, , i guess thats what getting older is about,
it was also fun letting the gals, try and clean up chicken, giving me pointers on how to court scruffy, like new shoes and glasses, clean cloths, etc, it just means i gots to get back in the gym again,, ,,, ahhh its alll been to much fun, but also all to sad,
but
there will be more scruffy updates to come! the nonobsessive type

"the gaze of the artist"

trying to recap

one of the pics for the belcourt deal,

i also had to pull together three paintings for the radious show, comming up next, plus i am going to shoot down Dreks show over at three walls, this week,
humm what else
if i also get VM's photos i will put them on here, he had a show over in Lombardi, this weekend,

ahhh so what else is going on,
stil trying to recape the new work
here is a photo of this these plaster animals i am working on,

oh and i want to meet Rev. Seymor Perkins here in san Antonio, local folk art hero, see if i can get some photos of his work, or studio, he is on the studio tour,

it looks likes its gonna be a long hot sumer, last night i basicly worked and talked to scruffy,
man i need a break form here,

studio

scruffys new work, i wonder what kinda message she is sending ?

ahhh this week is going to be tuff, i got a bunch of projects to do, and a show comming up over at the radious, they want three paintings so its time to whop out the AC/DC and try and get stuff done!