Modern cat revisited

I didn't realise that when I used the LOLbuilder on ICANHAZCHEESEBURGER that the image would become available to other users to caption. Sure enough, someone did...

Who's BOB? Not this one, surely...

These are our stories; they must constantly be retold

Look, I don't know what to say, ok? I've been really busy. Not only that, but I've hardly been DOING anything; I've rather been LOOKING at a lot of things. And getting really drunk, a lot.

(this is a picture of the nuclear power plant at Three Mile Island, from the internet)

I did have time to enter a couple of pieces (Blurt, 2009; Bait and Switch, 2009) in the Thistle Hall $100 Art Sale. The opening thingummy is tomorrow night, Friday Dec 4th at 6pm.

Some good flowers

More good flowers.

BAIT AND SWITCH, 2009

Getting there...

CONVOY, 2009

Got it done...

Convoy, 2009
oil on canvas
35 x 44.5 cm.

A Tribute to the Merchant Seamen of World War Two

This well-known photo shows a convoy of merchant ships getting ready to sail to Britain from Bedford Basin, the splendid harbour of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The photo is from A Nation Forged in Fire by J.L. Granatstein and Desmond Morton:

Long weekend staging

The royal estate

Listening to Bruckner "Mass nr 2 in E minor" and Signer's new album

o o o

Lying in bed and really enjoying looking at assorted works on the wall. The one in the middle is a oil-pastel work on paper by Daniel Phillips.

Wire-frame 20c dolly mixture and steak-cut fries

A girl sitting in front of me on the bus was wearing a hoody made from a fabric printed with this beautiful design.

NO VACANCY, 2008

No vacancy, 2008
oil on canvas
24.5 x 20 cm.
private collection

Listening to Morton Feldman

Philip Guston Morton Feldman hair

I saw a statue/bust in a shop window which reminded me of Morton Feldman's hair via Philip Guston:


That's Guston on the left and Feldman on the right:

This is Morton Feldman by Philip Guston:


Philip Guston Friend - to M.F.
(painted in 1978, after their estrangement in 1970.)

THE PROPHET, 2002

The prophet, 2002
oil on canvas
50 x 52 cm.
private collection

Scott Walker

PAY AS YOU GO, 2002

Pay as you go, 2002
oil on canvas
36 x 25 cm.

NEVER HAD A NAME, 2008

As per previous post.. now well and truly finished:


Never had a name, 2008
oil and enamel on canvas
96 x 46 cm.
private collection

Never had a name...

Started in 2003 as an experiment in mixing oil and enamel house paints,


and put aside for some time. Resurrected last year:

ARE YOU DIGITAL?, 2003

Are you digital?, 2003
oil on canvas
75 x 78 cm.
private collection

BLOCKADE SCENARIO, 2009

Blockade scenario, 2009
oil on canvas
34.5 x 45 cm.

This is a lost painting, with no real name

I started it in early 2005, but in a studio move later that same year it somehow fell by the wayside. It just disappeared!!


As you can see, it was huge. I intend at some point to recreate it at a somewhat smaller scale. Notwithstanding that, I hope you are happy, unnamed painting, wherever you are.

MODERNIST PAINTER, 2008

Modernist painter, 2008
oil on canvas
45 x 45 cm.

Archaengle Thunderbird Cerberus

Something I am starting out on:

"is painting bones, pink ones, like great big dogs cocks"

Some good flowers

I might try and get a better shot of the first one, cos that doesn't really do it justice.

I took the day off work

I couldn't be fucked going to the office. It was pouring with rain outside and all I could bring myself to do was loll around on the carpet with the Layla, paint, and sleep. So I had a word to my boss...





Nice to have a stack of annual leave up ones sleeve, what.

Chipping away

Parsnips, bone-in

Once upon a time, there was a drawing:


... which became an album cover.

It seems almost predetermined that it should come to this:

LET ME MAKE THIS REALLY SIMPLE FOR YOU, 2009

Let me make this really simple for you, 2009
oil on canvas
24.5 x 20 cm.
private collection

BLURT, 2009

Blurt, 2009

Oil on canvas

24.5 x 20 cm.
[Destroyed]

ARE ''FRIENDS'' ELECTRIC?, 2002

As per previous post. This is the completed work:

Are "friends" electric?, 2002
oil on canvas
64 x 99 cm.
private collection

Are ''Friends'' electric?

I found an old snapshot of a painting I made for the Spaceships Of The Mind series and exhibition in 2002. For a while there, it had a gantry tower in it:

This is how it ended up. (Sorry that the colours are so mismatched; for some reason this early shot was taken with a flash.)

PARTIALLY RETICULATED, 2009

... done!

Partially reticulated, 2009
oil on canvas
60 x 50 cm.

Smoke, tombstone

Often when I finish a work, I have some paint left over.

Partial reticulation

Doing, doing, ...

dolma tarifi...

Coming along...

Spin upheaval

Some work was performed on "Partially Reticulated" during the the small hours of the night:


I am exceedingly pleased at how one of the faux-collectivo is beginning to resemble a major human life-enabling body-organ. And a moon-hopper. And a dog-toy.

Blurt-2

Progressing:

God, my slideshow is shit, and I really need to do something about it

Another lovely weekend. Finished "Blurt" this afternoon. Pics soon (tmrrw?) Spent time with David, Rose, Kim Pieters, and S. Watched some of Kim's new films, one of which, Magnet, is set to my album The Green Morning from a couple of years ago. It's stunningly beautiful and I'm ecstatic at how it turned out.

David and Kim have been working on their pieces for the Wall Works show at the Adam, which is open to the public to experience the creation of the works IN REAL TIME WHILE IT HAPPENS. (what a great way to make socially awkward artists incredibly uncomfortable. Make 'em work it.. go 'on.. make 'em work for their peanuts.) Anyway, all of the work is looking really good. The "opening" / piss-up is later this week sometime.

Fiddling about on a Monday night

So I was fiddling about with the new painting last night, and added a few little touches here and there:


I know, I know, you can hardly tell at this resolution. You'll have to believe me.

o o o

While I was drawing the images which served as the basis for this painting, I was thinking about Swine Flu and weird undiscovered microbes and fungal spores and so on. When I was painting it the other night, though, I started remembering how when I was a kid I read some WWII war story or something which involved the torrid, insidious dangers of floating mines. I could clearly remember what I had imagined at the time that they looked like -- and that was something remarkably similar to my 'cluster' of 'microbes'. Of course, the real thing is more functional and less fantastic, but there you go.