SELF-PORTRAIT, 2000

Self-portrait, 2000
acrylic on board
74 x 104 cm.

It's not really working out very well, is it

In fact, its coming out like the OPPOSITE of what it was meant to come out like.

Imagery

Galapagos Turtles at Auckland Zoo by @Karen Price:

Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, chapter III page 28:

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.)