Bastrop Murals

I was engaged by the city of Bastrop, Texas to paint two transformer boxes.  I finished them today (several weeks of work).  Bastrop has a wild chicken sanctuary, so the chickens are significant to the city.  But really, I painted my own backyard chickens (Hotwings, Lacy, Zap, LaVerne, Goldie, etc.).

The Hunters

This is a new painting which I recently finished. The painting is of my three grandsons, Orion, Aidan and Wyatt, at the west Texas deer lease where their parents hunt. As the boys are only 4, 6 and 7, they are not quite old enough to hunt themselves, but they have their pretend rifles and they pretend. In the painting they are returning to camp after a hunt.

The original went to my daughter for her birthday.

I have 8x10 prints available.

New Paintings and Show Schedule

Dancing Horses II, 11x14, original $145, prints $35.

Longhorns III, 20x50, original (no prints) $1500.


Here's my show schedule for the rest of the year:

October 15-16, 2011 Galveston, Tx Artoberfest

October 22-23, 2011 Spicewood, Tx Art Fair

October 29, 2011, Elgin, Tx Farmer's Market

November 5-6, 2011, Sun City, Tx (Georgetown), Hill Country Arts and Crafts Fair

November 12-13, 2011, Covington, LA, Three Rivers Art Fair

November 19-20, 2011, Gruene, Tx, Market Days

November 26, 2011, Comfort, Tx, Christmas in the Country

December 3, 2011, Elgin, Tx, Holiday by the Tracks

December 10-11, 2011, Austin, Tx, Cherrywood Art Fair

Cowjunto Music

My design won a cow! Well, not a real cow. I painted one for the Austin Cow Parade. It's now on display in downtown Austin at 5th St. and Congress Ave. The cow is a play on words on conjunto music - Tex Mex music featuring accordions and bajo sexto (12 string sort of guitar). You can find a video of me and some accordion players playing "cowjunto" music with the cow at the Cow Parade preview party on youtube - search "cowjunto." I've posted 20 photos here, so look at the older posts to see all the pictures of the cow in progress.

Cowjunto Music

My design won a cow! Well, not a real cow. I painted one for the Austin Cow Parade. It's now on display in downtown Austin at 5th St. and Congress Ave. The cow is a play on words on conjunto music - Tex Mex music featuring accordions and bajo sexto (12 string sort of guitar). You can find a video of me and some accordion players playing "cowjunto" music with the cow at the Cow Parade preview party on youtube - search "cowjunto."

Show Schedule

Feb 19-20 Gruene Market Days, Gruene, Tx

Mar 5-6 Art in the Square, Frisco, Tx

Mar 12 Georgetown Market Days, Georgetown, Tx

Mar 26 Seguin Market Days, Seguin, Tx

Mar 31-Apr 3 Round Top Antique Fair, Round Top, Tx

Apr 8-10 Burnet Bluebonnet Festival, Burnet, Tx

Apr 14-16 Old Settlers Music Festival, Driftwood, Tx

Apr 29-May1 Denton Art and Jazz Festival, Denton, Tx

Here are two new paintings. The one with the horses was completed just a few days ago - I entitled it "On Fire." Actually I didn't get the background right - it was too dark. Sometimes in that case I just wash off paint to lighten it up - yeah, wash it in the bathtub, as I have really high quality paper - but I just didn't want to lose my intense colors. So I added some gold to the horses to make them stand out. (A paragraph from "How an Artist Thinks" - the blog in my head.)

The painting of the longhorns was done before the one with the horses. Four people who have seen it said it reminded them of the scene from Lonesome Dove when the herd was caught in a thunderstorm and the lightning rolled off their horns. That makes me pretty proud - that's what I was thinking of when I painted the painting.

New Paintings

This painting, "The Wanderers," is my personal favorite of my new paintings. It's 22x30 - unfortunately you can't see where the paper ends because the background is white. I already sold it, but I still have 8x10 prints for $30.

"No, No, Bad Doggie" is a painting of my brother's dog Cardi - a sort of generic mutt of gentle temper. Original $89. Prints, 5x5 available for $18.

Painting of my daughter's Weimar, Roper. Original $89, prints available for $18.

A little terrier. Original $89, prints available for $18.

"The Wanderer," a watercolor painting. Original, 30x22, $400.

The Blue Roan

Tom and Jan Scott, who own the Blue Roan Cafe, invited a friend and myself to Lorena, Texas for an event. They fed us a great catfish dinner, and I was able to see my painting for their logo hung in front of the restaurant and inside.

New Jewelry; Off to Alabama

I have started a line of jewelry in polymer clay, mostly similar to my paintings. I have been doing a lot of pins, which I personally wear in hats, because I like hats and wear them a lot. But of course they could be used on clothing, too. Here are a few samles of the new stuff:

I am getting ready to leave for an art show in Fairhope, Alabama. It's one of my favorite places to go because there is a wonderful campground there out in the woods. I have a 17 ft. Casita travel trailer - that's how I get around to various art shows and take my little house with me. I travel with a cat, Lutu, a snowshoe Siamese. She clawed herself a pet door in the screen door of the travel trailer, so when we arrive at a campground, I just let her roam. She always comes back to the trailer.

At this campground in Alabama they raise goats. Lutu is scared of goats. She will stalk deer as if she were a lioness, but she runs from a goat. (So far the deer have been pretty safe, though. Lutu is small, even for a cat.)

This is Lutu's 6th year of travelling with me. She hops in my van like a dog. Once I drove to the grocery store not aware that Lutu had hopped in the van. When I opened the door, she hopped out - in the supermarket parking lot! Not a good place for a kitty. Fortunately, I grabbed her and put her back in the van.