Landscape of Virginia

Moving the sun further away is sometimes wish of mine. Here I stretch towards it moving upward cursing the withered branch that gives no shade while my friend covers the eyes of a laughing sun. Meaning; "Its hot, calm down sun."

The roads today are full of unusual cars and jets just spewing their gaseous plumes overhead.

Trump has found Evalen Wood's (Pres Nixon's secretary) tapedeck in the Oval Office in memory of good old Tricky Dick and he's quoted here saying "Nixon used this for his now famous missing eighteen minutes; now I can use it!" A joke it is said needs no explanation or it just isn't worth sharing it with you.

I was asked ever so politely to add some people and cars to my painting of The Tavern, and so I did. I began with a 50's Chevy and some guys dressed like oldtime detectives pointing out something or another. Then I added a Zap Comics sort of androgenic character, I don't know what the complete story is with these guys, you'll have to use your imagination to figure it out. This restaurant has been in Charlottesville since before my time (which was 1977)'a townspeople's favorite' and it really was. Hope u like what I did to it. '

This is "The Tavern" painting taken a few steps further along in its development with my oils.

The Tavern no longer exist, sorry if this is breaking news for you but its gone. It closed last year to make way for a new shopping building of one kind or another. One always has to make way for the wrecking ball after a while in our 21st Century lifestyle of Charlottesville. This city is in a boomtown mood, new hotels and shopping malls are coming into being left and right. And so I snapped a few photos of 'the Tavern' building before its gone for good. That restaurant was a staple for many a U.Va. student on any given Sunday morning for a breakfast to kill for, sometimes I was even at there tables awaiting pancakes and sausage. The food was good and always worth the short wait it took to get fed. It is missed. The restaurant was around for decades. I'd say unofficially that it might have been established in the 1960's but I am not sure. I do know that it was suggested that I had to paint it. To which I often responded, "not now, the building is ...

Many times one gets a look into one's soul from writing what one does or experiences in life. Art on the other hand is a time when one responds to life with color, shape and form when one is making an abstract painting. Seldom do I go into an abstract canvas with a preconceive thought or notion of what I want to do. I do best when not 'thinking ahead' unlike most of my time being alive in this thing called 'the twenty-first century living'. My enjoyment as I have stated in previous posts is 'getting lost in the moment' with my work being the very vehicle of that bliss. This particular painting is one that I stopped and restarted again and again in as much as I felt it needed a little more, and then again a little more, and so on. Before I stopped completely, I took a good look and saw where the canvas need nothing more in order to be 'complete in itself'. Abstract #17 is one in many times during this summer of experimenting where I went ov...