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A delivery bicycle is parked on the pavement next to an open door somewhere in the French Quarter. An empty chair is seen nearby. The street door to the apartment is left open, revealing a lighted room with a blue light. It’s a cool blue. New Orleans is bathed in a warm light tonight. PURCHASE…
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The house where my dear friends live is on a quiet street that has friendly neighbors. It’s located only two blocks from a corner tavern that has free popcorn at happy hour. It’s a shotgun design, meaning each room is located one behind the other. You could shoot through the open front door and the…
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Two sisters, Shirley and Betty Jo, had one bike. Not each. Just one bike. They had to share, in other words. It took a year or two to get the hang of it. Not the bike, I mean sharing. In the beginning they played tricks on each other to have the bike for themselves. For…
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Wander through this virtual gallery of of my bike art!
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Buy this tee shirt on Amazon I’m ready to get outside! My poor bike, the Bee, has cobwebs in the spokes. What is it that keeps us from doing the right thing? Ennui! What day is it today, anyway? Blursday! What’s keepin’ me from hoppin’ into the saddle? The Devil! What would the Bee say…
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The whole print-your-art-on-anything has got me wondering. How many artists are producing awesome bike art for throw pillows? I don’t know about other kinds of artists, but for Bicycle Pillow Artists (of which I am one) the answer is quite simple: BPA (Bicycle Pillow Artists) = xyz where x is the number of artists who…
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It’s starting to dawn on me that things are changing for the better. Finally. So I’m celebrating that with a painting of a bicycle casting morning shadows on a French Quarter sidewalk. We each have our own way of expressing hope, and bike portraits do it for me. PURCHASE ON REDBUBBLE
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This is a mystery of portraiture: the subject sits and the artist interprets. Does the artist allow his or her own thoughts and biases and filters to affect the image? Absolutely! How could it be otherwise? Does the subject reveal all of her innermost thoughts and feelings on her face, in her demeanor, in her…
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I’m excited to announce a new show for 2021! About 40 of my new digital art images will be displayed at the Trueblood Popup Gallery at the Student Union Building on the campus of Boise State University. The show will run from January 10, 2021 to March 14, 2021 and was curated by Fonda Portales.…
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Every December for the past jillion years I’ve done a hand-made Christmas card. This holiday tradition started when I was a teenager — my mailing list was super short and all the cards were unique and hand-painted. As my mailing list grew I started using lithography, eching and block printing to make the process faster.…
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I decided to break out of the box a little and go below the shoulders. For the past year and a half I’ve been concentrating on faces and I wanted to go beyond that and work on the whole person. This is my first in, hopefully, a long series.
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Playing around with pen and ink in my little wee moleskin-like sketch pad on the 4th of July. What could be more patriotic? I’m basically trying to do the impossible (again) and make black ink appear to look smooth and gray. Yeah, that’s what pencils do, I know, but every time I pick up a…
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Felicity Houseghost, 13 x 18 inches, oil on canvas In the shadows lie the mysteries. Did you notice what’s lurking in the shadows today? Carol Robinson just posted a sneak peek of the new work in my show “Houseghosts.” The show opens May 7th, 2016 and runs to the end of the month. Did you see what…
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My show at the Carol Robinson Gallery opens on May 7th. I delivered 11 new pieces to the gallery this week for the Houseghosts exhibition. I completed this painting in Old Algiers while staying for about a month at a little shotgun home on Bouny Street. The painting’s title reflects my attachment to two of…
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Doorways are red, Houseghosts are blue, Just when she’s needed, She comes into view.
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This painting of the Annunciation was finished this week. It is based on a painting that I completed several years ago and purchased by my friend, Dan. The earlier painting served as the starting point for this piece. The Annunciation will be part in an exhibition in New Orleans in March along with the works of other artists represented by…
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Merry Christmas!
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You might not think of the printmaking process as action-filled or dicey or even as daring. Might I try my hand at persuading you to think differently? Printmaking routinely hits these emotions: Yeah, that last one isn’t really an emotion, but working with sharp instruments while drinking brandy and egg nog is a little nerve…
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I finished this painting today (oil on canvas, 10 x 8 inches) just in time for Christmas.
Angels on Bikes 