Nothing quiet on the Western Front
Call me a skeptic.
The Superstition Mountains have a lot of legends and myths surrounding them. Or maybe they surround the myths and legends.
I have been fortunate to have met many of the old timers that grew up chasing the Lost Dutchman’s mine.
The Dutchman was neither lost, nor Dutch. He did find gold. He died, and his mine, which may have never been a mine, has been lost. Continue reading “Dowsing”
End of Shift
Acrylic on canvas
22×28
This painting was originally 28×30. Age has not been kind to the canvas. The stretcher frame warped and twisted, and I removed the canvas from the frame years ago. The canvas shrunk. Continue reading “Larry’s”
The Frosted Mug
acrylic on canvas
18×24
Circa 1998. The 13th Floor played at the Mug on many Friday nights. There were bars closer to home, but the Mug sort of became my home. Continue reading “Where it all began”
Whiskey Row Pub – Jannette
oil on canvas
8×10
It only took me four months to keep my promise.
Liz and I stayed in Prescott, AZ over the Christmas holiday.We stayed at the Hotel St Michael, at the very beginning of Whiskey Row. Continue reading “Whiskey Row”
The plan is – whichever one of us wins the lottery first is buying a place in Superior, AZ.
If you are looking for artists, real artists, not Sunday painters or art school has beens, but real artists, they are in Superior.
For 10 months of every year the Sonoran Desert, especially the Valley, is various shades of brown and tan with specks of green. The green, of course, being the saguaro, the prickly pear, the cholla and what we call grass.
In spring the ocotillo will sport crimson flowers on their shafts for a few weeks. After monsoon, of course the green desert grasses overtake the barren landscape. But the expanses of green are rare and short. Continue reading “Colors of Spring”
Getting ready. May 3 seems so far away. I have less than two weeks to wrap up my painting, frame, wire, pack and ship my paintings and 3-dimensional sculptures for my first exhibition in quite some time.
The postcard has been finalized and approved. It will be good to get back to New Jersey for a few days, if only because I know it is only for a few days. Continue reading “Drunkards and Defectors”
The Drummer Crew
(Mesa Drummer, Mesa, AZ)
oil on canvas, 16×20
The Mesa Drummer is truly a dive bar. After work any day of the week you will find the regular crew of miscreants.
Blue collar types. Retired folks looking for a friendly place. The front tables are reserved (pun intended) for residents of the Pima/Salt River rez. Continue reading “Drumming up business”
This is the postcard for our joint exhibit in May. We each will have at least 25 works on display.
The bulk of my show will be my American Bar series, all new and never before shown paintings.
I also will have my Desert Detritus clocks in the show, and possibly some purely abstract pieces.
Winter in Apache Junction is a bust time of year. Lost Dutchman Days, the Rodeo, the Renaissance Festival, hiking while the weather is amenable…
I am still painting, getting ready for my exhibit in May at Gallery 50 in Bridgeton, NJ. Today I ordered frames for the newest paintings, almost finished.
And locally, there is an exhibit of Found Object art. I entered four found object sculptures to be juried in. Hopefully they accept one of them. Continue reading “Exhibitionism”