Here is the Late Night Picture

Patrick says:

After a long walk to the hardware store, several beers, and a cigarette, I give you this:



Artswivel #4

More to come top of the mornin' style.

cheers!

And life has crapped its love on me

So one may ask what life crap is or smells like, well i am sure it is and smells like may things. In my case it is in the form of moving a studio and a house. Right about after the time I proposed the next artswivel subject, I discovered had to tear down my studio, move it, tear down the house, & move it. The studio itself is moved but in complete disarray. The house I am currently moving. So some of you probably are already rolling your eyes, thinking geese "Nice Excuse." I suppose i could have just stepped up, stayed up late and painted...well i didn't....so my post is behind schedule. In fact I haven't even started painting yet...so i am unsure when the post will be posted...in the future. I am not sorry to anyone...except for Patrick...and thats only because he made an awesome painting of my hero...Bob Ross.

ABOUT TO POST

Patrick says: yes yes it has been too long.

My will was sapped from putting my last painting show together and so just last night I began to paint again.

So look forward to my next painting to post real soon. As in tonight. No matter how bad it might look - it's going up.

In the meantime - meet Don Ross:

add the bird...

add the bird...

Artist's Statement (for Wug's show)

Patrick sez:

Tomorrow I have a fancy-dan first Friday opening. I am showing 8 paintings. If you are in town, you should come out. Wug Laku's studio and Garage. Check out http://www.indy.com/posts/6204 for more details.

These paintings are more or less in line with what I have been up to lately.

I paint from life, memory, the memory of dreams, and imagination.

I prefer to let the painting develop itself.

Starting with some random act of inspiration marks are made, interpreted, lost, gained, found, accidental, intentional, overdone, underdone, equipped, lost, found, etc... until the painting is "finished".

I try not to buy any art supplies.

I like to use found objects in my paintings. Lots of these paintings have maps. AAA is the way to go.

Sometimes personal "symbols" lend themselves to me. The balloon has been showing up lately - probably a latent tribute to Kurt Vonnegut (the writer) and his sardonic wit.

Hey: It's your birthday! Have a balloon!
Hey: You foreclosed on your house! Have a balloon!
Hey: You cut your head open! Have a balloon!

Such nonsense is good for the heart I suppose. Kurt smoked until he was 84.

TV's, bird feeders, seeds, wires, balloons, feeders, paper, paint, and on and on.

Nonetheless I paint about myself. For what good that could do any of you I am not sure. Like you, I find myself alive in this reality.

Perhaps having some barometers that are not contained in glass tubes are of value.
Perhaps they are a luxury.
In the meantime creation goes on.
Reason or not, I keep finding myself painting.
In basements, studios, mansions, park benches, farms, levees, islands, and wherever else you might find a living soul.



thanks for your interest

Pswivel

Heavy Weather

Patrick says:

I am happy you (Jon) like my paintings.

This is no contest.

Instead this is an exercise in humanity.

A game of sorts.

I too attempt to think outside of art (formal).

I make balloons.

I sing.

I drink.

I have a daughter.

I make stuff.

I make what the signals in my 3.5# dog's breakfast (Vonnegut) tell me to make.

I do not control these signals.

I channel them.

To you.

To me.

Maybe to each other.

Hi I am a human.

Nice to meet you human, too.

I haven't quite met myself.

But now I meet you.

(enter the weatherman cheesedick):

"How cold will it get tongiht??? (spot glistens off slick hair, manicured smile shot with a par 38 to enhance depth) More after the break."

Seven hours of commercials later its raining pina coladas and the weatherman is shacked up south of Dogdale humping a prostitutes mayoral leg.

Anyways, I love the weather.

Will post something soon.

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