Wow! Just when I was on a roll I took some serious criminal hits, offline for five weeks,
not that my fingers couldn't type, I just didn't want to be only a downer.
However, I bought mahogany plywood for panels and started some serious paintings.
I sold three of my first seven to employees in businesses downstairs, just showing some.
Yeah, I didn't even get them out off the property.
I glued together three art carriers and carry art around on a nice day.
People have been taking photos saying they want to show them to someone.
Rodman Hall in St. Catharines,
https://www.brocku.ca/rodman-hall came around,
and asked if I'd show some pieces with their next exhibit, in weeks.
A couple of days later a man came over talking about their empty artist in residence apartment.
That's all I'm going to say.
What's beautiful about this for me? I'm accomplishing something,
not just working on my guitar and talking about a gig or starting a band.
I guess I forgot how much art meant to me when I was a teenager,
and that was the last time I painted for myself.
I've gone from Dollarama art supplies and Kleenex palette dividers from No Frills,
to painting with pro paint on mahogany and pre-white fiber panels.
Unless your camera has two eyes, you can't get a good look at artwork.
But here's a few to show something.
Art is it's own currency, you gotta show.
The "raven" isn't serious artwork, one of my art carriers.
The black stripe across the top with roses,
left over stencils from a sign as Welland is the Rose City,
is meant to look like the black pants and flower embroidery,
of South American natives.
The symbols around the edge are a sentence from a Mayan pyramid.
I have 3/4" wide spaces to carry four three foot wide artworks.
The "how many whales" is an artwork, for me, folk art.
I like the imitation soapstone frame, what Inuit carve.
The bottom whale is herding fish up from the bottom,
and the whale coming out from between the ice is after the silver.
Using silver fish was my artistic goal, like they're flashing away and toward.
They do that as you walk by or look side to side.
If you look at the ice shelf the Inuit are looking from,
if you see a black area lower like an eye,
the entire ice shelf is in the shape of a sperm whale.
If you see the smaller whale in it's mouth,
that's what whales do, holding young, teaching them to breathe above water.
I added some green to some bigger fish where the ice gap is,
for me, a nice, atmospheric part of the painting.
Yes, those ice shelves are disappearing just like the whales.
If you think that the top of the iceberg above water looks strange,
or are badly rendered clouds, look closer.
Does it look like the forecastle of the Titanic, and it shouldn't be there?
You're right. We all know that.
You can't see the fine line paint ridges in the blue sky,
wavy horizontals, upright verticals, symbolizing all the sonars whales have.
If anyone asks why I poked out the knots in the border, leaving them,
I say that's air bubbles from the whales.
I just bought another digital camera for indoor portraits, with instructions.
If you look at the soapstone frame,
you'll see my many times dropped camera can't take a straight line.
What I'm calling Ooze Blues is what I'm doing right now,
experiments with different paints, making a very detailed textural background.
Please, look at these as big as possible.
I want to get your Art-Rate up!
I missed you J.H.C.