It has been a real busy month with commission work. I am finally down to the last two pieces out of seven. This morning my friend karl and I took off to go fishing. Well he fished I watched, my license had expired. Good opportunity to take some pictures of local scenery. Below are pictures of our adventure and the Fiddler crab annual family reunion.!

When we first got to fishing spot these guys came running out of the woods screaming CRABS!!!
Proof of the old adage you don't have to be faster than the crabs just faster than the guy you are with!!
OK OK !! not really. It was PT time on base. God Bless our Troops!

Here is a picture of Karl fishing. Notice the reddish pebble looking bank behind him. The next picture is a close up of that bank. I estimated there to be 400,002 crabs on the bank.

Another close up of the fiddler crab family reunion that was going on.

On the way back from fishing we saw a group of Toms resting in the shade under a tree. They obviously knew it wasn't hunting season.

Cross walk Hustle

While downtown coming back from the marina this lady walked in front of me at the light. All that time spent looking at sailboats to paint and its life's surprises that get my attention.
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Old Friends

Two old cars that had seen better days. Reminded me of two old friends.
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I am not sure how many people are familiar with the work of Paul Calle. His early years were spent as an illustrator working at NASA. He did the artwork for the Apollo stamps and many incredible paintings. I had the pleasure of seeing some of his work at Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa Ok. His pencil work is so amazing that on many Jobs he would turn in a rough for clients to see and they would print the rough. He also has a book about drawing.. The pencil. Found the book on Amazon although it was much cheaper 20 years ago. I could not find an official Calle website. Here is a link to see some of his work.

Old plymouth. Waiting for the resurrection.

This car had me laughing when i saw it. I couldn't resist that deep sea creature face.
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Ok I must be the worlds worst photographer. No matter what I tried I can not get a decent picture. It has been raining here(less sun light). Nice change from the 100 degree weather we have had. This picture is way too cool and grainy. I talked to Jeff Hayes about taking pictures and it seems I will have to order an HDR program to help me. I am currently using a pentax K20D camera. Has lots of buttons and neat stuff , have no clue what they do though. Well mostly no clue. So far camera just looks cool and it gets me into events without being questioned. Must look press like. Looks like I will have to buy more stuff...lights etc.

Used and forgotten.

Old Ford truck looked well used and abused.
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Old rusting mustang. (Rustang)

Old Mustang had seen better days.
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Fresh paint

Fresh paint .... Unframed Oil on linen 6X8 inches $200.00
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Train maintenance

Tried not to spend the morning driving around and not painting. This train was just pullin out of the repair shop. So, I took a few pictures and made an attempt to memorize some of the colors before security showed up. If you're a train lover this location has it all. 8x10 oil on linen panel SOLD
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went to Apalachicola to see the wet room for the paint out and ran into Ted (Theodore Tihansky) working on a painting.

Mothers Day. My mom and her favorite person . Pugsly ( the dog)thinks he's a person, I think she thinks he is too!!

This lady was walking her dog thru a local crafts festival. $200.00
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This started out as a really interesting subject. But I think what was interesting to me was the area it self. Wish I had backed up a bit from the subject to show more of the mood, but still fun to paint and as always a learning experience. Along the back of the buildings is a seawall with a 15 foot drop to the water. Part of an old barge docking area for the papermill that use to be in Port ST. Joe Florida. Lots of old huge tractor tires used for bumpers. Old railroad tracks. Very cool place. I'm still pleased at how it turned out, perhaps we will go back there again and ill paint the view 180 from this one.

Ok back to being as serious as i can. I haven't posted anything lately due to the fact I havent painted much. Its been a weird month. But I plan on gettin back at it this week or next , for sure by the week after that. Forgotten Coast Plein Air Paint-out is coming up. I hope to attend some of that. My friend Marty pays me to walk around and talk about how great he is, steal paint tubes from other artists' easels when their not looking and kick their tripods. Just kidding!!! geeze! Martin Figlinski will be participating again this year. Great Artist check him out. Along with many other great artists. Last year I had the pleasure of meeting Scott Powers,(incredible artist) Theodore Tihansky, just a few of the great artists participating in the paint out. Usually when posting I forward the post to my (hopefully still) Girlfriend Carrie and she corrects all my mistakes,,but for some reason shes not talking to me,,so decipher it yaself!

Opened my email this morning and found this, after moppin my bowl of cherrios off the desk and wall, I realised this was a pic of my Girlfriend Carrie. Taken at the Miss Poultry contest in which finalists had to do their impersonation of a rooster,,GOOOoooo Carrie!! I have the feelin I might be hospitalised soon..sigh

"BUNION"

8x10 inches oil on panel. Titled "BUNION" SOLD