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Crazy Doodles with Ram

20x30

The oil derrick at lower right looks like a cow.

Stulia Shalabuensis

24x36

Both words are dream words, "stulia" meaning "man growing out of a tree". He is looking at Lynn Wyatt, one of the world's most beautiful and best dressed women, standing on a summer squash whose flowers contain dancing space aliens.

I Just Want to Go to Sleep

4/26/2002

Painted in one sitting.

Chromatic Zebra

16x20 · 2001

This zebra would like to have different color stripes every day.

Three Pots and a Pan

19x24 · 2004

The range top has turned into a river flowing between the cookware. Note the trees on pan ridge. There is a tempest in the teapot.

4 Little Weirdos

Dec 2008

The real dream sequence is the Hexagons. I dreamt of hexagons that were greatly elongated horizontally, practically into rods, and then stacked in threes. The work is on poster board, painted around the turn of the century, before I started using canvas, unfortunately undated. It even got wet when the sunroom roof sprung a leak. I did not post it for years because I thought it was moronic and juvenile, but I am slowly changing my mind.

Brokeback Yam

21 x 28

Yams will break if you drop them. In honor of Elizabeth Aquino and her beautiful Blog, where she comments on this painting and reports a wonderful overheard conversation about yams. Lady #1: "I'm so sorry that we didn't make dinner beforehand." Lady #2: "Oh, don't worry." Lady #1: "No, I feel bad. Why don't you come over afterward for a yam?" Lady #1 (again): "I had half a yam this afternoon but have the other half leftover. You can have the rest." Lady #2: "I do love a yam."

Wipeout

11x14 · June 2007

Based on the mass of this Yam, I think the wave is going to get wiped out.

Yam on Board

on a piece of wood

11 x 14 · Feb 2016

This is the original inspiration (if you can call it that) for ODoVB.

POLKA DOTS

18x24 · 2002

Some visual art has its own logic which cannot be described in words.

The Perfectly Nice Yam

12x16 · 2015

Although modest in size and scope, this is actually a good painting of a high-quality yam. Nothing wrong with it at all.

Jessica Simpson does not want the Little Fishie

18 x 24 · 2001

When I had been painting for just 2 years. I came across a picture of someone who seemed to be deep in thought about something — but what? My answer is the title of this painting. Her left eye is too high, and her mouth is too long. Oh well, nice try. I put it away and completely forgot about it for 24 years.