Crazy Doodles with Ram
20x30
The oil derrick at lower right looks like a cow.
2WIOQ
Secondary Works of Inferior Quality
NOT BAD STUFF, JUST NOT MY BEST STUFF
Let’s be honest here. ALL museums have works that fit this description. There is a time and place for everything. With brick and mortar museums, that place is in the stacks, out of sight. On the web, where space is infinite, they have their own little hangout, here. I hope you enjoy them.
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.
Three Pots and a Pan
19x24
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.
Brokeback Yam
Dec 2008
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.
4 Little Weirdos
21 x 28
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.
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.
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POLKA DOTS
18x24
Some visual art has its own logic which cannot be described in words.
The Perfectly Nice Yam
12x16 · 2015
There is nothing wrong with this little painting. My problem in life has been coming up with a title for it. I tried Nice, Decent, Fine, Regular, Normal, OK, Happy, and High Quality before settling on this. It is small, and I don't remember the details. It's not framed, it's not even on a stretched canvas, just a piece of canvas paper. And I can't think of anything to say about the background.
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.
