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Painting Stuff in St Petersburg, Near Tampa Bay, Florida

Archive for January, 2008

From The Latest Local Politics is All

Read Local Politics is All Another topic discussed last Friday was affordable live /work space for artists. The St. Petersburg City Council has placed a new emphasis on affordable housing this year with the creation of a Housing Services Committee. A committee meeting last Thursday impressed upon me that there is funding available from state [...]

31 January 2008 at 23:40 - Comments

A Viola Player

At least I think that is a viola. Might be a giant violin. Anyway, best dressed busker I ever saw. I make paintings of various people to break up the routine of making paintings of landscapes and cityscapes, which actually sell.

29 January 2008 at 14:30 - Comments

Deep Sigh

Look, I know that a lot of economic refugees have to live in places worse than Florida and all, and they have to have 3 terrible jobs and live in bunkhouses with criminal vagrants and cane-pickers, but, damn, I get homesick sometimes… I would so much love to be able to walk down a crowded [...]

29 January 2008 at 11:33 - Comments

And For All The Collaborationists in Clearwater:

the parody video Tom Cruise WANTS you to see! on FunnyOrDie.com

24 January 2008 at 13:30 - Comments
Wow! That was funny.
6 February 08 at 10:04

St Petersburg Florida Police Station at Dusk

Okay, so it’s not the Grand Canyon. I don’t get out much. See more if you want to here. Here is a shot of the facade of Interior Motives Gallery on Central avenue in St Pete at dusk. This is where I paint in the late afternoons, Monday through Friday.

22 January 2008 at 00:28 - Comments

St Petersburg Saturday Art Market (SP-SAM) In The Mist And Light Rain

Sure, it was romantic, but really hard on attendance. Gave me nostalgia for the days when I showed oil paintings on sheets of acrylic plastic. Really indestructable. Showed well in the snow and rain. Anyway, the hard core sellers were there, and the buyers were a hearty lot of art patrons. SP-SAM will be counted [...]

21 January 2008 at 14:56 - Comments

Truck Testicles Going Extinct; LowBrow Artists Despair

Looks like truckballs are going the way of Dixiecrats, and the Pop Surrealists among us aren’t happy. I don’t blame them; what will go next? Naked chrome mudflap babes? Pissing or praying Calvin copyright violations? What will the fantastically creative LowBrow School recycle without truckballs? Oh, wait. There are still the whole 90′s, as well [...]

20 January 2008 at 22:00 - Comments

First Annual Stone Age and Primitive Art Festival

I am SO there, Muffie– it has to be a lot less old-hippie-infested than the Florida Folk Festival or whatever that hickstock is called and hence about a thousand times more interesting. If anyone wealthy and attractive wants give a geezer a ride, use the comments to get in touch. Ochlockonee River State Park to [...]

18 January 2008 at 13:44 - Comments

Why st.petersblog PoWnS The Poynter Institute

Rick Baker hates homeless people at st.petersblog  Although, to be fair, who doesn’t? Ah, Casey, you had me at “a bunch of assgobblers hanging out at cigar shops.”

18 January 2008 at 10:20 - Comments

The Highwaymen Exhibit At Tarpon Springs

Two Highwaymen exhibitions are on display at the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art from Jan. 27-March 9. The Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art is on the Tarpon Springs Campus of St. Petersburg College at 600 Klosterman Road on the corner of Belcher Road. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; evening hours are [...]

18 January 2008 at 02:05 - Comments