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Suburban Cartoons For Everyone!

August 12, 2008 – 8:58 am

I did these little 18×24 paintings last week. I am trying to remember what I saw when I was a kid in the ‘burbs, with a lot of time and nothing to do. I am noticing that what I remember at this point is women my parents age who could potentially give me food. Maybe [...]

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More Cartoons Of Sunbelt Suburbia In The Seventies

August 8, 2008 – 9:46 am

Well, one more, anyway. More to follow. I have more fun drawing these little pieces of fragmented memory from my distant youth than I do painting them, but painting them is pretty great, too. When I get enough of the images together, they will come together as a story or series of stories, and I [...]

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I Like Cartoons

August 7, 2008 – 11:44 am

And as long as the hot wet blanket of August makes it hard for me to slap paint, I’m going to do the most funnest thing I can– paint cartoons. Cartoons about suburbia when I was a sunbelt teenager.

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Get Yer Elvis On

August 7, 2008 – 10:03 am

I saw this RV in a big hot flat empty parking lot on US 19.

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Greetings From Roser Park, Florida

July 29, 2008 – 9:57 am

At least 2 of the 101 Photos of Roser Park, St Petersburg have been used as references for paintings so far. As I have previously stated, by midsummer my use of color becomes deranged from the heat and I will not return to a reasonable palette until January. This is not really a choice. It [...]

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Room Temp Glass Doesn’t Flow, Even At Florida Temperatures

July 29, 2008 – 9:46 am

I was going to make some sort of observation about how I captured the flowing nature of glass, which technically a super-cooled liquid, but it turns out that the notion that “solid” glass continues to flow very slowly at normal temperatures is crap and in the category of such gee-whiz urban legends such as “we [...]

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Tampa Confederate Flag Antidote– Call to Artists

July 23, 2008 – 10:11 am

There is a pretty good argument to be made that in terms of numbers of deaths and long term social repercussions all over the globe, as well as the misery inflicted over many generations and hundreds of years on millions of people the peculiar institution over which the southern confederacy explicitly seceded was an even [...]

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101 Photos of Roser Park, St Petersburg, Florida

July 19, 2008 – 9:30 pm

I wanted to do a painting of a Roser Park cityscape, so I biked down into the gulch Saturday morning. It wasn’t early, but there was no one in the park or on the street, not even a dog walker. Probably something to do with the gaspingly high humidity. Anyway, I managed to get some [...]

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The St Petersburg Police: A Subtropical Noir View

July 15, 2008 – 11:19 am

The right time of day and atmospheric conditions can make anything look cool. The stretch of Central just north of Tropicana Field is kind of sparse and in need of infill to connect the Grand Central district with downtown St Pete, but at least it has a place to get drunk and a place to [...]

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The Upgraded Booker Creek Park, St Petersburg, Florida

July 13, 2008 – 11:42 am

Booker Creek Park, which for all intents and purposes was useless until its 2007 revamp, sits behind (north) of Edward White Hospital, between 9th Ave N and 13th Ave N, just west of the 275 Freeway. Although it lacks mature trees and shade is sparse, it is a fine and underutilized lakeside park with observation [...]

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