Doodle of the Day - Are You Sociable?

The social media effect...

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Doodle of the Day - California Public Policy

I've always found it strange that the California State Flag still features a grizzly bear. To quickly sum it up, here's an excerpt from the National Park Service website:

"The brown bear, also known as the grizzly, is on California state flag. So, why not look for it here in Yosemite? This is because there are no more grizzlies in California. When Euro-Americans arrived, they found a large population of grizzlies throughout the state. Grizzlies were perceived as a dire threat to life and property, and were killed in large numbers. By the early 1900s, few grizzlies and little of their prime habitat in the Central Valley remained. The last California grizzly was killed south of Yosemite in the Sierra foothills in 1922. . ."

So the question remains. . . A symbol of state pride?

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A Little Cuckoo

When the technician puts conductant on McMurphy's temples, and the irons get close enough, light arcs across, stiffens him, bridges him up off the table till nothing is down but his wrists and ankles. . . and he's frosted over completely with sparks. Then it is Chief Broom's turn. The machine hunches on him, and he takes us through the air raid in his head. . .



Cuckoo, 32" x 44", oil and paper on canvas, 2014.

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Doodle of the Day - Weather Extremes

At this moment it is 91 degrees in Los Angeles, not a cloud in the sky, with good chances it will break 100...

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Horrorshow, Most Recent Painting

"When we got outside of the Duke of New York we viddied, by the main bar's long lighted window, a burbling old pyahnitsa or drunkie, howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers and going blerp bleep in between as it might be a filthy old orchestra in his stinking rotten guts..."

Horrorshow, 44" x 32", oil and paper on canvas, 2014.

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Wrath

Similar to my law paintings series, this is larger scale, 40" x 31", and incorporates an iconic page from one of the greatest American novels. Where language is inherently limited and painting is confined to specific dimensions on a flat space, I find the integration of the two can create a higher aesthetic experience, like two candles coming together -- fire feeding on fire. 

Wrath, 40" x 31", oil and paper on canvas, 2014.

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Doodle of the Day - Celebrate

Good times...

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