Jitterbug Skull

  SKULL MORNING GLORY

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digital creation for archival prints and perhaps 

a study for a real life painting

                      close up

HIBISCUS MOON

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digital image for archival prints

perhaps a study for an acrylic painting

 Two digital paintings here.  The moon picture is very serene and the skull picture is exciting.  Sympathetic vs parasympathetic nervous and hormone systems, for any anatomy and physiology nerds out there. 

I want to go on a moon light sail on gently waving waters.  Lull me off to dream land.  Escape the bull shit storms coming from our media fear tubes.  

But, reality beacons, the skull reminds us that life is short.  

The painterly style of the skull is a newish style of painting for me.  I follow my muse.  That bitch, she says, "You like sinuous lines, like art nouveau, paint gently curving lines."  Then she gets bored and wants something new.  "Paint jaggedly lines, jutting about, exciting energy lines."  OK, that sounds like fun.  Call it Jitterbug style.  So I paint,  mostly doing photoshop, I paint pictures with a variety of brush styles.  A bit of art nouveau, some impressionism, some flat planes, realism, surrealism, what ever, all mixed  together in the same picture.    THEY, you know who they are,  the "experts" who say "find your style and stick to it".  How boring is that?  

OK, that is enough rattling about for me, I will sign off now.  

Have a wonderful day.  I think that I will meditate on this hibiscus moon light sail.  Do some gardening, the weather is sunny. Take a break from distressing reality.

VAN GOGH EYE

 

VAN GOGH EYE

digital, limited edition #25, 3/2022

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close up

VAN GOGH EYE. Ya gotta love Van Gogh. He has been famous since several years after he died. He is having a media storm at this time. There is an immersive experience of his work traveling the world of museums. And, he is all over the web.

When I saw his work in the Louvre, I was stunned by the beauty and layers of meaning of his pictures.

The picture here, is related to a recent work that I did called, "Triple Skull". I tossed the idea of merged heads around in my skull. I wanted to do Van Gogh.

"Starry Starry Night", is in the back ground and a selfie that he painted has morphed into conjoined heads. Sorry, Vincent, my muse made me do it.

What does it mean? Maybe, it is whimsical nonsense. Or, maybe, that penetrating third eye symbolizes that his third eye chakra was open and he saw energies. So he painted energies.

I Still Have My Marbles

 

I Still have My Marbles

Digital painting, 6/12/21

Archival ink jet print

Well, most of them, anyway.  This is kind off like a selfie, haha.  I envisioned my skull as an ancient crystal skull filled with marbles, and made a picture of my imaginary self.

Marbles Tumble

Archival inkjet print, digital painting

I had fun painting these tumbling marbles.  I hope that they make you smile.

Guide to Preparing for Your Second Childhood

 

 

 

 

Gidget, Gadget and Gizmo

 

 

 

 

  

Guide to Preparing for Your Second Childhood

 

My dear friends and family have expressed consternation concerning my consciousness.  They think that  concentrating on confusion has created conflicts in my cerebellum constituents. Or that I may be too entwined with confabulation to concentrate on concrete reality.

 

 I told them that I am in training for Alzheimer's disease.  Senile dementia gets a bad rap, it is seen as a disease with only bad consequences.  People do not realize that there is an upside to scrambled neurons.  

 

 

The Upside of Dementia List:

1.  If a person absent mindedly throws dirty dishes in the trash rather than washing the dishes, then said person will no longer be expected to wash dishes.  Score one for ditzy dingbats.

 

2.  People with damaged rationality are not expected to cook because of the danger of fire in the kitchen.  (Fire in bedroom good, fire in kitchen bad.)  If safety concerns do not terminate meal preparation duty then, serve this recipe concocted by Sandra Blair, Queen of Clones.  Here is the recipe, which I have adapted.

 

Ambrosia of Aardvark Recipe

For large family gatherings

 

Ingredients:  1 large brick of blue cheese.  1 large can of tuna.  1 cup of tabasco. 1 bottle of green food coloring.  1 angel food cake.

Preparation:  Mix the first four ingredients in a small bowl using a large mixer.  Frost the resulting goop on top of the cake.   

Presentation:  Wear a prom dress and put Amazing Grace, by Aaron Neville on Pandora.  Dance around the dining table with the cake on top of your head.

 

3.  If someone makes a request for a loan, said person asserts that the aliens visited yesterday and took what little bit of money was left after the spending spree for prom dresses and Mardi Gras costumes.  

3b.  If your wardrobe is boring, then use your credit card, or your son's credit card to buy prom dresses and Mardi Gras costumes.  These are to wear while gardening and shopping for groceries.

 

4.  My maternal grandfather had a history of removing all his clothes and wandering the forest nude.  That sounds like fun. And will be sure to alert everyone to said person's graduation from rationality.  I just want to be a Natural Woman.  

5.  Bob Dylan's grandfather Built a fire on main street and shot it full of holes.   This is a very good precedent, but I will pass on this demonstration due to inability to handle guns.

6.  If you, like me, want to build your own private bubble of denial, then this path of ironic idiocy will help. 

7.  How to simulate paranoia.  First pick a devil, as in "The devil made me do it".  Even better is "The devil made YOU do it."  Popular devils are:  the government, the president, the CIA, FBI, NSA (or compose your own original alphabet soup), the one percent elite, or the aliens.  Blame your choice devil for everything that does not go your way.  Have noisy arguments with the devil while everyone else is trying to watch TV.  

 

 It may come about that the family decides to put said person in a "nice home".  Said person may suspect this after hearing heated whispering in the next room.  What to do:  revert to so called rational behavior, call an attorney.  After a phone call from the attorney and after a week or two of exemplary in the box, coloring in the lines behavior then family will relax guard and said person can again be happily crazy. 

 If said person is unable to dial the attorney, then never mind,  when said person is really far gone then he will not mind the "nice home" and may even think it is a fancy hotel. As Julie's Mom believed when the maid came to clean her room.

PS Note

I may or may not have published this in 2015.  I am a dinosaur, tech is a challenge for me.  Anyway, I came across it today, while perusing my blog. It made me laugh, so I am now publishing for what may be the second time.  I am glad that i found it, because i needed to review some of these important techniques.