Finally printing some Holga pictures from 2013

I like the feel of this piece, I feel a little lost, it reminds me of being a kid-amusement parks are so overwhelming and stimulating.

Large Japanese inspired folio

Boy, this was a pain to scan. The paper is 100 years old, I picked up this leather bound workbook in New Brunswick like a million years ago- wait obviously less than a million years ago as the book is only 100 years ago, I got it in 1997. Anyhoo, with the leather spine recently broken, time to use it for painting. It worked well too as I painted little sections at home on double paged sheets and then glued them together after. This painting is in part inspired by the Japanese series of woodcuts that show images of the heroic japanese Soldier saving a baby. As a dad, I guess the images struck a cord.

I was driving around this city looking for a coffee, it has felt like a desperate situation, I was doing a loop in a plaza that had a Michaels, saw this guy leaving how looked a lot like this guy, our Michael Baumgart. Same glasses, same wry look, the guy in the parking lot may have one upped Michael as he had a little straw hat on versus Michaels military style ball cap and had a 12" long bristle brush is his mouth like a long stem rose, off to go an romance his canvas I suppose. Perhaps I like Mr. Baumgart's understated manner more when i think of it.

Painting studies continue

I have held on to these weird head sculpts for years, I got them in a trade with this psycho bastard who would want these toy parts for some weird thing he was doing with star wars or some shit. I would make the trade with him with hopes of re-configuring my old broken down GIJoes but it was never worth it as he would bring up the whole thing at a party or a bar when I was talking to a group of ladies. Total nerd-bot.

I have been at it, finding images that fit together and making little scenes come alive. More watercolours to come.