SILVERTONE

Sometimes I have moments of reflection that don't entail a cartoon image or two, but then again, not very often.

THE DANGLERBLOG MOSTER

Earlier in this blog I posted a print by Matt Dangler and linked to his web site. A number of years back when he first started his own blog, he asked folks who were following the blog to create a creature of their own for the blogsite. This was my offering at the time titled The Dangler Blog Monster and is oil on canvas. I know what you're thinking, you're thinking the swine like creature with the wings is the monster, but things in my world aren't always what they seem!

CHASING SPUTNIK

 

From the time we were very young my brother could build just about anything. Before I could tie my shoes without help, he was already building bicycles out of random spare parts. When he was a teenager he took up the challenge to build solid fuel rockets and one day while mixing up some formula in the basement a batch of fuel exploded. There was no damage and no injury, just a loud boom. The model rocketry program soon gave way to cars, cars and more cars. He’s still in love with cars and trucks to this day and is still building things. He conveniently does not recall the aforementioned incident complete with explosion, but he’s older than I am so we’ll forgive him for that. Anyway, while the Chasing Sputnik story is a total fabrication, my memory of my brother mixing up the rocket fuel and the resulting outcome was the inspiration for this piece of fiction.

STRANGE WORLD

This oil on canvas titled Strange World, has always been a favorite of Andrew, my son. I spent a considerable amount of my youth basking in the glow of the 1960's. It was a remarkable period of time for the advancement of visual and musical artistic expression. Can you dig it?

THE DREAM

The curious thing is, that I'm still having it to this very day.

MATT DANGLER

Today’s post is not about me…surprise! This photo is of a print that is hanging in my house, well OK it’s a little about me. The print is of a painting done by an extremely talented, creative and accomplished artist by the name of Matt Dangler. The photo is the best I could do with the equipment I currently have to work with, but the print looks better than the photo so my apology to Matt about that. Matt and my son Andrew met when they attended The University of the Arts in Philadelphia at the same time back in the early 2000’s and have remained friends since then. Matt is making a career of fine art and has been and is being shown in galleries throughout the country, east coast to west coast. You should visit his web site at www.mattdangler.com/ and see his wonderful work and even buy a print or an original for yourself. I’m sure you will find a visit there worth the time…enjoy!

STEP RIGHT UP

This is one of my personal favorites. It is oil on linen and it just makes me smile every time I look at it. There are a variety of reasons I think that's true. Like I mentioned in a previous post, I imagine multiple scenarios or back stories for many of the things I do while I'm working on them and this one is no exception. Imagine this is one frame edited out from a movie and then imagine the action both before and after this frame. That's about the best way I can explain the process. I hope that makes sense to you in some way.