"White Horses" 4.2006, Oil on Canvas.I like my mouth. hee!
"WHATCHOO TALKIN' BOUT, WILLIS?!?!"
(i make an awful blonde but it was fun while it lasted....)
HORSE I. 2002. 12x16. Oil on canvas, collection J. Schaefer, Fairfield, IA.
THIS IS THE SIZE I LIKE TO PAINT.......fun! (Daniel's Guardian 2005 4.5x8.5 feet, oil on canvas. Collection D. McMurtrie, VA)(FOR DHM 2004 pencil/ink on parchment. Collection D. McMurtrie, Richmond, VA.)Art, planting stuff,
old books, art, food, cooking, art, writing, art, intelligent minds, food, art, and um, art.
Sharing art with children. Painting, drawing, sculpting.
my best friend Boo. What a snuggle bug!Reading biographies of great artists. I love to figure out what makes people "tick". I can see through you. Really. I sometimes scare people that way. The ones that stay are my forever compadres.
(THE WITNESS 2003 oil on masonite. 10x14. Collection Radim Schreiber, Fairfield, IA)Cooking, music, Transcendental Meditation, kundalini yoga, tantra, biking, rollerblading, horseback riding,
(firesteed 2005 pencil/ink on paper.)bodysurfing! ...antique collecting, abnormal psychology. Banging on my djembe drum. Singing/harmonizing.
CECE'S FROG. 2005 OIL ON CANVAS 16x24 (private collection NYC)
String theory, quantum physics, soul travel, transcendence, time/space continuum, growing tons of plants in my house, travel, horses horses horses!
(spirit horse 2003 oil on board. 18x46. Collection Karen "Pebbles" Clarke, NYC)Spooky stuff like ghosts and clairvoyance. Philosophy, psychology, poetry. Playing the flute since I was seven.Love Eastern Philosophy. The ephemeral, ethereal, esoteric, erotic.
Speak French, Spanish, enough German to get by, and a little Sanskrit.Things I DON'T like: my bad habits. The way Cheez Doodles turn your fingers orange. Spiders and other yucky bugs, oppressive politics, sexism and degradation of women in general. Insincerity. Doing nothing, liars, hurrying, people who are fake and assholes of the world in general. Abhor users, players, and forgetting to buy toilet paper. Broken promises SUCK.Oh yeah -- mean people are big ol' doodyheads. But watch out! Instant karma's a beeee-atch.
"LETTER TO HIM" 3.30.06 PRISMACOLOR ON PARCHMENT (Collection D.McMurtrie, VA)"Just a Note" 9.04.04 Watercolor/ink on parchment (Collection D. McMurtrie, VA)
DANIEL'S GUARDIAN 2005 oil on canvas 4.5x8.5 feet (Collection D. McMurtrie, VA)
me as une petite-chou. i just found out that french term of endearment translates literally as "little cabbage". I hope i never give people gas. Or get eaten with corned beef.
The Man in the Moon. Oil on canvas, 1998. Collection Jim Sadowski, Fairfield, IA.
EL BANO ESPIRITUAL POR ALEJO. 2003 assemblage in tin box. 10x18.
You, Me & Jesus 2005 oil on canvas. 24x36.
AFTERMATH 2005 pen/pencil on paper.
I'd like to meet:
(anomaly 2006 oil on canvas 16x20)
"Mack the Bunny" 4.24.06 Conte crayon, ink on legal pad.
JE TE VEUX 2006 Oil on canvas. 14x22.
(FELICITY 2002 oil on board 30x30.)
(AMINAL CRACKERS 2003 craypas/ink on trash framed with trash. 24x36. Collection Sanchez Cigars, NYC)YOU YOU YOU!!! If you are interesting and wildly passionate about something, anything. My soul mate. Jeff Buckley, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, JFK Jr; Albert Einstein, Carl Jung, Bob Marley, the Dalai Lama, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Edith Piaf, Jim Morrison, Jack Kerouac. Sylvia Plath, ee cummings. Stephen Hawking, Alan Watts, Wayne Dyer.Ammachi(the hugging saint), Amelie, Sigmund Freud, Plato, the dude who invented Mr Potato Head. Mr Potato Head.The Weeble Wobbles...where did they go? Audrey Hepburn, Jesus Christ.
Maharaji, The Tooth Fairy,
that garden gnome that travels around the world.Snuffalupagus. Saint Francis,Pablo Picasso, Francesco Clemente, Modigliani, Basquiat, Edie Sedgwick & Andy Warhol. Emil Nolde, Oscar Kokoschka, Chaim Soutine, Jackson Pollack, Franz Kline, Rosetti. Timothy Leary, Gertrude Stein, Willem de Kooning, Soren Kierkegaard, Frida Kahlo. The archangels Michael and Gabriel.
MICHAEL 2006 oil on board.14x48
(FALLEN 2005 Ink on paper. COllection D. McMurtrie, VA)Ernest Hemingway. Charles Bukowski. Kermit the Frog.Mickey Rourke about ten years ago. MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY, omg so deee-lish. Jamie and Paula Deen. Noah Wylie. ok now i am digressing pitifully into lame ass movie star drivel so i will tell you who I would most like to meet, besides YOU! :
My grandmother Frances as a 7 year old.
My grandma Frances and grandpa George...stellar human beings.And most of all,
my father as a little boy.
Daddy. I wish I could hug you now. xoxoxox
BENJAMIN 1997 pencil on paper. 24x36. Collection Alberto Safier, Tel Aviv, Israel.
POPPY GHOST 2003 oil on board 28x42.
HULDAH (my first oil painting ever!) 1994. Oil on masonite, 10x14. Collection Claudia DuBuque, Fairfield, IA.
KNITTYKITTY 1999 Oil on board, 34x48. Collection Eileen Woodsworth, NY
THE THINKER 2005 gouache on stock. Collection Jackson ZImmerman, PA.
(THE RED PONY. 2005 pencil/ink on stock. Collection D.McMurtrie, VA)
MADRE. 2004 Woodcut/watercolor. Collection Stuart Lewis, M.D., NYC.
SOUL POSSE. 2003 24x36 Oil on canvas. Collection Angela Wagner, Fairfield, IA.
Music:
JEFF BUCKLEY RIP i love you honey.
BJORK rocks. NO this is not a pic of me for the 10 or so that asked!!!BJORK! Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday. Brian Eno. Jack Johnson. Red Hot Chili Peppers. Andrea Bocelli. The Strokes. Pj Harvey. Leonard Cohen. The Cure, Thievery Corporation, Phobos, Fiona Apple, Franz Ferdinand, Interpol, Jane's Addiction.The Smiths, George Winston, The Stones, Smashing Pumpkins, Princess Superstar. Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Chopin... Etta James, Al Green. The Doors.Everything from Sarah McLachlan to Blondie to Nine Inch Nails to Radiohead. Closet John Denver freak. Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Liz Phair, Love and Rockets, Cocteau Twins, ...the list is freaking endless....Beck, Lou Reed, Mazzy Star, Pixies....blahblahblah blah. Oh, let us not forget the soundtrack to "The Exorcist". Brilliant painting music.
AND most of all I love the song the ice cream truck plays in summer. It makes me do a happy dance with my red, white and blue sno-cone!
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"peas n' carrots" 2004 oil on canvas. Collection J. Seilern, London.
me and a couple of angels in the studio 2005
haha! after i put this pic up i looked below it on my page. i swear it was an accident!!!! not like i could ever compare to Audrey Tatou LOL! She is stunning.
Movies:
AMELIE is my heroine of all time. Blue Velvet, anything by David Lynch. Dead Poets Society, anything MONTY PYTHON. Secretary,Nine and a Half Weeks, Ghost, The Man Who Loved Women. ET the Extra Terrestrial!!!Angel Heart. The Serpent and the Rainbow. Chronicles of Narnia. National Velvet. Black Beauty. Roman Holiday. The Godfather. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"anima sola (homage to klimt)" 4.2006 Oil on Linen.
CENTRAL PARK 2005 oil on canvas 36x48. Collection Colin Stephen, NYC.
Television:
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Television...hmmmmm. I don't watch it much but sometimes cave into the joys of mindless drivel. I like those old animated holiday specials ie "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" and "Frosty the Snowman", and "Davey and Goliath" on Sunday mornings.SOUTH PARK gives me hysterical laughing fits. Reruns of the original Scooby Doo. Dr. Who. PBS. Martha Stewart, so funny i need to wear Depends. She reminds me of my hometown. "Law and Order","24", "CSI", old Benny Hill. "ER" makes me want to get deathly ill and go get operated on. Again and again. National Geographic specials. Oh and THE JEFFERSONS cracks me UP! Weezie rocks my world. I want to marry Conan O'Brien.. That brain just turns me on, baby!! I also love those Geico commercials with the talking gecko! Oh, and Jamie Deen on the Food Network makes me wanna get naked and bake cookies.
the sexiest baker boy in the universe!!!! YUM-O!!!!!!!"Perry Street Miracle" 3.06 Pencil/ink on parchment."AUDREY" 2005 Oil on canvas. 28x40 (Collection D. McMurtrie, VA)"POKER BUNNIES" 2003. Oil on canvas (Collection Roberto Santos, Fairfield, IA)
Books:
Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes. Any deconstructionalist theory. The House on Pooh Corner. Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein. J. Krishnamurti. "Divine Horsemen" by Maya Deren. Joseph Campbell. "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl. The andy warhol diaries. "Franny and Zooey" by JD Salinger, anything written by Carl Jung. Kerouac's "On The Road". Babar the Elephant. The Bhagavad Gita, Kama Sutra, "The Concise Yoga Vasistha", "The Sexual Life of Catherine M", anything by Hermann Hesse, Winnie the Pooh, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Little Prince, The Velveteen Rabbit.Milan Kundera - "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". MAD magazine! The Onion. The New Yorker. "The Crack Up" by F.Scott Fitzgerald. Rainer Maria Rilke "Letters to a Young Poet". Kahlil Gibran - "The Prophet". "The Story of O"...Tolstoy: "Anna Karenina", anything by Nabokov. Alan Watts..."A Brief History of Time.." by Stephen Hawking.GRIFFIN AND SABINE -- the whole series is the story of my life...William Butler Yeats, Sylvia Plath, William Carlos Williams. David Sedaris. Bukowski. The Bible.
as if....how i feel about politics:
comfort:
such purity and sweetness...
GILDED SWIMMER 2005 oil on wood. 14x36.
Heroes:
me, for staying alive this freaking long. (:
my little buddy Hannah, for being a survivor XOXOXO! (HANNAH 2005 oil on canvas. 24x36. Collection D. McMurtrie, VA)
My tiny hero Hannah in front of her portrait I painted, with her sister Audrey (whose portrait is also on this page above) and their Daddy. I love this picture of those little angels.
Another Hannah. I miss you following me around and saying "Miss Janice, you wanna watch Dora with me?" (Hannah Angel 2005 watercolor/glitter.acrylic on photo. Collection D. McMurtrie, VA)
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Elmo -- his innocence, joy and purity is something all humans should aspire to. AMELIE. ET the Extra Terrestrial. Curious George,
Kermit the Frog. MY DADDY! He was a genius, literally...died of ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) last summer and i miss him terribly...he never complained once and was totally free of self pity.
My wonderful daddy. Rest in Peace soul brother...
"DADDYBOX" 2003 (Assemblage/painting. 7x12.)
My grandmother Frances -- she was a wonderful painter and magickal soul who instilled in me my love for art, spirit and nature at a very young age. Audrey Hepburn....a true lady. Mother Teresa. Gandhi. Jackie O. Lance Armstrong. Katherine Hepburn.
AMMACHI, the hugging saint from India. I love her!!!!The Velveteen Rabbit...for enduring pain, heartbreak, and scars only to finally hop away triumphantly into the sunshine with the other real bunnies.
"field of violets" 4.06 Prismacolor on parchment.
GROVER!!! My lovable furry friend."COUPLE" 2004 Oil on Board. Collection Stuart Lewis, M.D. NYC, NY.
FOREST 2003. colored pencil on paper. 12x16.GOD is my hero....
FOLLOW US. 2003 oil on wood. 24x36. Collection Jordan Cahn, NYC.
TO DO LISTS 2003 assemblage in cigar box. 8x16. Private collection."WAYWARD ANGEL" 2004 Assemblage, ink, antiques on found board.Wall Mural in Private Home, 2003. Collection Michael Rand, Freeport, NY.Mural Sky Detail, Private Home. Freeport, NY 2003Mural Detail. Private Home, Freeport, NY 2003.
Old Stairs 2003 oil on board 12x18. Collection Jim Cohen, NYC.me 2004
(me 1.13.07)
