Here are a couple of paintings my father did late 60s, early 70s. They’re on wooden panels that came out of some piece of furniture. He was really just playing around, but I liked them and ferreted them away to a hiding place so they’d be mine, ALL MINE! The paintings you noticed from Galveston made me remember them (and get Tom to retrieve them from their newest hiding place). Now Tom wants to hang them on the wall behind my desk, and I agree.
I’m loading them through LJ so you can click on them and make them bigger (or embiggen them, as Joe.My.God. taught me to say thanks to The Simpsons).
Ooh! All abstract expression-y! Those are really striking.
=) I’m glad you like them.
No wonder you like my stuff. I just have to share this “early work” of mine. It is on a wood panel also. I think it was just a scrap or wood from a cabinet shop.
Thank you for sharing!
It’s really stunning, to me, when I think of this energetic and alive BEAUTY that comes out of artists’ hands. Where in tarnation does it all come from? I’d thank you for this, but I can’t spare any more cash, at the moment, to make a bookstore-run. Raincheck? (God, but I’m lame.)
(I never get tired of hearing Joe say, “Embiggen.”)
Do you read JMG? I am often enthralled by his stories about his friends and his photos of NYC. I read Towleroad for a long time, but the comments began making me crazy, plus it was just too often celebrity-based, and I’m sick of all that. JMG is better suited to my disposition.
I haven’t picked up Boys To Men, and I ought to, because yeah, I love reading his stuff a lot. One of his funniest stories is that time he went home with that guy who wanted Joe to be verbally abusive to him, and Joe started criticizing the guy’s decor… and his collection of Hummel figurines, if I’m remembering right? Plus, his AIDS stories are going to have to be read by future generations, and that’s just that. How can I not like a fellow North Carolinian who loves disco? He understands disco (and, of course, so much more) better than I ever could. Not too keen on a world without Joe. : )