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I will be selling a few paintings to help in this effort. A 100 % of the profits will go to help the rescued animals at Animal Acres. This is a local organization were I volunteer and contribute and am concerned about. All the money contributed there goes directly for the animals, it is a 100 % volunteer effort of love. Every little and big bit helps. Thank you.

Oléé Paco de corazón tu eres fuerte !

The Nightingale And The Rose

This is my interpretation for the cover of a children's book. Inspired by the Fairy tale by Oscar Wilde.

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I just recently discovered these purple carrots, Freaky! Some friends brought over a half gallon of purple carrot juice and it was so tasty, much better than orange carrot juice, now I'm hooked. But these carrots are hard to find. I buy them at Whole Foods in Pasadena. I remember the first time I saw broc-o-flower in the market, that's pretty scary! Soilent green is people! What a screwy world we live in! I just saw a movie called "Penelope" about a girl with a pig snout instead of a nose, everybody screamed and ran away from her, then at the end she got a regular normal nose, I liked her better with the snout, she was cute that way, adorable! Oh well, there's no accounting for taste. Have you heard all the hub-bub about the planet flipping it's polarity? Has to do with the old wobble effect, that's what I call it anyway, you know how the Earth and Moon do that weird wobble thing? I like that it's slated for the exact time the Mayan calendar runs out, 21 December 2012, pretty cool! I usually try to read between the lines, sometimes it's what they're "not" saying that's more relevant, I noticed the scientists are arguing about all the effects that it will have instead of if it's going to happen or not, so I guess that means it's going to happen, cool! Gives me something to look forward too, just when I thought I'd seen everything!

And I remember about the ninth day into my solitude the tree outside my bedroom window beckoned me to paint it. The tree had become my one companion during my sickness. The first thing I saw when I woke up and the last thing I saw before I fell asleep. I'd wake up in the morning and go like this, "Good morning tree!" I'd throw off my blankets and walk to the window, open it and listen to the hundreds of sparrows singing in it's branches as it swayed in the wind.

Homage To A Tree

A real quick note for anyone doing business with me. I am currently without Internet Access, any email answers may be slightly delayed. Everything should be up and running again very soon. Thank you for your cooperation.

Wall in Hamburg, Germany.

I'll be out of town again for a few days. I will be checking my email everyday and all business related questions will be answered. I hope to post some updates about my trip. I bought an irresistible glorious fedora for my trip. When I arrive at my destination I will set it jauntily at the side of my head and begin my adventure. I bought other things too, several new lens' for my camera, a few pairs of sunglasses and a tee shirt that has this picture on it

Well I'm on my way now, nothing could stop me.

Napoleon Bonaparte

8 x 6
Oil on canvas

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I fell on the earth
& raped the snow
I got married to life
& breathed with my marrow
I saw young dancers
I am meat & need fuel
Need the whorey glimmer of tears
in women, all ages
Laughter sandwich, fuel
for the lunch of meat minds
Now damn you, dance
Now dance
or die sleek & fat in your
reeking seat, still
buckled for flight

Jim Morrison

My motto:
If you can't find what you're looking for out there, make it yourself.

Tonight I went with some friends to see a special screening of Wuthering Heights. Samuel Goldwyn Jr was there and added some special insight into the making of this movie. He also said that this was his father's favorite movie and that his father hoped he would be remembered for this movie in particular as his legacy. Of course, I've seen the movie before, many times, but never on the big screen. So here I am, falling in love again with Laurence Olivier. His face was smoldering, larger than life, those eyes, that hair, those lips, yikes! Oh Heathcliff! Too hot to handle. No wonder Vivien Leigh went mad. I'd of lost it too!

Click on the photo above for a detailed view of cast and crew during shooting of a ballroom sequence.

My favorite dancer...this is one of the first portraits I ever painted. It was of Rudolf Nureyev.

I recommend this book. It's a fascinating biography.

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

I was very saddened to hear of the passing away of one of my most generous collectors, she became a dear friend to me, Helena McCracken. She was a constant encouragement and supported my work throughout the years. She was one of the most kind and beautiful women I have ever known. I will miss you very much sweet Helena.

A viewer will not take something from the painting if they do not give to it. You can't fully understand what a great painter is telling unless you have some corresponding depth, breadth of assimilation. That is why painting is so personal for me. A way of life. Talented artists reveal themselves through each piece they create. It's inevitable.

New statue of Mercury. Don't you love it?! Everytime I look at it, it makes me want to go somewhere fast! FTD paleeeeeeeze!