Last day of June...

Last day of the month...Started my physical therapy today, We're going to a new restaurant that Jon found. It's Italian, I hope it's good. We need some new places to add to our list.
Later this afternoon I plan to "violate" the new canvas. I want to work more in colors as well a black and white. My brain is spinning with ideas.

The quote of the day...

“Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.”

Pablo Picasso

Up date on This is the day

It's 6:30pm and I still haven't gotten to work of the canvas! Any suggestion? :-(

today is the day...

Today I am going to stretch a canvas! I keep saying this everyday since I got back to Costa Rica. But today I will do it. I have to get back to painting. People say "your retired now and can do what ever you want to do". Well you can't. There is always something that can interfere with what you start out to do. But today will be different and right after I finish this post, have some breakfast, take my walk to the mall, (have to walk), water the plants in the studio, sweep up the patio vine clippings, etc., etc., etc., I will stretch a canvas, and paint!    

61 Years and going for another 60!

I'm talking about Aunt Kay and Uncle Nello! Yes today marks their Anniversary;  61years of marriage. Laurie and I surprised them with a gift basket of wine, cheeses, and chocolate. From Costa Rica I was able to find a great wine and cheese place, via the Internet, and it was only 5 miles from Kay and Nello's home.

So marriages do last and a long time too. Congratulations!! 

Still under construction?

Laurie has been doing a remodeling of my Blogs and it seems that Blogger has made some changes too that have screwed up things rather then making things better!
I am so grateful for her help because I would really make a mess of things. Though I sorry that she has to go through hell to fix things.

I haven't produced any art since my spinal operation at the Mayo Clinic in May. However my good doctor created a great abstract along my spinal cord. I won't go into details, but if you're interested look up AVF on one of those medical web sites. Or for a price I can send you the report of the operation in all it's technical wonder.
That being said, it was a great success and I'm at the end of my fourth week of a six week healing process. I guess we can call this post "The art of medicine."

Anguish

As an artist I feel that my work should at times express significant events of our times. This drawing is just a sketch I had to make to express my feeling about the oil gushing  out of man's inabilities...