"TRUNKS: I" (DIC-DIC FISH)

BOATERS
use caution when you spot a dive flag.
Skinny-dippers use
caution when there are dic-dic fish about.

6 X 8 inches; oil on collage.

FRESH FISH

STARTED

this fisherman

with his custom-designed catch.

I think of different common names for each fish variety

as I paint. I will make the final details to match the fish type

and paint their names alongside. One is going to be a "Green Glove" for example.

The mottled background used up the end-of-the-day oil paint

for a medium value.

The darkest elements will be the original bold line drawing.

16 x 20 on smoooooth panel.

GLOSSY GUY

"GOOD KISSER"

10 X 10 Oil on Ampersand cradled panel.

A friend gave me the title.

Alkyd oils are great;

they dry faster but still lots of time

to push them around.

OUTSIDE and INSIDE

SUNNY

and warm in Key West.

Stopped by Wet Paint Gallery

to grab a shot of my new

"GOOD KISSER"

(oil on collage; 11 x 14 inches)

then back to my studio

to finish my

"PAPA CAT."

I added a beard and martini and extra toes....

He seemed like Mr. Hemingway with a round white face.

Three little mugs are we.....

I have done three designs for the shop next door.

Sweet Key West fish up top.

A Kissing Fish with dive flag scales
and
a cat who has drunk a martini: that's a stuffed olive in his tum-tum.

12 dollars each.
The Kissing Fish is also on a new tank top tee.

"GOOD KISSER" plus.

I decided to add
the top painting to the
"GOOD KISSER" panel.
It can extend the later vertically or horizontally on the wall.

Alkyd oils on
Ampersand panels.
12 x 12; 16 x12

New Work

A quick (as you see!) shot of

"REVERSE SUSHI"

for my JANUARY show

at Frangipani Gallery in Key West.

Most boats passing our house have a dog on board.

Oil on panel; 16 x 20

and

giclee prints available now.

"SUSHI BAR"

"SUSHI BAR"

I call fat-cats "sumo kitties."

He can use the fish bowl as a finger bowl now.

I printed 15 of these after drawing the image in Painter.

Another fisherman

Titled "BEGINNERS"

as in 'beginner's luck.'

It's his first catch and the first time on land for the finned prey.

'MAKE UP'

'MAKE UP'

is a little oil on rag board.

About 8 inches square.

'GOOD DAY'

THIS PALETTE

of muted colors gives a cloudy atmosphere

to an 

underwater introduction.

Starting as a green form on

pink background, I started to 

think of Milton Avery's paintings.

Painter 11.