Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other." Desiderius Erasmus

Middle-Aged Art

"The fantastic graces of Chivalry lay upon the surface of life, but beneath it was a half-savage population, fierce and animal, with little ruth or mercy." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Poster Children

"Once a year they ask me to be poster boy for birth control." Rodney Dangerfield

Poster Children II

Things That Just Sit There

I wanted to find a nice quote for this gallery, but I couldn't make myself get off the couch.

Reality and Other Illusions

"Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity." Leonardo da Vinci

Won't Match Your Sofa

"Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult." Wassily Kandinsky ... "Abstract art is the product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the totally bewildered." Al Capp

Won't Match Your Sofa II

Japonisme

The Japanese aesthetic lies at the root of Impressionism, and of all modern art. Vincent Van Gogh collected Japanese items obsessively, even when he was starving. If Auvers-sur-Oise had boasted a single sushi bar, the poor man might have suffered less.

Adrift On the Stream Of Consciousness

"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy." Ray Bradbury ... "My work is incomprehensible and therefore full of deep significance." Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes

Pulchra Populus

"A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth." John Singer Sargent

Pulchra Populus II

Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance!

"Come let's mix / where Rockefellers / walk with sticks / or umberellers / in their mitts / Puttin' on the Ritz!" Irving Berlin

That's Not Funny, That's Silly

"Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does." Groucho Marx

Beings Animalculus

"He prayeth best, who loveth best / All things both great and small / For the dear God who loveth us / He made and loveth all." Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Scribblemen and Company

Once Picasso sat in a coffee shop, scribbling on a paper napkin. A woman asked if she could have the napkin, and Picasso said, of course...for $20,000. She said: "But it only took you five minutes!" And Picasso said: "No, it took me forty years!"

Perdition and Paradise

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face...forever." George Orwell ... "In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world." Jesus

Entirely Too Much Marci

When I started painting my Colombian model Marci, I forgot to stop. Fortunately she reminded me by vanishing without a word. Rather than think she would willingly be so discourteous, I like to think she was abducted by aliens.

Rimes Of the Ancient Artist

"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." G. K. Chesterton

Wuth a Million Dollahs

This is what I do when I'm planning to do something else. The drawings are crude, and their meaning (if any) is best interpreted by psychiatry. But this is "pure" art in that it pours directly from my imagination without the intrusion of meddlesome rational thought.

Techno-Illogical Wonders

The pictures here are decidedly digital and would be difficult to create with anything other than an arsenal of bewildering programs. I create these masterpieces by banging on the keyboard like a monkey. It has taken me years to perfect this technique.

What a Piece Of Work Is Van

"There comes a moment, in every person's life, when they realise they adore me." Salvador Dali ... He said it, not me.

Engraven Images, Some NSFW

Eons ago, artwork meant for publication first had to be entrusted to skilled engravers, woodblock carvers, lithographers or mezzotint specialists. Today, we achieve the look of their low-tech methods through high-tech digital technology. It's the circle of life, or something.

Poster Children III (Request Password)

"She walks in beauty, like the night / Of cloudless climes and starry skies / And all that's best of dark and bright / Meet in her aspect and her eyes" Lord Byron

Buenos Diaz (Request Password)

Here is semi-supermodel Helen Diaz, headquartered in the UK. Helen is also an actress, singer, comedienne, dancer, designer and...well, that'll do. I'm supposed to be the talented one, around here!

O For a Muse (Request Password)

This gallery features my work with the wonderful Muse Mercier (https://purelymuse.com), an English model now headquartered in France. Yes, her name is really Muse. How perfect is that?

Her Infinite Variety (Request Password)

"What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than woman? Nothing." Geoffrey Chaucer

Her Infinite Variety II (Request Password)

Her Infinite Variety III (Request Password)

Her Infinite Variety IV (Request Password)