Crop Circles over Amarillo (B)


  Flood with Turnip (C)

  Based (loosely) on the flood of Sept 8, 2004, as beautifully photographed and reported in the New York Post. 19x24







Orange Day on Vegetable Beach  (C)
  Michael Quigli's grape is not allowed!  20x30

     To prevent overcrowding, Vegetable Beach restricts admission to a different color of vegetable each day.  The orange gained admittance on a technicality.  "Hey, today is Orange Day, and I'm an orange". But the tangerine did not want to risk the worm police, after seeing what happened to the foolhardy apricot.  Also notice the remnants of a grape.
     As originally conceived, this picture was vertical, not horizontal.  There was an ocean to the left, and a city to the right, of the beach.  Fruits were welcome guests, and cooling polka dots were rolling off the sea onto the land.  But I realized that without my intending to, the sea had turned into a four-eyed worm eating Michael Quigli's grape!  This led to notions of property rights, arbitrary property rights, trespassing and the consequences thereof, as expressed in the final version, which has a more somber tone than is usual in my paintings.  (Mighael Quigli and his ridiculous grape are completely fictitious, although there are several real Michael Quigleys)


  
Popo

 The unmarked police car is leaving as the robots arrive. 
 
(C) 24x24






 
 Froggie

Froggie speaks with a forked tongue.  That's Y everYthing she saYs starts with a Y.  The man is earnestly beseeching her advice.  This is dog language, as opposed to egg language.  I don't know what the words mean, but if he listens to her, he will be happy enough to do handstands.  Otherwise, he is owl food.
 (B)  24x24

   yo-bag
YAM-BOG
   yippodog
   hie-ka-chole-lee?
YAMULO-DING!




 Study for Fish with Booties - Ugly Fish Eats a Bug
(B)

  This is without question the ghastliest Fish to appear on canvas since Chardin painted his hideous ray.  But it is significant for being the initial, albeit obscured, vision of the great work to come.  16x20




   Chinese Eye Candy (C)

   Stylized, stereotypical Chinese images, harmoniously arranged.  The primary point was to have a red stripe next to a pink stripe.  20x30




   Tribute to Modigliani, the Horse is by Remington  (C)

   His eyes are three different shades of yellow.  Her nose is a jalapeno pepper.  29x23







Stulia (B) 24x36
Both words are dream words, "stulia" meaning "man growing out of a tree".  He is looking at Lynn Wyatt, one of the world's most beautiful and best dressed women, standing on a summer squash whose flowers contain dancing space aliens.



  I Just Want to Go to Sleep  (B)  16x20











   Stop or You Will Become a Yammig  (C)

   Yam’ mig adj 1. literal but rare: The conversion of a locomotive into a cucumber, as in "become a yammig". 2. idiomatic, colloquial usage: representative of a small dog that thinks it is a big dog. "Bunch of yammigs", "That was a yammig movie". Yom' mig adj 1. Pertaining to something that really is a big dog, as opposed to a yammig. Cf yosmodog, the superlative form.  18x24



   Great Big Speckled Egg with Egg Language (C)

  Eggs speak in couplets, like "gazimp /gazomp"
  30x22















   Polka Dots (A) 

  Some visual art has its own logic which cannot be described in words. 18x24









Classical Realists (B) 

In honor of the American Society for Classical Realism and its distinguished patrons.  16x20









   Crazy Doodles with Ram (A)

   The oil derrick at lower right looks like a cow.  20x30









   The Cupcake (C)

   Inspired by the Butcher, the Baker, and the Candlestick maker. The latter has become a ghost upon seeing the puffin.  The tall bird is a cormorant.   19x24









   Three Pots and a Pan  (B)

   The range top has turned into a river flowing between the cookware.  Note the trees on pan ridge.  There is a tempest in the teapot.   19x24