Murals in Holden Missouri

Why I've been absent from this blog for a while. The top photos are of the Unicorn Mural and the bottom photos are of the M. K. & T. Depot in Holden Missouri. These works in progress I hope will be done sooner than later.

Response to Spacevidcast, 2, 19, 2012

Unedited footage (I started out in film & I still use that term) of a response to Spacevidcast on You Tube.

You can see me waiting for the video loop to cycle in the first few seconds. In editing I cut the front of the video off and added a title. In the finished video I didn't have a mouth as the video went widescreen and I decided the Sun, Saturn and Neptune didn't belong in the video.

I'll wait a day to reshot this video with more NASA footage of the Moon, Mars and Asteroids.

I was drawing concept pages for Desiree Nordlund's  graphic novel "The Recreators" but my father lost his balance and fell into a glass table. Thank God he wasn't hurt but this unnerved me and I switch to putting together this video. 

Stress doesn't bother me in making videos but affects my drawings.

While this video was a failure it did calm me down enough to get back to drawing.

I'm Thinkin about an Electric Car

My small town hick speech comes out as I talk about an Electric Car.

My War with my Empire of Junk

Correction; It's not my "Graphic Novel" but Desiree Nordlund's graphic novel called "The Recreators" that I'm working on. All my art projects are on hold now as I finish my work on her graphic novel.

Project Unicorn Update #1

I talk about one of my Unicorn Paintings and how not to do a video.

Cordelia the Zebra Unicorn

This is a early version of the Zebra Unicorn painting. Vicky Charriere the owner of the Golden Unicorn took this picture and agreed to let me name this painting after my Grand Daughter.

All of Vicky's photos are used with her permission.

Epic Fail Unicorn

This painting was painted over with a new bull unicorn based on the Indus Script Unicorn.

Sometimes I try to create a piece of art out of my head but this time it didn't work at all.

Three days after a spider bites me on my right hand I'm in a car wreak and injure the same hand again. In the same car wreak I have a head injury that damages a gland in my brain and then the heat of the summer makes for this terrible mess of a painting. This bull unicorn looks more like a dog than a cow.

Goat Head Unicorn

This photo was taken by the owner owner of the Golden Unicorn and shows a early version of the large Goat Head Unicorn.

Golden Unicorn

The Golden Unicorn painting is located at the Golden Unicorn Antique Mall in Holden Missouri. This is an early version of the painting.

The Unicorn Project

Last Spring, I forgot how to draw. A head injury in a car wreak left me with a mess of a mind.

So I took on a job on a large scale to get that ability back.

Must finish this painting!

I keep getting the sky wrong!

Painting Exchange and my Broken Brain

I fried my brain on a 3-D movie last night and I've been trying to put my mind back together all day. Some photos of Joan Cooks and mine painting exchange will be coming before the end of the day. 6:02 PM.

Almost midnight and I'm starting another painting because the first painting is a failure. Not yours Joan but mine of the rose pearl.
I'm making a version of your painting with a pixie painting the designs on the petals.

12:40 Saturday morning and I just posted the second photo. I'm just starting to have a little focus again. The 3-D process used on both Avatar and The Last Air Bender does something bad to my mind. I won't be going to anymore 3-D movies.

more to come

The Painting Exchange That Changed My Life

To Joan Cook; I'm still working on this strange little painting to send to you. The movies I do now are inspired by your half of a painting exchange. Sorry, I'm a very slow painter. Thank you for all your kind words.

Pearl Painting 4th Layer

I think this is the 4th layer of paint. I need to keep better records on my art. I meant to post this yesterday.

Spreading the Fun

An ugly duckling painting at this point. The Rose Pearl is on a journey. Over the next few days you'll see it change as it readies for the trip to England as my half of a painting exchange. I'm terrible with dates and I'm not sure when it looked like this.

Rose Pearl Painting

Rose Pearl is a creature of my imagination inspired by a comment on this blog from my fine blogger friend Joan Cook. Joan has sent me her painting in our painting exchange but I have been a real slacker on this oil painting. Okay I've been working on a few other projects.

Rose Pearl is the R2D2 of my novels I'm working on and Joan gets the first painting of this creature of the Id. This is the second layer of oil paint with 14 more layers of paint to come.

Painting Exchange

Thank You JOAN COOK!

I received a painting today from England and as soon as my movie is shot I will return the favor.

I hope to have photos up soon of this wonderful gift and the creation of my gift to Joan.

Heaven on a Budget

I'm writing a series of short movies to go into a feature length collection called 'Heaven's a Joke'.

I'm hoping to shoot the first of these 'Two Jews and a Pagan' this month.

The first version of this short was shot by my former friend Richard Hirsch at Union Station Kansas City. Because of bad sound that production was never finished.

This second version with a new version of the script and a new cast will have a low rent version of God's Waiting Room. As I'm banned for life from Union Station Kansas City, making the movie over in that wonderful location isn't possible.

My friend Maia found a free location in the same building that houses the Independent Filmmaker's Coalition of Kansas City office.

The room I'm going to use has no windows with missing ceiling tiles and wire hanging down to the floor. To an indie movie maker, free is always a little piece of heaven so I'm rewriting the script to make it work.

Without Maia and the Independent Filmmaker's Coalition of Kansas City I couldn't make this second version of my script. Thanks to both.

One Small Step...

This wall relief sculpture reproduction is something I've had since 1969.
I am in the process of up cycling it into a prop for a movie I'm working on.
So far I've added gold foil, black paint and two toy astronauts.

Focus

Focus in my art has always been a problem with me. I hop from one project to another and seldom finish anything. I admire artists that set deadlines and meet those deadlines.


Taking time off from blogging I was going to work on my novel but being the care taker of my 80 year old parents made writing a complex story too difficult at this time in my life. I thought about all my unfinished projects and tried to decide which direction to go with my art or writing.

Finally I made the decision simple for myself. I made my oldest unfinished project my focus.

When I was a teenager I loved Science Fiction and Comedy. For years I wanted to make a movie combining these two loves. Never having enough money to make a full length movie I decided to take the designs and create a graphic novel. Using collage art as a starting point I've worked on this concept off and on for years.

I'm near finishing the alien interview part of the story. The above alien art is my latest splash page from the graphic novel. I'm hoping to finish the first chapter soon "Raygun Wedding" so I can start pitching the project to publishers.


Sometime in May I'll post a photo of me with the first 200 pages. I just need to stay focused.