Some Work From Holiday and After
Members of Black Ivory, Edgeworth (@jompiy), Emma, and Me 2026. Acrylic on canvas pinned to cardboard, (3) 6 x 6"
Returned Sunday from several days in sunny South Carolina. I could have used a holiday, but it was more of a workaday hanging out with my mother, seeing to her needs—keeping company, making meals, watching the wheels go round and round from her balcony. Long breaks in painting work with no time to think will rapidly age a youthful mind. Fortunately, I was able to find time before sunrise each day to make some Free Art cards to use as bookmarks for future book giveaways. Expensive water soluble crayon drawings with Advertism on the back.
My Week in Myrtle Beach 2026. Caran d'Ache on heavy paper, (15) 4 x 6"
Back home I painted a couple oils for Free Art. I need to come up with interview ideas for cold springtime in rural America. The Camden Market Free Art Man has London, and a never-depleting supply of human beings. I have flocks of birds just passing through for freeze-dried berries. Yesterday a local politician came to my door to talk about water treatment plants and zoning readjustments. After she left I wondered why I didn’t interview her for the Free Art movie. I need to take these rare opportunities. I’ll keep a box of free art in the trunk of my car so there will be product for sharing when the time is right.
Free in Exchange for a 2 Minute Interview 2026. Oil on canvas, 21 x 24"
This Mysterious and Beautiful Painting for $100, Or Free in Exchange for a Two Minute Interview 2026. Oil on loose canvas, 21 x 24"
If in London, get over to Camden and talk with Edgeworth (@jompiy). You’ll get free art and be in a movie. I know he’s the real deal because I’m already copying him:
I wonder if you also take your drawing and painting stuff with you and if your mom likes what you paint.
Together the cards make an awesome overview, something like the birthday booklet you made.
The second mysterious painting gets more clear the longer I watch it.
I wonder what your interviews are about that a local politician fits in. Well, you can ask her where she stands if it comes to freedom of will, mind, the heart and art. Will there be any support? They support art in healthcare and prison. Why not in the free world (from kindergarten on children should practice art and learn how to improve and find their style. It would do many if not everyone good.).
That local politician is a professional art therapist. I answered her knock at my door wearing my full painter regale, and she said, “Oh my, you’re a painter!” I was even holding a wet brush.
What a rare social exchange in my small town. I love moments like that:)
The interviews are simple questions about art, as you might have already seen in this video.
The world is changing. Art will have its renaissance, and be practiced by the majority population throughout their lives. I’m feeling the stirrings now. We have time for wealth to be a state of mind, rather than possessions. People with less, but enough, will have more.
Small town or is it a small world after all?
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The world changes indeed and I hope you are right and art will be common and something people share.
Will there be anything left of the old masters?
Yes, a small world!
Connections on the Internet and some travel has opened my eyes. I had to develop those connections, but getting over that hump has made all the difference.
The old masters were amazing commercial illustrators. They made wonderful shows of beauty. But they are not an act to follow for the future golden age I imagine. People will work to become artists of life. Perfection will be accepted, but not expected. Art will feed contentment, and contentment the philosopher’s stone. Art is ubiquitous because we are human. And we will want to nurture human after centuries of degradation.
Henry Miller:
Good to share with my painting group. I hope it will help and stimulate many.
The only questions remains: what is perfection?
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Exactly, what is “perfection”? No such thing except the thing in itself:) And a painting is a facsimile, a new arrangement of the thing(s) that are already perfect, like solid tree, wood house, old human. I think a perfect painter would be able to paint the wind without anything else but the wind in the picture. I think that’s why the Zen Buddhists just keep pointing.
I guess what I meant by “perfection” are those paintings that are more like illustrations. Bad choice of word.
Happens all the time with me:)
I understand what you mean. The exact copy.
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¡Guao! Tu trabajo pictórico es maravilloso. Gracias por mostrarnos tu trabajo. Un abrazo.
¡Gracias! Cuanto más me acerco a mi último día en la Tierra, más tiempo quiero dedicar a pintar.
Hermoso comentario. Creo que cuando alcanzamos la madurez solo deseamos hacer lo que nos llene espiritualmente, y el arte es una de esas cosas maravillosas del mundo.. Un abrazo.
Gracias. Un abrazo:)
Free Art Frees Art! I've updated the site so it has both of us on there. These paintings are great.
Thanks twice! I’ll go check it out.
Thank you Spring Team!