Apology from a Small Brown Dog

Small Brown Dog is not a bad dog. But, like any dog,

Sometimes small brown dog barks things he doesn't mean.

Small Brown Dog is sorry.

Will you forgive Small Brown Dog

for barking all those things

he

barked

at

you?



Small brown dog is also very sorry when in the grass with orange background.

Lately I have been making most of my people and animals with an orange wash and background.
When I started making animals and people, they used to all have white backgrounds
like this one called Housecat.




Small, apologetic dog is the first animal I have put in a white background in over a year. Which sorry dog do you like better?

"VS"

Raccoon Steve

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I met Raccoon Steve at a park about two months ago.

I was coming down the slide when I noticed him.

He was standing on top of a mossy rock on the bank of a pond,
looking down at the koi fish swimming below.

When I said hello to him and introduced himself, this was his response. "Kids keep calling me Bandit; My name is Steve."

He didn't say anything else. He looked like he hadn't eaten in a while.

I think he was cranky.

That's not art?

This is a new HD quality edit of a video from November 2008. In this video I visit the Smithsonian Institute Museum of American Art in Washington DC, where I am taught what art is. This is one of my favorite videos that I have made. The woman in it is handsomely kind and friendly.

I visited this museum while preparing for my show at Billy Shire Fine Arts in April of 2009. Here is another video of my trip to DC.

My first Oil Painting with Pay Katsuyuki

In the city of Nagoya, I recently visited my old friend, artist, musician, and ramen man Pay Katsuyuki. I have known Pay for many years, and he was kind enough to contribute some work to the garage sale part of my show at Billy Shire Fine Arts Last Year.

In Nagoya, we watch our friend play in his band "Ogre you Asshole" and then we painted in the park. Pay paints with oils on paper. I had never used oil paints before, but Pay let me borrow his and showed me some techniques. I painted a dog mouse.

While we were painting in the park, a funny girl came riding up to us on her bike. She was about 14 years old. This was our conversation.

Girl: What are you doing?
Me: We're painting?
Girl: Why are you painting?
Me: Because it's fun.
Girl: What are you painting?
Me; A Dog.
Girl: Does that mouse have a name?
Me; It's a dog. What do you think its name is?
Girl: Isn't it Miki?
Me: Do you want to write it on there?
(She writes it on there....you can see it in the red area).
Me; What's your name?
Girl: Miki.
Me; Oh, the same as the dog?
Girl: Yeah...How long are you gonna be here? Why don't you go home?
Me; Because we're painting?
Girl: The mosquitos will get you.
Me: Yes.
Girl: What are you doing later?
Me; Having Dinner.
Girl: You should buy me dinner.

Miki stayed with us for 2o minutes. She never stopped asking questions, and then suddenly she rode away on her bike. Now all I have to remember her by is her name written below my Dog Mouse.


This was my frist oil painting. I like the way oil melts into paper...and I like the smell of the Linseed oil that you use to thin the paint. That is probably the best thing about oil painting. I carried this dog mouse around with me for a few weeks, and every time I opened my sketch book I could smell the linseed oil and remember this day painting in the park.

Below is one of Pay's oils. You can see more of his work at his web site.
http://web.mac.com/payroyal/iWeb/Site/present.html




You can meet Pay and hear his beautiful music here. This is one of my first videos.