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Second Saturday is here.  This month visit Blue Moon Gallery (see details in column at left).

I finished the series of paintings on my impressions of our economic plight.  Everyone’s been impacted one way or the other, some more than most.  The five paintings in this series depict Sacramento’s tent city, which despite news articles to contrary, still exists, albeit in another location.  One painting is called “Foreclosure”.  If you haven’t lost a neighbor to foreclosure, you’re lucky.  Just here in our neck of the woods (Folsom), we’ve seen several nearby neighbors lose their homes.  The fifth painting came from a scene in downtown Sacramento.  I was out walking at lunch one day when a guy who looked pretty much like me (OK, maybe a tad younger) crossed the street in front of me carrying all of his belongings … everything on his back or under his arms.  He had a pretty nice shirt on too.  He looked like he was headed for his first night in the homeless shelter.

The five paintings are moving in to the Borders Book Store in Folsom.  Go see them.  Buy a book!   My web site has taken on a distinctively new look.  Lindsay continues to be a whiz.  I regularly post my paintings on Facebook.  Some are still in progress, but you can always see what I’m up to.

My next “political project” as Owen calls them, will be on the plight of our oceans…something entirely different for me.  I’ll be posting previews on Facebook.

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I’ve recently done several paintings that depict what’s going on in our economy.  Normal people like me and you are out of work, losing their houses, trying to get by.  I hope to show the paintings soon.  I’ll let you know, but in the meantime, I’m posting them on my Facebook page.  If you haven’t signed up for Facebook, you should…you re-connect with people you thought you’d never see again.

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Like most people, I have a theme song (you do have one don’t you?)  I’ve carried it around with me for years, since I was a kid, actually.

My theme song isn’t something you’d recognize, although I imagine some of those close to me (Leslie my wife, for instance) think it’s “Theme from Shaft”.  Actually it’s quite heraldic…something you’d hear in an old Robin Hood movie.

I will never hum it for anyone simply because I have a lousy voice, can’t carry a tune and have a tin ear.  Although it satisfies my need for a theme song, it’s not “music” in the truest sense because my musical talent is zippo.

A long time back, I figured if I had to channel my artistic energy, I needed to do it with a brush on canvas or some other surface.  In a nutshell, that’s why I paint and don’t wait in line at the America Idol tryouts.

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