Miscellaneous Paintings

I started my lifetime of study painting by copying from Donald Duck comic books. In my pre-teens I”d graduated into air warfare pictures. By high school, I’d started my first commercial venture, a watercolor portrait business. Consequently, I had already put in thousands of hours of brush work, while still a teen. Back then, my own Holy Grail was to make pictures look “realistic”. This culminated in my twenties, with a “Photo-realism” phase, which, once, more or less, mastered, revealed itself as largely redundant. “Why not just take a photograph?”   I side- stepped, with the help of the sixties, into more of a surrealism thing, and then into my own tounge-in-cheek twist: “real-abstractism”. Comic book art entered into the flow, as did mural painting. So where’s it headed next? Who knows? When considering art history, in spite of my lifetime involvement, I question if painting has any great importance in this particular era, given that it has largely been superseded by the digital revolution in two-dimensional imagery. I would make an exception in the case of the best of graffiti-art, which is both valid and vibrant. So currently, that’s where my greatest interest lies.