ramblings of an aging artist

create or not to create

2007-02-02T01:59:00.000-08:00

Take a look at http://altered-images-artspace.blogspot .com

please keep watching this space for changes.

Trading Places

2007-01-01T05:06:00.000-08:00

This site is about to move, keep watching

2007

2006-12-19T05:07:00.000-08:00

well sorry folks but awaiting the repair of my computer, if your still watching that is. hope to see you in the new year as normal

happy christmas

2006-12-07T03:57:00.000-08:00

well the laptop is still under repair, you know spain..tomorrow tomorrow.

but will soon be up and running but just in case

HAPPY CHRISTMAS OUT THERE ; TO ALL YOU BLOGGERS:

countdown

2006-11-23T04:49:00.000-08:00

Not through lack of inspiration, but lack of a laptop...assasinated by a forceful virus that wrecked the complete machine..will be back soon with more art.

Emotional Rhapsody

2006-11-01T06:56:00.000-08:00

Felt a mixture of sentiments today and could not continue with the piece I am working on. Decided to take one of the many boards abandoned with a mark on and succumb to a little action painting.

Emotional Rhapsody is a good title as I seem to release all my unconscious feelings through colour. Who knows maybe it will change later, but for the time being it´s finished

Emotional Rhapsody-acrylic on board

hello again

2006-10-30T13:17:00.000-08:00

It´s been slow going but there are many pieces scattered around, somewith only a brushstroke ...others in the process of taking form. I had an accident in my studio and it laid me up and made me irritable, not a good state to be creative in.
However here´s one more, it ended a little more mechanical than I would have liked, but sometimes things don´t always turn out how you want. Hasta pronto.

Farm- gouache & glaze on textured paper

Jazz

2006-10-18T03:14:00.000-07:00

Created by a brightness of mood, and a spurt of creativity, sparked by listening to some music.

The drawings still scatter the floor , but there´s a sign of life as paintbrushes sit huddled together in a jar of cleanser.

I am not sure whether this will be a "one off" a pre-run of things to come, or part of a continuing theme, only time will tell...

However it´s a start, and I quite like the colours, I thought at first it would be dark, but it has life.

"Jazz" acrylic on paper

One Step Forward

2006-10-10T12:26:00.000-07:00

Well here we are travelling on the road to creativity, have to admit though this was an unfinished piece from last year. It´s a start, as I am collecting all the strewn drawnings and ideas and collating them into a theme. I¨m going to take some days in Granada in search of more inspiration, so watch this space.

This picture is titled "Rebirth" and is painted in acrylics.

Creative Block

2006-10-05T05:34:00.000-07:00

Well lets get serious, had a creative block for months now it seems like its opening up once more. Images have started to flow, the floor covered with doodles and sketches, my work room is a disaster....but its happening.

This blog will continue as journal of creative action....mmmm

Allow me to take you on a hypothetical journal into the mind and studio of the aging artist!

more soon

challenges

2006-09-25T16:36:00.000-07:00

Well I´ve been good, lettuce and salad, vegetables and salad, fish and salad everything with salad...orange not wine, 3 oranges one wine....one sin- not much water.
Swimming everyday, painting...ideas only, writing yes...
Yes I think this week I have been an angel but can I keep it up.
For one who loves peanut butter on toast and red wine..it´s a challenge...and I love a challege.......sometimes

Weight Gains

2006-09-16T13:05:00.000-07:00

Well hi to all, ..... not that many people drop by these days . well I´m back and tired from travelling and overeating, overdrinking. (see the latest holiday snap) gained a little weight so Monday DIET and back to the art. snort snort!!! and yes hp you were right the cows do have regional accents....

great food though, Fabada, chorizo in cider, shell fish and loads of calories....

more very soon..

legends

2006-09-11T04:36:00.000-07:00

Well the cameleon is about to return having spent time in old haunts with old friends. I aboned the place I live to travel a little to seek out inspiration, in those places that offer inspiration and celtic legends, legends untold, stories of fairies, angels and miracles, tragedy and ancient buildings and not forgetting heroines.

So soon I will return to face the blank canvas and see what evolves from this time.

Travelling

2006-08-24T10:25:00.000-07:00

El cameleon is travelling in search of inspiration, crossing the paths of the celtic origins of galicia and asturias. wonderful scenery folks but will write more next time, for the next 2 weeks will be sporadic as i go on my search but keep watching..by the way great cider here in Asturias, great cows as well moo! hasta pronto!!

cure for chocoholics?

2006-08-04T13:15:00.000-07:00

Look closely my friendly chocoholics. These , or a box like them , I put on offer when some friends dropped by without advising....dont you just love these people, especially if their hungry......so out came the salami, cheese and crackers alongside a rather unfriendly looking chorizo......the table lacked something.

Now being a collector, I had bought these candles last week to paint, as they looked so divine and yummy...and of course I wouldn´t be able to eat them.

Ah these would brighten up the table ...not literally. My box contains 24 chocs, as everyone says their on a diet thought it was a pretty safe bet to place them in the centre. Dieters don´t eat chocolate (nor salami and crackers) so no one is going to try to eat one?? I won´t even burn them...the pleasure is just to look at them...mmmm..and remember the days when there was always real chocolate in the fridge- to accompany the ´long lost looking´lettuce,tainted spotty tomatoeas, awesome obese onions and a curly furry cucumber. (my fridge has always been inspiration for a painting)

Now I am not a violent person ......but when I saw that bloated fat hand reach over....................AAAHHHHHHHHHH!

Gothing and cruising

2006-08-01T03:35:00.000-07:00

WOW! Oh I´m a wild one, yes baby I´m a wild one! Well my weekend gothing was interesting, here you can see me whizzing through the spanish traffic on the Gothmobile. I take safety as an important factor so I managed to get hold of a form of crash helmet actually it was in a skip and obviously belonged to someone´s granny as Ábuela´was scrawled on the side. It had two rusting holes that I think may have once been a handle, and it sure smelt a bit weird....a P Pot ...I think but it served its purpose, however its a bit warm here to dress as a goth so it´s back to the old ID. It was an experience.

Goth or not to Goth

2006-07-28T03:57:00.000-07:00

W ell it´s Friday!

OK OK such a heavy response that I made the decision, and as promised the results today, my new image for the weekend is.......drum roll..............gothic.....loud applause
Why, because I think that Im more gothic than any of the other types, besides cant stánd those white plastic sunglasses, and I love Christopher Lee and his vampire movies.
So I´m going to spend the weekend as a Goth, don´t know what him indoors will say....wow.....dare to be different..thats my motto.....wheres the black candles?

change of image

2006-07-24T03:49:00.000-07:00

Well I´m thinking maybe it´s time for a new look, maybe new ...new inspiration, you ll be pleased to know the blank canvas that has been sitting before me for weeks has moved , its now out on the covered terrace waiting for that first splash of colour which I have a f eeling could happen at any time. Now what kind of image would I like?

Image 1 Something from the marylin monroe era, you know the type...blood red lips and enormous plastic sunglasses, flared skirt....mmmm not sure

Image 2 The Gothic black , black and more black. sleeps in a coffin and relates to vampires. Droooooool

Image 3
The lady penelope look, rich chauffer driven, resembles miss normal of the south american soaps. All paint and ops ... OK perkins

IMAGE 4 .. a mixture new romantic/visage colourful, rare, strange
Eddie you did it so well

Tell me which you prefer and why! voting closes on Friday mid day.

paz

2006-07-21T03:45:00.000-07:00

Well I always been a bit partial to wolves, for their intelligence and spiritual connections. Not easy to have as a pet, the nearest is a husky or german shepherd...which is what I have in my home...although she might as well have been a wolf. Now however the aging artist has got herself a new pet..a wolf..named Paz, (pronounced pathe) If you touch her nose she´will growl for you. So finally I got myself a wolf, a virtual one...at least it cant fight with my german shepherd, who is not in the least bit spiritual, even though I have made many attempts to improve her nervousness with calming music and self hynosis tapes. But in reality we are all different

Scan down the sidebar to meet Paz

CW´s day

2006-07-20T05:52:00.000-07:00

CW. happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you! happy birthday CW happy birthday to you! I know where you are the day is nearly over but hope it was a good one!

The three graces

2006-07-16T11:34:00.000-07:00

Soap box time for the aging artist........Well there´s been much discussion on the pressure on women to be slim, beauty is skinny....but is it? Do men really want to lie beside a bag of bones or someone that looks like their out of it on heroine. Sure these models are good lookers, but take away the paint the perfect hair the lastest fashion...what are you left with? someone very skinny and normal. Now this might sound like envy, but I was there once many years ago, and the pressures were great then but nothing like they are now....believe me, after a bad experience I quit for a normal life. It´s geared up for the male species, the perfect woman, but most of these catwalk models are very very young, and they look worn out before they begin. In reality and this information was passed to me by a store owner, who said that the average size they sell is 42 - 48 and thats here in Spain where the chicks are very slim and small, and for an ex pat like me I feel enormous when in actual fact I´m not. So an applause to the Dove adverts¨ and their use of normal shaped women and an applause to the artist Rosa Muñoz that reproduced in her ´pictofotografica¨exhibition ( copies of famous paintings using real people) ¨The Three Graces¨by Rubens. Give the girls a break, a few curves are sexy, and great to cuddle. Women are women whatever their age, shape or form. Women are all beautiful in their own way, they do not have to be a stereotype! Respect us for what we are.

2006-07-10T02:09:00.000-07:00

Question of the day.

Why don´t people comment on blogs?

I have seen so many without comments and if they have they are from friends. The world is a melting pot lets acknowledge each other!

The Object of my Desire

2006-07-05T03:42:00.000-07:00

Did I ever tell you who was the person I´ve always lusted after, right back from his very first movie. Another of his earlier movies Bobby Deerfield I have watched 37 times and can can still cry when I watch it. I have a friend in the UK and he has watched it more than me, and he sheds the odd tear, how rare for a man to love such an emotional film. I rave about it, invite friends to watch it..but they never feel the emotion that I feel. I think somewhere I relate strongly to the roll Marta Kellar plays, and then off course, there´s the object of my lust......are you sitting on the edge of your seat in suspense? no..oh well... IT¨S AL PACINO!!!!!!!!!!
I find him so attractive and sexy, and what a f antastic devil in the movie Pact with the Devil...
Dear Al, I will make a pact with you anytime, even though you have short legs and Im tall´.....I have a very nice little footstool!! (no need to bend down for a kiss!) Al the Godfather is the perfect Al Pacino for me..swoon...lust...

Al I´m waiting!
Whose the person you lust after most (here we´re not talking boyfriends and husbands)

Pollock or Da Vinci

2006-07-01T09:48:00.000-07:00

Recently I was thinking if I had to be a famous painting ...who would I be? Personally ¨Beata Beatrix¨by Rosetti has always been one of my favourites, I love the works of the Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood, and I had great sympathy for the life of Rosetti´s girlfriend, who modelled for him and other Brotherhood artists. I kind of identified with her but then there were times when I thought of Ophelia....but I think now I would be one of De Kooning´s abstract women......colourful (cameleon) and all over the place!!
So which would you be and why?

Now don´t be shy at least comment on this one.

Bath Time

2006-06-21T14:34:00.000-07:00

Well, your old artist cameleon, in the absence of inspiration for the blank canvas that has stood before me for a couple of weeks, has decided to pamper herself and change the house a bit.
Well I like anything thats a little different.....original....recycled..get my drift? All my life I have been arty farty ..collecting things in case I could use them in a work of art or even as decoration in the house. I once ruined the suspension of a Cortina GT by filling the boot with huge lovely rocks in Wales and taking them to London....this was the start of my relationship problems....he loved his Cortina GT and I loved my rocks, the cortina got sick and I became solo.
Anyway back to the pampering...I took myself out to the country tip.
And there it was...love at first sight....a giant rusted radar dish, some chopped down trees and a few metal rings....yep I was away....drilled a few more holes in the dish to hide the corroded ones and painted it black, used the branches as legs, stuck them into white cement on a mirror tiled floor..hung the metal rings on the side in case of drowning, and the final touch...a big perspex disc painted pale yellow. Oh the pleasure....ooooh those exotic warm bubbles...all thats missing is a bottle of champagne .....room for one more!!!!

Frying tonight?

2006-06-18T12:26:00.000-07:00

Now chickens seem to appear frequently in my blogs as you will see from past blogs, I attract them, I know them...we just seem to...well..get on. Well apart from it being June nearly and OOOOOOOOOOOh!!! we will be invaded . No no no not by chickens although most of them might as well be as they roast themselves out in the mid day sun. Now tanned is ¨chick´´(get it) but lobster red is just not attractive..especially after 2 or 3 days when its peels and flakes and as you leave hubby or lovies bed you have to wade through the dead skin that flaked off in last nights wrestling match, or when you open the window to the terrace the wind hits you and you feel like your standing in a snowstorm. Then of course after 2 weeks and your on your way home you look like a giraffe with your dirty looking dead skin patches. All this suffering just to show you.ve been away. As an example, now I know someone and you know who you are Rubber Chicken who was here on hols and roasted herself quite nicely...mmmmm....anyone got any chips? Take it easy in the sun people..remember tanned is ¨chick¨and red is raw! Happy holidays.

All good things!

2006-06-14T12:52:00.000-07:00

Today is a monochrome day when really yesterday should have been, after all is was black Tuesday, you know Tuesday the 13th , the day when people don´t leave home.
AHH, I hear you say , she´s got it wrong!, it´s Friday the 13th!.........
let me inform you here in Spain it´s Tuesday...don´t ask me why, in the UK it was Friday as well. The problem was I didn´t go out yesterday only for a swim in the communal pool and then it rained, but I was wet anyway so what difference, except it never rains here maybe in January, but june never....still it was a nice experience.
However today the machine ate my bank card, I recharged someone else´s mobile by accident, the dog ate one of my shoes and to top it all I gained a kilo! So because I didn´t go out yesterday it got me today....Moral? go out on Black Tuesday or Friday or anyday, because if its gonna get you it´s gonna get you.
Just as a matter of fact how many lives has a cat got?, well I was brought up to believe 9 but again here in Spain it´s different...poor kitty´s only got 7! OLÉ

HELP!

2006-06-13T05:38:00.000-07:00

Well I am really really p****d off..... really really..... Why? do I hear you ask...why?
2 little words STARWARE ADWARE...yep thats the ones.. its in the computer causing havoc and refuses to be wiped off......For days I have been trying to get this little B****** off my hard disc but will it budge...NO! It hijacks my e mails and copies them to others from my directory, very bad cos if you are talking about someone and it reads a name in your directory...it copies them...and that can be bad news. Even my mouse has started to give off static shocks! I want to scream...Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! its blocking my thought process as the words jump all over the place. Now I´m an artist and not technically minded, and I know you visit this site even if your too shy to leave a comment.....but pleaseeeeeeeeee if someone has any ideas to rid me of this demon I´d be most grateful..and can maybe get my brain back.
BE WARNED STARWARE ADWARE CREATES LOADS OF PROBLEMS TO YOUR COMPUTER AND PRIVACY

06/06/06 = 666

2006-06-07T02:18:00.000-07:00

Was the world in turmoil, or more than normal, as the dreaded day arrived, we were all aware of the phrophesies and meaning of the number......diablo or devil.... the television was plastered with items relating to this date. How many of us hid under tables or didn´t leave home in case of meeting some great horny devil (excuse the pun) at the next corner.How many of us scanned our almanacks of phrophecies and the predictions of Nostadamus? Well I dont know but here we are on the 7/6/0 6 and I haven´t seen any destruction outside or no more than normal. I turned on the television to hear the news..and then it hit me .....of course he came early, causing uprising , death and destruction in the middle east....no not Bill Gates (although they say money is the route of all evil)........but Georgie boy.....you know , the famous George Bush Jnr. He was here all the time! Silly me.....

World Cup Time

2006-06-06T03:12:00.000-07:00

ONCE AGAIN THE WORLD CUP IS HERE

Now I am a fan of football, being an avid Real Madrid fan as you know, but a month of football everyday is going to be a little more than I can take...So I decided I will only watch my favs which are Spain, England, Brasil, Argentina and Eygpt...that should allow me enough time to work on my new exhibition

Well you know football is a dangerous sport for men, they are very vunerable around the¨ football zone¨ we all see how they protect those vunerable areas with their hands ...but really I think using handbags is over the top..not sure it will be allowed in the world cup. mind you the leopard skin number isn´t bad...but my fav footballer is............no not Beckham...he´s ok but I cant stand queen Becks.... no for me its Roberto Carlos...I hope he doesn´t leave us for Chelsea.

Were on countdown for the beginning of the world cup.... watch out for more comments.......................

bondage bears and dead parrots

2006-06-02T03:41:00.000-07:00

Now I am a great fan of those loveable fluffy furry creatures, teddy bears...I also like real bears and in particular, the polar bear...how wonderful to have one stretched out on your sofa. It would certainly put the dog in its place. I thought I´d seen most types of teddies but as I past a shop the other day, these caught my eye...mmmmm....not personally being into black plastic and polythene, they didn´t make me want to rush in and buy them. Oh the poor things were chained and gagged. I wondered what the animal protection society might say about that...but before I could think about that ..the bondage bears were whisked from the window.

I watched as a little old lady dressed in black, stuffed them in a clear plastic bag and ran out of the shop cackling with glee...apparently she had hoisted them. Their space has been taken by a dead parrot.

Blue cheese and crisps

2006-05-29T15:15:00.000-07:00

Well here they are home safe and sound from the exhibition. There are more than these but I wouldn´t bore you showing you all my etchings. It was interesting as in Spain these times arrived later and it was interesting to hear people compare their time to ours . Well I think I can safely put them to rest and continue to study my virginal blank canvas, whilst eating a blue cheese and crisp roll. For sure at this hour of the night the cheese may create something inspiring in my dreams.

2006-05-29T05:11:00.000-07:00

I´ve been sitting here with a blank canvas in front of me now for hours. got a fog in my brain and a frog in my throat, maybe I´m all dried up inspirationally, or maybe need a kick start to get things going. Maybe I´m on inspirational overload, you know where you have so much stuff in your head you can´t sort it out, a bit like the untidy underwear draw.....I have a book on ice, blank canvases galore, jewellery half made and a huge pile of laundry.
Good idea lets get rid of the laundry first.....well the laundry now is in the machine doing its normal thing, and I´m still suffering from brain overload . If I had a bar of chocolate I would eat the lot ..thats what I do with creative blocks...there was a time when I could play Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd and wow away I´d go but it doesn´t happening for me now, I had substituted Pink Floyd with the soundtrack to 1492 and that produced some rather strange work...now I will have to view my cds.. Well at least I´m sharing and that helps only wish someone would pass by with something sweet and share it with me..Sorry for the dribble folks ...all ideas for kick starting the creativity will be welcome.. and any donations of chocolate bars will be extremely welcome. adios for now.

Christmas Crabs

2006-05-27T14:46:00.000-07:00

Whilst wading through a load of papers and pictures , ikea bills , art books as I can hardly find anything I came across this photo. The ideal present for christmas??? Now I´m a great seafood lover but the way this ad reads I wouldn´t want them for christmas, valentines or my birthday!!

I think they should think about how they put this ad, a basket of crabs....or a sack of crabs...christmas stocking...the list is endless

Revenge is sweet

2006-05-26T03:33:00.000-07:00

The neighbours have got a new cat,.much to the disgust of my german shepherd Elga, who is an ardent fan of Real Madrid but of course is a little peeved at their performance this year. This obviously annoys the kitty next door whose owners are Barcelona fans. When Barcelona won the league the other day she howled all night.......now this little kitty is the cute little kitty that you think, the other day I was watching and Elga flew up into the with a yelp.......didn´t quite understand it and it happened a few more times since but now Elga won´t go out whilst I paint.
Well had to investigate this or gonna get a big mix of dog hair in my paint....couldn´t see any reason...then I heard a noise..in the neighbours bathroom window...and there it was....dear little kitty. I was hoping maybe it was going to jump but no such luck.....and then I saw it The dear little kitty is a rotten little kitty.....and the culprit of Elga´s pains in the backside......kitty was firing pellets.

.maybe I´ll paint it all orange.

MEDITATION FOR DOGS

2006-05-22T14:26:00.000-07:00

There I was in your local new age pet shop´, got any patches to take your dog for a walk¨? I ask....well they looked at me and pointed towards a pile of collars ,leads and rubberbones! Oh no...they misunderstand..I knew my spanish wasn´t what it was cracked up to be.
No........este No...un parche para el perro.....a camina solo: I said as they handed me a packet of birdseed......
They said nothing, as I turned to leave...there it was lying in the corner. covered in dust...and in English.......MEDITATION FOR DOGS.....by Snuffles Forpors..WOW::: I picked up the book and blew the dust away direct into the face of a swearing parrot that immediately started to sneeze. Then I read....complete with doggy CD and headphones, ok no patches but maybe this would work. I grinned ,as I paid the 40 euros..mmm bit expensive but...
Let me explain I have a huge german shepherd named ..... Hans..NO..were talking dogs here...she´s called Elga....and she is a nightmare. She demolished all my oil paints the other day and has eaten the legs off one easel.... for a starving artist this is not good news. She takes me for a walk. which is not funny as I fell flat on my face the day. On arrival home to find my latest abstract had the appearance of splat art from the 60´s having walked all over and the wagging of her tail spread the yellow ochre into the crimson red and colbat...ending up with what looked like a kitty litter bin for dogs!
I carefully strapped the walkman on her so she couldn´t eat it and put the earplugs close to her ears and began to play the music,....she started to howl and then several minutes later she sat back on her hind legs and went into a begging position....the howling subsided into a muted growl, probably the equivalent to om´´ and there she stayed.... tranced. I still can´t take her for walks but at least I can get a little work done on my paintings. Sometimes we meditate together and then she´s back to her crazy ways..

The Meditation for Dogs book complete with CD actually exists I saw it advertised on the internet.

Botticelli Cherub becomes a Degas Dancer

2006-05-19T03:28:00.000-07:00

well didn´t I promise you I would test the miraculous patch, the evidence from the before and after says it all..............the results reveal a Botticelli cherub transformed into a Degas dancer......In your dreams..

Now we have patches for everything...cellulite, weight loss, hair removal??? havent heard of that one´and before lond breakfast ...dinner and lunch patches....patches to sleep, patches to wake up.....patches for invisible sex...patches to fall in love...blah blah blah it will become a stick a patch world.....I just hope they make one that takes the dog for a walk!!

Talking about dogs...coming next Meditation for dogs!!!!

Sticky tongues...lose kilos

2006-05-18T10:44:00.000-07:00

The before and after photos...looks promising!
Great now which one of us has tried this one... A patch you stick on your tongue and there your kilos shed and fall away. I´ve tried every crash diet in the book, only to suffer eating things like tasteless lettuce and dreaming of profiteroles.mmmmmm.
No you don´t eat the patch you stick it on your tongue....and voila! you become the size of Twiggy...for anyone who remembers her....and I have to tell you I was her look a like when I was very young....back to the patch....well don´t know that I´d want to get french kissing with that stuck on my tongue, what if it stuck to his tongue....how would the profiteroles react to it...would the chocolate get stuck under the thing.....or does it react to toothpaste? and what about.....shhhhh....you know.....OSX....if you get my drift it could all become frightfully sticky....and what if it transferred from your tongue to..................the mind boggles! I think it must work by tasting so vile that you can´t eat, don´t know but don´t think I´ll be trying it. Of course there are also place patches so if your fat on your knees then just stick on a couple of patches...In fact El cameleon is always a good sport, just gonna nip to the farmacy and buy one ...let you know tomorrow folks..

WATCH THIS SPACE!!!

STICKY FINGERS STRIKES AGAIN!!!

2006-05-17T05:06:00.000-07:00

He´s everywhere, opening e mails ,stealing words!! El Cameleon seems to have a spy....in her computer or it´s something to do with intrusion/helkern that attacks me on average 5 times a day sometimes more.....any clues as to whats going on here? Any clues on how to assinate Helkern. I´m fed up with his sticky fingers in my pie...talking about sticky fingers the famous Lord and Lady McCartney are to split......surprise . surprise! The beloved beatle would never have succumbed to cosmetic surgery in Linda´s day. If she really is the sincere person she makes out to be with her own fame???? get your sticky fingers off his fortune.

Are you lonesome tonight...YUK

2006-05-16T06:18:00.000-07:00

This guy was actually before my time but you just could not escape him, he was everywhere TV black and white, cine if you could afford it, magazines. For a young impressionable girl, he didn´t really influence me at all. I heard the whispers of my elders oooh! how sexy. When he started to croon well that was the last straw....I watched as adult women felt the power of his drooling words wash all over them.....orgasmic or what I´d hear them say....at that time of course I was too young to understand that piece of phrasiology....However when the Beatles arrived along with the Rolling Stones it wasn´t to be long before those words became part of my vocabulary. Except it would have been Orgasmic Man.

Back to Elvis otherwise known as Elvis the Pelvis, due to his sexy orgasmic girating of the hips YUK now Mick Jagger could get away with it. Poor Elvis passed away addicted to drugs ,overweight ,and lonely.... His chip fat greased hair got greasier as he grew larger. Maybe fame isn´t all that, some can´t hack it....and you know I sometimes wonder if maybe he escaped from it all....after all there have been many sightings of him.....In the Supermarket in Madrid, Birmingham, San Francisco (an ardent shopper) On the beach in Marbella, working in Macdonalds in Washington DC...who knows. would love to hear of any other reported sightings. After all yesterday I heard that Jesus was alive and well and living in Venezuela...for real but will let you know. ok folks time to go El Cameleon

2006-05-13T01:40:00.000-07:00

My favourite quote:

Íf someone thinks that love and peace are
a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s thats his problem, love and peace are eternal ´ (John Lennon)

Wine,Dali and Cuckoo clocks

2006-05-12T10:18:00.000-07:00

Hello again, well heres a recent photo of me taken yesterday as I started to think about a new theme for an exhibition. Of course a little of the red medicine helps....A little not a lot.

The ideas are a little slow coming, havent got something that immediately springs to mind and excites me. Something that inspires and will fuse me into action. How did Dali get all his ideas...ok some people thought he was crazy but I actually believe he was very clever, and played the ecentric very well. Gala was a bit of a Skit, not surprising he locked her in that tower...

Seriously when you look at Dali´s work in reality it really is fantastic, alot of his pictures normally have a paranoic element to them, and you will see a crutch supporting images in many paintings. For me I liked his soft watches, maybe because I hate the sound of a clock ticking, listening to your life slipping by...tik tik tik wont have one near me. How people lived with grandfather clocks and at worst...those rotten cuckoo clocks....cuckoo....cuckoo....somebody shoot it! see what I mean they make me angry..but those soft calming shapes of the soft watches now that would be different......so long as they dont tick and were user friendly.

look closely into Dali´s work .... you may be surprised at what you see...Clever..yes - mad..possible, then aren´t we all in some way. Cheers (hick)

an applaud for Joe

2006-05-10T05:15:00.000-07:00

well just got back from giving a talk on the 60s to coincide with my exhibition, these were spanish students learning english........I think they liked it.....especially the bit about sex drugs and rock and roll!!!!

The disc smashed and incorporated by my son Joe, he makes techno.....it was smashed in the name of art and not because the music was crap.

Pyschedelic Pyramids and cut down jeans

2006-05-08T15:12:00.000-07:00

well the second exhibition of the 60´s has opened today, this time it has a few additions, some pyschedelic /abstract works to fill the spaces of the ones sold last time. However it is lacking the famous pyschedelic pyramid´.....what happened ...why? I hear you ask. well recently changed homes and the pyramid in question was lovingly folded up.....and wrapped in loads of extra sticky american tape.....(WHO DID THAT?!!!!) and resembled more of spare rib in bondage than a psychedelic pyramid. As I pulled the tape away from its fragile painted skin, both the design and large flakes of paint drifted gently to the ground, the floor resembled more of confetti at a wedding than a base for a piece of art. Aaahhh....I hear you say...and yes I possibly could have repaired it but it had lost its ambience, now its in the garden for the dog to take shelter in. Well it had a good end..........and the dogs happy

yes she´s very happy no more

from the wind rain sun gales or whatever else the elements decide to through at us....Elga is a happy bunny.

Even though she lives in the house!!!

Baked Beans

2006-05-03T13:06:00.000-07:00

The lights went out in Masachusetts (well how do you spell that one) old bee gee number but if they didn´t there they certainly are here, up and down like a brides nightie, as the saying goes.....actually thinking about it lights go on and off´. Anyway enough drivel for today, lets get on with the show.The explosion of POP ART and who springs to mind....of course the´Campbells Soup´man - Andy Warhol. He liked to paint repetitive images such as Brillo Pad packs ...interesting I hear you say.
To quote him in an interview ¨I like boring things, I like things to be the same over and over again. (Andy Warhol in his own words)
Funny that, we´re a bit alike but i thought it was compulsive repetitive disorder or something like that, you know the thing when you have to get up 5 or 6 times hoping its Sunday and its not.
Of course with the Pop Art came the Flop Art as I called it, as artists across the world pulled their naked girlfriends mothers and neighbours across a great expanse of canvas laid on the floor, smothered in oil paint and then hung out to dry and sold for millions...great days. Anyway in those days thought I´d move in that direction a little....I came up with a can of Baked Beans!!! I hear all your intakes of breath in astonishment at such a work of art.

Thought for today: Why do baked beans cause wind?

Chicken changes sex!!!

2006-04-29T12:51:00.000-07:00

Gay Chickens Liberation Movement with Baked Beans!

Well that takes us away from the 60s, It would never have happened in those days.
There I was reading a newspaper someone had kindly donated when it caught my eye. What ? I hear you ask ....the chicken that changed sex of course. Thought it worth a mention, after all this is the ramblings of an aging artist!
Anyway, apparently the chicken´s name is FREAKY.....now that´s way out man, a word from the 60s. She was quite happy strutting around and laying eggs and attracting the attention of the guys, but then she grew bigger, fatter and aggressive,she started to beat up the other chics in town, she/he would cock a doodle in the morning at sun rise and eventually voted herself the boss. Her features changed and she has since grown a full comb(lovely) and wattle of a cockerel (that´s the red bits).

Freaky felt like a full blown man, trying to mate with every chicken in town but was of course minus the equipment (a pilli pitchi)

the local vet had only seen one case like this and explained that hens only use one ovary so if that stops working the right one starts working as a testis producing testosterone.........hence the male features and actions!!!!

Only about one in ten thousand chickens change sex (apparently) but I don´t know if that includes those that are still in the closet!!??

FACT: sex change chickens have been around for centuries!!!!!!

OLD PROVERB: a whistling woman and a crowing hen are neither fit for god nor man,..........get it???????

I only meant to put one chicken on this page but 4 have turned up ánd oh my god theres more..they´re all coming out of the closet!

It´s the chickens liberation movement

Now this is getting very silly so lets put the lid on this one.

Why did it have to rain at those Hyde Park concerts

2006-04-28T05:23:00.000-07:00

But it didn´t always rain, Ahh....those hyde Park concerts full of pleasure and discovery! Music wafting form the sound system into the ears of the peaceful or stoned audience. A time of daisy chains and exotic smells.

Mick jagger strutting his stuff in what looked like a sensational white dress. it was cold and grey as my friend and I shivered in our fur coats. It started to rain and at this point my friend became my no longer friend.........Eric Burdon (What a voice) and the animals ¨¨Bring it on home to me¨ and at this point Eric split his tight white jeans revealing black underpants...quite apropriate for ´The House of the Rising Sun´. Did it matter if it rained or shined, weren´t we all happy.

At this point my work was quite pyschedelic, full of colour and shapes.

My old friends M & J (Roadies for Juicy Lucy) Yes you were right!

Ok amigos, enough is enough. look for the next rambling (all articles are copyright)

2006-04-28T03:45:00.000-07:00

WHOEVER ROBBED THIS ARTICLE PLEASE RETURN IT- IT HAS COPYRIGHT!

Were the older generation afraid of the beautiful people?

Or hippies as they were known, maybe they were afraid of something

unknown, as if arrived from out of space....Fashion changed radically Mini Skirts,Hot Pants, thigh length boots, patterned boots, long indian dresses, afghan coats and second hand fur coats usually available fromPortabello or Kensington markets. Flowers in their hair and not a weapon in sight.e It was the demands for peace and love (not forgetting the free love)....WHOOPS!...this did not go down well with the parents of this generation.

The music scene exploded, pyschedelic music and bands, songs of love and peace. Love Ins...no this wasn´t group sex!!!

My first album I brought was ¨Disraeli Gears¨by Cream....I can hear the strains of Strange Brew running through my head.

I won a prize for reproducing the album cover, can´t remember what it was...but there you go we weren´t into material things. At this time the beatles started to make some of their finest music...in my opinion.

You could hear the clucks and tuts of the older generation as you wandered the streets, I had to hide my prized fur coat in a plastic bag in the hedge so i could change outside. It got a bit smelly and damps and then a friend took pity on it and stored it for me. I loved it when I wore that long fur coat with hot pants and thigh length boots, and hear comments such ´groovy chick´¨ Far out man¨´a little boost to the much missing self esteem.

Art and music was referred to as rubbish, the fashion disgusting. These times can never be repeated, the fashion return and the music re released but the ambience ..no....for now the world has become a more dangerous place. Here we are still demanding peace.

yes they didn´t like us one bit, posessed, beligerent,permissive, drug takers . blah blah blah. They had a right to fear such drastic change but we had the right to make it.

It was our life and we did what we wanted

2006-04-28T03:30:00.000-07:00

HENDRIX THE HEROE

THE BEATLES II

2006-04-27T07:08:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday Joe!!!
Happy Birthday to you
been trying to call but alas no reply. Joe is number 2 son a great person, Number 1 son is also a great person, am I lucky or what? To have 2 great, sensitive artistic sons!!!!!

The sixties

2006-04-26T10:43:00.000-07:00

I recently had an exhibition based on the 60´s. All the memories had flowed onto the canvas, along with amongst others images of Hendrix, lennon, Beatles and stones. Even built a pyschedelic pyramid...it caused a lot of interest here as these times were unkown until much later. Now this exhibition moves on and opens next week for 2 weeks, it made me realise that in some respects the world changed whilst in others no.....aren´t we still demanding peace?
Thought for today: Words not pronounced are flowers of silence

The HP Beans can!!!!
Why did it have to rain at those Hyde Park rock concerts
Adios for now amigos

Allow me to introduce myself

2006-04-25T03:01:00.000-07:00

Allow me to intoduce myself...El Cameleon ( this is the spanish spelling of chameleon) for those who hadn´t guessed. strange name for a woman, I hear you say.....but I change my mind as often as often as I change my clothes. I am the original moodstone fluttering from pale to dark, changing colour as I wish.
I´m an artist (whatever that defines me as) I suppose it conjurs up wild images in the mind...crazy, ecentric, colourful (because we are normally covered in paint) hence el cameleon. weird, wild and wonderfully mindblowing. self concieved images of someone who always has paint brushes clenched between their teeth and spattered dirty clothes and nails that look as if you´ve just been and dug a hole in the garden. You could be right!
Actually I´m quite normal as you can see from the photo..nothing excentric about me.......my nose has just grown 6 inches!
but then you have to ask yourself what is normal? and do you really want to be known as mr or ms normal. NOW THERES A POINT FOR DISCUSSION. BUT SORRY TO DISAPPOINT YOU THIS WILL COME LATER..I PROMISE.
Firstly I wish to establish my introductory blog . Why an aging artist I hear you ask? Alas I was a child of the sixties, walking around in a long tye dyed second hand victorian nightdress, bought from Shepherds Bush market, along with my fringed indian shoulder bag.
My vocabulary consisted of Wow, Man thats cool, or really cool, Far out and it´s really heavy man. amongst others. Nowdays Im a little more refined although I still use the word cool (guay in spanish and pronounced hway) as it has become very popular nowdays here along with Tio and Tia (uncle and aunt) people will call you that even if your not related. Every generation forms it own language.
So there you have it, the beginnings of the ramblings of an aging artist. Here I will invite you into a world of memories dreams and reflections. my work has always had a dreamlike , surreal quality to it but at this moment I find myself caught up in a vortex of bright and brilliant splashes of colour. A good sign I think.
I also write, three books on the shelf never presented (this probably is because I think their crap´´´pardon) and another on the way , this I think is ok.
The problem with me is that I get sidetracked creatively and as I only have one mind and two hands, it´s difficult to produce all my ideas at the same time...
Well adios amigos for now, be assured that very soon will come a second installment.
coming soon: why were the people afraid of the beautiful people?
Why did it have to rain in those hyde Park rock concerts.?
was Dali mad or just damn clever?
and so much more to come , dont want to spoil the surprises!
Thought for today: Will there ever be peace in the world?