The Blue Painter and other subjects.
During 1996 the painter Howard Beatty
drank too much and sometimes slipped into "the blues".
His wife tried to warn him that he was
depressed, which he denied. As a painter you paint what comes out of you, if
you're lucky. Sitting down in my studio, looking into a mirror with paintings
for background, out came The Blue Painter.
Self
A place I don't spend enough time in is
my studio, the room where I go and close the door if I need to and spend time
doing what's inside me, putting on to canvas or paper my version of the outside
world.
Studio
at Rugby Avenue (3/11/96)
Hey, still trying the video thing. This
painting was the last I did. Just not satisfied with the results. Perhaps the
only way to really paint a painting about sex is to paint it from your memory.
All these people on these tapes are redundant.
Sex,
lies and video tape (3/23/96)
“don’t
watch it, do it.”
Dr. Peter Olevnik was my painting partner
and we spent many a Saturday afternoon working together. Pete finally quit his job, retired, and
moved to North Carolina. I wish him well as he appears in many portraits as
well as in the mural "Queen's Head and Asparagus". He is painted
in his traditional blue with a red
background "attacking" him.
