My favorite Republican President

"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."

~Theodore Roosevelt
in the Kansas City Star", 149 May 7, 1918

Holy Family

11 X 14 tempra on paper, 1995
NFS
Here's a little ditty I did for Christmas of '95. It's mostly tempra and some guache (or whatever that's called). I was hoping for kind of a luminesence (is that a word?) where you don't really get to see the baby Jesus, but he is the light sourse that illuminates mainly Mary and also Joseph behind her. Very splattery, lots of home made glazes made from glue and water washes. It was fun. My 7th graders hate Jackson Pollack and Mark Rothko so I'd bet they'd HATE this, but my wife and mother-in-law both like it and they're pretty hard to please.

Merry Christmas web-surfers!

Kelli, tempera on paper. Obviously it needs a lot of help- nose, chin, ear...okay it doesn't look a THING like her. AUUGH!!!
sigh, that's may be why artists take photos like this, so that they don't have to have the model keep sitting there while you paint something that doesn't look like them.
Well, "back to the drawing board," literally.
Mallory

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country." ~President Theodore Roosevelt, 1908

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Another coffee from 2001, one of my favorite. "Pink"
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2001, a rougher painting, "Teal Coffee."
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