MY CRANBERRY BOG musings from bastardo |
most of the details have escaped me |
...however, I do live in San Diego with my beautiful and wonderful partner Lisa, and our two cats. I have a lovely daughter Alix, a son Dave and his wife Steph and four grand children. I own and operate Dove Custom Picture Framing and Art Restoration (www.doveframing.com.) There is a BS Degree on the wall and years of work in the construction and health care industry behind me...blah, blah, blah. I see the world through a lens that is a bit skewered and picks up the human folly and attempts to turn that into humor. That humor and hopefully some wisdom draws from the half truths, shallowness and inequities in our daily lives and political arena. My biggest influence was Bill Mauldin the cartoonist famous for his "Willy and Joe" WWII depictions of army life in Europe. His book "Up Front" was my text book for cartooning and displayed his ability to show the life in the trenches at the expense of some of the top brass who had no clue and little regard for what the foot soldier was going through. Not to say that I do not try to find the beauty and classic lines of nature, machines and other subjects that I paint, draw and write about. It is more than the lines or paint that I attempt to portray in my work and it usually comes with a slight twist of one thing or the other. |
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