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Updates on my art can be seen here:
http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/
here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/RadmanArt2012?feature=watch
and here:
http://myworld.ebay.com/radman_art/?_trksid=p4340.l2559
July 09 2012:
It is not my fault this is the most activity this web site has had practically in the past 12 years. It is obvious that
this requires a response from me.
Whoever is spamming me through this website I have told the powers that be about it and I also told tripod.com. Tripod
will find out who you are. When I complain about spam it is recorded forever, that is why I rarely get spam. I sent the emails
in full format to the authorities and tripod immediately after I got them, always have and always will. I have had this website
and my emails for over 12 years. I have been a respectful, responsible gentleman online since I first used the internet. I
have never used a curse word online; this is a example of how I view the internet. I see the internet as a instrument of helping
others. I believe the internet can not only bring peace to the world but protect every individual on earth from unfair treatment.
I have no interest destructive or contemptible online activity; this is the real reason people are ignorant to and hate the
internet.
I am just going to take down this convenient service of emailing me through this web site I put up 10 years ago.
There has got to be this guy that says; hey we should hire this guy as art director or the like. I can not imagine that
if you look at my work without discrimination that you would not like it allot. Then there has always got to be this guy that
says; this guy is no good, why would you want to feature his art or whatever to help him? Now I can not imagine anyone that
does not have a soft spot in their heart for my art. In my paintings for example; I have basically touched on every subject
there is. So anyone that would put my work down must feel a little bit guilty; even if it seems they have no guilt, even to
themselves. Is this guilt a positive thing and what does guilt not acknowledged do to a person and those around them? I say
this; what if history someday shows that all them that put my work down were the bad people. By putting my work down you may
be changing your future and the future to your own shame and the shame of those you influenced wrongly and selfishly. This
could be from jealousy or envy and I can think of nothing more low than that. History has shown the folly of envy and the
shapers of life out of this self degrading emotion. I guess this puts even more responsibility on my shoulders. This burden
of truth; I have had and do have is a part of my life that I carry honestly. I know I only want to help others and peace on
earth and every human on earth to be treated fairly and that is the honest truth from my heart.
I do not usually do watercolor on art board. I sprayed all of them with fixative for hundreds of years of
wear. I will be switching back to fine quality watercolor paper soon. If it does not specify on my site than all watercolors
are done on the best watercolor paper available.
This entire series of which I am not done with is dedicated to Black Metal Music! I love it and always will.
To best describe Black Metal Music I give you the trinity of Black Metal:
I made a web site a while back dedicated to Death and Black music. I kind a stuck on my bands page where it has been lost
for a while but since it is the subject of my new series I want to celebrate it. I created the design for the web site in
web design 2 at the college. It is like viewing art in a gallery.
Here is the link to that site: http://www.geocities.com/radman_metal2007/index.html
See the painting (Fence Glow) below, at:
Elvin L Carr
Farmers Insurance Group
2750 Virginia Pkway Ste 101
McKinney, TX
See the painting below "CCCCD Summer 2006" at CCCCD Spring
Creek Campus, Plano, Texas, in the Library behind the check out desk.
See the painting below at Collin County Community College
in the Communications & Humanities Division Office. This office is located on the first floor of the view I used to do
the sketch the sketch for this painting for Dr. Marilyn Todd-Daniels Drawing 2 class. I did the sketch from the balcony above.
The Television Commercial I made is up and running and will play the entire month of August on; Allen City Television (see
above link). It is for the August show as mentioned in the Jpeg below.
It looks like this will be a annual event. I will be getting ready for next year, every year, with all new
western paintings for every one to enjoy. If you really want to see my art, you must see it in person, and this is your chance
every year. Till next August.
I will have my art work in 2 display
case's, the month of August 2007 in The Allen Library, Allen, Texas.
Here is a link to what my art display looked like August 2007.
Radman_Art Western Art
Read the Allen American Article online
These are the only inaccuracies in the article shown below are:
My wife did active duty in Killeen, Texas for three years. After her in active duty of 3 years we
decided to stay in Texas for her to go to college. The army transferred her to Seagoville, Texas for her reserve time she
was there for three years. She served a total of over 6 years. She did very well in the army she was a honor
graduate at AIT and has many awards from her time in the army. She has a Associate in Science from CCCCD.
I live in McKinney, Texas.
Anyone that has ever talked to me knows it is hard to keep up. Troy and I talked for one and a half hours on the phone.
I am amazed he got as much as he did.
Thank you, Radman of Radman_Art
I will have my art work in 2 display
case's, the month of August 2007 in The Allen Library, Allen, Texas.
Here is a link to what my art display looked like August 2007.
Radman_Art Western Art
Also I will have a ad in the Friday Dallas Morning new pull out and the August 2007, Allen
Neighbors.
I will also have my animation playing on the Allen Television Station,
for the month of August 2007.
I would like
to add that I was on the Allen, Television Station too. It was a picture of me behind me was my art and a announcement in
writing of my show at the Allen library. I would tell you more but I do not get the Allen station where I live, and I just
found out about it. I will want to see it in August I think you can see it on the web site. Here:
http://www.cityofallen.org/city6/vod.htm
Radman_Art on Bravenet, This has all the big photos from my art show. Also has other photos by Radman the photography student.
Hey yall! My buddy Jim Phillips came out with 3 new books, check em out:
This web site is not about 3d work, it is dedicated to painting and the about 1,000 paintings I have completed.
January 02 2012
I added 8 more 3d renders for you all. Notice they are more elaborate? I am posting them as I progressed in my first 3d
class. We used a program call Cinema 4D.
I want to show you a little of what my web site looked like when my wife first started in 2001. She named it Radman_art
because she thought it was clever with a under score. She was taking a programming class at the time and she received a A
in part one and two of those classes.
I made all these in Cinema 4d my first 3d class I took. They are all fully animated and can be used for a movie. I would
like to remind you all I have 2 hours of animation from my first CCCCD certificate I aced.
These images took on average 5 hours each. I ran test renderings over and over to get just the right reflection and shadows.
The building of these images took about 5 hours each or more.
All this food was made by me; except the pizza doe, my wife is a expert at that. She also has
started to make bread and dog treats to save money.
I finally got around to adding a photo of my wife’s dog treats. She loves to buy the dogs treats at the store but
they can be expensive. She has found dog treats I did not know existed and are very cool at the store. She used to buy allot
of dog cookies so when I found a recipe for peanut butter cookies for dogs on the internet I was sure she would like it. It
has been months since then and her cookies have gone from little lumps to actual cookie looking treats. I have to help her
on double batches because this is a lot of work. Saving money is awesome and my best buddies have a happier day too. I have
the recipe link posted on my recipe page.
I also am posting a photo of a omelet I made. We got a good deal on ham, 99 cents a pound. I have been thinking of new
things to make with ham. I was read Green Eggs and Ham as a child and ham and eggs are a perfect match.
I pre made the egg in a pan. I made them the same size a small flour tortilla. I placed them in a brownie sized pan up
like a big scoop. Then I filled them with all the good stuff and baked them. Better than Dennys and a whole lot cheaper.
I make over stuffed burritos the same way. My secret is spray on oil, the Kroger brand is cheap and just as good as the
name brand. I spray the Kroger aluminum foil half the price of Reynolds by the way. Then I cut small pieces of foil and put
them in between the burritos or omelets to keep them from sticking.
I have been making cookies lately. I am not to crazy about sweet food and have quit eating candy for over 2 years now.
I like oat meal cookies loaded with raisins because they are good for you. When I was in my 20’s I was a holistic vegetarian
and I could bake some great stuff using honey and molasses, eating that way is too expensive for us regular folks. I was a
member of a great co-op in my old home town of Middletown Connecticut and got discounts on the food at that time. I will try
to get a photo up here of my heavy oatmeal cookies soon. Taste good and good for you.
January 20, 2012 added macaroni and cheese computer background
I make macaroni and cheese for dinner. I add allot of extra ingredients. I added canned mushrooms and canned
black olives to this one, but the sky is the limit. I like to ad vegetables to things you normally would not. The more fresh
vegetables the better. I keep vegetables in reusable disposable plastic containers and feed from them all week adding a little
peppers here, onions there and so on. I got this recipe from the internet of course. It did not tell me to combine the ingredients
to a sauce pan over medium low heat. I thought of that myself. If you do this it really comes out great. I use Kroger, Velveeta
type cheese, to save money. I also sprinkle Kroger shredded cheese on top. I have noticed that Kroger shredded cheese is the
same price as regular block cheese. I ad parmesan cheese oregano, parsley, and garlic salt. I use shells because it captures
the ingredients best. You have to use Italian bread crumbs.
This is a link to the recipe:
http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1635,145168-252193,00.html
December 24 2011
These are mini chicken sandwiches a little bigger than a American dollar coin.
My wife and I made the bread and we are now making dog treats as well to save money.
Here is a link
to the dog treats and bread recipes. If you like easy recipes these are it. I picked them out.
http://www.dogtreatrecipes.org/
http://www.food.com/recipe/my-favorite-sub-hoagie-rolls-285449
I am adding a photo of little chicken sandwiches I made. I used Cheese and frozen chicken breasts. I took
the portion of chicken and cut it into 6 pieces and batter dipped it in beer batter. Mayo on both sides.
Bobli Pizza:
I made this pizza with too much food and cheese. It was very yummy, I used bottled peppers
Crab:
I wanted to show how crab meat can be removed from the shell un cooked.
Italian Buritos
These are a big favorite for me. I make them with fresh peppers, fried potatoes, onions and fried sausage.
SAUSAGE-STUFFED PEPPERS:
Read more about it at www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,161,156170-252202,00.html
Content Copyright © 2011 Cooks.com - All rights reserved.
6 lg. firm unblemished green pepper
1 lb. hot (or sweet) Italian sausages
2 c. finely chopped onion
1 clove garlic,
finely minced
1 1/4 lb. fresh mushrooms, cut into tiny cubes or chopped (about 3 1/2 c.)
1 c. finely chopped parsley
2
c. fine fresh bread crumbs
2 eggs
Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
3/4 c. tomato sauce
3/4 c. grated Parmesan
cheese
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Split the peppers in halves lengthwise. Remove and discard the seeds. Cut away and discard
the white veins inside the pepper halves. Remove the meat from the sausage skins. Discard the skins. Add the sausage meat
to a skillet. Do not add any more fat. Cook, stirring and cutting down with the side of a heavy kitchen spoon to break up
any lumps in the meat.
When cooked through, add the onion and garlic. Cook about 5 minutes and add the mushrooms. Cook
about 2 minutes and spoon the mixture into a mixing bowl. Let cool slightly. Add the parsley, bread crumbs, eggs, salt and
pepper to taste. Blend well. Spoon equal portions of mixture into the pepper halves. Smooth over.
Arrange pepper halves in a buttered baking dish. Spoon 1 tablespoon of tomato sauce on top of each half. Sprinkle with
cheese. Bake 40 to 45 minutes until piping hot throughout and nicely browned. Yield: 6-12 servings.
Steak and
Mushrooms:
This is steak and mushrooms on egg noodles.
Taco Salad:
This is taco salad. I used the fancy salad mix in a bag, black olives, Mexican cheese, tomatoes, Doritos, onions, spicy
guacamole, toped with sour cream.
October 9th 2011
My wife has been making the best pizza, I have had since Connecticut. I could eat pizza every day.
Also I have been taking photos of food I have cooked. I have been approaching every meal like a work of art. I am posting
a meal I made recently. Ravioli with ricotta and shrimp with red pepper, (bottled), baked with olive oil minced garlic parmesan
oregano, parsley and cut up salami..
November 18, 2011
When I say this is me at my best I do not mean my guitar skills. I mean this is me at my heart felt soulful best. I bought
this guitar for my birthday last year. I am getting better all the time. I love all types of rock music especially guitar
greats. I also like Black and Death Metal Music and this gives me allot of freedom when performing because this music is not
all melody. My goal is to play like Eddie Van Halen form the first Van Halen albums. Like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_lwocmL9dQ check it out it is like my favorite you tube video. He seems so free in this performance.
I made my first guitar video and my wife and watched it and both agreed it was not good. My wife pushes me to learn more
and play better. I did save a photo from a frame and posted it on my site about a week ago. My problem is I do not practice
enough. I practice about once a month to tell the truth now. I played every day for the first month I owned it, then
less and less. that first month I really tore the tips of my fingers up, it could have been my job too though. I soon learned
to always use the pick. I like to practice with no amp sometimes.
The next video I made that is posted on this site I got the guitar and practiced for about a 30 minutes first. I like the
way it came out. My amp is not that great but it has a head phone jack and when I hook it into the computer I can manipulate
the sound to sound way cool. I posted the first 3 mp3’s I made here but no one downloaded them. I paid $80 for the guitar
and it is just as good as a Fender. I will tell you all where I got it for the first time now. I got it on www.Target.com ;weird huh? Other stores were selling it for $150.00. Most electric guitars cost at least $300.00. The video lacks good sound
but I can post it because it is small enough. I forgot to shut off the fan next to the camera, that did not help. Try to imagine
what it would sound like with a proper amp. We shall see how well I can out do myself. I am just playing around but every
once and a while I do some reading and training. For now I watch the video allot and try to out do that. I also love my new
long hair. It finally got long enough recently that I can tie it back so you would never know I have long hair from the front.
I just think long hair is essential for a guitar player.
Pasted from my words page:
All my life I have wanted a guitar and have not been able to get one. Thanks to the internet I was able to find a pretty
good electric guitar at a doable price for my birthday. I actually found a good modern sounding electric guitar for like eighty
dollars. I took lessons when I was a child because I picked up my sisters guitar and was able to play by ear. My family was
so impressed by this my grandparent’s bought me a electric guitar and amp and my mother who did not have much money;
paid for lessons for me for about a year, I was 11 years old. So I am excited about all the possibilities of creating music
and posting it hear to promote my art. year, I was 11 years old. So I am excited about all the possibilities of creating music
and posting it hear to promote my art.
The above painting Freedom dance:
I named the painting Freedom Dance because I have a infatuation with
freedom although I never feel free since the past 17 years. I am going to do something I hardly ever do. I am going to tell
you where I got reference to my paintings. The above painting is one of the greatest water colors I ever did. That was Cathy
Cotter Smiths view also. She was my teacher for my College courses watercolor one and two. She said she never had a student
do so much work for a class ever and she is one of the first teachers at the college here. I got the idea for this painting
from a tiny photo in a Texas magazine. It was about 1 inch by 1 inch. It was one of those things when you look at a photo
and you say I must paint this. It is some kind of spiritual connection made by painter and subject. The storm clouds in the
back round almost touching the skyline is defiantly a Texas skyline. In fact this morning when I went outside with the dogs
to go bathroom and the sky to the Texas skyline south west looked like this painting. I have no idea where the photo came
from. When I paint something from a photo I always destroy the photo. I usually burn it in my fireplace. This to me is like
a ceremonial thing. As always the photo you see here does not do this justice. The native American is donned in eagle feathers
with a staff with a eagle claw on it. He is dancing. The near by Choctaw tribe did a eagle dance when a treaty was signed.
The eagle dance is done by many tribes to imitate the surrounding wild life to honor it. The landscape was very difficult
thing for me to do. I wanted to actually show the roundness of the earth. The most difficult thing about this painting was
the feather like streams just below the shield. The shield has a red white and blue eagle on it, you can not see that really
in this photo. The feathers look like real feathers and that is always a real challenge. The frame I got from the good will
store that took a half hour to break down and rebuild it is a really cool gold metal and must weigh 5 pounds at least. As
with many of my paintings I try to incorporate my face into the structure of the face I am painting.
The above painting Be True to Your School is a painting of the front main entrance to the Spring Creek campus of
my alma mater. The title is from a Beach Boys Song. This painting got so many hits it had it’s own link on Google.
The above painting Sunshine Skylight School is a painting of the new wing to the Spring Creek campus of my alma mater.
The title is because of the strange effect of the sun coming from the open windowed ceiling. This painting has a acrylic twin
that hanged the Humanities department of CCCCD.
The above painting County Building Too is a painting of the new Court House in McKinney, Texas. The title is because
it is the second County building painting I did. I was very angry about the cost of the tax payers to make this building.
Then they really built up the college too, but it was after I had my fill of college. I guess we are very proud of our court
houses here. It is a very beautiful building, I must admit.
The above painting A County Building is a painting of the newer smaller court building in McKinney, Texas. I remember
when this building was a small hospital. The title is because it is the first County building painting I did. It took me a
while to take this photo and it was making security antsy. Many government offices are here including the probation department
and traffic courts.
The above painting To The Beat is a painting that comes from my favorite skateboard video Yeah Right . The
title is because this frame of the video was amazingly done to the beat of the hip hop music. This was a difficult painting
because of the lens that was used to film it. The lens has a rounded look.
The above painting Spiral Staircase Going Down is a painting that comes from my favorite skateboard video Yeah Right
. The title comes from one of my favorite songs by Kings of Leon. This was a favorite of Cathy Cotter Smith also she like
the round direction of it. This is from the last seen of the movie. The trick was unreal. The song the plays I want to live
in Los Angelus is a favorite song of mine in this video. This dude ollies onto the rail from the side walk down to what looks
like a subway entrance.
The above painting Who I looked Up To and Who I Look Up To is a painting that comes from my favorite skateboard video
Yeah Right . The title is because I looked up professional skateboarders as a kid and still look up to them today. This is
one of my favorite and last skateboard paintings I did. I have only done three sk8 painting because like every thing else
I do; the lack of interest.
This is one of the greatest step jumps I have ever seen in a video. I did see this Spanish dude jump steps in Spain
that was unreal too though that is a different story. I painted the steps exactly to the video frame, that was not easy. I
love the shadow and the tiny red wheels and those trees that just kept getting better at. I would have made a great designer
painter for model buildings.
This is a drawing I did of a foot bridge in a small park near the Spring Creek Campus of Collin County Community College.
This was required by my drawing class head by Doctor Marilyn Daniels. The class drove there and spread out and drew things.
I did many sketches that day and this is the one I like the most, to do a finished work on. I did the best I could with a
pencil to show reflections and sunshine. The clouds were tough, but that was the way they looked that day; I told someone
in my class.
The foliage and the tress shows my attempt to draw every leaf. This is the way I draw foliage and trees. It is something
to see me draw this way. It is frantic and quick. I like to listen to rap, or hard rock music with a fast beat to do this.
I ask a black male fellow school mate, I kind of looked up to, if he saw my show in Allen and to my surprise he said he
did. I asked him which piece of art he liked best and he said this was his favorite. I remember the expression on his face
like it was real good.
This is a painting I did in watercolor on French water color paper. I did the painting in black and white
water paint. This is against traditional watercolors that let the paper be the white. Many things I have been taught in college
in my 8 or more painting classes (outside my required classes) I took to heart and practice like religion. This is one thing
I have rarely done. I do not like seeing the paper or canvas or wood of any painting I have ever done. I have used this technique
with my Elvis Presley painting and such but I mostly use white to enhance the painting and hide the back. Since my first painting
I have always painted thick I used to try to gob paining on until it stuck out. Like the painting I had in Half Priced Books,
in McKinney, Texas for two years or so.
April 21 2012 added inside of ZZ Top Album Tres Hombres from 1973
Update April 19 2012:
I have a painting on ebay, this is a first for me;
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270959647225
lets see if this works, peace
What can I say bout this painting? Hum. I could talk about my art all day and the more I talk about it the more excited
I get. If I sell work like this I assure you it would take a piece of my heart away. My wife and I love all my art. Some art
my wife likes but it is a little too wild for her taste.
This painting hangs on my wall and is one of my favorite. I have done many business card size sketches of this and gave
them to co workers at my last job. This was done for my last watercolor class with Kathy Cotter Smith. Its is a beauty and
my wife is in love with this one, but we need money and it may inspire me to paint more to sell something. I was in a field
2 blocks from my house and climbed a barbwire fence to spend some of the most memorable times of my life with these horses.
The grass was over and up to my waist and a little wet from the morning dew. The sun was very bright. At one point one of
the horses nudged me on the shoulder and almost knocked me over.
I have never sold a painting! I have a warehouse of art in my house all of which I have created my self. I have 2 hours
of Animations I made on 2 DVDs. I have made programs and other animations too. I have competed about 800 paintings and about
1,000 pencil and inks I have saved since 1988. I have had 7 or 8 art shows here in the Dallas Texas aria and have had art
hanged in about 20 stores all this in the past 10 years. About 4 years ago I was featured in the Dallas Morning News 6 or
more times you can see copies on my website; here is a link to my home page:
http://hey_dtx.tripod.com
I have paid for this website for over 10 years and have been called a internet guru by a fan once when I first started
the site.
March 30th 2012 I edited one of those photos. I was out in my yard working like you would not believe.
Between that and working out I have sore muscles allot. Doing a lot more lawn mowing these days as well. Lots of rain makes
me a happy hubby.
I also resized all those great recipes on my recipe page so everyone can see with ease. I will add my newest
creations here for a while. That sure looks like a great cheese burger huh? It was messy to eat, but outstanding.
February 25 2012:
Here is a photo of my grandmother and her two sisters. I quote from my words page:
I loved my grandfather, my dads dad. He was a tough as nails Sicilian man. He was so tough he came across to me as very
mean, even though I know in his heart he loved me. The only reason I say that is because he was like a drill sergeant to me.
You have to understand my father was a police officer and my grandfather being like a drill instructor always seemed to much
to me. I believe it is the reason I am more disciplined at every thing I do. It is also the reason for the greatness in me.
My grandfather was a Navy man from World War II. No one likes to be bossed around even though it was for my own good. I did
not see that as a kid though. Now that I look back on it I understand. I have a hard time talking about all that because I
get choked up. He loved me like a son. I felt more like his son than his grandson. My grandmother seemed closer to me than
my own mother at times. It is kind of hard to talk about them with out getting very sad. I was close to them and always felt
it all my life. I lived with my grandparents for almost a year. They were like movie stars to me. It was one of the best years
of my youth. They always believed in me. They are the big percent of the reason I have achieved, at all, in my life time.
They loved my wife very much. They were very happy for us. My grandfather was like a hero to me. I hope I never end up like
a grumpy old man though. I don’t think my grandfather was like that. I don’t think he could have been married
to my sweet grandmother for 60 years if he was. I used to call my grandmother a angel, you can ask my wife. She was like a
angel to me all my life. I could cry at any moment, thinking of her, to this day. I could never talk enough about how great
my grandparents were. They had a real presence, I believe I inherited that part of them. I have known this all my life and
have leaned on that and built on that all my life. I think living with them in my youth really helped me in my life, because
of that. I do not want to say to much, as out of respect, and it makes me too sad too.
January 31 2012
Added myself to this web site: http://www.yourart.com/
You can find me here by searching for: Artist of web site Radman_Art
I usually do not do this ever because most of these sites are a scam and do more damage to the artist than good. I remember
these people from about 6 years ago and hope they are more mature now. We shall see. Maybe I can get some art sold, I assure
you this would pick up my spirits as a artist.
January 28 2012
It was fun, we had fun making home made egg roles. Like eating condensed vegetables. Very good for you. It was easier than
I thought and when I tell you they fried perfect. best I ever had. The wife had made crab ragoons a couple of weeks
before and I notice how great they fried. Too much fried food is bad for you. Once in a great while it is ok. Added new photo
to recipe page.
link to recipe: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/sara-moulton/egg-rolls-recipe/index.html
January 20, 2012 added macaroni and cheese computer background to recipe page.
I make macaroni and cheese for dinner. I add allot of extra ingredients. I added canned mushrooms and canned black olives
to this one, but the sky is the limit. I like to ad vegetables to things you normally would not. The more fresh vegetables
the better. I keep vegetables in reusable disposable plastic containers and feed from them all week adding a little peppers
here, onions there and so on. I got this recipe from the internet of course. It did not tell me to combine the ingredients
to a sauce pan over medium low heat. I thought of that myself. If you do this it really comes out great. I use Kroger, Velveeta
type cheese, to save money. I also sprinkle Kroger shredded cheese on top. I have noticed that Kroger shredded cheese is the
same price as regular block cheese. I ad parmesan cheese oregano, parsley, and garlic salt. I use shells because it captures
the ingredients best. You have to use Italian bread crumbs.
This is a link to the recipe:
http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1635,145168-252193,00.html
January 02 2012
I added 8 more 3d renders for you all. Notice they are more elaborate? I am posting them as I progressed in my first 3d
class. We used a program call Cinema 4D.
See Radman_Art 2001 page
December 24 2011
These are mini chicken sandwiches a little bigger than a American dollar coin.
see recipe page
My wife and I made the bread and we are now making dog treats as well to save money.
Here is a link to the dog treats
and bread recipes. If you like easy recipes these are it. I picked them out.
http://www.dogtreatrecipes.org/
http://www.food.com/recipe/my-favorite-sub-hoagie-rolls-285449
I am adding a photo of little chicken sandwiches I made. I used Cheese and frozen chicken breasts. I took the portion
of chicken and cut it into 6 pieces and batter dipped it in beer batter. Mayo on both sides.
I think I should mention that nothing on this web site is rated R. I just say that to keep kids away. I
do have some art that could be considered fictional violence I guess. Any way name one gallery that is owned by a kid.
December 12 2011 added Christmas background image and Christmas Screen Saver I made back in 2001.
January 20, 2012 added macaroni and cheese computer background to recipe page.
I make macaroni and cheese for dinner. I add allot of extra ingredients. I added canned mushrooms and canned black olives
to this one, but the sky is the limit. I like to ad vegetables to things you normally would not. The more fresh vegetables
the better. I keep vegetables in reusable disposable plastic containers and feed from them all week adding a little peppers
here, onions there and so on. I got this recipe from the internet of course. It did not tell me to combine the ingredients
to a sauce pan over medium low heat. I thought of that myself. If you do this it really comes out great. I use Kroger, Velveeta
type cheese, to save money. I also sprinkle Kroger shredded cheese on top. I have noticed that Kroger shredded cheese is the
same price as regular block cheese. I ad parmesan cheese oregano, parsley, and garlic salt. I use shells because it captures
the ingredients best. You have to use Italian bread crumbs.
This is a link to the recipe:
http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1635,145168-252193,00.html
italians_in_middletown_1893_1932.pdf click here to download file
January 02 2012
I added 8 more 3d renders for you all. Notice they are more elaborate? I am posting them as I progressed in my first 3d
class. We used a program call Cinema 4D.
See Radman_Art 2001 page
December 24 2011
These are mini chicken sandwiches a little bigger than a American dollar coin.
see recipe page
My wife and I made the bread and we are now making dog treats as well to save money.
Here is a link to the dog treats
and bread recipes. If you like easy recipes these are it. I picked them out.
http://www.dogtreatrecipes.org/
http://www.food.com/recipe/my-favorite-sub-hoagie-rolls-285449
I am adding a photo of little chicken sandwiches I made. I used Cheese and frozen chicken breasts. I took the portion
of chicken and cut it into 6 pieces and batter dipped it in beer batter. Mayo on both sides.
I think I should mention that nothing on this web site is rated R. I just say that to keep kids away. I
do have some art that could be considered fictional violence I guess. Any way name one gallery that is owned by a kid.
December 12 2011 added Christmas background image and Christmas Screen Saver I made back in 2001.
November 18, 2011
When I say this is me at my best I do not mean my guitar skills. I mean this is me at my heart felt soulful best. I bought
this guitar for my birthday last year. I am getting better all the time. I love all types of rock music especially guitar
greats. I also like Black and Death Metal Music and this gives me allot of freedom when performing because this music is not
all melody. My goal is to play like Eddie Van Halen form the first Van Halen albums. Like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_lwocmL9dQ check it out it is like my favorite you tube video. He seems so free in this performance.
I made my first guitar video and my wife and watched it and both agreed it was not good. My wife pushes me to learn more
and play better. I did save a photo from a frame and posted it on my site about a week ago. My problem is I do not practice
enough. I practice about once a month to tell the truth now. I played every day for the first 3 months I owned it, then less
and less.
The next video I made that is posted on this site I got the guitar and practiced for about a 30 minutes first. I like the
way it came out. My amp is not that great but it has a head phone jack and when I hook it into the computer I can manipulate
the sound to sound way cool. I posted the first 3 mp3’s I made here but no one downloaded them. I paid $80 for the guitar
and it is just as good as a Fender. I will tell you all where I got it for the first time now. I got it on www.Target.com ;weird huh? Other stores were selling it for $150.00. Most electric guitars cost at least $300.00. The video lacks good sound
but I can post it because it is small enough. I forgot to shut off the fan next to the camera, that did not help. Try to imagine
what it would sound like with a proper amp. We shall see how well I can out do myself. I am just playing around but every
once and a while I do some reading and training. For now I watch the video allot and try to out do that. I also love my new
long hair. It finally got long enough recently that I can tie it back so you would never know I have long hair from the front.
I just think long hair is essential for a guitar player.
Pasted from my words page:
All my life I have wanted a guitar and have not been able to get one. Thanks to the internet I was able to find a pretty
good electric guitar at a doable price for my birthday. I actually found a good modern sounding electric guitar for like eighty
dollars. I took lessons when I was a child because I picked up my sisters guitar and was able to play by ear. My family was
so impressed by this my grandparent’s bought me a electric guitar and amp and my mother who did not have much money;
paid for lessons for me for about a year, I was 11 years old. So I am excited about all the possibilities of creating music
and posting it hear to promote my art. year, I was 11 years old. So I am excited about all the possibilities of creating music
and posting it hear to promote my art.
November 12, 2011
I added 10 new recipe photos to my recipe page all made by me the great chef. My grandfather in the photo below was also
a great chef and was a cook for the Navy also during World War Two. He was on the ship most of the time in hostile territory.
He has a tattoo on his forearm that was given to him after crossing the equator. He was a great man and I lived with my grandparents
when I was 17 for about a year, best year of my life. I talk about it on my words page which is now not hidden any more. I
come from a great family. My Sicilian blood is the key ingredient to my cooking. I am three forths off the boat Sicilian and
one forth Yugoslavian off the boat everyone. My great grandparents were all off the boat.
October 24 2011 I took all the hidden pages from this web site and put them the left column. Added recipe
page.
October 22 2011 moved Radman_Art how it looked in 2001
Added two new ones. Will add more to it latter.
Peace
October 9th 2011
My wife has been making the best pizza, I have had since Connecticut. I could eat pizza every day.
These images took on average 5 hours each. I ran test renderings over and over to get just the right reflection and shadows.
I want to show you a little of what my web site looked like when my wife first started in 2001. She named it Radman_art
because she thought it was clever with a under score. She was taking a programming class at the time and she received a A
in part one and two of those classes.
I made all these in Cinema 4d my first 3d class I took. They are all fully animated and can be used for a movie. I would
like to remind you all I have 2 hours of animation from my first CCCCD certificate I aced.
What? August 29 2011
I have never sold a painting shown on this web site! Ever!
If you ever want to see a new work of art SHOWN on this web site, that needs to change!
I have paid for this web site for 10 years!
Ten years of a free web site, no ads!
Ten years of non offensive art!
Do not worry about me I will be happy no matter what.
You know the one thing I remembered from 1995 when I got my first computer? Google an Yahoo. If we are all honest we will
admit it is true for all us geniuses. I do not care about Myspace or Twitter as long as I can have a website. Dah? I am really
tired of showing my art on the web. I think I may go back to the old days of sending people and co.’s snail mail. with
original art work. I did that for so many years with no prosperity from it at all; between the years of 1984 to 1997. It sure
was fun surprising people and making them happy.
Bill, bill, bill, hey cool; artwork!
I have been getting these surge of hits lately and if that keeps up I will keep this site as a photo site or some thing.
I will show what I ate last night or my new sk8 trick. Lol.
Thanks Google and Yahoo.
I deleted a bunch of stuff today. I have been paying tripod for this web site for about ten years and have been displaying
my art here as well. Tripod is the best: that is why I choose them. Lately I have been asking myself why. It seems like a
lot of work for nothing. I am thinking of not paying for this site anymore and letting it float in cyber space. I would first
have to change this entire site over to the new interface, that would take a lot of work. I will let you know here of any
updates, but that is why I deleted the files today. No one was downloading them so I guess like everything else on this web
site it does not really matter. I have also discovered many times over the years many security programs block this web site
for no reason. There is and never will be any dangerous files in any of my sites.
May 27 2011 added 1 piece to Science Fiction Fantasy Watercolors I will leave it on the home page for now.
Boy that is a good one huh? Showing the technique I learned doing all those metal paintings I did for my Burst series. I have many of these paintings on my walls. These paintings are a must display in my house. Funny I did a burst type painting
as the first painting I have done in a long time. The burst series was also a series I did after not doing paintings in a
while. My idea was to name it burst because I burst out with art then. Basically this painting is of a dragon on wet rocks
in a blood red sea with a fire sky. The Dragon seems to be on fire. I have another similar painting on the way.
I added another song I made. I put no special effects on it. It is just straight guitar. Hope you like it I do. I am doing
my best to learn to play as much as possible. My wife is encouraging me allot to learn to play.
Work was so difficult this week I barely had enough strength to do anything this week. I plan on talking to the boss
about have the right amount of good workers. That is always the problem isn’t it, good workers? I have always been the
type of person to do others work if I have to.
May 20 2011 added 1 piece to drawings page 3 and one peice to Southwest Art Page I will leave it on the home page for now.
No matter what I can not complain about politics and things on this web site. This web site is made for fun and that is
just the way it is. I try to complain here but always take it down. It is like to opposite ends on a magnet. Complaining and
this web site do not go together.
I had a great week for art. I was telling my wife I am not only her artist, sk8boarding hero I am now her rock star guitar
hero too.
For some reason I did a horse this week. I saw the pre sketch and broke down and did what I do best; convey the raw true
grit of Texas life. So I promises to do 2 western art pre sketches next week. The pre sketch I finished is from back when
I was working on my southwest art page series. I did my last South West piece in December 02 2010. Maybe I will go on with
it or maybe as always keep that in a special place in my mind and let it out for you all once and a while. I am a westerner,
I was even born in the deep country of western America. My dad was in the US Air Force and my pregnant mom went to be with
him and I was born there and lived there for 1 year before returning to Connecticut. I think that even though I was 1 year
old I became accustom to that. I always longed to live in the west all my life and I think it is because I lived there till
I became 1 year old. Weird huh?
I really went wild with my new Engine Engine Number 6. I would like to dedicate this Alfa Romeo engine to my favorite band
The Snake The Cross The Crown. These are a bunch of southern boys from Alabama; who grew up in the Independent Rock scene
quietly. They burst out with Cotton Teeth in 2007, like the Beatles in the album Abby Road. I have loved this band since my
college days. The college has very fast internet and I discovered this band by listening to Cotton Teeth on the Walden Books
web site. I had no clue from MTV Subterranean or any thing and I was watching all that stuff back then. I read about them
on a site and listened to them at school. These guys are thee best band and should be celebrated and not so obscure like me,
lol.
Link to The Snake The Cross The Crown:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snake_the_Cross_the_Crown#Discography
I am going to quote this from my favorite web site in the world Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Their current name ( The Snake The Cross The Crown) is a reference to the logo of Italian car company, Alfa Romeo, where Kevin Jones' father owned a repair shop that burnt to the ground. The name is an homage to his father.
I made you all a great rock song. I plan on dubbing my harmonica next time and try to get my wife a synthesizer latter
on the internet. She is actually pretty good on it we had one when we first met. Check out the down loadable MP3 I made with
my cool black electric guitar; as soon as I got it; this week. I think it is a dark black metal type song, and a little sad
too. I look forward to making more great music and posting it for down load here. I do not have time again to continue my
marriage biography, I will though. Being married to my wife has only brought me happiness all my life. When I am happy I do
great things. This has made my marriage to my wife like one huge adventure.
All my life I have wanted a guitar and have not been able to get one. Thanks to the internet I was able to find a pretty
good electric guitar at a doable price for my birthday. I actually found a good modern sounding electric guitar for like eighty
dollars. I took lessons when I was a child because I picked up my sisters guitar and was able to play by ear. My family was
so impressed by this my grandparent’s bought me a electric guitar and amp and my mother who did not have much money;
paid for lessons for me for about a year, I was 11 years old. So I am excited about all the possibilities of creating music
and posting it hear to promote my art. year, I was 11 years old. So I am excited about all the possibilities of creating music
and posting it hear to promote my art
Oh and I hope you like the photo of me taken by one of the best skateboarder photographers in the world my wife. I hope
to share more photos of me sk8ing by her soon. I reversed the photo so it would make good background. The shirt is the only
sk8 shirt I own. I have been a baker fan since I bought the DVD Baker 3. Awesome team. Peace from the Creator of Radman_Art.
May 12 2011 added 1 piece to drawings page 3 I will leave it on the home page for now.
Well I only got one piece done this week and it is a miracle I could do that. I like it and it looks sharp;
even when view from far away you can make it out. I do not remember ever making a serious attempt at a car. I guess it is
one of those things I have not gotten around to mastering that I would like to. I think I remember doing cars when I was a
kid though. I know I did choppers allot to scale as a kid and into my 20’s. I even have some saved from when I worked
for Tracker Designs in the late 1980’s; that has chopper motorcycles done well.
If I had my way I would do art everyday and that’s it. My responsibilities although they may seem unreasonable
to me at times, like my back breaking job or having to spend most of this week in my yard doing hard labor. One of our trees
decided to loose a limb so I had to go rent a chain saw and chop it up then relocate it. My body has got like 5 chigger bite
spots and two bruises on my legs plus my skin is chafing from my sunglasses. Every muscle in my body is very sore. If I had
known I was going to be doing this this week I would have not worked out like a banshee.
No time to add to my biography of my marriage this week maybe next week. Peace and love to everyone, at least
the hippies got that one right. There is just not enough peace and love to one another and I have and always will believe
in the brotherhood of man. Like my favorite modern country blue grass rock band say’s:
Old Crow Medicine Show
We're All In This Together Lyrics:
Well my friends, I see your face so clearly
Little bit tired, little worn through the years
You
sound nervous, you seem alone
I hardly recognize your voice on the telephone
In between I remember
Just before bound-up, broken-down
We drive out to the edge of the highway
Follow
that lonesome dead-end roadside south
(Chorus:)
We're all in this thing together
Walkin' the line between faith and fear
This life don't
last forever
When you cry I taste the salt in your tears
Well my friend, let's put this thing together
And walk the path with worn out feet of trial
'Cause
if you wanted we can go home forever
Give up your jaded ways, spell your name to God
(Chorus)
All the hour there's a picture in a mirror
Fancy shoes to grace our feet
All there is is a slow road
to freedom
Heaven above and the devil beneath
(Chorus)
May 06 2011 added 1 piece to drawings page 3 I will leave it on the home page for now.
I just did one this week and it is the best engine yet. It took me all week. Remember last week when I said
I do not work a hour at a time on art, well I did that on two occasions this past week. I actually drew this engine 3 times
before darkening it. It is amazing how dark I get with the pencil, huh? You know how I do it? I break the lead allot, let
me just say that, allot. I really wanted to submerse my self in this drawing. I would guess I spent 14 or more hours on this
one. You know if you were to stand there with me I could tell you what each and every engine was. I have always been a admirer
of cars motorcycles, tractors, anything motorized; since I was a child. Again like cowboys and Indians and army men we find
me just drawing things I liked as a kid. I had a pretty good child hood. I do have my family photo, from the seventy’s,
up on my home page. People really liked me when I was a kid. A had a broad appeal like the rock band Pearl Jam, I appealed
to everyone.
OK, more about my wife and I. I had 2 cars when I met her one was a Mustang 2, it was nice and in real good
condition even though it was a 1970’s car. But when I met her I had a One Ton Ford, custom van. It had rust on the bottom
but it was nice. It had hard wood floors and velvet cushioning. When we moved into the new place I got a cheap motorcycle
like a 400 I think. It had straight pipes so it was load. It was a Honda and it was shiny and neat looking. Then there was
this dude in Meriden, a older guy that fixed up bikes, he had this Early model 500 cc Honda Shadow, I loved that bike and
still think they look nice. I wish they made bikes like that. I would take that thing out allot and took my wife every where
on it. I even took her to where I used to ride my 250 Honda when I was a kid in Cacaponsit State Forest. Just looked
it up on wikipedia.org, this bike was so nice they would customize it into a chopper, Yamaha and Kawasaki had similar models
and even Ducati had a nice model like this, in the 1980’s. One time I had that bike out on a sunny day with the walkman
on full blast I popped the best wheelie of my life at the stop light. That bike went straight up I road it out and made a
nice light landing. Like I said when I met my wife I told her I wanted to move to California for a while and was determined
to do it. So the idea was to put the motorcycle in the van so we would have two modes of transpiration in California.
April 29 2011 added 3 pieces to drawings page 3 I will leave it on the home page for now.
Whelp here I am again. I just want to say for the ten years this web site has been up I have added art up
here every week, a amazing amount of art. Some times I do not post about it, so if you do not see a post for that week it
means nothing. Basically all the free time I have is spent caring for my wife and pets and chores and maintenance here. What
every time I have left from that every week I do art. I try very hard every week to make sure I have enough time to do art
and it is not easy. I wish I could sit down for a hour or so when ever. To me art is a event and there must be time to absorb
all the greatness within me and let it flow from me like a great rock song.
You like my new engines? I now officially have a series of engine art. These drawings are extremely difficult
and take maybe 10 hours each. I love just being in the middle of them surrounded by moving mechanical parts. I guess it is
like doing the insides of one of my mechanical robots. I grew up around mechanics and muscle cars. My uncle always owned a
gas station in Meriden Connecticut, my wife’s home town. My other uncle did all the work on his vehicles. My two cousins
both my age owned big time muscle cars the practically made themselves. My cousin who’s dad owned the gas station had
a white mustang mach 1totally supped up. I went for a ride with my cousins one time and when that thing took off it plastered
me against the back seat in the air. Also do not forget the 7 years I spent on the king of all sport bikes, recently; the
Kawasaki Ninja 1200. I had a reputation on route 75 that will live forever. To make a long story short I got racing in my
blood. My uncle the famous stock car guy. My cousin Tony Catanzaro racing motorcycle in my youth had me hanging out a motorcycle
races a large part of my youth. Love that smell of the track and the bikes.
I through in a dragon for good measure this week. I want to remind you all of how good I am at drawing dragons.
Did a huge amount of dragon drawings before I started college. I do not have scans of all this work online but let me put
it this way I drew at least two hundred dragons of every kind. I know all the different types of dragons and the features
of them all. When every create a dragon I like to mix and match the way they look. This dragon seems to be looking proud.
So I named it recognize, also because when it comes to creating dragon art there can not be many to compare to. Too bad the
world needs more dragon art. Dragons have existed since and after dinosaurs and have been legendary and not always been bad.
Many dragons have been good and defenders of men.
I done went and wrote too much again this week. I would like to start where I left of last week. So my wife
and I lived in the apartment in this cool old house. We have always had a cat so we got the cat my wife had in her home at
the time. We returned it back to my wife’s home and got our first cat Baby a pure bread Persian. Light blue in color.
We used to go skate boarding allot together. She would watch and sit in the sun. It was what we did for many years for outside
fun. I was always asking around about ramps and spots and actually found a few that we visited in Connecticut in the mid late
1980’s. My favorite thing to do was just find a nice smooth parking lot near a factory of what ever. My wife was at
work one time and I went on my own one time in her brand new Colt. On my way home it was getting dark, some guy hit me in
a giant old car, he was not even in a car lane at the time and was passing on the right. Pop! That car popped like a balloon
and I was in it. To look at the car it was a miracle I was able to walk away. The ambulance took me away the main problem
was glass in my head. I had a bunch of x-rays and was sent on my way with my health in tacked. There was the usual 3 feet
of snow on the ground that night as I walked from the from the hospital to our nice little neighborhood. As I got close to
my apartment Led Zeppelin played loud on my walkman. The words “as I look to the west, my spirit is crying for leaving”
played. I can remember that moment crystal clear to this day. I made up my mind not to wait any more and to move to California.
April 22 2011 added 5 pieces to drawings page 3 I will leave it on the home page for now.
I rescanned war_machine_xxvi so you can see this sketch I did instantly off the top of my head. I believe
at this point I can make anything into a mechanical robot. This stuff is in my brain at all times, lol.
I realized I had not updated my skateboard video so I did that at that moment. It was wet that morning so I could not get
as much speed but I did do some olies for ya. It is a big file about 50 mb and features my favorite band from Middletown Connecticut;
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. My home town is Middletown; and my family’s, family’s home town. Home of the greatest
college for mathematical geniuses Wesleyan University. The greatest colleges in the history of the world are in Connecticut
and with out these students there would not be America. I grew up hanging out such places and always had students as my heroes.
Also two days ago I put up downloadable versions of my web sites for animation and comics. It as not easy
to do this but it was worth it. I will do the same thing for the Geo Cities web site that shut down. This web site was exactly
like this site when it first started; all 3d computer art.
Of course I added a special Easter sketch for you desktop or card for that special someone. Bomb’s away,
lol. I did fast and showed my wife and said; it as my new Easter art; she was like oh ho nice but why the bombs? Lol. I will
delete this file after Easter.
Since I am doing so much this week I will not write to much about the biography of my marriage. I do want to say this;
my first most precious memory of my wife in our first apartment is of her falling asleep in my arms night after night as we
watched movies. I even carried her to bed once or twice.
April 15 2011 added 2 pieces to drawings page 3 I will leave it on the home page for now.
The war scene is a quick sketch I did on the fly, it is not really finished but I am going to include it in
the series because it is so complex. I actually started something like that on the back of war_machine_xxvii and realized
I could not have time this week to finish it. War_machine_xxvii came out awesome though and I love it. It has a real modern
look to it. This drawing took me a very long time. I have not worked on a single drawing for so long in a long time.
I have been working out for about 3 months now and my work outs are getting longer and more intense now that
is the main reason this week for not completing a proper war scene. I have been doing aerobic type work outs. We bought a
DVD awhile back for my wife and I have been trying to tackle it all this time. We just walked into Best buy and bought a exercise
DVD; and I have to tell you it is a great one. It does the complete body. I excel in arms and upper body, and do great with
legs; abs are always the hardest for me. In the 20 years or so of me working out I never did abs, my body building coach Jerry
Augustine (Mr. North Eastern early 1970’s) told me abs are worked in every exercise. I did do leg raises in the 1980s
allot though. The first month I started exercising it was just touch and go; but now I am full on. I still am not able to
perfect some exercises but I am working on it.
I would like to talk more about my wife, she has lived every adventure I have had since I have met her. We
have been married for almost 25 years now and she has made me happy all these years. Like Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones
says: "I need a love to make me happy. Happy!" Web site almost 10 years old, email almost 10 years old and me married almost
25 years and I am about to hit 40,000 hits on this site. When I met her I lived in that room above the bar and it was so small.
I had my weight set, like a universal machine and it took up the whole room. Since we were un separable we got a small apartment
on the top floor of a house. It was kind of nice I had a great job delivering auto parts. Jobs seemed so easy to get back
home, now I am lucky to have a job even though I know it is causing me problems with my art arm and hand; I stick with it.
I am hoping the aerobic exercising will help me though, I do not expect any thing over night but in time it will get me in
better shape and build endurance. I had room for my weight set in our apartment and worked out hard for the first 2 years
I was married. We had nice furniture; hand me downs from friends and family. We had this cool sectional couch my wife’s
friends gave us. We would go out skateboarding allot together back then. I had a nice white board a G&S I bought in a
skate shop in my home town. I started sending art work to skate board companies in California and was interested in moving
there to work for a skate company. I will try to pick up where I left off and continue writing latter.
April 08 2011 added 2 pieces to drawings page 3 I will leave it on the home page for now.
Whelp this is cool and I love it on my walls. It is so rough and tough. Am I rough enough? Am I tough enough?
Like Mick Jagger said. I think this is just a practical application of my mechanical robots. I like to leave these type things
a mystery to everyone. I noticed how easy it was for me to do the mechanical parts of the monster trucks since I was into
creating mechanical robots and mechanical spaceships and tanks. It is basically the same art I have been good at since I was
a child. Remember I said I did well in drafting class because I was able to draw by site instead of measuring; every high
school semester.
I took drafting every year of high school; untill my junior year, in beautiful Middletown Connecticut were
I lived in a upper-class neighborhood. I was living with my grandparents at the time who spoiled me rotten every day of my
life. I tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt I loved my grand parents Alexander and Lucile more than any other relative in
my life. I tell you this much when I lived there in this pristine place with million dollar homes in the late 1970’s,
I never missed a chance to ski Powder Ridge a ski resort in Middlesex Connecticut where my grandparents where originally from.
Powder Ridge was close to their home. I was never a drinker my whole life but my grandparents had a full bar with every kind
of fancy liquor you could imagine. I was joking with my wife the other day and mentioned that I never remember them entertaining
when I lived there, they must have put it on hold for me. My grandparents were like celebrities to me. Every Friday and Saturday
night they stayed out all night too. These were the coolest people I knew and this is that which flows through me everyday.
This magic blood of ancient people of distinguished taste. My Grandfather on my dads side his parents came from Sicily, the
same for my gramy and my mother’s father. My mom’s mother; her parents came from Yugoslavia and were so old school
they had a arranged marriage.
Been having fun mowing the lawn and having barbeques with my sweetie. Since I am talking about those I love
I want to talk about just how much I love my wife. Make no mistake about it I would probably die without her, my body would
just stop functioning. I met my love in 1986. I was working with her for a while in a lovely restaurant named Friendly’s
where all the female workers wore nice dresses. She was out of work when a young man approached me who looked like the boy
from those old Dutch boy paint cans. I had been dating wild girls only back then, who were never a good match with me. He
said to me why don’t you date my wife. As soon as my wife got back to work I asked her where she was hoping to start
a conversation that would lead to me asking her out. She looked at me angry and said that is non of your business. I thought
there is no way she is going out with me now, latter I asked her to a movie I think a drive in, we used to do that allot those
days always corny horror movies. Once we went out she would not leave me alone. I was so used to young ladies dating me a
dumping me I assumed she would do the same but she did not. I lived over a rough and tough bar at the time. I had lived over
or near a bar all my single bachelor life it seemed. This was a big bar that would have bad fights almost every Saturday night.
She had come to the bar to meet me that snowy afternoon and she looked great. She always dressed like the perfect East Coast
girl, pretty yet cool that is what she was like to me. She was a leader all her life with out knowing it just like me. She
would not leave me ever, she was just always there back then. We had so many fun times back then so innocent. I thought this
is the woman I wanted to marry and tried not to be intimate with her wanting to save ourselves for marriage. I told her right
off my intention to move to California and work for a skateboard company and that is exactly what I did the biggest in the
world Tracker design. The first 2 years were tough because I was a very good looking guy lifting weights at least 4 days a
week for about 6 years then. But she was so beautiful and we just took off to Big Bear Mountain one weekend and got married.
The skiing was great too. We have been in love ever since then and to this day I love her more than words can say, so I dedicate
this web site again to my love, my other half of whom I would stand in chivalry to her honor; I am a willing slave, a knight
to her beck and call.
March 31 2011 added 3 pieces to drawings page 3 I will leave it on the home page for now.
I am sorry I noticed once again how you can not see the detail of my drawings. I need to have a show.
Try to picture the size and how it would look at that size. I may try a bigger size on some art, I have the psd files for
all my art.
March 25 2011 added 4 pieces to drawings page 3 I will leave it on the home page for now.
I did something I rarely do I went back into a work of art and redid it. War_machine_XXII just did not fit with my other
drawings because it was not dark enough. I looked at it framed on my wall for a while with the others next to it and it bugged
me so much I took it out and inked it. I only use Micron Pens. I have used Micron pens since the late 1980’s so all
my art from back then that and still have about 1,000 pieces are all in this ink. So I figured I better ink my new piece too.
I like it and may ink again. I do like the effect of dark pencil also verses ink.
Anyay Monster trucks rule! I saw a live show in 1986 and loved it Big Foot forever!
It did take me about four years to do a space ship. My life is so busy, I really believe work is the number one reason
I do not immerse my self in art completely like my college years. I really would love if a collector would help support me
so I could devote all my time to art. Until then work is a reality for me. Things seemed to be getting better at work now
it seems to be getting worse fast. I blame my work for multiple injuries I have sustained in fact quit literally my job is
killing me. What ever ailments I have had have gotten worse since I have had my job. Ever since last week my right arm the
arm and hand have been throbbing. It actually woke me up 3 nights in a row when I was sleeping. I wrapped it in neo foam and
it seems to be better for now. I am constantly hurting my fingers on my right hand from lifting heavy metal fixtures at my
job. I think I actually may have broke something in my hand about 6 months ago. I looked down at my fingers on my right hand
and they had turned purple. Most of the people I work with are cold and indifferent since they are also working under the
same inhuman conditions. It is not fare that I say something like this with out giving a solution to the problem. I think
our store needs to stop being 24 hours. I am a cook not a janitor. Maybe we should only be 24 hours on our busy days and have
a cleaning crew come in the rest of the time. Or just shut down the night shift all together. I say this knowing full well
these are the hours I work.
Where, I "work": The man say’s; the problem is not the work, the problem is the people are not able to do the job.
Maybe he is right, maybe, not.
I have some great work for next week. My spouse said it looks very intricate. I am three fourths done with one piece of
art and one eighth done with another so should have two competed.
March 18 2011 added 1 piece to drawings page 3 I will leave it on the home page for now.
Mini paintings added to Horses page
I did a lot of art this week although I strayed from my series a little for Saint Patrick’s day and
a lady I work with. I did complete a great mech though and am about one forth of the way done with another mech. The detail
in this new mech War_machine_XXII has reached a new level in this series. I am becoming better and better at drawing these
mechanical masterpieces. I become mesmerized in detail. It was kind of stress full here. I had a hole in my fence made by
a new dog on my street, Then the dog made it’s way through the hole and tore my trash up. My trash was all over
the street. I hate trash and am picking it up around where I live all the time. I think you should keep where you live trash
free to make you feel good and let others know this is a good place too. I wish more people were like me. It took me 4 hours
in the hot sun to fix the fence. I have a unexpected sun tan this week. I thought there is no way I am going to finish this
sketch of War_machine_XXII from being so tired. I sat down and started to sketch and 6 hours latter I was finished, This sketch
was half done when I started. I noticed that all the stress from the day before just kind of melted away. I was so focused
I forgot about stress. Amazing sometimes what art does to a person. our trash company gave us these super cool trash barrels
so it worked out for the best. The barrels we had we found when we moved here almost a decade ago and they were
rusty and old.
I brought a painting into work and one of the ladies freaked out when she saw it. Every once and a while I
show my painting to someone and they freak out and beg me to give it to them. So I made these paintings that will fit in my
card case so I can give them to everyone that I think would like them. I have given out close to 1000 small unfinished works
of art to people in my community. I always think it is something I can do make people happy.
The Saint Patrick’s day mech came out so great. It has 3 machine guns and are fed by 6 belts of ammo.
It is a mech that is just guns. It is a unfinished piece though and quickly done. I have a deep seated love and comradely
to Irish people and Ireland. I went to a Irish Catholic school from second grade to eighth grade.
I almost forgot this web site has been up for almost a decade. My wife started this web site in
2002 I will find out the exact date soon. My email is that old too. I have never sold a painting through this web site though,
I will not let that stop me.
I want to say one more thing I am against war (see my blogs on democrat site) and my new series is not promoting
war. In fact I specially drew all my mechs with no heads. This is my way of saying it war is a mindless act.
March 11 2011 added 2 pieces to drawings page 3 I will leave them on the home page for now.
These beauties are almost as big as the 11" x 14" drawings I have done. Notice again how small the driver
of the tank is. The robot is a classic. These types of mechanical robots are awesome and quick runners packed with fire power.
I am very empathetic (we have been through earth quakes in California) about the Japanese earth quake.
I have been doing this series since January of 2011. just before I started the series I was doing abstract drawings and I
put some mechanical robots in a abstract drawing called Nature to War. I have not looked back since. I have done many drawings
and acrylic paintings of mechanical robots in my life but never a actual series. The mech paintings are fantastic and can
be seen here and here.
I have a super mech on a tee shirt I made for Cafe Press like 10 years ago. In other words I am a old pro
at this and a bigger fan than most people that are fans. All this art originates from the great high tech country of Japan.
So my spouse and I are very empathetic to learn of this tragedy, more than most people especially since I am doing all this
great art.
March 04 2011 added 1 piece to drawings page 3
Another big one. this one took a long time. I have been really working the lines. I devoted about 10 hours
just doing light sketching. Setting up my drawings has been taking me longer and longer. I think what gives me my edge as
a artist is me graduating 3 times as a graphic design artist in college. I take a long time deciding what I will draw. I also
custom cut all my bristol board and thanks to graphic design I am good at it, it is still time consuming.
I have wanted to do a tank for a very long time. I did to a bunch of tanks for this painting:
http://hey_dtx.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/armymen.jpg
this painting is 3' x 4' and done on hand made stretched canvas I made myself. It can be seen on my soldiers
page.
I have had this painting in my living room since I did it about 4 years ago. I liked playing cowboys and Indians
with plastic toys and also army men. I think this is why I like doing this type of art. The thing I like about this drawing
is it looks really bold and can be made out from 50 feet away; even if you did not know what it was. I went in last with some
smudging stick. This is the first time I have done this in this series. I spent so much time on the pre sketch that I had
to do this because of smudged pencil. I have been working almost as hard as the sketching as keeping the bristol board clean.
Notice the fire power on this beast. The size of the solder means you can walk around in this thing, lol. I have another tank
sketch about half done will post next week.
February 25 2011 added 2 pieces to drawings page 3
Well I did not do to much on my free time except do art. I found out that doing this type of pencil art on
a large scale is extremely time consuming. The intricacy of this work is unparallel. That is exactly why I am doing this art
now. I just want to open up on detail. I am also a big fan of the art work of Japanese animation. When I was in Killeen Texas
I rented every Japanese animation I could find. Being near a military base I am sure many of these animated movies were available
for rent because the solders were big fans. Akira and Tank Police come to mind right away. US and Europe’s Manga Corps
was the best. These pieces look great from across the room. The closer you look at it the better it looks. I like to let my
mind drift when viewing this art, moving around the detailed arias.
I took a photo of the series so far. I will post it here.
Also I have been taking photos of food I have cooked. I have been approaching every meal like a work of art.
I am posting a meal I made recently. Ravioli with ricotta and shrimp with red pepper, (bottled), baked with olive oil minced
garlic parmesan oregano, parsley and cut up salami..
February 18 2011 added 3 pieces to drawings page 3
Only 3 works of art this week. I did a special Valentines mechanical robot. I put a special huge jpeg on the homepage for
Valentines day only. I did the same thing Christmas too. The Valentines robot was done quickly so it is not really finished.
I like it though and it made my spouse laugh. It just seemed like Valentines day was a big deal here in town. I guess Valentines
is a southern holiday, I like the Valentines day song from the Drive by Truckers. I had a link up on my site to the mp3 when
the CD was coming out. My valentines mechanical robot is equipped with nuclear grenades that explode on a delayed timer. The
arm is a actual ICBM nuclear rocket launcher.
I finally got around to doing a space ship. I have been wanting to do a space ship for about 4 years now. I hope you like
them I just love all these pieces so far. I have the ten best on display, on my shelf now and they look so 3d they really
seem to come out of the Bristol board like a hologram.
January 28 2011 added 3 new mech drawings to drawings page 3; for a series of 5, so far.
update
I have been doing the best of this series. Stay tuned when you see these they almost defy explanation. I have
been a fan of the mechanical robot thing for years. I am going strong all out. Haven’t done that in while. The fact
that I can set loose on Bristol board and show as soon as I’m done is cool I think. Can not do this in photo shop yet
is the basic of all art. The free look of the free form art can not be replace. Raw art. From my broken hand to you. There
is nothing to hate about this art.
check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Courageous+Cat&aq=f
This is one of my favorite cartoons as a child. This would make a great movie remake! Tell Steven Spielberg for me!
January 18 2011 Finished the drawing I started 2 weeks ago and did a bonus drawing as well for a extra 200
points. Will post soon.
I want you all to know I do art for one reason. Love.
Let’s all face it. In 1997 I was ruined. Just Like my favorite band said.
http://www.mobiusband.com/home.php
This blessed band from my home town of Middletown, Connecticut.
For some reason I reached down into my heart and soul and took over a decade to present to the world a artist
novel. Just like I said about my motorcycle you can hate me but please do not hate my motorcycle. She was a beauty and to
hate something so beautiful would be a doing something that would be against your very nature as a human. Of course as always
I am talking to humanity not to the inhuman. There is a population of people that believe in hate only. I think at least half
of them are just follower though. That’s cool I follow things I do not believe absolutely in too.
I am just the little boy from the giant old brownstone school like I always was. The boy the whole class would
gather around my desk in the morning and watch me do art. Everyone said I was a great artist since I was a kid, so that is
what I have rested my head on all these years. Not a easy life and I would try to discourage any young person from pursuing
a carrier in art.
I would like to like to post a copy of the front cover to one of my favorite album of my youth; Captain Fantastic.
I was a big fan of Elton John in grades 7 and 8. I had my room full of classic Elton John posters. I remember I got in trouble
for something as a kid and my construction foreman step dad; he tore all of those posters off my wall to punish me. We get
along fine now but that left a terrible impression on me. Even though we did not get along well my step dad was and is a American
Icon. That was a bad idea tearing down those posters. The worst thing you can do is take top rated graphic design art from
a young man who wanted to be graphic artist. In a way it is the same thing as 1997 isn’t it. To punish me I was torn
down by ignorance and hate by people who liked to misuse the order of things. You can not destroy art. It is everywhere and
will always be. Even in the far reaches of space art abounds.
The art of the Captain Fantastic Album a Album I bought when I was 14 years old; is so much like my art from
the very beginning . Yes I still have all the best art I did from the late 1980’s. They are in a huge crate I made from
lumber from Home Depot; that doubles as a table and entrance way to my front door.
I have always thought that at least in Japan I could be popular. I have loved Japanese art since Akira:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(film)
and my first Nintendo game from the first unit made by them. I love to see modern Japanese art. It copy’s
American skull and flames artist like me. They try so hard to copy American art. You have to actually be a American to successfully
create American art though. I think you have to endure the hardship of it to express it’s freedom.
December 23 2010
I have added 11 drawings on Drawings Page 3 .
January 07, 2010
I seem to be recuperating from my job during the holidays. My job is ten times harder during the holidays. I have a very
cool sketch I am almost done with like a week ago. I plan on continuing with my South West series. I have been having a great
time with my spouse having cook outs. I love these marinades we have been using them for years. Here is a link to Lawry’s Marinades.
December 23 2010
I have added 11 drawings on Drawings Page 3 . Woopty do! I think I am going to do bigger; one subject drawings like the sketches I will be handing out for a while. Many
times I have been inspired to do whole series by what sketches I give to people. I think the whole black out series went like
that. Well this has been a pretty cool Christmas. Me and the honey bunny bought lots of gifts for the dogs and cat too. The
dogs got some flee drops and the cat got a new card board scratching post, stuff like that. My job is so much more hectic
during the Christmas season and I have all I can do to recharge. I like to take time out to enjoy my holiday time more too.
The cold can be hard on my old bones as well. I do like to take time to smell the roses once and while. It is not like I do
not have the best art around filling up all my wall space and more stored away if I want to change it. Oh the beautiful droopy
sad western art, so appropriate for the back drop of my life these past decades. I am working Christmas and Christmas eve
almost back to back. I think we will have lots of people working this year because I have been warning everyone all this time
how busy we are Christmas. Last Christmas I remember thinking, “this is the worst Christmas ever”; because we
were so short handed. Work is only temporary though and as soon as I got home to my cup cake all was happy again. I have become
very good at leaving work at work with this job. I always block out work as soon as I leave I concentrate on it and usually
do not have to do that again till I am back. I have this sincere mantra like thing I do in a meditative state like. I do not
think about work when I am not at work religiously.
I am adding a special wallpaper of my art for your computer background. Merry Christmas to all, everyone.
5 new drawings on Drawings page 3. 1 new drawing on SW_ART page the series I am working on now. Added December 02 2010.
I do not consider myself one of the greatest south western artists. I consider myself one of the greatest MODERN south
western artist.
I am really having fun with my new sketches on drawings page 3. I have not done drawings like this since the early 1990's.
I was a great comic style artist back then. I was well connected with the skateboard industry and made friends with people
like Jim Phillips. My comics is how I got my contract with Tracker Designs the biggest skateboard company in the world in
the late 1980's. I drew comics that took place at the Tremont office where I worked. The powers that be saw them and began
to buy my art. I had absolutely no college then and was so young. That always seems weird to me now that I have 7 years and
3 certificates, 120 credit hours, 4.0 grade average, ending in 2008; from college and; no art job. I will do my best to keep
my South West Drawings series going. I want this series to shine so I may not have enough time to out put like I want to.
I will keep up the new modern art sketches more; as it more abstract and easier for me to produce in abundance.
1 11" x 14" Drawing added to SW_Art_Drawn Page, for the SW_Art_Drawn Series, October 31 2010
I have passed out at least over 1,000 (maybe even over 2.000 sketches and paintings to the good Texas people
around here. Your welcome. This new stuff is something I have wanted to do for awhile. It is abstract but tight at the same
time. I like finely done abstract. It sure looks cool and is a good way for people to see some thick paint.
I have also passed out well over 2,000 business cards. I like my new one red embossed and all. This time I
gave Google a pat on the back I am always a Yahoo, dude; though. How else would I talk to my mommy. Ain’t no good American
don’t love his mommy and some apple pie too.
Below is pictured the school I went to as a child with my brother and sister. My grandfather made the brownstone
arch that connects the church to the school.
3 Drawings added to Angel_Art Page. for the Angel_Art Series, October 14 2010
Isn’t like I have not been here before. All the lines so familiar. I draw my way because I know of all
the best features in this type of art.
I have done the greatest art of my life the past 2 years, in abundance.
lol, huh, what? Yea well I worked my butt off this morning drawing 2 pre sketches for the final 2 sketches. I have one
great one now and 2 more to do and I will have my new series. I am still undecided what to call it. I promise to draw for
you like a heavenly angel for a while.
I am doing something, I have not done: pretty much never. I am stopping in the middle of a great painting. I will go back
to it. The way I want to do it seems too daunting now.
My musical taste has changed as well again. I am listening to old stuff from my youth, classic rock like Bruce Springsteen.
I bought everyone of Bruce’s albums during the 1970’s. I remember buying Darkness On The Edge Of Town when it
first came out. I remember bringing it home in great expectation. I went directly to the basement of my grandparents home,
(where I was living at the time). This magnificent home was in a neighborhood I loved every inch of it. I took that album
to the basement where I worked out for my tight end position on high school football team. I did not play much I was a Junior
and it was my first year ever as a football player. I tell you this I took that 17 year old body and turned it into Arnold
Schwarzenegger.
I quit art this time last year. I do not like to do art during the holidays, besides it has been a long hot hard summer
and I need a rest. I sat and sketched a beautiful horse for my love. I think this is what I am going to do. The other half
went and got me some Bristol board at Michaels with a coupon. I got a Micron pen set with a coupon when I ran out of Arches
paper. So I plan on sketching only till around December I guess.
September 09, 2010 added 1 new painting, 1, 18" x 24" Acrylic to Black Out series.
Working on another big one. Very intricate! Most lines yet! This may take 2 weeks or maybe 3. I am aiming at doing a new
biggest and best of the series. Working on this painting about 20 hours now.
My new painting is like painting’s within paintings like the greatest artist in the world today; Mark Ryden.
September 09, 2010 added 1 new painting, 1, 18" x 24" Acrylic to Black Out series.
This is the biggest and best painting of the series.
I worked about 30 hours on it. My spouse say’s it looks eerie and real looking. While it is not only the biggest
painting since college, It is also a maximum use of space. The painting process went well. You can sketch forever and not
have to be concerned that at any moment a painting can be ruined. One false move and spilled paint could be a huge set back.
A painter has to have their mind going in many places at once.
I have been wanting to do Baphomet_Inquisition for about 3 months now. I have planned to paint it big since my spouse bought
a larger size canvas than I requested from Michaels. Sometimes mistakes are good. I have had the canvas for about a month
and a half now. Also I saved a spot on the wall where it will go. You can see this spot on the photo below. It is the small
section facing you. It fit’s perfect horizontal.
Jumping back and forth from watercolor to acrylic seems to be working well for me. I would love to do some oils but the
mess and smell would take a studio to do that. I am maybe thinking of some serious pencil and inks like the old days. I made
some very metal pencil and inks. I may start digging in my archive and get those up here. One of my most metal pencil and
inks; was featured at my Art Bar Show in Deep Elem, Texas. I actually copied the original pencil and copied it on a special
poster machine in Plano at the Kinko’s. I redid the inks and colored it with cheap Walmart markers. Lol! That machine
was awesome! I am very tired after doing this painting, to say the least. I also started about 30 new sketches.
Baphomet: Click This Link for definition.
September 02, 2010 added 3 new paintings, 1 11" x 17" watercolor to
Black Out series.
I updated the photo of all my art in this series. I hope you like it. The sculpture in the bottom left hand
corner is from my Sculpture 2 class. I also have a headphone sculpture I made that is very black metal. I did two 6 inch by
4 inch paintings of Gene Simmons and Paul Stanly. Kiss; in my opinion started black metal music. All the things black metal
music bands do today; Kiss did in the mid to early 1970’s. Spitting fire, blood, painted faces, spikes, all my favorite
things, all started with the greatest rock band of all time KISS. I bought the Destroyer album like every one else my age
when it first came out. I also attended a mock Kiss concert at my High School, Haddam Killingworth, in Haddam, Connecticut.
I swear these dudes looked just like Kiss. It blew my mind. The Destroyer album is still the greatest rock album of all time.
My plan is to do small water colors or sketches based on these painting and hand them out to people and maybe drop some in
the mail to all my art friends.
Sheild_of_Blasphemy_VI was one of the hardest painting I have done in this series. The sheer amount of lines
is the testimony to this. There is so much going on but at the same time it has a harmony. Wind blows free through the garment
of this gargantuan creature.
I would like to share a list of my favorite modern country music bands, on bands page too. Most of these guys
make music that will just make you cry it is so beautiful!
Hank Williams III is just so different, lol! I memorized his first song on his first album almost the first
time I heard it. It goes like this: “I might get drunk and rob a bank, shoot my car if it don’t crank”.
I love this guy forever!
Old Crow Medicine Show is the greatest! I have loved them since I saw their first video on MTV Subterranean.
Bonny Billy
Calexico
Clint Osmus & The Bushmills
Cory Branan & Jon Snodgrass
Drag the River
Hank Williams III
Hayes Carll
Justin Townes Earle
Lucero
Old Crow Medicine Show
Palmer Divine
Ryan Bingham
Scott H. Biram
The Avett Brothers
The Band of Heathens
The Kerosene Brothers
The Kill Devil Hills
William Elliot Whitmore
August 20, 2010 added 1 new painting 11" x 17" watercolor to Black Out series.
New Movie!
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
This guy was awesome. A total abstract artist that I love his work. I usually do not like abstract but this guy was magical
during a magical time for art. The same time I had my contract with the worlds biggest skateboard company in the late 1980's
This is a very detailed painting. I even scanned it in segments to get the best resolution so you could see
the detail better; to no avail. At least you can see it better than a photo. I upped the size and resolution a little; never
the less. I must tell you again that you can not see the detail of my paintings on this web site. So if you know a gallery
that might want to show my paintings tell them to email me.
The sketches for this series keep getting better and better. I finally broke down and took a photo of this
one also, in a slightly better resolution. I can not wait to update my photo of this series, yet I am not quit ready. I think
in about 2 or 3 more weeks I will be ready.
I never talk about politics or religion on this web site. I did however add 3 new blogs on democrat.org recently. There
is, and always has been, and always will be; a link to all my blogs on democrat.org on every one of the pages of this site.
It is on the bottom of the pages, so check it out. I will paste it here for you:
LOL! Awesome! :
August 14, 2010 added 2 new paintings to Black Out series.
I want to tell you all back in 1982; I think. Everything was a blur back then; if you know what I mean. I listened to a
album. I listened to a album that changed my life. I mean to tell you it changed my life for many years to come. It changed
my life so much that; that is the reason I stand before you now, making all your favorite art work. That album was the concert
for Bangladesh by George Harrison. I suggests you buy that, because until this day I think it helps the people in these poor
countries.
I also want to say this ; sometimes when I am doing art work I have to look at other artwork to get ideas. I do not have
photo reference when it comes to dragons. When I have photo reference I go out and take photos. Sometimes I look at other
art work for ideas.
August 14, 2010 added 2 new paintings to Black Out series.
There good aren’t they? I made a few changes to Sheild_of_Blasphemy_II and replaced last weeks entry. I will be showing
you all a new photo of the series on the wall soon. It is getting a lot bigger.
When I turned 24 back in Middletown, Connecticut. I requested A Neil Young song on the Wesleyan University
College radio station. Old man was the name of the song. As the song was playing I listened to it on my walkman and climbed
the hill to Wesleyan from main street. I skated down this very steep long hill like I had many time before singing the song.
I am glad that Neil Young is still playing music. His music has always been my favorite as a teenager and
now too. Between Neil Young and Bob Dylan the songs are the first songs as a teenager I ever memorized in length.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niel_young
Neil Young was the first and greatest activist/rock artist I ever heard of.
Some of the songs I memorized as a kid I do not think are even on any albums Neil made. I love that song about
him wanting to be a musician and people picking on him for it. I have only heard this song on a bad live recording. He is
also one of the first rock artists that I know of that made unpublished music that was really great.
Hey? Who is Supertramp?
Read about them, I think it is kind of sad they were never recognized for there work until like 10 years after
some of their best work.
All I know is when I was growing up they sang the sound track to my life. We only know Supertramp from the
US release of breakfast in America. When that album came out I was a wild young man going through a lot of changes, and the
music almost describes me at that time.
August 06, 2010 added 2 new paintings to Black Out series.
So I am sitting in the break aria around 1999 and this dude tells me his girlfriend bought him a new cd. He says his girlfriend
bought him a new cd. He says it was the newest cd by the band Type O Negative. I said was it good? I was just getting into
Metal at the time and sincerely wanted to know. He leaned as if to motion to me the cd blew him away. He said ya it is really
good. So ya know what, I went out and bought that cd. World Coming Down was in my opinion the greatest cd Type O Negative
ever made.
Peter T. Ratajczyk (January 4, 1962 – April 14, 2010)
I assure you this one passed me by. I did not know until someone I work with told me about a month ago. I checked it last
week and could not believe it. I am still trying to come to cope with the fact that this genius of a man is no longer here.
http://www.typeonegative.net/index.php
August 06, 2010 added 2 new paintings to Black Out series.
These are really great paintings. I hope you like them. I painted so hard last time because my schedule changed at work.
My schedule changes constantly lately. All of a sudden I got more hours than ever. I always work late too. I am scheduled
for 8 hours but I could work up to 12 hours instead. Always know my job keeps me from producing more art. Please do not think
I am complaining. I need to work for money to pay the bills. I work in one of the hardest places to work in my town. I realize
I could be digging ditches; but for this type of work; this is one tough place to work. The volume of customers is overwhelming.
I appreciate every one of our customers immensely. I just wish they wouldn’t order so many taco’s in one order.
At least 20 percent of people last a week at my job and quit. But again I am not complaining because it is the only place
that would hire me. Believe me; I have applications in every business in my town. I have a request for work; I went to college
for 7 years for, on every one of my web pages here too. I appreciate that my job hired me and am loyal to the bone to my employer.
Anyone who paints the way I do; loyalty means something, coming from me.
July 29, 2010 added 2 new paintings to Black Out series.
I took a deep breath. I had a bunch of extra energy saved up. I was strong and ready. I knew
this could be my last chance to paint like this for at least one week. I felt the presence of all them who appreciate my art
and my new series. My obligation as a specially gifted and talented able minded artist. It tugged at me like a five ton iron
support beam. And I painted 5 straight days. From the moment I woke up till I went to sleep. I offer to all; two great big
painting‘s. #_ov_da_beast and master_&_servents sixteen inches by twenty inches and eleven inches by fourteen inches.
I have discovered that I am unable to show you the detail in my paintings more and more. Photo’s are hiding many small
and important things about my painting. My only other option would be to scan them in many pieces and this takes a lot of
time. Maybe someday. For now I have given you high resolution bigger photos. The glare you see is from the flash. Imagine
the black background as pitch black and solid. #_ov_da_beast has very small symbols that took me hours to create. Acrylics
are great but to get supper intricate; become’s difficult on a small scale. The symbols are located in each pentagram.
I would also like if you all could see the fur better and the tiny, tiny pentagrams on the crosses in master_&_servents.
The pentagrams measure one quarter of a inch across. These two paintings’ so are full of detail. Guess you will just
have to come to my next show when ever that would or could be. Nothing ever beats seeing paintings in person.
July 02, 2010 added 4 new paintings to Black Out series.
Just finished another big one. It is very blackened. I also finished a custom sized horned masterpiece;
last week. I used store bought pre gessoed canvas and stretched it on a piece of ply wood. I did it to fill in a space on
the wall. It came out so good; I am sure this will not be the last. Soon my wall will be finished, very tightly I will
post a photo of this icon to the Devil then. I have no plans on stopping I have already started on another wall. Yes I am
and have been fully aware that I am a Icon painter. That is why I seem to be unable to paint a bad looking American or Texas
flag. It is what a do best. My best to you, my community, my country, and the big blue ball we all live on.
July 02, 2010 added 4 new paintings to Black Out series.
Wow huh? I mean yea! I really love doing this stuff. It’s all about the music baby. It also reminds
me of the 1980’s when I did art for the biggest skateboard company in the world; Tracker Designs. Back then all the
skateboard art was so cool. I paint for me, then my honey, then the people. All people. If I were to dedicate my new series
to anyone it would be the holy trinity of Black Metal. I remember being in the cd store down in Dallas off the old toll
way going north towards Frisco. I am looking and looking for Black Metal music. This one guy found a old Mayhem cd, I think
the Wolf’s Layer one. Every thing in this place was cheap but to find a used CD was the thing to do to save money. This
Guy actually found that Mayhem cd, used. I was in there for like a hour and did not find it. I will never forget it. I bought
almost every CD from these three Black Metal groups years ago. If you were to have only 3 bands in your collection this would
be it. Mayhem, Immortal, Marduk. If you listen to these bands and model them on how a Black Metal band should be you will
never go wrong. I switched from big acrylics to small water colors. What a big change. It really took some getting used to.
I realized that some small paintings take longer than I thought. You know when you tackle a big acrylic that it is going to
take a while. Small paintings take long to though, longer than you think. I am painting small again to fill in the spaces
on my wall. I have never painted like this before but I want the wall to look just right. I never use my fire place since
I have hung my painting there so I never have to worry about smoke damage. I just love that spot in my living room though.
It is in the center of our dwelling as well. The center seems to take on new meaning in my new paintings. Oh also I would
like to dedicate my new series to Absu and all they collaborate with. I have told you about them before. They are from my
sister city, Plano, Texas. They are also one of the greatest bands in existence.
June 11, 2010 added 3 new paintings to Black Out series.
What can I say I worked very, very hard to do these 3 paintings in one week. I was at work the other day and I actually
felt tired for the first time. I never fell tired at work. I prepare 12 hours in advance for work. I make sure I get enough
sleep and drink lots of strong fresh ground coffee before work. I realized it was because I was painting so much. Sometimes
as a artist I am so into a series I am in a rush to paint. I want to decorate my walls with what I like to see too. Even my
wife said I should take it easy. This is the first time I have used acrylic paint in about 4 years.
June 03, 2010 added new painting to Black Out series.
It’s all about Black “Satanic” Metal music. You going to tell
me music is not beautiful? Than you are a stupid ignorant fool. You going to judge against me because I love Black Satanic
Metal music? There is only one kind of Black Metal music.
I have a clue for you; all “music” is of absolute beauty. With out
all music, county, classical, classic rock, independent; I would not be a artist. It is the fuel that make me
run.
I have some very big paintings on the way. Big painting are
very difficult for me. I have a extremely demanding job as a fast food worker here in McKinney, Texas. As a result of my situation;
I have very little time to create art. I have to paint a little at a time. This section now, this part latter, it is very
difficult. It is very draining to say the least; to have so little energy left each day to paint. It seems like no one cares
at all.
Never the less; you have your professional guitarist? Well I am your professional
painter. Able to paint beyond what most people that call themselves artist can ever do. Qualified; not “talented“,
qualified.
May 05, 2010 added new painting to SychedelicSymmetry series.
I have not been able to finish this weeks painting. I am about half way done or so. I should be posting it
up next week.
Every painting I do; I just think and think about what I am what I am going to do. I spend allot hours and hours about
what I am going to do with a painting. I have scene this portrayed in movies like Basquiat, Pollock and The Rauschenberg documentarily.
All of which I saw thanks to my college library. Pollock spent days just starring at the canvas before he painted in this
one scene. There just isn’t enough great movies made about painters. All those sad untold stories.
http://musink.org/
Lucero (one of my favorite bands) played on the second day at night. I was born at night 8:30pm about. Tomorrow is my birthday.
The event was on the weekend though. I was working. For something like this I would have ask for that day off. The ad was
actually in my Juxtapoz magazine.. http://www.juxtapoz.com/ It was in the beginning of April. They had live paintings there. These people would have loved to see my art.
Maybe next year.
Lucero song:
Lucero on You Tube:
I love the way the colors came out on this one. Sometimes the colors just blend perfectly. This is one of
those paintings. I named it Color Skull for that reason. It is made up of my favorite colors. That is why I chose them for
Radman's uniform years ago. I really believe that a painting can not have too many colors. Someday I will go back to acrylics
or oils and do some big paintings with lots of color. Probably when I retire.
I did not think I would have a painting done this week because of my job being so back breaking this past week. I actually
gave up on the dishes. I usually always finish washing dishes every night, soaking my cloths with chemicals. It has been so
extremely busy at my job, with the weather being nicer. I think I am developing problems with my painting hand because of
preparing so much food. I answered the phone the other day and pressed answer twice and hung up on my dentist. It as if I
am loosing control of my hand sometimes. I literally work my fingers to the bone from scrubbing and preparing thousands of
food items every night, myself with no help from any one. My fingernails just peel off after every shift from so much work.
I am the cook slash maintenance person. I was washing bugs out of all the light fixtures last week. I also seem to have a
sprained back this week as well. My manager got fired the other day and the pressure has gone from bad to worse. The manager
is the person that hired me. I think I have been grinding my teeth at night from all the stress, my dentist told me that.
Sorry the link in this text was not working but I fixed it.
I like this one. It is totally abstract but not globs of paint. I get so angry when I see painters throw paint on a canvas
and call it art. I really believe this: if you can not draw do not paint. Ask any one who calls themselves a artist to do
a great drawing in less than 60 seconds, me included. If they can not draw in 60 seconds; then they are not a painter and
it is questionable that they are a artist. I do not mean to be mean. I know all the sad stories that are behind so many artist
and I love them all, I do. If you have enough guts to call yourself a artist, in your adult life; you have all my love automatically.
I named this one angel’s heart because a angel appeared to my sight after I was done with this. Also just before
I was done painting; a heart was left, so I painted crimson red.
I just want to remind you all, any painting you see I have done no matter how small I can paint it again gigantic for you.
Ain’t nothing easier than painting a painting again.
April 22, 2010 added new painting to SychedelicSymmetry series.
This ones a good one too. I did not plan the lioness head at all it just came out that way. The little lady even say she
likes it, but it’s a little scary. That means it’s really good. I have noticed that colors can not be seen on
computer as well as real life. My ochre and burnt sienna in my last painting did not look right at all. Also the two demon
painting light orange looks more like flesh color. The only way you all are going to see my stuff as it is, is for me to show
it on display. Maybe I will start emailing people again.
April 14, 2010 added new painting to SychedelicSymmetry series.
Oops, I done did it again. It's a gooden. I think I out did myself again in. Why can't you paint flowers and
trees and birdies, Ricky? Your guess is as good as mine. Lol! All in classic county western colors. Ye haw!
March 31, 2010 added new painting to SychedelicSymmetry series.
Sketches can be found on drawings page 2.
I really got into this painting. It took me almost 6 hours to paint not counting all the prep work. This is the most profound
painting I have done where the paining starts to form multiple images inside the painting. I was so blown away by it I did
a detailed sketch of the painting in my sketch book. And I did 14 sketches based on the painting to hand out to local art
lovers here. This painting takes on so many images I can not list them all. The scan actually does not pick up this type of
color either. Weird, spooky.
You know I am in the hamburger business. I made hamburgers last week and I went all out.
First you cook the onions I used half a medium large onion for two burgers. I used a little olive oil and garlic salt to
grill the onions. Then I put that in a bowl.
Next cook the mushrooms. I like canned mushrooms. I used a can for 2 burgers. I used a little olive oil and butter. I always
have a hard time grilling mushrooms. They pop out of the pan. If you put a lid on it and shake the pan often with the lid
on it; cooks the best. Sounds like pop corn in there.
We had bacon one day and mushrooms the next. You could have both though. My wife found some bacon that is microwavable.
We used 5 slices for 2 burgers. Break the bacon in one half inch pieces.
Next used the same pan you used for the onions and the mushrooms un washed and grill the tomatoes a little olive oil. Just
a bit if you cook them to long they get too mushy, They are still good mushy though. Put that in a bowl.
I only like hard type buns, when you tap on them you should hear it like wood. On the east coast fresh bread from the bakery
is the best. Search your supermarket Texans, you’ll find them. Cook your buns in the oven! This is the only way. Face
up with butter and garlic salt on each bun, you could practically it this like it is. Not too long check them many times.
Ketchup mayonnaise and mustard.
You need hamburger pickle, make sure it say hamburger pickles on the jar.
Pre chop your lettuce like we do at work in bun size pieces.
Put a slice of American cheese on the top and bottom of the bread. We do this allot at work so I figure it is important,
lol. Put the bun on the bottom half. Pile all your stuff, onions mushrooms bacon, tomatoes and pickles in that order.
Now I have been doing this for years. I buy block cheese and heat it in the microwave. I love Vermont white cheddar! It
is really big on the east coast. Micro wave the cheese cubed in a small bowl for 25 seconds, With your hands form the cheese
into a hamburger patty shape. Place it on the top of you food mountain. This will melt in minutes sealing all you ingredients
under it like a pizza.
Now this is very important. Cut this monster in quarters. Use a good knife and be patient. Don’t just stuff the whole
thing down your mouth. Put a piece of lettuce on the quarter of a burger. You don’t have to micro wave the first one,
eat. Isn’t great! Now go back in the kitchen and use a spatula to scoop up another quarter. Put it on your plate. Put
the lettuce on and microwave it for 10 seconds. Repeat 2 more times.
March 24, 2010 added new painting to SychedelicSymmetry series.
My new painting Butterfly White Flame is a great southern fried painting, made to order with a side of jalapeño’s!
Straight from the hard hot caliches’ of Tejas. Served hot and fresh 24 hours a day. Like a big plate of country fried
steak that is so hot it fogs your glasses. I am serving only one type of art in this series “red hot”.
Can you tell I like to cook. It is the part of my job I love. It is the back breaking janitorial work; I am physically
not able to do yet some how I do it; is what I could do with out. I would make a great chef!. I cook at home all the time.
I planned on creating a Radman_Art recipe page but never did. In the words of Time Has Come Today by
The Chambers Brothers
song: Hit Play click here: “Time”
I learned this one recipe when I was a kid; living with my sweet Grandparents in the late 1970‘s. Living with them
in this rich neighborhood was my best memory of my youth. They had a beautiful house with every type of fancy food you could
think of. My Grandfather was a cook for the navy and in my opinion a great chef. I had a couple of friends from Woodrow Wilson
High School over. This one spoiled rotten black kid; his dad was a professor at Wesleyan and he live in one of those castle
looking old houses near the college. He was a righteous dude with a logo tattoo of the rock band Queen on the back of his
shoulder. I staggered down the stairs half a wake and saw him cooking this on the stove.
He made this:
Fry about pounds of shrimp in olive oil and butter add two big shallots chopped
Only cook on medium high heat; till the shrimp turns just a little pink. About 3 minutes
I would add one full bottle of cooking sherry since I live in a dry town. But you should use real sherry which my grandparents
probably had some fancy brand of.
Then just keep stirring and keep sprinkling hand full’s of flour till you get a nice gravy like texture. The shrimp
in the pan colliding makes a good blending of the flour.
Serve hot on white rice. Yummy!
I would love to share more, we’ll see.
I subscribed to Juxtapoz Magazine again. I noticed allot of paintings that are
in galleries now and was intrigued. I used to do this technique back when I was pencil and ink only. So I decided to start
a painting a series. I have a bunch of pre cut art board from my college days and plan to use it up. I am spraying each painting
with Prismacolor Tuffilm Final Fixative. Since water color on art board does not soak in as well the fixative well make
them last for hundreds of years. I have allot of plans in my head for this series. Looking forward to doing paintings; really
excites me and makes life a little more fun. Maybe I stopped painting because I just could not think of a series I wanted
to do. Maybe I stopped because the holidays were so busy at my job and we were so short handed as always. I am trying to pace
myself as much as I can. I plan on doing 1 painting a week to start. All the paintings will be 8 inches by 10 inches. This
will be kind of a challenge since I am used to smaller paintings from my last series. It seems to be working out great. My
first painting is a type of abstract rose, it has a figure wearing a mask hidden in it and a man’s head with a mustache.
My second painting I think I will call appearing eyes because when I stare at it form across the room the eyes seem to appear
seconds latter.
I am back! I am starting a new series called SychedelicSymmetry; all one word, like McKinney. This is going
to be very cool! Way lowbrow, just like the first serious paintings I ever did lowbrow. So come with me down the rabbit hole
and see what we can find. Check back here to see me ad new paintings to this way hip series. See the American cultural phenomenon
that is Radman_Art. Post apocalyptical blasphemy, modern pop surrealism.
I want to make something clear to all who have not paid attention for the last 2 and a half years. I have completed 2 series
of paintings, that took about that long, Burst and Living in the Past. Living in the past was my last completed series last
worked on around December First 2009.
The Burst and Living in the Past Series are pictured below.
Well the inevitable has take place. I have had some kind of serious body break down. You can not push your body to the
limit week after week with out some kind of price to pay. I would never be like this if I had better co workers that did their
fare share.
The doctor was going to give me a note for 7 to 8 weeks off so my head and neck could heal. Also the doctor was going give
me a light duty restriction note. I agreed instead she could give me a note that would prohibited me from doing work like
cleaning grill vents, which is the cause of my serious injury. It is funny because my chiropractor Doctor Russell used to
tell me not to work over my head reaching up allot because of my vertebrae problem. The red irritated aria of my head and
neck are actually in the shape of spilled liquid running down from my head (under my hair) to my lower neck. I thought I was
dieing or something. I have a throbbing pain and a rash that was seeming to grow on it’s own. I was fortunate to find
a doctor open so close to the holidays, around New Year‘s Eve.
Guess what I did last week; January 6 - 10 / 2010? 2 weeks after my injury and my doctors note. My employer’s management;
has chosen to ignore my doctors note and force me to do the very thing that caused me to be injured!
It seems sometimes that this job means to do me in. They have succeeded in making me quit art now they are trying to disable
me; it seems.
Sincerely, Rick of the web Radman_Art
My job just keeps getting more and more physically demanding. I leave a dish in the sink when I leave work and that exact
dish is still there when I get back the next day, with every other disk we have. That means I do 3 shifts worth of dishes
myself every shift. I leave a broom in the aria where the person who does the floor works and I get back the next day the
broom has not moved. Trash the floors I am the only one that does that too some nights. I keep getting more and more extra
duties piled on to the impossible amount of work I do. Like I have to clean the fryer and grill vents every week. I have to
move the fryer and grill out away from the wall and it is on old wheels that do not move good and get caught in the tiled
floor. The grill and the fryer unit weigh well over a thousand pounds, and since I lost weight I do not barely have the strength
to do this. The grill vents weigh close to 50 pounds each. I have to reach way up grab them wash them and run them in the
dish washer too. I have to reach way up and put them back, this is not easy because the weight is awkward. I have to stick
my head up in the vent aria and usually this covers me in grease. I have to get down on my knees and pick up trash that get
thrown on the floor because we are so busy and so short handed we don’t have time to put it in the trash. These are
only small examples of how hard my job is. This is why I have had to virtually stop doing art.
1 new painting, November, 05th, 2009, on the Living
in the Past page.
I was living with my Dad on Newbury Street, it was between 1978 and 1980 sometime. My father took me to a Harry Chapin
concert at the Hartford Civic center. I am sure it was because he liked the song Cat’s in the Cradle. My parents were
divorced when I was 5 years old. I actually have memories of them being married and arguing. I remember waiting at the kitchen
window for my father to come home for work. I remember feeling full of anxiety at the anticipation of my father coming home,
I could barely stand it. My parents had a very bad divorce. My mom was resentful half her life. I don’t think it was
until I protested that she had not forgiven him; that she finally realized it needed to be done. My dad would always admit
that he had a short temper. He was a only child to two of the most awesome parents on the face of this earth. My grandparents
on my dads side were always like magic to me and taught me what family loyalty was all about. I grew up thinking my dad was
a very bad person. In my early twenty’s I did some digging and confronted my dad and finally came to have peace with
him. I believe that a person can not of will not ever have a good life with out making peace with their parents.
The concert I saw that night was spectacular. Harry’s band was phenomenal! The amount of musicians on the stage was
very surprising considering I expected just Harry and his guitar.
1 new painting, October, 10th, 2009, on the Living in the Past page.
Last week at work was way over the top. The district manager was arriving on a Sunday of all days; to inspect our restaurant.
Not only did we scrub every piece of equipment and the floor, but we actually polished everything and painted too. This combined
with the usual duties of stocking and dishwashing made the imposable even more imposable. I work at the busy times of the
week. Also those nights of the week are the only nights of the week that any serious cleaning gets done. I have been trying
to tell management to concentrate on hardcore maintenance on the slower nights of the week, this has not been chosen by those
in charge. Not only am I a cook; but I am a janitor working 4 times faster than any janitor. My job is so fast paced that
the only way I can describe to you is to play a recording of a cooking show and play it in super fast mode.
I am telling you this because I only was physically able to do one painting this week. All I could to is rest as much as
I can. I have muscle pains like I played football my entire work week. I have to ask myself do I want to paint or do I want
my body to heal so I can perform at work again. Of course it makes me feel bad not painting as much as I want to. I am really
into this series and want to finish it so I can move on to my next series.
3 new paintings, September, 24th, 2009, on the Living in the Past page.
My honey bunny really liked one of my paintings. She is my biggest crytic. When she says she really likes something I always
put a copy of it on my home page.
Isaac Lee Hayes Jr : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Hayes
Growing up in the 1970's every cool person like me knew who Isaac was. I will never forget the song Shaft. He says no one
understands him but his woman. I have always felt that way too. He is so, so cool in the movie Escape from New York.
Like the movie Pollock when he says I owe that woman my life. She has given me the stability I need in life to keep me going. As long
as we have been together I have tried and tried to succeed as a artist. I truly believe with out her this would have never
happened. She is extremely unique and very, very, intelligent. Just want to give her credit where credit is due. And as always
I dedicate all my art and this web site; that she started, to her.
3 new paintings, September, 17th, 2009, on the Living in the Past page.
Man; I got home from work this week and felt so beat up. My job is very physical and it seems like they ask for the imposable
and then if I accomplish that they ask for a little more. I know I am not the only one out there that works like this. In
fact; it seems to be the way of the world now a days. The point that I am trying to make is: as I started to do my first painting
of the week; I just felt like giving up. The first painting of the week is always the hardest. I was so sore, I mean my entire
body felt muscle aches and pain. I was sincerely contemplating giving up painting. I just felt like going to lie down on the
couch and watching T.V. all day instead of painting. I ask myself why do I do this sometimes. It seems like no one cares at
all. But I forced myself over to my desk and just did it, like the Nike commercial, lol. Halfway through the painting there
comes the just give up feeling again. I felt like throwing the half done painting in the trash.
Out of all that you know what? That turned out to be one of the best paintings I have done in this series:
Tupac_Amaru_Shakur_2_Pac
Check it out.
It’s all about love. Jimmie Hendrix said love makes the world spin. John Lennon said all we need is love.
3 new paintings, September, 3, 2009, on the Living in the Past page.
One for my home boys (Darrell_Lance_Abbott Dimebag_Darrell_Pantera). I put it down for my hood, to quote Blaze Your Dead Homie . Don’t forget new ICP CD out now :
Bang Pow Boom - New ICP album, in stores September 1, 2009
I have always loved Pantera! What true metal fan would not love Pantera? I also love all the Pantera side projects.
Per_Yngve_Ohlin_Dead_Mayhem was the most awesome Black Metal musician that ever lived.
Eric_Lynn_Wright_Eazy_E was one of the greatest Hip Hop artist‘s ever.
I am far from done. Time to go and get more frames.
I just want to say one thing. The Beatles: the greatest rock band ever in the history of the earth. As a child of 11 years
old I remember walking 6 blocks to buy the Let It Be album. I had seen the album in my cousin’s living room (in Meriden
Connecticut where I met my wife latter) ; After listening to the album I thought ; I must have this album!
GG Allin made a huge impact on the music world. I do not agree with what he believed in. I think he was a very talented
musician. I do not know if GG Allin was a Nazi sympathizer. If he was that surely is not the reason I painted him. I really
liked the music I heard; what little I have heard. I like hard core music and I like easy listening too like, Cat Stevens.
The thing I am trying to say that I am against racism in all it’s forms. I wrote about it on my Black Metal web page.
Link to this web site can be on my last series’ Burst page.
3 new paintings, August, 6th, 2009, on the Living in the Past page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Division
I just want to say words can not express how I feel about the loss of human life. This series is very difficult to talk
about. These people have always been precious to me all my life. And the loss of these people has brought me to grieve. I
love to talk about my art to people but when it comes to talking about this series I have never fully talked about it to any
one. I suppose I could write a book on my examination of it all. Until then I hope you will forgive me for not saying much
about it even online. If I should comment on my series and it seems off handed, it is only because I do not have time to speak
in depth enough.
Ian Curtis came out cool. His eyes impressed me so much, that I decided to paint his eyes only. He had this sad expression
on his face when he preformed on stage. Ian Curtis was the lead singer for Joy Division. His passing has always made me very
sad. I had not known that Joy Division existed in my teen. When I had finally listed to them about 10 years ago, it sounded
like my life at that time. It was shocking to say the least! Here is this band I never knew existed and they were playing
music that was the sound track to my life in my teens. I have the privilege of having a teen age experience that coincided
with what was playing on the radio. In other words the coolest music that came out went right to radio and was enjoyed by
me and all my fellow teenagers. Not like today young people seem to have nothing, this has always made me very sad.
I do want to say that I remember New Order, because of MTV. New Order was popular during my skate boarding years and I
think of the two as connected some how. When I got out to California and worked for the biggest skate board company in the
world the radio station out of San Diego played them allot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.Rex_(band)
Marc Bolan was kind of underground in my youth, but I sure remember him! I probably heard about him from that David Bowie
song. I remember about the age of 16 buying the Tanx Album. It was a magnificent album. The art work was unforgettable. Little
tiny tank’s. The image inside has stuck with me all my life. Marc Bolan is such a great looking guy I do not think I
could ever capture him. But I will do my best. I like the painting I did, the hair and eyes especially.
I love Wikipedia and use it constantly! I need to be in there. I called them once. I need to try to contact them again.
3 new paintings, Jully, 30th, 2009, on the Living in the Past page.
I done did it again; three more in a row best of series this week.
I am on a real roll here. A rock and roll, roll. John Bonham is extremely paint able! Even if you don’t know what
he looks like the black and white is a awesome painting! I find when it comes to painting and drawing men I have a real knack
at it. John Bonham has a very manly face. I have seen the movie The Song Remains The Same and see why his death had such a
huge impact on the band. Doing this series has really made me see how venerable man kind is. I believe if allot of the great
humans were still with us life on earth would be better for all of us.
3 new paintings, Jully, 23rd, 2009, on the Living in the Past page.
I done did it again; three more in a row best of series this week. Thin Lizzy to me is legendary. I went to a Irish Catholic
School to eighth grade. Thin Lizzy are Irish legends. That is why I used the green background. That painting took me 5 hours
straight. I easily work 20 hours per week that plus my job has me working over time 24/7. The 20 hours per week do not count
the thinking of what I am going to paint next and what colors to use or shading and such. I really have broke through on this
series of paintings. When I changed the size of the paper I seemed to excel three times faster. I only use Arches paper I
love it. All the cutting I did in College for graphic design has made me a expert at customizing the size of my paintings.
I really love the portrait style painting of Phil too. I have just plan paper as the background, it really makes it pop out
at you. I bought Live and Dangerous just after it came out when I was a kid. From that moment on I was a heavy duty Thin Lizzy
fan. What can I say about Queen. I will never forget buying the album with “we will rock you on it”. The art work
made a lasting impression on me and the music seemed to be the most high tech I had ever heard up until that time.
As a child I owned allot of albums. I can remember being 11 years old and walking a mile or more to Bradley’s Department
store to by the album Let it Be shortly after it came out. I listened to it at my cousin Jimmy Peracio’s house and it
was amazing. You know just after I wrote about Electric Light Orchestra I realized the reason I could not believe how good
they played is because I owned allot of their 8 tracks. They sounded so much like there albums it was weird. Like I was at
home listening on headphones. Yes all my life I listened to music on headphones. We always owned high quality headphones.
My house my dads house and even my grandparents house had high quality stereo’s. My house and my grandparents house
had the big fancy wooden cabinet stereo’s. My dad however had a professional set up, turntable and real to real. Some
of the highlights to my life were hearing album’s like David Bowie’s hero’s when it first came out. Or running
home to play the new J Geil’s album on my dads stereo. Or listening to Lynard Skynard’s One more for the road
over and over on my dads turntable.
I dedicate this song to my new series and all the great people that I will never get out of my head:
Band: Electric Light Orchestra Song: Can’t Get It Out Of My Head
And I cant get it out of my head,
No, I cant get it out of my head.
Now my old world is gone for dead
cos I cant
get it out of my head.
I saw these guys in New Haven around 1978. The High School I was attending (Woodrow Wilson, Middletown, Connecticut) arranged
a field trip and rented a bus for the concert. These guys blew my mind! The lasers and the precession of the music was amazing.
It seemed unreal!
3 new paintings, Jully, 16th, 2009, on the Living in the Past page.
I just want to say I love these guys:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_of_Leon
I have liked them since their first album in 2003 came out. I personally consider this to be their best album. They
were born in Oklahoma and went to a parochial school like me. I saw them first on MTV’s Subterranean show, (witch I
can not afford still to get on me TV). Their music played at my first art show in Deep Ellem, in Dallas Texas, at the Art
Bar; from the CD's I brought that night.
There is some new news. I think I would like to try and get some videos of me up here. I have wanted to have some
videos of me with my art work. We will see.
3 new paintings, Jully, 9th, 2009, on the Living in the Past page.
I have created the best 3 in a row paintings for my Living in the Past series. I will put them on the home page for this
weeks update. I do not know why but Jerry Garcia always makes me want to do a groovy background. To me; The Grateful Dead
has always been the greatest American rock band.
Since I am posting photos I added 3 more this week; my dad, my family at the same time my dad’s police photo was
taken and my dad and me when I was a baby.
3 new paintings, Jully, 2nd, 2009, on the Living in the Past page.
Well I can not believe Michael Jackson died this past week. I found it very upsetting. Like when I heard John Lennon died,
it made me want to weep. So I did 2 paintings honoring my Michael Jackson. My parents heard me play my sister’s folk
guitar when I was like 8 or 9 years old. They were so impressed by my ability to play songs I remembered; by ear, they bought
me a electric guitar and a amplifier and paid for lessons. We were poor at the time; so you know they really believed in me.
I formed a band with my brother on drums, my sister on folk guitar and me on electric guitar. My neighbor Luanna on tambourine
and back up vocals, I did lead vocals. We played Michael Jackson songs, Bobby Sherman, and The Partridge Family songs, and
Osmond brothers songs.
I am including a photo of those days that I had a neighborhood rock band, in this weeks comments. From top left to right
that is Carla, my sister, Gail (Carla‘s sister), Luanna (lived in the house next to mine) . The bottom right is Chris
(my one and only best friend for 4 years) , Me, Scott (Chris’s younger brother), and my brother. We were dressed up
in fifties attire that day.
Michael Jackson was one of my ideals as a child, I owned Jackson Five music. I liked him and his music long before the
Saturday morning cartoon came out. When the Saturday morning cartoon came out, I never missed a episode. The music was outstanding,
and the graphics were hand drawn. I love Michael and his music up until the Black or white video and album: I stopped following
it after that.. I will never forget Michael’s video saying there is no difference if you are black or white. Thinking
to myself; awesome! Also I liked the Beatles cover song from that album, come together, right now, over me. Although I stopped
following Michael Jackson ‘s newer albums, I am sure they are cool.
Michael Jackson was a pinnacle of pop music. He was the KING OF POP! This world is at a loss because of his leaving.
LOL! Awesome! :
http://www.democrats.org/page/community/blog/A%20Blog
2 new paintings, May, 28th, 2009, on the Living in the Past page.
It’s time for a new series. I loved the Burst series. The new series will be call Living in the Past. I will be using
the same 2 colors as the Burst, only. Except occasionally I will be using blue for a sky background. I have been working on
the burst series since December of 2008. I have completed over 53 Burst paintings in that time. It kind of makes me sad to
stop doing the Burst series. I am so excited about my new series it makes up for it though. I still have other series that
I want to do. I hope to use the remainder of my life to paint as much as possible. I really love my life lately, things are
pretty good. Money is always a trouble but it seems to be something I just live with. Other than that really things are so
awesome. Peace out, Rad
1 New Painting, May, 21st, 2009, on Burst page, 1 new painting added to Rock and Roll page.
I have been sketching on index cards, different sketches, and handing them out to random people I meet out in my
community. I really think that it will help me in the long run. I never give art to people with out giving them my card; that
gives the address to this web site. I have handed out 2,000 business card for Radman_Art mostly at the college and at my art
displays. The sketches I did this week of Ronnie Van Zandt are almost too good to hand out. I have made photo copies of all
these sketches before I hand them out.
All of the little watercolor’s on index cards and business cards; I did for the craft show at the college have been
almost all handed out to random people I meet. These paintings can be seen on my Western Watercolor’s page; in a photo
I took on my kitchen table.
1 New Painting, May, 14th, 2009, on Burst page.
This one is 11” x 14” and it took two weeks to complete. Since it is the biggest so far in the series and may
be the biggest ever in this series I tried extra hard to make it very neat and fine. The background took two days to perfect.
My goal is to fill the wall above my fire place and then take a photo of it for this web site. Not all the paintings are
on the wall so far. I am trying for a perfect wall. There are over 50 burst paintings up now. I will be doing 3 more small
paintings to fill in the space left.
The paintings I am working on now equal more than 4 of the paintings I was doing 3 a week. Do to this I will be painting
2 paintings a week for a while. They are bigger and I love painting big.
I do not paint big as often as I would like for 2 reasons.
#1 it cost too much. Paints fly out the window! Tubes of paints get used up way to fast. I am a opaque painter. I do not
like to paint lightly. I like painting that make a big impression, so the viewer has that image in there mind long after the
show.
#2 I do not have the space to store allot of big paintings. I like to paint paintings to hang on my wall. I am willing
to store paintings and do I have a whole room full and a closet full too. I absolutely love to paint big! Until I start selling
paintings or build my studio big paintings will have to wait. I am seriously considering a couple big paintings for the bedroom.
I have the westerns in there and would like a something more pop surrealism.
I just want to make one thing clear I am a western painter and always will be. My brand of western paintings are unique
and traditional at the same time. I will always be fascinated with the old west. I think it is no mistake that so many country
folk around here and the west love Death and Black Metal music. It is a rugged and hard music. I guess if the old west hero’s
had a choice they might like this music the most.
I want to share a painting with you all soon it is the painting that started this whole series. I did it last summer and
my goal was to use red and yellow only. It is in a horror movie kind of vein. I got the idea from viewing a death metal cd
cover. I also did a intense pre sketch too. I remember when I did it I put it in a spot of the living room that only I could
see so as not to offend my wife. It took me all this time like 3 or more months to start the series I am working on now. I
am sure glad I did and I hope you are too. I think they are beautiful and sparkle like jewels on my wall. They are fun to
look at. They seem to tell a tale in each one. Just looking at them takes me away a little like the music that has inspired
me to create them.
I made a web site a while back dedicated to Death and Black music. I kind a stuck on my bands page where it has been lost
for a while but since it is the subject of my new series I want to celebrate it. I created the design for the web site in
web design 2 at the college. It is like viewing art in a gallery.
Here is the link to that site: http://www.geocities.com/radman_metal2007/index.html
I named this series burst because I was bursting with art. I had not painted for a while and I was about to burst. Was
that out burst necessary? Also each painting seems to burst out at you like a explosion. I’m getting quit good at painting
wolfs. I have always thought animals were to hard to paint because of fur. I am not afraid of painting fur any more. I am
working on two new wolfs this week. Sorry every thing is so “scary”; according to my wife. I am just trying to
rock out in a 1950’s - 2009 American way. It’s all rock and roll in in paintings format. I have allot of thoughts
about a new series, that is a long time coming though, I am far from done with this series. I want to do more watercolor dragons
my last ones came out great. I am still thinking of showing the sketches for each of my burst painting. Some times the sketch
I do on watercolor paper is so much better than the original or a little more simplified. I never share my sketches as I think
something’s should be sacred. Things are going good and on my days off I am not disturbed and continue to devote my
free time to painting.
I am having so much fun painting my Burst paintings. I have finally got a exceptional painting out of this series. The
wolf painting is my favorite painting so far. This painting is called Blood Pack after a Mech Warrior game I used to play
allot. I went into my storage and pulled out all my Science Fiction Fantasy paintings and traded them out with some of the
western paintings. I try to use and reuse my frames as they cost money something as a starving artist I lack. I did the science
fiction series (in acrylic) for my portfolio painting class at the college. I have them hanging in the living room where I
spend most of my free time doing r and r and painting. It feels good to be surrounded by my favorite art that I am painting
at this present time. My taste in art changes like my taste in music. I still love western art, and think I am very good at
it as well. I just am in a mode right now; where I want to rock out through painting. I will be doing 2 acrylic 4” x
6” paintings soon. I have two frames that size the glass broke out at the Allen Library show. It will be interesting
to see what I can do in acrylic. I will do the paintings in the same style. I see myself continuing on this series for a while.
I think of it as like my first paintings in paintings I did about 8 years ago, with less color. Instead of combining them
all in one painting I am doing them each individually.
I want to say again for the record I have not made one cent from this web site ever. I have how ever paid for this web
site over the past 10 years or so out of my own pocket, totaling around $500.00. This web site is ad free for all to enjoy.
4 New Paintings, February 19, 2009, on Burst page.
I just want to say my 2 favorite Black Metal bands are from right here in Collin County,
Texas.
There is Absu. This band is by far my favorite metal band, totally classic style and just so digestible as
a traditional Black Metal band. When you listen to there albums they sound exactly like they are from the Norway or something.
They are absolutely amazing.
Then there is King_Diamond. This guy is rightly named, he is the King of Black Metal! I bought the Mercyful_Fate CD back in 1999, it was rated the best CD by Metal Maniacs Magazine. King Diamond is almost
magical in his vocal ability. It seems miraculous that someone can sing like he does. The bands that back him are the best
in the world as well.
I am only using 2 colors with all my new paintings, red and yellow. I am trying to do more than 3 paintings a week; but
it seems all I can do is 3. My wife says she likes the sketches I am doing for each painting; before I draw and paint them
on watercolor paper. I am sketching them in my sketch book I used for college, which is getting full. The sketch book has
70 pages and has sketches on the front and back of each page. I may show the sketches for the new paintings, I normally have
never done that. I also completed 6 new sketches this week that I am looking forward to painting them. I love my new paintings
and am framing as many as I can and hanging them were I can see them every day. I love listening to black and death metal
while I’m creating these. One of my favorite black metal bands is Absu, they are actually from Plano, Texas. Also King
Diamond another favorite of mine is from Frisco, Texas.
I have been painting like a maniac again. My burst page consists of 7 paintings so far in 2 weeks. I can only manage 3
very detailed paintings a week. My job is so demanding it takes every last bit of energy I have to complete my work week.
Every painting on this page is very different. Every painting I do is like a finger print and very unique. You may look at
the burst effect and say ; this effect is all the same. But I assure you I paint each one differently. I am having so much
fun painting these paintings. I put the death and black metal on and paint like I feel. I loose my self in the moment and
before you know it my loving wife is home from work. I just want to take this moment to dedicate this entire web site and
all the art of mine it contains and all the other websites, with my work it links to, to my wife. With out her all of this
would not be possible. I have never in my life felt cared for by my wife. I have always pulled my weight even while I was
not working and going to college. I love her unconditionally and will forever, I know this in my soul. All my art has my heart
and soul in it.
Ya, I’m at it again. To tell you the truth I have been painting now and then. The paintings and sketches I have done,
I have not shown on my web site. They are of a Death Metal type / tattoo, vein. I have the freedom now to paint how ever I
like, and I am doing just that.
Not that I love western art, because I do. I am a big fan of the old Clint Eastwood movies and all those other movies from
the 1970’s. I have told you all this before though.
I am just freely painting now. I am painting how I feel, rock and roll mixed with the turmoil of the days we are all living
in. I have for the first time begun to share this on my web site, especially right now on my Burst web page.
I must say it is absolutely amazing to me how quickly I take to doing what I have learned in college. Of course I have
to cut my own water color paper from bigger sheets and such. My training in graphic arts an such, all comes rushing back in
an instant. It’s like riding a bike. All of this comes out as wonderful paintings for all my Radman_Art fans.
I do not know how many people will be grateful at my new style of painting, but I am sure you will be glad for that.
To all my other fans out there don’t worry, I have still got allot of nature and western paintings in me. The fact
that I am painting again for this web site should assure everyone that I am still in the grove and ready to flow.
Can you fell it? I sure can. Art. Bubbling up inside me. I’m not talking about horsey’s. I’m talking
about real art coming up from inside me. When? Well your going to have to be patient. I have been patient for many, many years
now. Now it’s your turn to be patient. I told many people I’m taking a year off. Many people including my famous
artist friends, said; I would not last a year. Maybe they were right. I can tell you this much sooner or latter I am going
to explode. To some people it may not be what they wanted. To the art world it will be heaven on earth. I have enough paints
and brushes to paint the Empire State Building; from all those art classes I took. Including paper and art board ready to
paint. I have enough ideas in my head to fill the largest art museum on earth.
I have a new job working in food service. It is a physically exhausting job pushing my body to it’s limit constantly.
It is very fast paced. What amazes me is how fast I learn now. It is like for the first time I am seeing the benefits of all
that college.
Although I have not worked at a job for many years; during that time I attended college. I have over 120 credit hours and
attended college for 8 years. I also have a 4.0 grade average. I was always sociable with all of my fellow students. I have
had classes because of difficult students; the entire class was very difficult socially. 90% of my classes were enjoyable
and socially uplifting.
I see no difference between work and school, except the fact that I paid them and did not get paid.
The only difference between college and work is that you work on your own. If I could get paid 2.00 a hour for all of the
hours I worked on my own for college assignments, I would be a millionaire.
To everyone out there that black balled me and continue to black ball me, I want you to know; you
are 90% of the reason I have virtually given up painting. I am a true artist though and am continually creating,
and taking in art; even if it is just in my mind.
I’ll say it again in the words of the Bob Dylan song Hurricane, I could have been the champion
of the world. I have a good mind to change this web site into what it was around 2002, a political advocacy
web site for people like the ACLU.
It makes me want to quit painting when no one wants to buy my work.
Here is a little secret: I quit comics because I made no money at it. I quit making animations because I made no money at
it.
I know people do not want to hear the truth sometimes. I never said any thing about my comics and it has been at least 18
years since my last serious comic. I never said anything like this ever. It makes me sad actually to say such things. This
is emotional for me to say, if you are don‘t like it I am sorry, I do not mean to sound selfish or uncaring. I would
never except money from some one who could not afford it.
What makes me sad most of all is I believe that if I am not making money at my art, that means people do not like my art.
As much as I know about art, you would think I know better. But I do not.
Someone from The Democrat Party site, asked me if I sold my paintings and they might want to get one for their friend. I began
to write the above and then decided to put it on my home page. Many times I have done this in the past. I deleted it from
the email and put it here instead.
Is was not until I sold art to Tracker skateboard ( www.trackertrucks.com/ ) company in the late 1980’s that I ever
kept my art. I have been ever since. You can thank Larry Balma and Peggy Cousins, owners of Tracker then, for that.
For now I can tell you I am not painting. I guess I need a break, that’s what my wife say‘s. I will always be
a artist though. Maybe I will just sketch allot for a while.
I want you all to pray for me or at least have your thoughts to help me be strong these days. About eleven
years ago my body just kind of broke down. It is just one of those times in your life that everything goes wrong. One of those
things is my eyes. You can tell from pictures of me before and after this time. I have had twenty, twenty vision all my life.
I am one of those people when I had my eye exam the doctors would be amazed at how well I could see. Since my body break down
time my eyes have not been doing so good. As you all may remember I have had art work on display at the Texas Optical in McKinney.
This is where I went about 3 years ago for a eye exam and with in one year had another eye exam proving my glasses needed
to be upgraded within one year. It is my left eye, it seems to be getting worse and worse. I just realized this morning as
I was trying to read the text I am typing that I can barely read from that eye. Granted I have been using the computer too
much these days. Playing video games. That is just what I do. I believe playing video games and stuff like that it is one
of those things that make me a better artist. That is a whole other subject though, one I have never shared before just now.
I hope the people at Texas optical have mercy on my poor self. I am not sure I have insurance yet because of my wife’s
job too. So just hope together with me.
Man, my art has really slowed down. I am still sketching allot. I guess I am waiting these days. Waiting for something can
be a real ordeal sometimes. I remember when we had to wait for the deal on or house to go through. I hated that so much. I
felt like my life was in limbo. I feel that way now. Maybe I am waiting for the Allen display. Maybe I completed so many paintings
for that, I am temporarily burned out. I promise when I am done waiting I will go back to focusing on my art like never before.
I have a bunch of ideas that have been building up in my head. I can’t wait to get to it.
About my newest series. These are small paintings, so do not judge them by the jpegs you see. They are the type of paintings
you see from the other end of the room and you can not stop looking at them. You must walk towards it and examine it. When
paintings are so small every bit of the detail is greatly appreciated and admired.
I just added another painting today. It is of me riding a red dragon. I took great care in getting a very bright red.
It is like many of my artwork‘s, a secret how I did it. I have many, many artistic secrets, some of which I do
not share with even my wife. It is impossible to keep everything from my wife though since we have a very close relationship.
To tell you the truth I feel bad about keeping these things secret but this is part of being a artist. Maybe someday I can
have my own work shop. It would take allot of money for me to share my tricks of the trade though.. I put myself in my paintings
often. I often show myself has a overly muscular media evil warrior. Many times I am a cowboy. The paintings I have done in
the past 7 years or so, I am depicted with a long beard.
I love my beard even though allot of local people look at me strange because of it. One thing I am learning about allot
of people here, is they are very judgmental. This is a great place to live so maybe it is a pride thing. Pride is bad and
has always been a precursor to bad times for me and if people are honest they will admit this. That is a whole other subject
though. What I am trying to say is people will see my beard and treat me as less human because of my beard. This makes no
sense to me, nor has never in my life. We need to treat others how we would like to be treated. For a long time I really believed
that people would treat me badly because I was from the east coast. My enthusiasm that is common place on the east and the
west coast has always been looked down upon here. It is not good to seem too enthusiastic or ambitious here. This is a fact.
Will people ever change here, I do not know. It is up to me and all good people not to sacrifice goodness for the status
quo I am sure of that.
Back to the muscle theme in my art and why it is. I am still lifting weights and have been doing so since late 1999.
I was injured at my job and my chiropractor suggested I lift weights to keep me from any future problems with my very bad
spinal column. I have had a MRI to prove it The chiropractor knew I had a history of weight training because of the many conversations
about it we had. I lifted for about 2 years in the Raytheon gym and about one year at the college gym. I bought a Gold’s
Gym set for at home and have been lifting at home ever since. I have been lifting weights with a steady routine now for almost
ten years now. I have a perfect set up at home, with a pulley for my back and arms, a adjustable bench, and a Olympic style
weight set. About a year ago I bought a curling bar at the goodwill store. Weight lifting would explain why I put myself in
my painting as a hulk like character. My recent favorites are on my science fiction fantasy page, the acrylic page. I am seen
as a swords man and a leader of a Radman tribe of warriors and a future motorcyclist with my wife on back. I did this series
of paintings for a painting II class I took with Merry Furrier. I remember her say that swordsman looks too muscular, too
unreal. That made me happy because that is what I meant to do.
I started lifting weights in my home town of Middletown, Connecticut at the YMCA. I lived there and the weight club was
2 dollars a month to join. I got to be friends with every one there. Including friends of my father’s friends who
were high ranking police officers. These dudes where huge and always inspired me. My weightlifting coach was Jerry Augustine
who was Mr. North Eastern, Mr. New England around the time Arnold was popular. I wanted to compete as a body builder, so I
was so big it was unreal. Those were some great days for me. I felt like the king of the world for many years. I started lifting
with hopes of competing and did not stop until about 3 years after I got married. I think It did not matter to me how I looked
so much, after being with my wife for three years. I am glad to be lifting again though even though I will never reach such
peaks as back then. I actually started lifting weights when I was 12 or thirteen years old for sports. I played basketball
from sixth grade to eighth grade for my school team. I played and lettered at tennis my freshman year of high school. I ran
track, played basketball, played football too, for my high school. I lifted weights for football especially, but all sports
required me to lift.
I have drawn muscular dudes all my life and could do so with my eyes closed. My earliest memories of serious drawing was
in seventh grade I used to draw Spiderman allot. I had become so good at it that one morning the entire seventh grade class
of Saint John’s School were gathered around my desk to see what I was going to draw next. These type of memories
is what made me work very hard, from like forth grade to today to become a accomplished artist. I actually have some art work
I did from eighth grade my mom sent me. I may put it up on the site someday. I do not need to remind all the real Radman_Art
fans that Radman is a very muscular skateboarding super hero. I invented him because while I worked for Tracker skateboard
truck company, in the 1980’s this was a peak time of my weight training. I used to feel like a super hero skateboarding
mostly around small thin young people. To be a great skateboarder you really do have to be thin, muscle does not hurt in any
sport though. I always felt responsible around young people and wanted to set a good example in any way I could. That is the
whole reason I invented Radman. I thought at the time no one had a skateboarding super hero at the time and this needed to
be done. Allot of the older skateboarders (in their early twenty’s) that I skated with in Southern California were
kind of heroic to me back then. A few of them were bigger and tougher than me back then. They were always gentlemanly to my
wife and I though and they could skate like magic.
I will never forget those days in the late 1980’s. Maybe I will finish my origin of Radman comic someday. I
did a sketched storyboard of it about 3 years ago on break from college. I found the sketches about a year ago in some junk
papers and put it where I could see it. It has been there to this day. Do you think I could get to the point were I could
be free enough to complete such a huge project? I have not done great comics since the early 1990’s. I really have
to be in a place of joy in my life to create comics. Those 3 years in southern California were some of the best years of my
life. Do you think I could have some best years of my life here in Texas? We got enough sunshine for it. It has allot to do
with the people though. I have always said this about California, “it’s the people”. I have
never met more friendly people as I have in California. The people make it a great place to live. Not just the weather, it’s
the people. The good people here always lift my spirits. I am going to do all I can to keep my spirits up in hopes of creating
the greatest art of my life.
Well me and my wife got over the stressful time a while ago, that I spoke of below. I should update this web site more.
I found a new way of uploading now. I will be able to share new videos with you all much easier, indefinably. I have a new
sk8 video of me inside that is very cool. Since I am not a student at this moment, it makes it much harder to access the internet.
I will take extended learning classes. Extended Learning classes run every month and are easy to join for any one interested.
I have taken all the classes I can for summer time at the college. I hate taking classes with no credit at all. I have done
this twice, but never again. Gas is too expensive and the stress and work is just not worth it with out credit hours. No one
seems to go to college in the summer and classes that are offered get dropped because of lack of sign ups. The college is
being expanded allot here in McKinney so I hope to discover more opportunities in the future here. I am now using my free
time to catch up on all my projects at home. I am the grounds keeper, the butler, the animal care taker. the maintenance man,
the carpenter, the chef, you name it, is my job, here. Also it is nice to be able have a clean house and keep it clean every
day. That combined with having a acre of land to tend to is more than a full time job. So many things I want to do and have
to schedule the best I can to get them done. I have slowed down on painting but am sketching allot to keep my self in tuned.
I always keep sketch books handy. I have so, so many paintings I do not know what to do with them all. Still I am very enthusiastic
about “pressing on“, to quote my brother, Bob Dylan. I will submerse myself again and I will promise you all it
will be a great event. I will move the planet with my heart and soul in the form of paint.
I have worked a entire year to have the greatest display at the Allen Library, I have ever had. I have completed so many
western paintings they do not have room for them all. In my home I hang all my favorite western paintings as of right now
I am unable to do that I have so many, all in frames. I will do what I have done before at the Allen Library and bring them
all and decide what to put up then. Only the best I assure you. Not just what I think is the best. I have the advantage of
having a master watercolor painter’s opinion on this show. My Teacher Kathy Cotter Smith at CCCCD said to me “she
has never had a student produce so much work.” She has been teaching at the college since 1993. That is 25 years. I
remember all of her favorite paintings and those will be my first choice. I have decided to start a science fiction fantasy
series in the mean time. Then when the show is over at the Allen Library, I will begin to prepare for the next one with all
new western paintings for you all next year, because I love you, that’s why. You know who you are. It goes with out
words. Who needs words in this day and age. This is the future that so many that have gone on to the next life, wanted to
see. We stand here for them. We make our stand for our country and our world. This the future world our grandparents dreamed
of. We move to create true peace and prosperity for all. This election is a dawn of a finely tuned land of the free. I just
want to say; if it seems as though I am not painting as much, as of this half of the month of may, it is true. I am going
through a stressful time. Hopefully it will be over soon and just a faint memory. I have learned about myself that I do not
create as well when I am having a bad time in life. I hardly create at all when I am stressed out. When I am stressed out;
I get in a bad mood. I loved my grandfather, my dads dad. He was a tough as nails Sicilian man. He was so tough he came across
to me as very mean, even though I know in his heart he loved me. The only reason I say that is because he was like a drill
sergeant to me. You have to understand my father was a police officer and my grandfather being like a drill instructor always
seemed to much to me. I believe it is the reason I am more disciplined at every thing I do. It is also the reason for the
greatness in me. My grandfather was a Navy man from World War II. No one likes to be bossed around even though it was for
my own good. I did not see that as a kid though. Now that I look back on it I understand. I have a hard time talking about
all that because I get choked up. He loved me like a son. I felt more like his son than his grandson. My grandmother seemed
closer to me than my own mother at times. It is kind of hard to talk about them with out getting very sad. I was close to
them and always felt it all my life. I lived with my grandparents for almost a year. They were like movie stars to me. It
was one of the best years of my youth. They always believed in me. They are the big percent of the reason I have achieved,
at all, in my life time. They loved my wife very much. They were very happy for us. My grandfather was like a hero to me.
I hope I never end up like a grumpy old man though. I don’t think my grandfather was like that. I don’t think
he could have been married to my sweet grandmother for 60 years if he was. I used to call my grandmother a angel, you can
ask my wife. She was like a angel to me all my life. I could cry at any moment, thinking of her, to this day. I could never
talk enough about how great my grandparents were. They had a real presence, I believe I inherited that part of them. I have
known this all my life and have leaned on that and built on that all my life. I think living with them in my youth really
helped me in my life, because of that. I do not want to say to much, as out of respect, and it makes me too sad too. My grandfather
on my moms side also a tough Sicilian, was grumpy because he was sick and we all loved him no matter what. I remember being
kind to him no matter what because I knew he was suffering. I also lived in his house for a couple years in my youth. He was
a giant of a man. At least that is how I remember him, although I was just a child. He was like a legend in my home town.
He was a great construction manager like. He headed up many major building projects in my home town. I remember those giant
beautiful buildings and thinking my grandfather made this.
Everything in my life seems to be leading to me being a bitter old man. I hope I can turn it all around and live the rest
of my life as a caring, kind, loving, man, who just wants to help when he can. I have always tried to steer my self like that.
I must admit it is not easy sometimes. I think so far I have done a good job and seek to continue to do so as I get older.
90% of the time my paintings are better than the one before. I am not the only one that says this. I have had other people
tell me this too. So do not judge me on the paintings I have done only. I have yet to accomplish my ultimate painting. I went
to the thrift store and got some cool frames. I have to reconstruct almost every one of them. It can take many hours to get
the painting in the frame and on the wall. They are cool looking when I am done. I can not afford the frames I want for my
paintings. I would be using much more elaborate frames if I could. I have about 100 paintings hanging in my house. All my
favorite. I really get the feeling of being in a western store or a western movie walking through my house. Keep watching
the western water color page.
I am still working on rebuilding the fence. I have to have a safe fence for my wife and I to go to the car and the back
yard. The more I think of it the more unfair it seems. The work has curbed my painting that was really going well. I was really
building up allot of momentum. I was also going to fix up my skateboard ramp. I have not worked on that either. This fence
thing has really hurt my wife and I. Again I must try to control my urge to complain. My painting at school should be done
soon. I like it. I really go for it in class. I apply allot of paint quickly and this makes for a very interesting painting.
Also I never take my work home from school so this also makes for a new style of painting by me. I usually never finish paintings
from class so this series will be something new. I may still work on them at home. I am doing a series called horses in my
neighborhood. I just finished another canyon type painting. I may make a series out of that too. I would also consider my
posse style paintings a series along with the flag series. I am very patriotic and I really liked doing those paintings. I
have wanted to do a little more with that, we’ll see. I do not like to tell people what I am doing next. I am enjoying
doing water colors on arches paper more and more and am going to keep that up in the future even after class.
What can I say. Just when you thought stress had been more than any one could handle, then things go even worse. I had
to move my fence again. My neighbor keeps making me move. I will not complain. I did how ever break down and put a link to
the Center for Constitutional Rights on my home page. If it is very important I will put a link up for a short time. My wife
and I moved the fence in about 5 hours. I did all the work of course. I had to move the outside ac unit because there was
no room for it between the fence. I bent it. It had to be fixed and moved. Half the week that I would be normally turning
out art like no tomorrow, I was waiting for the AC people to show up or stressing on the cost and if it was done right. I
did finish a painting today 03 21 08. I love it My wife is so, so about it. That might mean it may not be so popular. She
has not seen it finished yet though. Unreal. Well I am not going to let all this stop me from my determination of completing
some great paintings. I did finish 32 Cowboy drawings though. What is Radman talking about? What did I say before I am not
going to give detailed instructions to you, now go find the art I am talking about.
How do you do it Radman? How do you create so many paintings? It is called discipline. I have a lot of stress it is true.
Much more than most people of this I am sure. I could run down the statistics for you to prove it. But like I have said before
I am not into complaining on this web site. When I first started this web site it was one quarter complaining the rest art.
I would like to remind you all that my web site was down for many years than I put it back online around 2003. I have about
30,000 hits. I average about 1.000 hits per month. You won’t find any ads on this site. I make no money from it and
have never made any money from it, at all. I do however pay money for it. So like I was saying I will not complain, I have
blogs for that elsewhere. Yes discipline. It is called artwork after all, not artplay. I could easily use my free time for
playing video games or skateboarding, but I do not. Yes I have been turning em out lately, haven’t I? Water colors are
very hard to paint. They take twice as long as gouache’s. I sure am getting the hang of it huh? You know one of my first
water colors was the crate myrtle tree I did for Dr. Daniels, who was my teacher for drawing one and two. This painting can
be found on my trees page. It is at the top of the trees page now. Water color does not spread like gouache and takes many
layers to achieve the effect I like in my paintings. I will be entering the Viewpoints 2008 contest and hope for the best.
I think I have a good chance of scoring good. We will see. I got a “solid A” on my midterm reviews, said: Kathy
Cotter Smith. The atmosphere in this class is intense. You feel the tension in the air. We have several watercolor 1 students
who are more like advanced water color students. Although they have little water color experience they have been avid artists
for many years. I think I am butting heads with a couple students. I was a water color one student for what seems like forever
(1 semester). Now that I am a watercolor 2 student I feel like a couple of the watercolor 1 students, are treating my like
they are 2’s and I am a one. Pretty weird, to say the least. It is not hurting my performance though I have created
3 times as many paintings for midterm reviews this semester compared to last semester. I think I was trying to adjust my style
to the watercolor way. I am not a lazy painter I do not make a few brush stokes and then I am done. I work very hard sometimes
spending hours on a tiny section of the painting. Last semester was so great, compared to this semester. I got along with
absolutely everyone in the class. It felt like a big happy family. I even gave everyone in the class a painting ,you can see
it on the bottom of the western water color page. Instead of doing that this year I am going to sell cheap paintings at the
student paining sale at the end of this semester at the spring creek campus. The quality of my watercolors are just as good
now they are just bigger. Big watercolors are very hard to do for me. My project paintings are even coming out so good Kathy
said I should frame them. Like I said I will take a photo of them all at the end of class for the web site. I just can not
bring myself to cut them and frame them yet. Maybe someday. I am liking water color more and more and branching out into different
techniques trying to stay true to strict water color style thanks to my teacher. I hope you all like what you see on my western
water color page and will come to the Allan Library this August to see them. Don’t worry I have a lot more great paintings
in me till then. Like I was telling my wife the best is yet to come. Remember the newest paintings are always at the top of
the page. I have done a rock and roll painting or two for class too. I also did a buildings painting to. The rock and roll
painting has about 5 or so variations because of study’s for that painting. Things are going great and thanks to all
my friends out there, thanks for the positive energy and sticking up for me. I know someday you will be rewarded for it. Talk
to ya latter, Radman
Do you know what that is like to live your life day after day, year after year in selflessness, I have a heckler in my
class right now. She said one time your interview was all about public relations. I feel like saying to her, next time you
have a huge fire almost engulf your home you come talk to me then. I thought about her sarcastic remarks, and then I remembered
the incident from the start. As soon as I realized the fire was threatening my home I began to load stuff in my car. You can
see my car on camera in the interview near my front gate. On one of my trips to my car one of my trips to the car the first
person I spoke to was the Fire marshal himself. He is the guy in the footage of the Collin County command post. He is the
grey haired man on the walky talky. He is a ok guy, I have spoke to him on the phone about many things like the trash burning
before. As soon as I saw him I complained about the trash burning. That combined with the fact that the NBC interview almost
sounds like I single handedly inspired the trash burn. This should prove to any one that I was selfless in my actions. Yes
I wanted people to know I was a artist and all my art in my house might parish in the fire. I wanted to give the fire fighters
incentive. I wanted to give all the good people that were there incentive. Take a good look at my art for the past 3 - 4 years.
I have been doing exclusively western art that is it. I would not mind going off in any direction I pleased with my art. After
all I make no money off my art and have never made any money from my web site, ever. I easily spend 40 hours a week painting.
If you consider that I am either paining or working out my next painting session in my head, you could say I am doing my art
constantly. Every thing I do is selfless. My life is selfless. Even when I do things for myself it is also for many, many
other people at the same time. It is jealousness. People see how zealous I am about my art and they are jealous. They want
to be like that, but can not. If they would open there eyes and see that I am not only talking about my art, but art in general.
They would see I am promoting their art too, and all art. Isn’t it funny how sometimes the very people you are helping
are the ones who put you down the most. Sometimes I think people are how they are depicted in the Simpson’s series.
I’m trying to be funny. I have to ether laugh or look on the bright side.
I just want to ad that I really like Kenya West. He is not only a outstanding artist but his honesty shines like my own.
I want to put a ad for his album Graduation Day on my web site. If you go to college or have gone to college you should listen
to it.
You know I used to have my words page on my home page around about the time my web site began. Looks like it is going full
circle again.
Selflessness.
self·less [sélfləss]
adj
thinking of others first: putting other people's needs, interests, or wishes before your own
Well I finally did it. I have been in the news papers. I have been in a Movie. Now I have finally been on Television. It
was because of a very bad time for my wife and I and my two dogs. We were all so upset that day.
Here is a link for you to go see the Television footage for yourself. It is from the local (NBC Universal)
television station out of Dallas, Texas. Here is the link:
http://video.(NBC Universal)5i.com/player/?id=211612
Yes I have been complaining about the burning of trash in my neighborhood for years. I hope this news broadcast clears
the air on that subject for good. It sure was cool being on Television, even though for me and mine, it was out of a day of
heart ache and pain. To all you who are fans of Radman_Art you can call (NBC Universal) channel 5, for the Tape or DVD of
that news broadcast of January 29, 2008 at 10:10PM.
We had a fire today 01 29 08 the day after my twentieth wedding anniversary to my wife. My wife could barley get home because
of all the fire trucks. The fire started in the back of the house. About a fifth of a mile away it started and was headed
towards our house. It shot across a field of grass very quickly. About 12:45PM The electricity went on and off and then completely
off. I was angry about it and sat down and turned my game boy on and turned the volume way up. My boy dog, the black one,
was trying to warn me that something was wrong outside. I tried to ignore it as much as I could. My mind was on my wife and
the dinner she was buying us to celebrate our anniversary. I was hoping she would call me so I could tell her not to buy any
food since the power was off. I told her to call me if she had any questions about the painting to be mailed to my step mom
for her birthday. Finally I gave in to my dog and opened up my back door. I opened and shut the door many times. I could not
believe what I saw. I had to stop and think about it. I looked out of other windows in the house and saw smoke. I told myself
this must be fog. It has been foggy lately. Finally I went out the back door to face the truth. The wind was blowing so hard
it was hurting my ears. The smoke was all up wind from the back of my house. I left the door open and immediately started
to try to decide on what to load in the car. I heard someone shouting in to my door. I went out side and there was a young
man who looked like a punk rock skateboarder. He was trying to warn me about the fire. I was angry and was sarcastic with
him. I do not know why I would be angry at him, I guess it was the stress. I went out side to back up my car nearer to my
door. The fire trucks were already on my road. I did not even know it. The gate was open They had broke the lock and opened
it that fast. They said we have to get through this fence. I said please chop it down, what ever you want. When my wife came
home I saw her going through the same thing I had been going through for the last 2 hours. Trying to make sense of what was
going on. A fire man came to the my back door and said we had to wait on the street. I then began to get my poor dogs into
my car. They hate going in the car and my boy dog has got to weigh at least 50 pounds. He fought me all the way. I got him
in the car and carried the girl dog in the car, both were on leashes but that made no difference. The cat was under the couch,.
I had to pick up the couch to get her out and then the bed. I finally got her in the cat cage and took her to my wife’s
car. My wife waited in the car with the dogs. The dogs were shacking violently as they sat in the car. That broke my heart
to see that. I went up the hill and could see how the fire took out the whole field of grass. The smaller trucks would fill
up with water and go up in the field and work the fire on the wooded aria behind my house. They said my house was the only
one threatened but I walked over to my neighbors house and the fire was allot closer to his house. I said, get your hose,
and we feed it through the fence to the female fire fighter who used it to put the smoldering ground out. One of the fire
men told me the trees stopped it before it got to my house. The fire had rushed across the field and stopped at the wooded
aria behind my house. Nature saved us! Ironic huh? The trees blocked the wind and because it had rained, they did not burn
like the old winter grass in that field. I do not know for sure what caused the fire I heard it could have been a transformer
blew out. It did start the minute the power went out for good. The tree branches grow too close to the wires around here.
I hope the electric company pays more attention to this problem. I have seen them replacing the poles lately. Like I said
I am not so sure that was the cause. The field where the fire started did not seem to be near any telephone poles at all.
It was just a empty field. I am sure the local authorities will find out what it was and do all they can to prevent this from
taking place again.
I went from calming, painting my assignment for painting class, to complete chaos lasting for many hours. I have many painting
projects I have completed for college that will not be on the web site until the end of class, like I did last time. The painting
I completed was vary cool and I was feeling a real sense of accomplishment. The fire changed all that in a complete 360. But
I kept my head and saved the day. I worked very, very hard to be better safe than sorry. It was cold out and I was dripping
with sweat. From about 1PM to nightfall I worked hard finally mending all my fence. I also did a interview with NBC channel
5 out of Dallas including a interview about my paintings that where on display in Allen last August, in my house. I had to
explain to the reporter why my bed and the couch was tipped over.
I am very, thankful for the McKinney fire department and the Melissa Fire department and the County for putting the fire
out before it got to the house. The smaller trucks were the most effective. They were able to get in smaller arias, feeding
off the bigger water trucks. I was amazed at how much water, those cool red trucks hold. They did a outstanding job. The female
fire fighters were very impressive. Every one of the fire fighters were friendly and extremely professional. Outstanding job
what can I say. It really touched my heart to see these people save my home and the thousands of works of art it contains.
I was prepared to unload the paintings if necessary but I would need a big truck to haul them in. I will never forget hearing
about how Norman Rockwell lost all of his art in a fire at his home. That to me was like a natural disaster that devastated
our country.
Well what can I say. Things are moving so fast these days I can hardly keep up. Zoom! Zoom! Did I do that? I had one of
my paintings in the Gallery at my school during the fall semester student show of 2007. I never felt so electric when I went
to class. Everyone was so nice to me. They really liked the painting. I was really surprised how much everyone liked it. I
spent a long time on it. About 6 months. I am sure I speak about it on my words page some where. I do not know where. Like
this page you have to find stuff I create. I do all the work the least you can do is look. I pay for this site and have for
many years now, all I ask is some word of mouth.
I have allot of water colors I have not featured on my web site yet, by the way. I may want to do some work on some of
them first, any how. I just took a picture of them all. You have to understand these are not extra credit paintings I did
at home. Those have been on the Western Watercolor page as soon as I finished each one. These need work. Assignment paintings
are when the teacher dictates every thing you do. Also I only worked on all these in the class room, because I ride a motorcycle
to class most of the time. The first one I will be working on is the biggest painting. I have a big blue smudge in the center
of the painting. The reason I have this smudge is because I was trying to use the palate required fro the class. I will bring
a sealable paint container next semester so this will never happen Again. You can see the photo of these paintings on the
bottom of the Western Watercolors page. The door in the back ground should show how big these paintings are. I also did a
painting of Leonardo Decaprio I will have this painting one of the Miscellaneous Paintings page’s. I was proud to do thid painting because of so much Leonardo has done for artist’s. If any one want’s
they can tell him I said that. Oh and I did a tiny painting on the back of my card for each one of the students in the class.
That is just above the for mentioned photo.
I finished this huge painting Autumn in El Paso, yesterday 12 31 2008. I stared at it along time, to make sure I was done.
I really love it. I started this thing around the end of September. I have been painting so much lately for class and skateboarding
and building my ramp, I have had less and less time to paint. I had to stop working on the big painting in September because
it just became too much. My water color teacher, who I like more and more these days, really pushes me. I am doing the best
I can to listen to her while I am in class and I am learning allot. My acrylic style has benefited allot by taking watercolor
class. And it really shows in the new painting Autumn in El Paso. It is a explosion of color. I tried to stay true to autumn
tree colors. The barn is like barns I see every day on my way to and from my house. I do not like to talk to much about my
paintings because it is imposable for me to describe the emotion and love I put in each thing I do. So much so that I become
physically exhausted after each painting I do.
I am closing in on completing my next big western painting. I should be done either this weekend or next weekend. Water
color class at the college is really going good. I will be doing a new painting a week. Water colors are much different than
gouache. I seem to be taking right to it. I have a new web page called Western Watercolors you will find my new paintings
there. Water colors are cool and I am looking forward to focusing in on them and giving it my all. I put up the first and
only offer I have ever put on this site to sell my paintings this month. I think it is the right thing to do in case someone
really wants me sell them a painting.
I just want to say my new painting is really coming out great! It is going to be a giant western painting
full 3’ x 4’ on hard wood board with framed back. My wife is my toughest critic. It is very rare that she will
say, “that’s really good”. When she saw the sketch, she was very impressed. I do not want to give too much
away but this is going to be a unique large western painting of my deepest heartfelt creation. All my paintings are heartfelt
though, I practice what I preach. In the words of a song “if your hearts not in it please step aside”. I know
you are all going to like it. College is starting up soon, that means I will have much less time to paint. I am telling you
I have had a new wind blowing behind me with all the great articles in the Dallas Morning News. I promise you next August
at The Allen Library is going to be a great show. I feel like a new person like I did when displayed my first painting in
public at Half Priced Books in McKinney. I have plans on switching that painting out again. Also it seems as though some McKinney
Galleries might want to show my stuff too.
Well I am finally done with my 3foot by 4foot Army Men painting. It took about two months. It seems that is
how long my big paintings take on average these days. I like how it came out. Last time my paintings where at the Allen Library,
I did my soldier paintings and all I could think of was doing a big one. Well here we are again a few months latter and I
am doing solder paintings again. It seems like some circle or something. Like when my paintings are on display I want to do
soldier paintings. Is there a connection? Who knows. It is acrylic. I would like to do a really big gouache someday. I really
like how my acrylics come out these days though. In my portfolio painting class with Merry I really started to work the acrylics
and since then I have been working that style as much as I can to obtain the desired effect. I call the painting Army
Men because I liked to play army me when I was a boy. I also played cowboys and Indians when I was a child. I used to have
plastic army men as well as plastic cowboys and Indians. So I figure I went from playing cowboys and Indians to playing army
men in my paintings. My next painting will be western themed and will be on 3foot by 4foot gessoed hardwood this time. It
has been a while since I have done a hardwood painting and I am looking forward to it. I am going to take the same approach
as I did with army men and really work the sketch on the wood first. I think it will be my best western painting yet. Stay
tuned.
I added a cool new landscape web site. I finally finished my big western painting. I completed 2 animations for Allen Television,
for the month of August. Only one will show. I hope to show them both here soon. I still haven't made a sculpture page.
Finals are here and my display at Allen Library is next Wednesday and I need to arrange all the paintings and get them ready
to move. I gessoed another 3’ by for 4‘ homemade stretched canvas, I will start the sketch soon. It is going to
be something new. I have been taking my time and trying to stay acurate as I can. With all the stress I have it is not easy.
I have four really great sculpture type projects that I did for my 3D Design class at the college. I will be displaying them
soon. I will probably have to make a new page for it, a sculpture page. I finally started making progress on my newest big
painting. It is going to be a cool one! It will be western of course. Three feet by four feet of course. I hope to have it
done by my show in August. In fact I guaranty it! My show will consist of all my newest big western paintings and the best
of the rest western paintings. All new paintings, not shown in the last show. I hope you like my big paintings I really put
allot of blood sweat and tears into them. Three of them will be on my first home made stretched canvas. With the right frame,
they would really look nice in someone’s ranch around here. I say around here because of the landscape is modeled after
the local landscapes around here.
I am sorry to every one for not updating this site as much as I used to. I do not have a class that has internet and that
is the main reason. I have been doing sketches allot and completed a couple of gouaches as well. I set out to fill my sketch
book but have fallen short, way short. I have come to realize since I have been a painter for so long that my sketches are
way more intense. I think the days of me doing simple art sketches are long gone. I am not satisfied with simple any more.
College is beating me down as always. I am taking a 3d design class and am creating some pretty cool stuff. Having the motorcycle
makes it kind of difficult to transport the stuff. So far I have a cool Paper Relief I have done. I have made a large flower
out of a book. My next project will be to create a sculpture out of 600 exact same objects. I have some sketches of what I
want to do. I am giving it my all and plan to show it all on this web site soon. I was thinking of how to describe what it
is like for me to do a painting the other day and I came up with this: It is like making yourself cry. I just thought I would
say that because I have been taking a little time off from painting. I wiped up a sport bike painting the other day. Bam,
nice. When I do start throwing my self back into my paint you better look out. I like the design of it. It is called nose
wheelie and is on my redone sport bike page. I will be displaying it in a very special business soon. I am a motorcyclist
and have been on and off since I was 12 years old. I was 12 years old doing jumps with my big Honda 250 street bike in Cockaponset
State Forest where I lived in Killingworth Connecticut. People seem interested in these paintings and that is why I have redone
the page. I have added some new paintings to my rock and roll page. I will displaying these new paintings in CD source soon!
There is a full size painting link up to a small one to all you true Radman fans that have read this far J
. The cropped face of Jerry is from my photography class with Byrd Williams. That class was awesome! I learned about the cropping
face technique from a famous photographer Byrd taught me about. Stay tuned, Your Bro, Radman
All of the art, comics, computer art and animation’s are done with blood, sweat and tears, by the
Rad one himself. One person has done all the art on this site and all the art on this page too: http://hey_dtx.tripod.com/id14.html All art on this web site is created by me Radman, nothing made something. Any art you see on these pages
can be yours. All my life I worked to be able to make great stuff like this so please do not steal from me. If you know of
any stealing from me please tell me, I am a nice guy that just want to help people, no matter what anyone says. Many times
in my life that is what has gotten me in trouble. I am the guy that sticks his neck out to help others. There is a link on
my home page to e-mail me. If you met me you would want to help me. I have been collecting every perfect piece of art I have
done for 20 years now and all of it has been sweat over by me causing me hardship since I do not sell it often or not at all.
I have not sold my art since the late 1980’s to Tracker Skateboard Trucks Company. The cool thing is I had a contract
with them to sell my art to them. That qualifies me as a professional. It would be easy for me to work 70 hours a week and
forget about art all together. I have over 1,500 pieces of art I have done (non paintings) with pencil and ink, pastels, charcoal,
ect. Most of it is on Bristol board and high quality paper. Alot of the animation’s and art you see come from that collection
of art, or are spawned from art I have drawn in my life. I think I have drawn every cool thing that can be drawn in my life
and stuff like skulls and dragons I have drawn my favorite stuff like dragons, hundreds of times over, just to make sure I
mastered them. The stuff on this web site only represent a tiny bit of the art I have completed. I feel I should have one
thing I do not show, so I keep my most of my pencil and inks to myself. If you like any of the art on these pages and don't
see exactly what you want I probably have what you want already made or I could make it new, in no time at all better than
most anyone. If you see me out, get me to draw in front of you, there is no better way for me to prove to you how good I am.
Because I constantly have to do art for college even when I don't want to, I believe I am at the top of my game. I have over
100 college credit hours most under the Dean of Fine Arts “Gay Cooksey”. She is cool. Keep in mind that if you
see A piece of art work and it is very small, chances are it could be as big as poster size 3'x2'. Also for allot of the tweaked
(computer enhanced) pieces of art you see there is a pencil and ink drawing good for framing. I grew up in the cold dark streets
of Connecticut in the 1960's and 1970's. Those brownstone lined streets where life was cheap. The wind of change blew often
and I knew every day of my youth that the time was special, music was every where. My sister got a folk guitar, I picked it
up and played it like a expert. My mom paid for guitar lessons for me for almost a year, because she was that amazed. I should
have had folk lessons. I hated the pain it caused my fingers I think I was only 8 or 9 years old. I love to tell people that.
You know I have never been able to afford a guitar, that is not right. My mom was always cool as long as I remember. My mom
is my biggest fan! I accredit her for keeping me going when I am down. My home town, Middletown Connecticut was a very, very
nice suburban community 20 minutes south of Hartford Connecticut. Home of Wesleyan University a exclusive college where I
hung out allot. skating in the tunnels or seeing football games or concerts for free. You had to be rich to go to that college,
that might be where I started to think of my self as wealthy. I have never been wealthy so it is kind of a curse I guess.
Wesleyan University had a big influence on me and my art. I want to mention Chris Rodenhiser who was my best friend from ages
10 to 14 we did everything together. His dad was a professor at Wesleyan University. I hung out at his house like my own house.
He is a principal at a grade school now. His brothers where all great people. I have nothing but good memories of them and
the positive impact they had on me. Growing up in Middletown always made you feel fortunate because it was so nice compared
to most all of Connecticut. Even as a child I was able to draw really good from my head. I kept this philosophy of, art was
not art unless it comes from your head most of my life. I like to look at something now and draw something completely different,
I never copy ever, and I will never trace until the day I leave earth, amen. There must be thousands of drawings I did as
a kid, I do not know where they went thrown out I guess. I know I gave allot of stuff away in school. I have started to give
some paintings away. It is rare but it happens. I like to give paintings to my neighbors lately. I guess my earliest memory
of doing really cool art was 4th grade, I drew a thanksgiving card for my mom. When you opened it appeared as if you dumped
the food because the card appeared upside down when opened. This is a design ability as well I think my mom still has this
card. The thing is I drew since kindergarten really with great intensity. In fact I would have to say I drew with the same
intensity as I draw now all my life. I have the finger callus to prove it. I did not start saving my art until I got married
20 years ago. I want you all to know I throw out doodles that do not come out right, I only keep real art or great design
ideas. I actually remember drawing pretty good in kindergarten on the blackboard. From 5th grade to 8th grade I was into drawing
Spiderman and football players and such. Many things influenced my artwork and had a major impact on it. As a young adult,
whatever I was into at that time and moment seemed to be expressed in my artwork some way or another.
I met my wife and for the first time I became focused. This was in Meriden, Connecticut. Two towns over from my hometown
of Middletown. I was working in a restaurant called Friendly’s. I was dating motorcycle chicks and heavy metal types.
I guess it was the Italian in me. Like the movie “My Blue Heaven” from my other home town of San Luis Obispo,
California. Around 1986, I started sending my artwork to skateboard companies in hopes of getting recognition. This was from
Mrs. Radman’s and mine’s first apartment together. It was a attick apartment in Meriden. I made some real cool
art back then. I just kept sending it to every skateboard company I could find in Transworld Skateboarding Magazine. In other
words all of them. This was all original art, pencil and ink. I developed this relationship with this lady that owed Z PIG
skateboard company. She told me the best place to move to would be southern California near San Diego. I loaded up my old
1 ton van with important stuff like a TV, VCR and such. I also loaded a 1981 Honda Shadow 500. This way when we got there
we had two forms of transpiration. The trip across country was quit cool at times. We got a flat in Arizona and these real
cool Indians where driving by and helped us out. We went to there house and talked about reservation life. I kept saying how
beautiful it was there. It looked like a artist paradise. Maybe it was a preclusion to me becoming a painter. I see allot
of that when I look back on my life. In 1987, I moved to California where I got a job working for Tracker Designs. We where
so poor back then we had a bed that we found by a dupster we had no furniture. That was cool though I just put some ply wood
down and did freestyle tricks in the living roomJ I can still skate by the way and always carry
a board in the car.
Tracker Designs was at the time the largest skateboard company in the world, they published Transworld Skateboarding Magazine
and the best trucks in the world. They invented OJ skateboard wheels. They sponsored Tony Hawk in the 1980's when only dudes
like me knew who he was. Let me tell you this about Tony Hawk from the 1980's. He had a bowl ramp at his home allot of skaters
I used to hang with went there. They used to say "That Tony Hawk he is so conceded, one time I cut out in front of him and
he said “don't you know I am the greatest skateboarded on earth?" You know what he was right. No one has done more for
skateboarding than Tony has. I was a gofer at Tracker, Go for this and go for that. I was in charge of cleaning the office,
delivering mail to Transworld, Skaterags, The Tracker team room, The factory where the trucks where made, and the ware house
where they kept every thing. In the 1980's while working for Tracker, I when I went off the hook and did so much ding dang
artwork. I mailed many copies to skateboard companies originals, like in Connecticut. Tracker Put me on a contract and purchased
a bunch of comics from me. I have a bunch from back then. It seemed like that is when I started doing really great stuff,
they stopped buying it. To any artist to sell their work is a huge ego booster. I have been doing art like a machine since
then. In 2005 I did over 100 rad paintings. Anyway if you talk to me for more than 5 minutes about my art I will mention 250
pages of really cool skateboard comics I have from back then. The past years have been ground breaking for me. I must have
about 500 + pieces of art that I did since 1998 that can only be described as the top of it's genre, what ever that may be,
and to my enemies or (envy)mies as I call them, I am a no body. I have seen envy many times in college. You work almost a
year on a animation and you sit in class and some students refuse to watch it because they are jealous. Envy is awful thing.
I want people to journey with me, to let me be their art, instead of envy. To them I say I am the reason artist to day are
not discovered. I am the missing link. Without my recognition, there is no recognition. What if that was true? It could be.
The quality of my art is on the rise. So stay tuned. I have 1500 + art and comics from 1988-now, that I want to entertain
with. All 1500 + pieces of art I have saved all this time are frame worthy. I throw trashy scribbles in the trash. I have
a small fraction of my art up on the web. When I lived in California I had moved there for the sk8ing as well as my passion
for artwork. In the late 1980's Skateboarding was at a all time high. Gleaming the cube came out I knew and had skated with
almost every pro there was back then. I used to have free access to Mike McGuil's skatepark in Carlsbad, California. Mike
did the stunts for Gleaming The Cube Movie and Police Academy. My whole life I seem to be surrounded by important people.
I should have went to college out of high school, Yale or something in Connecticut or Boston. I was a rebellious kid though.
I just wanted to have a good time. I am trying to make up for that now. It is never too late to start over.
Look at it this way, by some miracle I survived to be like some museum piece from the seventy's untouched. I give you the
art of the seventy's with out any influence of college in the 1980's. I learned what I know by experience. I have been going
to college for 6 years now (since 2001) with a A Average all paid for in cash by me. It is a struggle believe me. But I choose
art my way and I hope the whole world will enjoy that someday. That will be the day. My love for art shines in every work
of art I do. I can use any medium. Give me any art tool including a computer art and I will blow you away. It has taken years
of hard work to arrive at this point. Now I am at a place and time in my life where I would like to get a job as a animator,
comic artist or illustrator or anything where I will be developing cool art. One of my favorite teachers said I would make
a great art director. College is intense and will take me to that job I want as a graphic artist. Before you go check out
the art, and animation's I have created please note: if you are offended by movies like Harry Potter you should understand
like Harry Potter and video games like Doom, my art is make believe, pretend meant only to entertain. Oh and I could say drugs
are cool, to go along, the truth is I hate drugs and I do not even drink. If you label my art as drug related that is the
type of prejudice that ruins lives and ambitions. If you say some one's art looks like it is drug related and they hate drugs,
then you are saying they should hate their art. This is my push for all great artists, be a rock to this and forge forward
(for you, not to please others) no matter what bigots think or say or use to oppress you with. I do not do comics or animation’s
allot or hardly ever. The reason is I have to get paid to do this. When I do a painting I can hang it on my wall and it entertains
me every day. It is like food for the eyes where ever I walk in my house. Also it inspires me to do more and better paintings.
Comics and animation’s I have to go find then I watch or read it and then what? You can only watch or read something
so many times before you are sick of it. Doing this site was a real moral booster to me. I promise you this if I where to
start comics again they would be spectacular! I would like to do a modern art comic novel. If any of you all can help me by
giving a good word or linking me to a site please do! I want more than any thing to publish the comics I already have. Of
course I have all the original art if excellent condition. I always use fine quality paper and bristol board. I have been
hanging out in art stores talking to people since the mid 1980's, that is how I got my education. Also around 1988 I attended
the San Diego Comic Convention (the largest in the world) I spent the whole weekend there talking to all the venders and sitting
with the artist's. That is when the Teenage Ninja Turtle came out and the actual artist drew me a picture for 1 dollar. As
you can tell by the way I write I talk allot . I guarantee if you read my comics you will laugh. I would except for all the
blood sweat and tears put into it. Good health and prosperity, friends.
How did I end up in McKinney, Texas? Well I was living 2 blocks from the beach in Arroyo Grande, California. One day my
wife goes to the library and says to me “I have to join the army to get money for college”. At first I thought
she had lost it. We had been married fro 7 years at the time, She was about 30 years old. It took me one week to decide to
support her on her decision. We ended up in Killeen, Texas to do her regular army time. She was one of the last 4by4’s.
When it came time to do her reserve time we decided to stay in Texas so she could go to college. We looked at all the community
colleges in Texas and McKinney had the nicest one. She loved water falls so when I saw the nice water fall at the college
I said this must be a sign. It turns out that CCCCD is rated the highest community college in Texas. She got her associate
of science, computer science, she is a genius really.
At the end of this semester “2007” I will have 3 certificates and over 120 credits in Collin County Community
College, Texas. One certificate in Animation, 1 in Graphic Design, and 1 in Digital Video/Web Design.
Sincerely, Radman
I finished this painting about a week ago. I wanted to take a picture for you all but it has been dark and rainy the whole
week. Yesterday I was out side with my wifey and we took a picture in the sun. It seemed at that moment the clouds parted.
It is dark again today, so it is a good thing.
Not that the rain is a bad thing here. The farmers are always complaining to me that it does not rain enough and they will
not be able to get their hay crops this year. As if I control the rain. I will admit to having a influence and that’s
it. If that is too much for your head excuse me. I would need to write a book to explain. The farmers, ha. Yoda say: they
in touch with nature and nature in touch with me, it is. Oh and while I am at it nature is not feminine. And painting is not
feminine. Some one said that to me recently. The problem with our society is we always relate zealous passion as being feminine.
I am rubber and you are glue what you say bounces off of me and stick to you. I remember as a kid having to grow up around
that mentality. Yes most of Radman’s family (Uncles and Cousins) where kind of redneck like. I like to think allot of
them have changed over the years. T he cool thin is that I choice to get out of my situation ASAP. I have been on my own since
18 years old and it has had it’s good times and bad times, but I am pleased to announce I am a product of me. It the
words of the Drive By Truckers, “I ain’t gonna crawl up on no high horse , cause I got thrown off of one”.
My favorite painters are manly men with wives, struggling though life trying to get bye on barely nothing for the sake of
painting. Like Max Ernst, Salvador Dali, and Jackson Pollock.
The bird in the painting I saw about a block from my house. It was on a branch like in the painting growing out of a small
pond that was not there 6 months ago. It looked like a bird you might see in Florida. Some one told me they are common around
here. I may have seen them before. I have seen a falcon once or twice too. Maybe some day I will add that to my painting.
The horses and trees reflect off the blue colored water. The blue water reflects the blue sky I saw that day. I know the picture
is not that good. You have to see it at my show I guess. I just had to do some of those trees again for the hundredth time.
The way they line the sky line on hill in this aria has always caught my eye.
I am going to do a couple small gouaches and then back to another big one if I am aloud. ,Rick
You may say. What is up with this Radman Art? This Radman does his art not follow any rules at all. I mean isn’t
there only two kinds of art, abstract and realism? I mean if he is going to paint impression style than why doesn’t
he paint that way, and be done with it? After all tradition dictates this, doesn’t it? What style is this any way? This
type of painting does not fit any where. So I have been told by gallery owners.
I took all the paintings from my show in March 2007 and hung them in my bedroom. It is the last thing I see at night and
the first thing I see when I wake up. These are some of the most detailed paintings I have done. This has caused me to reflect
on my painting style. I have come to this conclusion. True I have never seen anything like my art. At least I have never seen
any one artist run with this style the way I have. So I had to ask myself, is this a style at all? Am I style less? Do I have
no style at all. Because I have never seen any style like mine, does that mean I have no style.
What do you think?
Well I came up with two basic answers to these questions.
1) This answer kind of scares me. In fact it is one of those things that you do not want to think about. What if I have
invented my own style. That would mean since the late 1980’s I have been a innovator of a new style of art. If that
is true than I should be rich. I hate to grip about things like money. I hate money and wish we did not need it. I do not
think many people read this page at all, so I do not feel like I am griping to too many people. You know I have never been
able to afford a easel. I have been working on a 35 dollar drafting desk I bought at Wal-Mart, for about 14 years. Before
that I had no desk at all. Last Monday I had to tell the cashier I could not buy a brush because it cost too much. My thinking
is paint is the most important thing. How could I afford a easel when I can barely afford paint. Than my mind always goes
back to all those artist that where so great but so very poor, our very history depends on our artist and we have all been
ripped off. I believe I am archive the landscapes here in north Texas. Then that leads me to my next answer. You know I am
always preaching on how we need to recognize the artist (that are not drug addicts and alcoholics) that are alive now and
help them accomplish there goals by supporting them and not focusing on artists that are dead so much. You know who I am talking
about.
2) Since my very first serious painting I have been trying to describe my art work in the vain of Juxtapoz Magazine style.
All those very cool young California artist’s doing what ever they want to. Not dragged down or fettered in any way
by tradition. I used to be a young Californian artist just like them back in the late 1980‘s. Did I start something?
There is that scary feeling again. The first time I read a Juxtapoz Magazine I thought to myself, I can paint. I do not have
to obey any rules to paint at all. In fact the entire magazine is full of artist that seem to be doing what ever they want
to do. Don't forget the Art Prostitute Magazine out of Denton, Texas. I definitely knew at that moment that it was ok for
me to be me. It was also cool to find out that there was a huge population of people that where like me, working on and selling
their art, (not like me, I have not sold anything since Tracker).
Any way I hope you like my new painting completed April 17, 2007. I worked very hard an long on it. I have not worked on
one painting so long since the 2 biggest paintings I ever did on hard wood. This one is on home made stretched canvas. I hope
to show it in my August show. There are seventeen horses in it. Hay, that matches today’s date! Spooky. Three cowboys
looking very cool. It is a view of County Road 274 from County road 331. The photo was taken in spring by the narrow bridge.
I Think I will call it (narrow bridge 331 to 274). The two spruce trees are from a photo class I am taking this semester with
Professor Byrd. I took that picture because I thought those two trees reminded me of my wife and I. I took that picture on
2933 on the far south end. I do not want to say too much about it because I want you to draw your own conclusions. Peace and
lovely love, Radman
PS I just want to add that there is this dude who has been calling himself Radman since the early 1990’s and I am
not him. He is some kind of graffiti artist. He must be a good artist because he is listed on Wikipedia, encyclopedia. I have
tried to email him to no avail. Any one out there know how to get in touch with him let me know. If any one out there can
get me listed in Wikipedia, encyclopedia let me know too please or go ahead and list me with them. This way we can be known
as two separate people. Every one knows I invented Radman around 1987 - 88 when I got married. All the big skateboard companies
can verifier this as well as Thrasher Magazine.
I will be painting big this spring and summer so the paintings will not be on the site as often so please be patient. I
am sure you can find tons of stuff on my site to look at till then. I will bet you have not seen everything on Radman_Art’s
other sites page. Seeing paintings online and seeing them in person are completely different so if you get a chance please
stop by the Allen Library this August to see 2 cases of my art on display then. I may put up a so far picture once in a while
so stay tuned to this web site. I am working on a 24” x 18” now and will get bigger from there.
While the month of March has been amazing, I have about 50 paintings on display at the Allen Library. I had an article
written about me in the Dallas Morning News. It was a very nice article. I think it's available for 1 month free at Gas stations
and Supermarkets. The article talks about how I refer to Sunflowers as being a ray of hope.
When your an Artist you look at things and they seem different to you. An artist sees things more intensely. This is what
I was trying to say. I hope when people view my art, that for that moment, they can view it like an artist would see it.
Just viewing something can make your day more joyful. It's really flattering to have an article written about you. And
I am thankful for this. Life seems that much more precious when people want to see your art and say nice things about you
in the media. I have learned not to take things for granted. Especially since I've been painting my soldier paintings it makes
me appreciate our military and the sacrifices that have been made for our freedom in America. I plan on getting back to my
soldier series soon, but for now I am concentrating on big western paintings. I have recently finished a four foot long painting
on masonite, the frame and the masonite have been completed for about two years. It has been sitting in my closet for that
long. I still have 2 more that are four foot by three foot. These have frames glued to the back that can be hung on a wall.
I use Elmers ultimate glue.
I love my new four foot painting, my wife likes it too. As always I hope you do to. The painting is called Riders of the
Purple Sage. I call it that because mixed in with my green grass I used raw umber I put so many layers of paint on this painting
it's not even funny. Especially in this section of the painting, where I used the raw umber. The raw umber section of the
painting started out as red, it had long since dried when I began to add many shades of brown and tan. As the brown began
to dry I started to add raw umber. This caused the effect of purple. So actually, the painting Riders of the Purple Sage has
no purple in it at all.
I really enjoyed doing this painting. Correction - there is a tiny amount of purple in the clouds. The horses have extreme
detail, I must have painted and sketched horses over a thousand times. I’ve become very good at it. I have ability to
render a horse in any medium very quickly.
The problem with masonite is that it’s very heavy. It is impossible to hang on regular sheet rock. This is the only
reason I have not replaced my painting at Half Price Books all these years. The fact that my style of painting has changed
drastically since then. This has made me want to change that painting at Half Price Books; more and more every time I think
about it. I recently called there to tell them about my Allen show. Being on the phone with them inspired me to take action.
I was out at the Supermarket and I was talking about my art to the cashier when I looked at her and said I should stretch
my own canvases. I had some extra canvases at home, so all I needed was the wood and a staple gun. I had heard in glass that
staple guns can be bought cheaply. I actually had a class on stretching canvas. So watching little Katie Vermilion (my teacher)
accomplish this while the whole class was watching really inspired me. I was able to buy a staple gun for ten dollars. As
soon as I got home, I began to work on it. A day and half later I was done. My wife helped me a lot by holding the wood. I
can’t believe how cool it is. The entire thing cost me seven dollars. A canvas that size three foot by four foot can
cost up to two hundred dollars. Although it is not easy, in fact it is a lot of hard work. The true artist has no choice,
but to make their own canvas.
At this moment I am half way done with this new giant western painting. It will be the biggest western painting I have
ever done. I am not going to spend two months on it, in fact I am moving very quickly. Total number of hours should be around
thirty including the canvas and the thought process. The fact I am doing this painting for no money at all and that it is
costing me money; especially in tubes of paint and paint brushes is the main reason I will not be spending a month on it.
The best big paintings I have ever done, have taking me at least a month each. Like the two big square masonite paintings
I have done. Again, it has taken me all my life to be able to create artwork like I do so quickly. Although I have not been
a painter since around 1999. I have been drawing and inking professional quality since I had a contract with Tracker skateboard
company in the 1980’s. I enjoy painting and find it much easier to do then pencil and inks. I also like the way they
look better. I have come to understand why people like paintings so much.
My wife was in the Army, my dad was in the Air force, My grandfather was in the Navy during World War 2, My wife’s
dad was in World War 2, and my wife’s brother was a great solder in the Army. I always felt all my life that I was destined
to be in the US Military. I 2 times to get in the Army. I was always a fan of the army and heard it was the coolest of them
all. The first time was before I met my wife. I was a body builder in Connecticut for about 4 years, then 2 years in Vista,
California. I came real close to competing. Jerry Augustine was my weight lifting coach. I was so big that when people would
look at me even one time at my dads my own family, would laugh. I was that big that it was funny. It was not until I moved
to San Luis Obispo that I stopped pursuing the possibility of being a professional body builder. I became quit a legend and
if you where to hang around my home towns long enough you would find some one who would say, “ ya I remember that guy
he was gigantic”. At the peak of my body building I tried to join the Army for the first time. I even tried to get a
senator to write a letter. No go. Latter when I met my wife I tried again, still nothing. Then I was almost going to join
the Navy. I was at the last room where they swear you in and I said I only wanted to join the Navy to get into the army. They
said no one told us that so I left that building and took the bus home. Any way, I am trying to explain my new series
of paintings, solders. I may write more. I just want to say that we owe our very lives to the men and woman who have
served in the Military. I do not know the statistics but I will bet that more Texas have served in the Military than any other
State. I do not think it is that far off from my cowboy paintings then.
School is back and painting for me has slowed down again. I have had this really cool sketch I some how managed
to do, on my desk for what seems like a week now. I have it on gessoed art board and I plan on using oil paints with it. I
plan on taking my time and leaning towards effect. Like I said it has been a week and I have not started painting. The good
news is I did a painting for my family in Florida of 6 palm trees called 11am. I liked it. It is a big one on canvas. Big
for me because I have to do every thing small for storage purposes. I start selling my stuff or get Gallery representation
and then I will go big. I can not spend a little time on a oil painting the mess for one thing. I have to have a stretch of
time and I have not had that for a while now. So today I did a sketch on art board for water color. I plan on doing that and
maybe some acrylic while the oils are drying. In one week my oils dry. I use a special medium I learned in college. You know
these days I am quick to say I have taken 3 oil paining classes, 2 drawing classes, and one sculpture class. Even those are
not part of my requirements. This semester while be my 3rd completed certificate by the way in Digital Video/ Web
Design. I have a Graphic Design and a Animation certificate too. I am just not the type of person to paint a little at a time.
I must adapt, I have no choice.
I want to make it absolutely clear why I paint western art. I want people to appreciate my art where I live.
That is not enough though. I have to do art that I like to do. Although art is work, and to deny that is to lie to yourself
and that is not good. Why do you think they call it art work? It is not physical work either, it is mental work I am constantly
thinking when I paint, figuring it out. From the moment I started seriously painting I have wanted to do western art. In fact
the first 3 serious paintings I did had a western theme. Pamela Haralson was my teacher and she is a southerner through and
through. The painting called blood valley was one of my first hard core paintings. It shows a hawk over looking a valley.
We have the most beautiful hawks here. They could be falcons I do not know. I have been trying to get a picture of them for
years. That painting is in my closet because the wood I glues to the back has warped, I should get a frame for that. That
painting is a perfect square and was designed to be a album cover, it should be on my landscape page. The other two paintings
I was talking about where to be book covers and are based on the book and movie “The Big Fish”. They are also
on my landscape page. I can not do paintings to just please my local people. I made a deal with my self I decided to paint
western paintings because it is what I want to do and because it is what my fellow Texans like. Art is my way of giving back
to my community. I do want my art to live forever. I hope that the galleries around here would recognized the necessity to
represent me, in order to get greater paintings from me. If they do not and I die (of old age I hope) than so be it. I hope
my art lives forever. Since I am talking about how much I love it here, I want to say that to this day I have to deal with
people who think I am strange just because I am not from around here. My family’s, family’s family is from Connecticut,
my wife too. I act like I am from Connecticut still. People are different there, and I still have that kind of over acted
charisma. Back East this type of behavior is considered fairly common. Around here I am constantly considered odd or crazy,
or absurd. I just want to say am not odd or strange I am just different and not from around here. I used to fit in no problem
in California J , for 8 years. I think allot of the reasons I fit here, out weigh the reasons
I do not, like my hospitality. I paint what I paint out of southern pride. And out of western pride. To say anything different
would be untrue.
My latest painting Southern Sky’s, the title comes from a song. This is true with the painting Cowboy
Angel which was my first cowboy painting. I was riding along on my motorcycle and I heard the lyrics cowboy angel and I said
to myself, I must paint that, and I did. This painting should still be in the Café Brazil down in Deep Ellum, Texas, I do
not know, I have not been there in a while. I named my most recent painting Southern Sky’s because I kept painting the
sky’s here. I use old pictures I have taken of my wife and I and such for reference. The Sky’s are so beautiful
here. I actually met someone in my painting class last year that used to take pictures of the sky, just the sky. I will be
taking my first photography class this semester and am looking forward to learning the ways of photography. I was looking
at my western paintings on my wall the other day and each one seems to have the most beautiful sky’s. If you just took
the back ground to all my western paintings you would have some great landscape paintings. The same goes for my Sci Fi Fantasy
paintings. I love the ones where the sky meets the landscape like “Three To Mesquite“, this comes from real life.
The field over on 2933 really looks like this. Southern Sky’s is kind of a experimental piece. I was trying out some
new color effects. I plane on continuing this in the future or not, I am kind of undecided. I did this with the painting Three
At Mesquite. I was finished with it and showed it to my wife and she said she did not like it because it was too bright. She
was right. I changed the bull to a darker color and it worked out great. The bright color blended naturally with the bright
under color. Sometimes color does not matter, that is what is great about painting it does not have to look real and you can
express yourself because of that. Three At Mesquite turned into a nightmare but in the end makes for a very unique gouache
painting. I was creating the backgrounds to my paintings first in my last 3 paintings, and then applying fixative. Well I
used some different water colors for this painting combined with the gouache. Then when I applied the fixative, it created
a bad effect, the gouache would not take. I may have used too much fixative too, I do not know. Needless to say, I will not
be trying this again to be safe. Any way the painting took twice as long, but I really laid the gouache on thick. It is like
a impasto gouache. I really love this painting, the black glass frame really compliments it. Of course as I always say you
have to see my paintings in person. So this summer do not forget to see my paintings at the library. Well the semester break
is almost over and all I can say is I really tried for quality instead of quantity. It does not help that I am not at the
college regularly. Having access to the College really helps with my art. I had to use the regular library a couple times
there because the college was closed.. I do not go to the college when I do not have classes, although if I had to I would.
Classes is a excuse to take care of my art duties as well as my class work. Of course learning about design and photography
puts a rocket booster on my art.
I do not commit every thing I do to memory. Every technique I do for every painting
I do is a one time thing. I do not want to memorize techniques and become some kind of robot. I do not paint like a machine
or a computer. Not that I do not like computer art, see here to see some of mine:
What was on this web site in 2002
My Paintings each one is unique, one of a kind. Same goes for my drawings. I do
not want to paint in a technique type of way.
I do not want to do the same painting twice. Also every painting I do, I out do
myself. As one artist said I must out do myself. I Sometimes it is not so easy to see what it is about the painting did better.
You have to really study it to see that new thing that I never did before but it is there. I think it is going to take time
for me, to paint the paintings I want to paint. Maybe when I retire. I would like nothing more to become a full time painter.
It seems to me that will never be as long as I live. Like I always say, their lose.
I do seem to be developing this kind of a touch with my brush. Kind of like playing
pool when you have a run and knock every ball in the pockets one after the other like you have space and time conquered in
your moment that second of life on earth. Let me go on. That same feeling of holding the pool stick is the same feeling I
have with the brush. Of course for that moment in time I have to separate my self from the unbelievable stress of my life.
One time I was in this stressful class at school and I was trying to use a mechanical pen and I could not write with it. I
kept breaking because I could not hold it lightly in my hand. I think I have learned it takes a long time to make a great
painting And when you have it after about 300 or so paintings, you can spit one out in 2 hours. I am talking about a impressionist
type painting. Give me two hours and I can paint a painting that will look like a impressionist painting up close, but from
across the room it will look like a photo.
Here is a Radman trivia for you. I know I wrote on this page that my painting
are nonsense. But they are not at all. I want you to know every painting I have has meaning. My most recent painting (Air
Flower) has the same background as the road I wiped my bike out on and so forth and so on. Every painting I do points to something
else and sometimes to other paintings that have other intense meanings. Same thing goes for my writing. Sometimes I feel like
I am making this huge map that is the solution to all the worlds problems. There you go ok I said it, I went and said it.
Excuse me if I broke though since I was about 8 years old. I have been ducking bullets ever since. Now don’t try to
psycho analyze me J . I wrote what I wrote because of some horror story some one told me about Salvador Dali, witch probably
is not true. Like someone told me once people hate artist because they get paid for doing what they like. Although I do not
get paid at all in fact I am suffering on and on, so I can paint. I am sure I am not the only artist to have done this. In
fact the greatest artist start out poor. To bad. What is up with the rich turning into artists? If you start as a rich person
how can you know? Well we have new people in office now and I am looking forward to the new world we are all entering. I hope
we show the world we truly do care enough to help every one.
Well there you go 34 horses tiny horses out of reach, 22" x 17". The biggest gouache I ever did. Gouache is water color
except more opaque. Everyone always asks me what’s gouache. I said recently to someone, why would I want paint you can
see through. Any how I am back in that field again. Next time you are driving by 2933 take a gander. This painting took about
28 hours total. I like the way it pulls you in. The proportions seem to add to the effect. I feel like I am in the back of
the field when I look at it. I cut the art board to fit the frame. The trick is to fit it so the poster frame has room to
grip. When some one said to me Rembrandt cut his paintings to fit the frames, do you believe that? I said I believe it. I
did it for 3 of my acrylic landscapes. I really hate doing that but when you have a house full of paintings frames begin to
add up in cost. I have about 100 paintings hanging in my house and the rest in storage. I very carefully store all my paintings.
I spray liberally with Prisma Color non yellowing sealer all of my gouache’s before I store them.
I wanted to name it tiny horses out of reach because of something I remembered when I was really young. I mean I must have
been so young I could not speak. There was these tiny toy horses the would always be out of reach probable because my brother
or sister might swallow it. I remember looking at them thinking how much I wanted to play with them. It was over my grandmothers
house. It was on a shelf in the kitchen. All I know is it just disappeared one day. The scan is in multiple so that explains
the lines in the jpeg. I got to get to K130 at the college to make a large scan. They have this huge scanner there. Oh and
I rescanned the oil painting that I did now that it is fully dry. Amazing Japan Dry! If you oil paint you need it! Animations
are coming along. I should have them up on a ftp site via my web design class. I am getting pretty good at html.
I did a oil painting recently. I am waiting for it to dry. It should be a week until I can hang it or store it. I used
Japan Dry so that is always good for drying time. Man I got a lot of paintings in this house. I think I am going to have to
start moving them out of the closet and devoting sections of my house to storing them. I really enjoyed getting all my old
oil paints out and mixing up a batch of medium and using my skills to see what I could see. I have not done any serious oil
painting since painting 1, two summers ago. I think I see why people like oil paintings so much. They look old fashioned.
Although I do not believe in spending millions on dead artist. I still love their art. I think we should celebrate artist
that are alive and help them to create more and more while they are here with us.
One time back in the early 1990’s I sent a Polaroid picture to Jim Phillips studio of all my art work. Kind of like
the one on my drawings page. I did not have the purple case at that time. In the letter I sent it said I was going to torch
all my art. In about a week I got a letter back from all the dudes up there in Santa Cruz and they said do it. Torch it. I
laughed my head off. That was the last time I wrote them. Not Jim though we have written each other over the years allot and
he has really helped me out of dark times with his letters and art. Where are you Jim? His site seems to not work sometimes
and he has not returned my emails in a while. I have thought about making a Will and in it saying that if I die all my art
is to be destroyed. I can not decide though. Mean if I die before my wife I would want her to be able to sell my art. Then
again I think my wife would be fine financially with out me. In fact the only reason we suffer financially is because of me.
My wife and I have much to be thankful for here, on this Thanksgiving weekend. I am still looking up no matter what. I just
think any thing can happen if I work hard at school and with my art. Don’t you? I am very optimistic and enthusiastic.
I still have some of that high energy I have in Southern California in the late 1980’s.
I just did a 11” x 14” gouache on art board, horses of course. I like it and am satisfied with the way it came
out. Again I am using the background I have used in other paintings 4 to be exact, not the oil. The background is of the field
that can be seen from 2933. The land in this aria should be preserved it is so beautiful. I am trying to pull the rabbit out
of the hat for this Thanksgiving vacation. The problem is if I wanted I could spend the entire week doing homework. Although
I am on vacation I still have allot of homework. Stay tuned.
Welp, the subject is me? Who knows more about me than me? Forgive me if I talk about me. Every one wants
to talk about me except me. So as of right now I must talk about me to set the record straight. If I do not talk about me
who will? At least if I do, it will be straight from the source. I always say if you want to know the truth about something,
you must go directly to the source, every other way can only produce lies and half truths. You know it is not the lies we
tell each other that hurts us the most, it is the lies we tell our selves. I think that is the problem I have with people
that say I am arrogant, in a nut shell. They are lying to themselves.
Recently I have been told that people at the college say I am arrogant. That to me is one of the saddest
things I have ever heard about me. It makes me feel a little sad,really. I am not arrogant. I wish I was it would make my
like so much easier. I wouldn't have to be so hard on myself. I guess I do not show this side of me. I do not believe in being
down on your self. Maybe it is because when I was younger I remember this dude and he was like that. It was the Sparks brothers
from Middletown, Connecticut. I played football with one of them, my sophomore year. I was about 18 and I said to myself I
will never be like That. I remember one guy I new from Haddam Killingworth, he was quit and real good natured. He used to
hang with Jeff James from Madison, Connecticut. He killed himself. I think that made a big impression on me too, around the
same age of 18. I do not hang out at the college and do not attend any of the events, one reason is I live so far away. So
I am not around enough to defend myself. I think that most other students say this kind of thing about me are jealous. I can
tell you stories that point directly to this. Some students are just frustrated by the fact that as far as my art and animations
I seem to out perform them. I have been doing this since I was in grade school. I am sure I mention it on my words page. I
am down on myself allot I just do not show it. I think people say I am arrogant, but I am trying to act in such a manner to
show other people if you promote your self like this you can be successful. I am trying to be a good example. I am some one
who has beat them self up over many years. I remember my job with Tracker Designs. I would come into work ready to pass out
I was so tired from doing art work. I physically become so tire from doing art work. For me to be down on any one of my paintings
for instance might hurt me physically. I don't think it would be good for me to be down on myself. You know what makes me
saddest of all about people that call me arrogant is that I could very easily be the complete opposite of argent is a half
of a second. I have always thought my enthusiasm shining through me would help and rub of on other people. No one feels more
repression than me. Just ask any one. I have written a books worth of letters to them against repression. World War 1 and
2 is a example how repression can ruin art forever. Europe could have been as great as Hollywood. The War killed film altogether
and forever. If you think I am arrogant, number one I feel very sad for you. Number 2 I can tell you from the bottom of my
heart in all honesty this is not true. I refuse to be down on myself like I said. I especially refuse to act like that around
others for fear of the damage it may do.
What is unique about my horse paintings is that the 95% horse paintings I paint are of horses in my neighborhood. That’s
right I get out there with my wife and go visit the local horses. My wife is in the car saying can we go now over and over.
The painting I did most recently “My Back Yard” I was in my yard doing work and I walked about 50 feet from there
and my friends the horses where by the fence. They where right up against the fence closest to my house. No doubt because
they heard my voice. I have always had a way with animals. They seem to be attracted to me. It was good because I got to pet
them. Painting a good painting is always better when you get to touch what ever your painting. The brown and white horse could
not get enough attention. I was truly inspired this is a beautiful horse! Every time I visit my friends the horses around
here I get to pet them and talk to them. Their eyes seem to communicate to me like talking back to me. It is like I have a
immediate relationship to these majestic beasts. I am so happy to live out here amongst nature, it is something I have wanted
to do all my life. I am thankful to all the farmers that do not sell their land. I pray allot that this aria does not get
built up. In the next couple of years I want to look for land any where as long as we can have land in the country. Not that
I would mind living in the city but to have land in the city would be way out of our price range. Anyway I am just getting
started with my Texas style paintings so stay tuned. Oh I just want to say I have always wanted to be a cowboy. If I was to
say what king of Cowboy I want to be it would be a cool cowboy. Allot of cowboys where cool. Billy the Kid was cool. Daniel
Boone was cool. Jim Bowie was cool. I like when Steve Miller sang Space Cowboy, he is from Dallas, Texas. ZZ Top are cool
cowboys. Charlie Daniels, Marshall Tucker and on and on southern rock from the 1970’s is why I live here.
Mario Martinez wrote this about my new Cowboy paintings “Hey
Radman, New works looks good!” Mario Martinez is a famous artist from San Francisco, California. I am honored to have
a compliment from this man. I have admired his paintings for many years now. His web site is called Mars- 1.
I want to say I am sorry to all those who love my art. I have been so busy with college and writing letters to congress
and such that I have not been able to paint. Having a animation class is very hard on me because I really think of them as
art and that means I spend a lot of time on them. You should keep your eyes out for them at the end of the semester. I will
put them on one of the sites on my Radman other site page. I saddens me to my very soul. I did 17 paintings during school
break now I am fortunate if I can do one painting a week. My schedule is so spread out. I have been writing allot lately complaints
to people. I makes me sad but I want all of you to inside me in the deepest part of me is a solder that lives for nothing
else but to paint. I will still be do western art for now it seems the way to be. There is just so long someone can live in
a place without it coming out of him in leaps and bounds. I think I have buried in myself the reason I moved west back in
the late 1980’s. I kept it bottled up in me so long that now it is all tumbling out. My step mom discovered this page
a recently. The reason she discovered it is because I no longer have links because of the fact that my site was being blocked
by some fire walls because of those links. As far as I know my links where all good, but I admit I never saw the whole web
site of any of them nor did I or could I constantly check if they had changed. So I was forced to take them all down. I do
feel bad about that and may find a way to fix it some day. She is one of those supper smart people who love to read. She looked
at this work and said to me Rick what is the matter with you the spelling needs correcting. Recently in one of my complaint
letters to the a newspaper I said oh, by the way do you have any work for a writer, would you believe I do not get paid for
this. The letter I sent them was huge most all of my letters are. I work very very hard on my writing and I never get paid
or even complimented in any way. This can do something to you. So when my step mom mentioned my writing and asked me don’t
you think it is worth it to correct your spelling, I said to her sometimes I really don’t know if it is at all worth
it. “I stand broken bruised and battered, like a solder undaunted” sounds like Bruce Springsteen, but that is
me in a nut shell. So stay tuned, and know the fire inside is raging even though you may not see new paintings as often as
a month ago.
I don't know if any yall are paying attention. Probable not.. Lately I
feel as though I am working myself to exhaustion in my own little quit world. Is that exhaustion discouraging me? Well like
I said, it would be good if you where paying attention.
In the past 14 days to this day I have completed every thing on these three
pages except three 5" x 7" paintings.
That’s right from August 14th to August 28th I completed one painting
a day. How's that for the love of painting? 14 8.5" x 11" paintings, 1 11" x 14", 2 5" x 7", all gouache, and 1 5" x 7" acrylic
witch should be on display at TSO soon. That’s 17 paintings.
So to all you who did not believe me when I said I do not have free time,
there is your proof. And when I am not painting, I am, allot of times thinking about my next painting. I learned to do that
back in my sk8boarding days in the late 1980's. If you set tricks up in your head first they are easier to pull latter.
I would like to state the obvious: I am not in this for the money. I have
been doing what a do for 20 hard working years, since I met my wife. Now if I want to keep doing art I will eventually have
to get paid, I am not denying that. I am not doing art for the soul purpose of making money. I have not sold art since I worked
for Tracker skateboard company in the late 1980's. But if you ever have seen all my art on all my sites that alone is proof
that I have not done all the work I have done for money. I am serious I do not believe there are too many people in the world
who have done as much art as I have. I am thinking of doing western type art. It is not only because it popular here in Dallas,
Texas. It is because since I was a kid I have been a fan of cowboys and indians and such. I had cowboy and shiney six shooters
for toys as young as I can remember. Anyone that knew my dad would tell you if a western was on my dad had it on the television.
He even had a cowboy hat he would wear when a good western was on TV. Actually not that many people might know that except
for family members. He, he :). I moved to California in the Late 1980's.
In the Early 1990"s my wife joined the army and we moved from California to Texas and we have been here ever since. If proximity
qualifies you to do western art. I guess I have a doctorate in the subject. One more thing I do not do art because I want people to love me. I am not saying I do not like being appreciated. I
do art because I love art, music and all that is art, of today. You will not find one link to a dead artist on my site. I
have learned so much from dead artist I will not deny it. I could learn more from artist of today if they got the recognition
they deserve. To recap (do not do art for money only) (do not do art to be loved only).
If you are looking at my new drawings and saying to your self, what’s with the trees they look like scribbles? Well
they are not. That is me attempting as well as I can to draw every leaf. My new painting of me as a saint is a class
assignment. The assignment is to do a self portrait as though it was stained glass.
Artist Statement by: Rick (Radman) Date 06/2006
If there is one thing I have learned after painting over 150 paintings
in the past 1 and a quarter years.
I started to paint when I took Illustration Techniques class in the spring
semester of 2005, my teacher's name was Pamela Haralson. The class taught the basics of all forms of painting. I quickly became
a expert thanks to 20 years of pencil and inks. I believe the only reason I did not start sooner is that I thought it cost
to much money to paint.
I have come to realize that I need to be concerned about pleasing
my self. I have a lot more ability now and am not as reserved as to what I can paint. I think is time to paint more difficult
subject matter. I also think it is time to spend more time painting on one painting at a time. I want to do two paintings
a week for class but. If I need to I want to dedicate a whole week to one painting. Since the paintings are going to be 8.5”
x 11” I consider this to be a long time for me. I can see my self in the future spending more and more time on one painting
in the future. Why Science Fiction Fantasy as my series? Ever since I was in the lime light out in California people have
put me in the category of Sci Fi Fantasy. I never really minded this because I have nothing but love for this type of art.
In the late 1980’s I went to the San Diego Comic convention shortly after selling a bunch of comics to Tracker. I was
told over and over that my comics where science fiction fantasy. Ever since that I have glad embraced this. The bottom line
is I can think of nothing better to hang on my wall. Since no one seems to interested in buying my art it seems to be time
to just do art for myself. Also this subject being something I have so great a interest in it may help me solve the problem
I have with doing paintings other then the assignments I have before me at school as far as painting goes. I have said this
before but I am not going to do any art unless it is for class. I am really growing as far as my painting goes and I hope
to show this as much as I can with this class. No matter what I am young at painting I know there is growth that will come
years from now. I still say I would like to show a glimmer of this in this series. Sort of a glimpse into the future. Having
completed about 2,000 pencils and inks since the late 1980’s I do not consider new to art. I do not consider myself
new to painting either even though I have never really painted since about two years ago. I did paint my t-shirts I used to
where at the skate parks in the late 1980’s though. I keep discovering things though, Little stuff like last semester
in painting two with Merry Fuhrer I discovered that painting a pile of skulls is just plane easy compared to drawing it. Last
week I discovered that painting veins on the arms is so easy and looks so much better than drawing them. No wonder inkers
for comics use brushers. I think because this subject matter interests me so much that I can really perform and I will enjoy
having them hanging on my wall.
I have been doing some really cool paintings lattley. I have become very good at using one or two colors in a painting.
I did a painting for CD Source in Dallas, Texas. I used red only. You can not see any white or black. Just different shades
of red. I love it. I love the way it came out. I have it hanging near my wieght bench. This room is not lit very well most
of the time. In dim light you can not see this painting, it just looks like a surreal paing of red shades. I have finaly broke
down and did some land scapes. Something that comes naturaly to me. I used a bunch of diferent pictures for a idea. Then
I put all the pictures away and use my mind sometimes for days to finish the painting. I believe I can work and rework a landscape
for up to a year if I wanted to. I did some landscapes for my illistraion tecknices class. My class mates really loved them.
There was this one dude Eric who like me seems to stand out at college. I rememer after summer the first time I saw him since
that illistration techknikes class, the first words out of his mouth where “so have you done any more landscapes”.
Landscapes seem to come very easy to me. It is like I know where things should go and how they should look even if I have
no reference at all. Me and Mrs. Radman used to ride around all day around Big Sur, California, and all over the coast around
California sometimes all weekend just looking at the beautiful vews. I took allot of pictures and sent them back home. Of
couse growing up in Connecticut was not bad to see some of the most lush landscapes around from any given hill in my home
town and towards the beach. My family and I actually lived in Cacaponsit State Forest for a while in Killingworth. It seemed
un touched un spoiled to me as I look back on it. Of couse all the skiing I did back east left unforgettable images in my
mind from the top of those mountains. Then there was all the driving across country with Mrs. Radman, moving to California
and then having to go see her in her days as a US Solder. “America the Beautiful” talk about a true statement.
Because landscapes come so easy to me I always feel like cheating when I paint them. Any how my wife loves em and that helps.
My fellow students seem to love em and I hope you do too. I completed my second paniting of a sport bike the other day. On
the second one I used only one color green. Somethin I have wanted to do since class. Green has significance to me because
it is Radman’s color. Any how I thought that was a real intricate piece of work. I tried to add as much detail as I
could. You can see the first one I did at Plano Kawaski. In the words of Sarah Hauser who saw the green painting it was “cool!”.
I also did two paintings of the Altamont Concert ending with: The Rolling Stones. I think it shows that even in the midst
of complete madness good can prevail. Meaning keeping anyone from being shot. Another amazing thing was that Hells Angels
who in the eyes of society might be considered scumbags where up there on the stage protecting Mick Jagger for no money. If
you ask me they where protecting the band for no other reason than they where gifted with great talent. There is no dought
that they new someone was shooting at the stage towards the end and knowing that you can see towards the end they where around
the band like a shield. Once again I am reminded that it is not “that you paint” or even how you paint, it is
what you paint that makes you stand out. Any how the first Altamont Painting I did can be seen at CD Source in Dallas too.
I am finishing up a landscape I started before I did the two sport bike paintings. My wife really liked the beach scene at
the top of the painting witch is the first thing I did on it. I was going to stick a sport bike in it, but she shouted, no.
So I finished as sweetly as I could. I plan on doing a dragon next with a landscpae background. Who knows though, stay tuned.
After just reading below I could not help but break out in laughter. Easy to do now that the semester is over. I did get
some really cool paintings done that semester. I think I over inflated some of what I said. But all in all it was not far
from the truth. Some weeks could get pretty close to a 80 hour week. But not every week. Any how I can tell you this I can
never remember feeling so relieved as I did when that semester was over. It was like a huge weight was lifted off of me.
(This is about spring 2006 semester) Let me tell you I have had the most demanding
semester I can remember for the whole time I have been attending the college. My
portfolio class is making me feel like I have a 80 hour a week job. I rarely have time to paint. And when I do paint I walk
around like a zombie because I am so tired. It seems like when I am that way every one likes to pick on me. I guess people
just like to kick you when you are down. The reason I took a painting class this semester is because I never have time to
paint with college being so over bearing. I figured at least this way I would paint because it would be part of my school
work. I will tell you this every thing I have done for portfolio is brand new. When I am done I will have a first class
portfolio. Not only 1st class but with a touch of radness to it. Like every thing I do and say has radness to it, because
I am the Radman. My stuff is so good, really. Who ever gets to interview me for a Graphic Design job is in for a real experience.
Every thing I have done has a story behind it. I have stuff for heavy metal bands, motorcycles, skateboards, video games,
motorcycle equipment, all things radical.
(this is about my painting two class spring 2006) Painting two is going good the
painted comic is really starting to look like a massive project on my wall. I still have not decided on a name for my character
yet. I am being pushed allot by my teacher Merry Furrer .
Who is her self a fine artist. Before I took the class I checked out all the teachers that where teaching art classes
on the internet. When I saw here work I was so impressed I had to take her class. Her work is exactly like some of the art
I have done. See this page. She has been teaching me about glazes. I have
realized that they are essential for almost every painting I do. I have been shadowing things allot because of her teaching.
It has opened me up for the experience of extreme shading with paints. Although I am against allot of shading in art I am
glad that I have broke through and done work like that.
My side projects of painting have been real ground breaking for me. I have always
had a flare with painting landscapes. They come very easy for me to do. Something so easy to do does not seem like I should
do it. The landscapes I have done lately I think are so great because I have realized that they have a certain radman quality.
There is a way they look that are unique to other all other landscapes. I should have known this from the start. My landscapes
have never been typical. I guess I consider landscapes un-cool because they are like photos. I believe the artist’s
from the 16th and 17th painted like they did is because they did not have cameras. My landscapes are always a bit surreal
making them more interesting to look at. I plan on continuing to make more of these great works of art.
Recently I have had a real break through. I painted a painting using only two
one color. My painting two class the painted comic has been done with only red and green. All the painted comics are done
with only green and red colors. This is not easy as you can imagine. I have had to mix many times to get different variations
of color. This has led me to the break through of painting paintings with just one color. I have done a metal band in red.
The first one I did is barely visible. You have to position yourself around the painting just to see it. Then I did the same
painting except with more detail and a thick layer of glossy glaze of the same color. The results where amazing. It looks
like a 3d lazar effect. It looks like a room you can walk into.
Hi yall. I am back to talk about my new paintings from my college course "Painting II". My teacher is having me do paintings
with just two colors. that’s right starting with the Space Cadet painting and now on to my Red Lobster paintings they
are done with just two colors. Space Cadet was done with purple and yellow. My Red Lobster paintings are done with red and
green. You may ask yourself why does he call his paintings Red Lobster paintings? Well over the past year or so every time
I go to Red Lobster with my wife I do a sketch. Then I show it to the waiter. It actually started when I did a really cool
drawing of Radman for the waiter at Red Lobster off 75 in Plano Texas, I told him to hang it so other employees could see
it.. One day I was in there and I came up with this character and that was it. Over the past year I kept drawing this character
in all types of situations. I actually used humor in these sketches. I have 4 sketches that I have wanted to paint for a year
now. When the teacher said two colors only I said this stuff is perfect because not too much is going on. Could this be some
kind of change in direction of my art I do not know. I can tell you that I like it. Doing the comic web site may have something
to do with it. My robot character is a real breakthrough for me. I have not developed a new comic type character in many years.
Lets hope that the new happy Radman can keep this up. I just finished a t shirt I started 1 year ago. I should have it up
on the site soon, it's very phycodelic.
About my new painting Return Of OG Exploding Man. I named this painting after
a problem I have when I am into my art. When I lived in southern California I had a habit of talking about my art way too
much. Seems as though I am having that problem these days too. I mean it is not that bad if you are interested in my art.
There was a 80's song the words mention exploding man. It was cool but I forget who sang it. I will never forget the first
time I heard the rock song that went like "I was a hand grenade that never stooped exploding" That really described
me in the late 80's. So if you see me out make sure you ask me about my art if you want to see me blow up. I also named it
because the grenade and the exploding man seem to come right off the canvas. They look very, very real.
Pressing on must be mentioned. I was on my Ninja just getting on the highway
and I meet up with two sportbikes. I have had my Ninja for 3 years now and I will tell you this has never happened before.
These bike where nice a brand new GSX and a new Ninja. These dudes where not together either. We zoomed down the highway weaving
and whizzing in ways only a sportbike can. One dude exited and me and the GSX rode about half way to my destination. As I
exited to a inter change I gave aces high to the GSX after. My blood was rushing as Bob Dylan said angel cowboy. I do not
know what song it was but, I said to my self I must paint that. So as a true artist I worked it all out in my head for two
days. I had the privilege to take out 2 Bob Dylan movies from my college library, No Direction Home and Don't Look Back. Bob
Dylan has been one of my favorite artist since I was about 11 years old. I was in the local used album shop and Bob Dylan
was playing and a student from Weslyan (probably) started singing every word perfectly. I was amazed and intrigued ever since.
It is one thing to memorize a Beatles or Stones song. To memorize a Dylan song is like memorizing a speech. Dylan has inspired
me all my life since then. If any one out there knows him I have always wanted to talk to him. I hope you like the painting,
the gouache gives it a unique look.
My detailed/tight paintings are not just one painting. They are paintings with
in paintings. This is the way my first collage painting was, and this is the way I paint to this day. I think a great painting
should be so complex that every time you see it, it should look at it little different. I have been reminded of this with
the painting I just did "Bug You Blues". I have become very good at effects with acrylic paint. The flames of fire are a goopy
bumpy mix of yellow and red. I you could feel it, it would feel like stucco. The waterfall is also like this. The camo on
the right is like a medium type of this bumpy paint. In this painting I tried to do a mix of too much paint, to hardly any
paint. In the brown stone arch I used a very light application of light blue paint. This is the back ground to my Texas trees
that dawn my land and the surrounding land where I live. In the winter these tough trees go into their doormat state. It is
then that you can see the way they twist and turn. Not at all like my home land of Connecticut, or California. The way the
limbs on these oak trees twist into s shapes and such are unique to this aria I am sure. My love for these trees has promoted
me to paint them many times. I used the light paint effect on the bugs head as well. One thing my wife missed is the heart
that is being squeezed by the birds claw causing blood to drip out in all directions. This was the last thing I painted and
decided to be abstract as I could with the color. Abstract color makes up our world. If you look at the fall leaves here with
the sun reflecting off of them there is no uniform color, no complimentary color. It is a bunch of colors in no order at all.
I painted my dog about to bite a frog, because this actually took place during the summer. Every time I did repairs to my
deck or the back stairs I would find this frog hiding there. My dog would immediately try to eat it. I had to toss it away
from my house. I hope he was all right from the fall. You can see why this left a impression on me. The waterfall is a big
deal in this painting because my wife likes waterfalls. So I centered it, and made the leafs look like they where presenting
it. The bug in the corner is the title. He looks sad and the way the colors flow around him with the black it seems to add
to his sadness. I thought it would be cool to have my red and black except with no sun or center point of light. I do not
believe in shadows. Try drawing a painting with a abundance of shadows. It is extremely easy because there is not much to
draw. I prefer to paint and draw with out shadows. I have always done this and hold fast to the fact that it is much more
difficult to do art this way, and is much more stimulating to the eye. I have painted and drawn ships many times, but never
going away, always coming at you. I thought this was one way I could make the same old thin new again. The waves around the
ship came out nicely, as well fitting perfectly around it. Then there is my solders in dessert camo, with jungle camo in the
background. I did not feel it would be my style to give them faces so I put vales instead. The thorny foliage in the left
corner represent the thorns that are every where around here winter or summer. If you ever get one of these thorns in your
skin it can sting for a week. I have seen trees here that are completely covered in huge thorns. A serious mix of greens is
used for these thorny plaints as well as the lines for the frogs leafs. I have about 50 different colors pre mixed for every
painting I do. Colors and depth can not be seen through a camera or a scanner, only the human eye can see the true beauty
of a painting. I painted this painting two hours at a time over a two week period. I really like painting this one.
Dallas Museum Visit 7 21 2005
August 3, 2005
The Dallas Musuem Of Art / Nascher Visit
I went to the Dallas Musuem Of Art with my wife. We paid only three dollars
extra to see the Nascher. I've never seen the Nascher before. I didn't even know where it was so I asked the lady and
she said it was across the street. We started our visit by seeing the modern exhibit. The first thing we saw was a tree
that was by a modern artist. Most of the modern artist were from Texas. The floor leading to the exhibit was covered with
tape, and it was covered in all different colors. Red, green, yellow, an off blue, light blue and we took pictures of that.
This stretched out from the exhibit out into the hallway and was very intricate. We saw some other modern art in the exhibit
that was being exhibited. One of the rooms had a scene that was on several pieces of paper and charcoal and it stretched from
one wall to the next. It was a panoramic view of the sky and ground. After we saw the modern exhibit, we then proceeded to
the Nascher Sculpture Musuem. Two of the rooms were shut down and in the process of being moved. We could only see one room
and outside. But, in the one room there was a cardboard masonite board cut out into a figure that looked like it was done
in charcoal and white and black paint. Looked like they were running. We saw a Max Ernst which was outstanding. It was a devilish
person playing chess it looked like. Also, we saw the giant cow thing that was made out of metal also and black. We saw the
clothes pin. The brass clothes pin. We saw the apple sculpture a laminate. We saw the figure of a person standing made out
of all different, looked like scrapes of metal, but if you look at it from a distance you can see the figure standing their.
We saw the stainless steel statue that looked like Bethoven. We saw the Calder mobile on the inside of the Nascher Musuem.
That was cool, it was suspended from a tripod metal piece. Then we proceeded outside where we were first amazed at the people
pole walking into the sky. On the end a suitcase a man, another man, a young man and two ladies. Walking into the sky pole
was neat. We took many pictures of it, which came out great. We then saw some statues of people walking. We saw the Calder
the iron sculpture which was huge and it must have weighed 3 or 4 tons. It was held up in by five legs. We also saw the mechanized
sculpure of a man hammering metal and that was moving. We saw the sculpture leaned over on one side by standing up with three
legs made of iron beams, the middle beam seeming to be twisted inside. We saw the Picasso sculpture which was huge, it had
a half a face on one side, made of stone and different small stones. The one I liked the best had Radman colors. It was a
sculpure by the cafeteria area made up of a circle for a head and eyes anyhow, it was red, green and yellow. That's what I
liked best about it. We also saw the people with no heads. Come to find out that was to resemble Nazi Germany and how evil
people can be in a mob together. We went into the room that frames the sky and we took pictures of that. After the Nascher,
we headed over to the Dallas Musuem Of Art where they had an excellent showcase of artists. First was the shiny acrylic on
masonite as you go in. It has many different light type dots outlined by a darker greys and okra burnt cyanna type colors.
As soon as we turned the corner on our right hand side was a Jasper John which is an outstanding painting. With many, many
colors and it had two pieces of wood nailed to the canvas which seemed to be made of wood. Then, we saw the Jackson Pollock
, it was black and white with silver paint and it was a rectangle standing upright. We then saw another Jackson Pollock
which was on one side kind of an orangish, greenish and the other side was black and white. We also saw many different paintings,
but the things that stand out most were the German artist that had the three ball bearings. Then there was the glass table
with the shining glass silvery ornaments on it reflecting. We also saw a giant painting with sunflower seeds on it.Next we
headed upstairs where we saw the Piccassos'. The two Picassos. The Calder mobile. Then we saw the Van Gogh and the Moine.
Then the Monderon. The thing about the Monderon was I painted that exact painting last semester, spring semester and I had
no idea that the painting was hanging in the Dallas Museum Of Art. So we took a picture of me and its on the website. I took
a picture of the two Piccassos with the Calder mobile. You can see all three from the steps which was a nice scene. Again,
we saw the Van Gogh showing the fields, probably one of the last paintings he ever painted before he killed himself. We saw
a Renoir self portrait. We saw the sketch and ink of Van Gogh's doctor. At that point we wanted to stay, but we didn't have
very much time before I had to be to class on Thursday night. My wife and I very much enjoyed our stay. It seemed a little
hecktick a lot of security, but they seemed a little more at ease this time.
This is about my painting, Son earth stars and life.
I used special glow in the dark paint. The glow in the dark paint shows the flow of the painting only, like Mondrian.
I went into my Jackson Pollock mode on the stars and the final coat of paint. The painting is to show how the sun and the
earth work together with each other to create life. I am sticking to my signature colors because I love them. The yellow is
a florescent paint it looks pink with a scanner, I guess that means it is doing it's thing. I thought about this painting
day and night for a entire week before my pencil hit the canvas. I love painting outer space scenes. I love the way the sun
came out like fire. There is two coats of paint on this painting believe it or not since it is a huge 3 feet by 5 feet in
size. The new Juxtapoz magazine is very cool this month. The Polish dude is awesome, Staislav Szukalski. I pray I do not end
up like, him dead and having to have people pay to have my art brought to the public. He had 14,000 drawings I always think
my 1000 drawings are allot. if you count every frame of my animation’s and digital movies I made I have millions + of
frames of art. The first animation's I did in Cinema 4D are all surreal art animated. Almost every frame of these animation's
could be reproduced in Cinema 4D witch is a vector program as big as a billboard and would make outstanding prints.
Robert Craig wrote this about my art:
"Hello Radman,
You indeed have an appropriate moniker. You are RAD man! Your style of painting is very different than mine
but I appreciate it all the same. Your technique is very impasto. I like your site and your animation! To be truthful, your
site has so much to look at that I couldn't get to it all. I'll have to make several more trips to it before I can soak it
all in."
Robert Craig is a unbelievable artist. If you do not believe me check out his web site. This guy should
be on the cover of every magazine, and TV. I feel kind of dumb. When I wrote this I did not realize this guy has been in many
magazines and TV, da.
I would like to quote Robert William's from the first Juxtapoz Magazine I ever owned: "It is important for
the Juxtapoz reader to understand that well executed and tightly rendered artwork, by skilled and competent
artists, has been considered intellectually insignificant by the fine arts community for more than fifty years. What I'm saying
is that for over a half a century, art connoisseurs have allowed themselfs to become too self-engrossed with their relative
presence in front of art itself, something along the conceptualist philosophy of
"I declare this pile of sand to be brilliant, therefore I am brilliant in my predication." Artist Know what I am talking about."
I just want to say I do not use painter's tape or any tracing devices, ever.
Check Out what Jenny of Galerie St-Laurent + Hill said about my art. "I like your art; soul comes through in your work.
Applause." l'Autre Galerie in Montreal site.
Check out what Eric Joyner said about my art. Eric was in my first Juxtapoz magazine where he is compared to Dali. His
work is amazing he likes robots like me. I have modeled at least 20 robots in Maya and Cinema 4d and have drawn 30 or so in
pencil and ink perfectly. Eric's technique is like old school with low brow mixed in to perfection. Long live low brow, get
on the train or get out of the way. Any way enough rambling here are some quotes from eric: "Cool work! your colors are electric & ideas insane! I like it. Keep it up!" see Eric's site.
All my acrylic paintings now have a heavy coating of Grumbacher pro quality, Gloss spray on varnish. I spray
them after a week of drying. It makes the texture paintings look allot better. It also brings out more shine on all of my
paintings. I already use gloss varnish as medium for all my paintings and have since the monkey bongo painting. Also all my
oil paintings have gloss varnish mixed into the paints as well. To really appreciate my paintings they must be seen in person.
The camera I use is not that great. I am not really concerned with this though, it is just to give you a idea what they
look like.
Michael Hussar wrote me! I can't believe it he is a awsome artist. Better than Dali. Check out his site.
he said "Keep up the good work Radman!!!" and he sent me a awesome close up of the guy in motor oil. Awesome!
I have the ability to see art, to envision art in my
mind on a continual basis. Since I was a kid, I would amaze myself at how well I could pick out things that would be popular;
like music and clothing that was not popular and became popular long after I liked it. Great artist’s have always had
this power. It’s not how you create it, it is how great it is, how beautiful it is to see. I can see these thing’s
in my head, then I create it in art. I have the gift to envision creations in my mind.
20 years of nothing but pencil and inks has left me with a craving for color. I do not know if any of you have noticed, but
I do not use black and white if I can help it, in any of my paintings. I get sad when I think that I did not start painting
earlier. I think it was all for a reason. I think every thing in my life, including the hardships, I have had to endure and
continue to endure are all together for good to make a better me, painter, student ect.. That goes for you too.
Check out what Mark Bryan said about my art July 30th 2005:
"I checked out your stuff. I liked it, funny, good energy, color. Unfortunately we have a slow internet so I couldn't
see too much of your animation but what I did see was cool."
Mark Bryan is a outstanding artist who's art is featured in Juztapoz magazine. Check his site out.
I realize it is tough for most of you out there to view some things on my site. Have you gone to my other sites page?
There is a ftp site there that is impossible to view with out high speed. I am fortunate in that the college has high
speed internet. Most library's do too.
If you are at a library go to Yahoo or Google or Excite or Alta Vista or MSN or Ask Jeeves and enter Radman_Art
in the search engine and you are there. That is how I find my site when I am at school.
I just want to say my heart and soul are poured into my paintings and art. This is the magic, this is why my stuff is
set apart, one of a kind. It is because it is more than just art. It is my imagination, from my point of view, at that
moment. This takes years of art and creating art to become expert at.
The very cool tiles I use for background on my web sites are from huge Photoshop creations I have made. I take a tiny
piece of that creation and make a tile out of it in Photoshop. This little effect is very difficult and takes hours to get
just right.
Every creation I make is make believe. Nothing has any reference to any actual item. My comic's and animation’s
may have some significance of or times but the characters are made up entities. In other words I have never sense a skeleton,
but Deadman is a character in my comic's. I think art is all about making stuff up that does not exist. If you want reality
take a photo, that is what a camera is for. I had to write all this because of a bunch of lies I read recently about
a famous artist how stuff he painted was real. You can lie all you want about people and it may seem fun. You may even benifit
from your lies about people. Just know in the end you will loose. I can not imagine any thing worse than lying about a artist
to hurt them. All any artist is guilty of is bringing more beauty into this already beautiful world. Any how, I
really have fun with my paintings, I like to ride the edge with my paintings. I think that best describes the art scene
of 2005. I think I am in tune with what is now, what is happening in modern art. I create paintings that do not offend and
actually should make you laugh. If you laugh at my painting I would not be offended at all. I remember when I did the Monkey
painting, every time I walked by it I burst out in laughter. This went on for a entire week.
In 1988 I had a contract with Tracker Designs to sell my art work to them. That is what started my life's pursuit
to be a recognized American Classic Artist. Go to the web site. That was 20 years ago now I have a collection
that has got to be one of the greatest in America. Also I want to say I was a expert draftsman in high school. I took
it for 3 years.
The reason I am saying this is to prove I am not some Johnny come lately. I have been paying my dues to the art world for
20 hard working years. I have sent my art to thousands of comic companies, magazines, and the like for 20 plus years.
It is not like I have not reaped reward. I
have a huge collection of pencil and inks, paintings and other types of great art I have collected for twenty years. I would
estimate about 1500 works of art. My home has become a gallery, a delightful place to walk around and a feast for the eyes
at every turn. I sleep good at night, knowing I have accomplished so much.
I buy all my art board for my painting from Asels Art. They are amazing, they have everything for the artist.
Bill Kroyer has worked on a large amount of computer animation in movies since Tron.
Check out what he wrote about Radman Art in 2003!
Bill Kroyer of Rhythm & Hues Studios wrote me this letter :
You're right, you have a million ideas. It is amazing the amount of stuff you have created. I especially
liked your 3D BG gallery. Have you ever heard of a Japanese animator named Yochiro Kawaguchi? He is a very famous
guy who creates images similar to your stuff. Good luck on your creations. I will check on the web site from
time to time, as you suggest. -BK
PS I think Radman is cool.
I met Bill Kroyer at a seminar at Richland College and gave him a CDR with my portfolio in it April 2nd 2003. My basic
animation class attended the seminar. 97% of the jpgs and
gifs I gave him are on this site.
my letter was : I have tons and tons of ideas they spring
forth from me like a fountain. Anyhow I was just wondering
if you looked at my Cdr.? I can not stand thinking I will die and no one will ever be entertained by my art and comics. I
have poured my heart out into my stuff. Look at least promise to check my site from time to time. I can not do a piece of
art with out some kind of message to it. Messages to help people see another side to something they normally would not. If
I could tell you my life story you would do what ever you could to help me get my stuff published. My life story would make
a great movie.
All the animation’s here are in 720dpi x 480dpi or 640dpi x 480dpi in their original format. All my
best stuff is saved in animation format or no compression at all, so as to be best for dvd. Let the dvd process compress to
mpeg, I say. What you see here on this site is a very small protion of the many animations I have made over the five years.
My animations are my way of learning program's like Maya. Some people read and read, I prefer to learn by doing. That is also
the reason I have not done a animation since Deadman, because I have not had a animation class since then. All any one has
to do is give me a job doing this stuff, and I promiss I will create more great work than any one eles like me. I work program's
like Maya, like art, not like mathematics and I am really really good at it. I use Maya like a paint brush. If
I seem big headed, it is because time is a facter ( I am getting old). I am simply trying to tell you if you hire me
or want to put me in a gallery, I will not let you down.
Yes I am the Author of the famous dvd's. I broke my hand's on the computer after learning to animate. I
sent them to a select few by the mail. Like Pixar and Lucas Arts. I mention these two because Pixar actually called me at
home and wrote me, and Lucas Arts sent me a confirmation number every time I sent something. It was rare I would receive
any letters from most every one else, even though they where major companies. No one called me and said lets make a
full length film of this great digital art. I am resentful. How could any human not feel insulted by the fact that all my
work seems ignored. I believe there are certain people that I have given this huge endeavor that will archive my work, at
least this is better than nothing. I have been shouting at the top of my lungs for years for someone to recognize me as a
huge significant artist of our time, and for good reason. Do I think it is right that for 50 years great artist have been
ignored? No I think the reason I have been ignored, is because so many others are ignored right along side of me. I still
do animation’s for class now and then but I have not done a serious project with conflict and resolution since Deadman
and Flyboy, because I have had no recognition of even completing the great works I have already done. I will always create
art though, it is what I do. You can take as many classes as you like, but unless it is in you to create, and complete
that creation than you will never be like me. I believe at any given time there are only very few true artist aloud on earth,
and I am one. Like Man Ray I can say I have never had a boss with my art, this has given me the chance to create with nothing
holding me back. Unlike Man Ray I have yet to be paid a livable amount of money for doing art. If any one out there knows
of any one that is willing to help me to this goal let me know, there is a link to my e-mail on my home page. When and if
I do, all of the world will be consoled. I know no matter what my digital art will live on forever.
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