In this surreal still life painting, "Dia
De Los Muertos," an original oil on panel, I am attempting
to speak to the spirit of life that is with the living even after
those beloved to us are departed. The spirit of song contains
the soul of the singer and the song writer beyond their lives
and continues to affect lives. Life has many games that one can
choose to play, both good ones and bad ones. So to speak, we
draw the cards we get and hopefully we play them well.
When I was a child we lived in Del Rio, Texas
and my father would take me with him to what was then Villa Acuna,
Mexico and go the bar in Ma Crosby's Resaurant where he would
have the bartender enlist an old cantina guitar player and pay
him to play while my dad enjoyed a few Carta Blanca beers and
having a smoke while enjoying life.
The level of detail in this painting was
most challenging and is not reccomended for beginners. It took
me fifty two years.
