Bad paintings of Barack Obama

Via badpaintingsofbarackobama.com - Actually, I kind of like the last one...

The Whole Sordid Affair - Art Trips's Paintings

She was the love of his life and he was obsessed with painting an apartment building (Kansas City) I - VII

The apartment via Google maps...

"Tree of Modern Art" Cartoon - Ad Reinhardt, PM Magazine 1946

Deaf Demon of Fear - An Art Trip Painting

Deaf Demon of Fear ~ photo, paint on board - 6 x 9 inches

Weighty Art World Discussion - Does She or Doesn't She Pee

Or "What's under Marina's Dress". I'll will never be able to look at her in her red dress the same after this... Water Definitely Not Included via New York Magazine

If the Old Masters did advertising

Paintings by Alan Macdonald

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You are your art...

Street performer in the French Quarter from a photo by Katie Harbath

My Two-Way Incident - An Art Trip Painting

My Three-Way Incident ~ Acrylic on Canvas - 24 x 36 inches

My Three-Way Incident ~ Detail


My Three-Way Incident ~ Detail

Adventures of Picasso - A Comedy

From "Adventures of Picasso" by Tage Danielsson (Sweden, 1978).

Joke vs Journey - An Art Trip Painting

"If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness"

Joke vs Journey ~ Oil on Canvas - 24 x 36 inches

Joke vs Journey ~ detail

Joke vs Journey ~ detail

Band Recreates Famous Paintings in Music Video

70 Million by Hold Your Horses ! from L'Ogre on Vimeo.

This painting has nothing to do with Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Richrd Prince, Larry Gagosian or Jerry Saltz (but maybe Google will find it now)

This painting has nothing to do with Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Richrd Prince, Larry Gagosian or Jerry Saltz (but maybe Google will find it now)~ Acrylic on Canvas - 60 x 72 inches

Jazz, Jazz, Jazz, Miles Flugelhorn and Rest In Jazz, Hank Jones

This was going to be a post about the DC area being a hotbed of jazz but with the death of Hank Jones, I'll let it be a tribute to Hank and his art.



Obit here via Washington Post





Some of the stuff caught in the last couple of weeks in the area.

Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra with Delores King Williams - Baird Auditorium - DC

Miles Davis's Flugelhorn at the Apollo exhibit



Louis Armstrong's trumpet


Apollo exhibit at the Musuem of American Art


Arron Park's band at BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown MD




Brad Mehldau and Joshua Redman take the Stage at the Weinberg Center in Frederick MD
A no photo policy prevented pix of this but here is a video that gives a favor of how it sounded.

Donald Harrison at Bohemian Caverns - DC

Even jazz at Jojos on U St while eating a burger...

Art Trip's Identification Card

Due to the scepticism that Art Trip is an actual person and not some lame persona in the spirt of Rrose Sélavy, I present my ID card as proof that Art Trip is in fact real (not bad looking for a 90 year old, I might add). I just don't understand what in my bio people find so unbelievable.

Everything you always wanted to know about color

Interesting for kind of funny in a geeky kind of way. Blog post from xkcd

Scene with Invisible Abstraction (San Diego) II- An Art Trip Painting

Scene with Invisible Abstraction (San Diego) II ~ Acrylic on watercolor paper - 18 x 24 inches

More paintings here