praguepainter

It's time for a little break so visit our snack bar for some delicious refreshments. Blogging takes effort and requires a certain amount of free time. Two or three weeks ago I found out I have to move.

my painting from 2003 Starman by Lawrence Wells The Starman came and he blew our minds, that much I know for certain. I caught it on channel two, when he landed and, man, I was out the door so fast. I

Bydlime uz na Zizkove 17 let v krasnym levnym bytem, ale bohuzel ztratime ho a musime se stehovat. Praha je dneska hrozna draha. Vedel jsem to predtim, ale nebylo muj problem. Tak zjistili jsme v utery

These are my two newest drawings from last week. I'm getting ready for my site-specific work in July in Volyne at Galerie na Shledanou where I will paint some large murals. But I have to admit I'm not

“Who are you who mumbles in the dark?” .. we are the bloggers and other lost souls who can see that if America is ever to be great, it has to seek to fulfill its promise that has drawn millions but has

I was recently reminded of Biosphere 2, the failed wacky environmental experiment in Arizona in the early 90s and I immediately remembered Steve Bannon's connection to the project. So I went searching

Two Bottles and a Titian oil on canvas 80 x 65 cm 2018 Lawrence Wells When I moved into my current studio in an old industrial car factory for Praga cars in Prague some 7 years ago the building was basically

Petrified Forest Human Bark ‘n Beautyless hide from beauty Bow your eyes ‘n heads to the duty of the dead’s Suck the ground Breathe life into the dead dinosaurs Let the past demons rear up their heads

What do I know? I'm just a plankton. Monetizing social media and interaction basically poisons the interaction .. its all about the money basically. Do we care about what you comment? Maybe a little, but

Cardboard Cutout Sundown You hardly know a day goes by in the cardboard cutout sundown the moon popped up like a gallery duck sipped up gold from the sunny cup and longhorns sawed the buggy grass and a

1-2-3-4-5 miles long Know ah can’t ever go wrong Clouds a’ grey in yesterday – dove on m’ shoulder sez time t’ play Yellow brick blackboard black Keep on walking and don’t look back Keep on walking and

“You fasten all the triggers for the others to fire. Then you sit back and watch as the death count gets higher.” – Masters of War by Bob Dylan What happened to @floridapanther ? Two months ago @floridapanther

Two Little Indians, oil on canvas, 120 x 100 cm, 2011 I've never read any Agatha Christie but while I was working on this painting in 2012 the title And Then There Were None came to me. Christie's novel

Don van Vliet, better known as Captain Beefheart, was one out there visionary artist and poet. His exploration of the outer cosmos of blues and R&B in his musical persona meant he was no stranger to

So South Koreans were buying Steem yesterday and everyone got excited again. But I notice Steemd isn't working .. what's up @roadscape ? To replace steemd you can always turn to Steem Rocks by @emrebeyler

This Saturday from 12-18h we will have open artist studios at the studio building I share with a number of artists. It's called Pragovka and it's located at Kolbenova 34A in Praha 9 between the Kolbenova

Watching Emma Gonzalez and the other speakers in Washington DC this weekend is inspiring and exciting. We are seeing a youth rebellion rising up from the drumbeat of school shootings, economic austerity,

I recently came across Frans de Waal's TED talk about moral behavior in animals, above is an excerpt. Here we see an experiment in inequality where one capuchin monkey is given cucumber for his tokens

I lived in Prague in the early 90s and returned in 2001. It took me awhile to get it together but in 2011 I finally found a good studio space and started painting and drawing more regularly, making up

I want to post about a couple problems with Steemit that I think are worrying. Reading this post from December by @miniature-tiger I started to realize that user retention is a big issue here. I'd noticed