blue eyes on easel
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 8:15AM 
This painting is the first portrait I have done of Rain Song Beerhorst who is the youngest of the clan. She does a great job holding still for a 5 year old. The painting is shown here on the easel surrounded with the inspiration and drawing resources that typically accompany the paintings on the easel. I seem to need all this stuff crowded around the painting to help me feel cozy and creative. Some times I think I would like to exhibit the paintings this way giving the viewer a better sense of the context that the paintings arrive out of. Besides I just think they look kind of cool this way.
I also wrote a song inspired by Rain when she was just two years old and getting into a lot of mischief around the apartment when the family was living in Brooklyn. The song is called "Natural Disaster". The hurricane Katrina had just happened and living with a powerful two year old and six other females in a two bedroom, one bath apartment all came together in that song. The final line in the song is;
"It feels like the end of the world, in a storm with the name of a girl"
If you are interested in hearing it I can send you the five song EP for ten dollars which is a foretaste of the new record due to come out the end of September in time for Art Prize and the Beerhorst Wonder Wagon.
Reader Comments (2)
I like the cluttered display here as well. All the "stuff" shows the process. I like process.
Your artwork and your family are wonderful. Living by faith is not easy, but God cannot ignore what you are doing for love of Him and He has blessed you so much! I see so much of the influence of the Catholic Church in your works... for years the art, and the writings of the Saints had influenced me... that is it was within these works that I found a mirror to my own faith. Funny, but it took me 51 years to realize that maybe God was trying to tell me something!
I think many of your works will live on to be considered "masterpieces" , especially those of your children and your wife. I see in them great purity and truth.
God bless you all,
A Catholic Fan of all your family's art - Pat