Pug Fish Wish

When the twins were born I started painting funny fish creatures. Made of at least a fish plus one other species. Not very scientific, but the girls were delighted, and nonsense does seem to please kids a lot, I seem to notice. This old kid anyway. So I am trying to talk a little about my motivation in these cartoonish paintings, as well as talk a little bit about the colorfield paintings. Yesterday I called them 'Colorpots" but I decided that sounds like a collection of make-up, and I would to back to my old standby, and call them colorfield paintings again.

Now the more difficult part for me is the stories that go with the paintings. They are simple, and I only think of simple stories. Which I do believe are probably enough for little children who really only like the pictures, and the stories if their names are in them, or the names of people and animals they know and love. So this character was easy.

To me he looks like Groucho Marks, but to my granddaugthers, way too young to even imagine such an ancient being, this PugFishWish looks like nobody other than - Maxx! - thus the title. PugFishWish. Maybe Maxx would like to be a Fish too, because for a Pug, he certainly loves swimming, or did when he was a little tyke.

So as the weather is growing more cold and grim; the leaves fell before they turned color this year, for instance, a sad event, I am more drawn to creating happy and colorful art. Well, what makes me feel happy and colorful. Sort of like internal carbonation. Being able to paint again is a miracle to me, and that is that. So I can't help but bubble along.