PINK BUFFALO SCULPTURE

PINK BUFFALO SCULPTURE

(CLAY OVER WAX) $45 U.S.

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Dan Bunch
2236 Co. Rd. 314
Cleburne, TX
76031

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Howdy,

I am having a great day.........so far.

I try my hand at everything art. I do some sculpting. Usually in clay. Have done a rock or two, but so far the results are not recognizeable. Here I have made a clay over wax, which seems the best method for me. It has a modern look you'll not find in something such as a "real life" model would have. But it has its own place, and identity. Don't you think?

Later,

Dan Bunch
TX

Local Taxi Waits

"Local Taxi Waits" $55 U.S.

Painted in Acrylic on 9" X 12" 140 lb. paper.

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Dan Bunch
2236 Co. Rd. 314
Cleburne, TX
76031

All paintings and artwork are guaranteed! If you are not satisfied you can get all your purchase money back upon the return, (with pryor notification to me), in new condition, of any artwork! No questions asked. (only the shippiing; posting; handling; if any; costs will not be refunded.)

Howdy,

I am so lucky!

I have tons of pics to use as reference to paint animals, people, buildings, in Africa. My son went several times to Africa on Missions. He was a welder, so he welded the bars for windows and gates and doors, to keep the lion and monkey at bay in new churches.

And he got to go on Safari several times. Whereupon, I got to inherate a windfall! I have used them before. But I can just sit and wait now for the real sunshine to come and push these partly cloudy, drizzly days, out! Then when I have light though yon window, I am going to paint, paint, paint! I got plains.

Later,

Dan Bunch
TX

My Son’s Africa Zebra

"My Son’s Africa Zebra" $220 U.S.

Painted in Acrylic on 9" X 12" 140 lb. paper.  

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Dan Bunch
2236 Co. Rd. 314
Cleburne, TX
76031

All paintings and artwork are guaranteed! If you are not satisfied you can get all your purchase money back upon the return, (with pryor notification to me), in new condition, of any artwork! No questions asked. (only the shippiing; posting; handling; if any; costs will not be refunded.)

Howdy,

It is a great morning! If I only had sunshine I might be painting. But we have the near-miss of a thunderstorm. Which means, that we have no sun, and worse yet, no chance of rain. Too bad, because we really need the rain.

I saw on the news that an alien being was found in a meteorite. A small virus-like worm. Problem is, I think, is to find out where exactly that worm came from. You see, if it came from outer space, that doesn't mean it came from another planet. No, the earth too loses, as well as gains many tons of debris over any given year to space.

So eons ago this small little critter of a worm could have been cast from off this planet! Or it could have gone on a trip to several planets, then to this earth. No telling. Only think. If it was truely an alien critter, we would have company in our misery!

Later,

Dan Bunch
TX

Dry Texas Draw

"Dry Texas Draw" $75 U.S.

Painted in Acrylic on 9" X 12" 140 lb. paper.

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Dan Bunch
2236 Co. Rd. 314
Cleburne, TX
76031

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Howdy,

The earth might be burning up, but not where I live.

It is freezing thins morning! That is what is killing us. One day it will be eighty, and a bit over, the next day it is below freezing. How can anyone live without getting sick in this type of weather?

But we TEXANS have been doing this for generations. We get used to it a bit. The only thing we don't ever seem to get used to is tornados. They keep ya up at night. That is the one thing you cannot really plan for. You can have a storm cellar, but what good does it do if you are traveling, or visiting neighbors, or even if your home and have no warning that one is coming your way? Nope, having a place to hide is only good if you know when to hide. We do have a type of siren warning system, mounted on poles, all along the highways from town. So we can barely hear the things whenever the town gets a warning and sets the things off. It is only good if you can hear them, I susppose.

Main thing to do is be ready to survive. Which is getting harder to do every day. What do you do? Fill your world now with children, grandchildren, art, the finer things in life. Because they won't last forever. And I reckon that is a good thing. Considering things all together.

Later,
Dan Bunch
TX

Texas Water is Deep

"Texas Water is Deep" $75 U.S.

Painted in Acrylic on 9" X 12" 140 lb. paper.

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Dan Bunch
2236 Co. Rd. 314
Cleburne, TX
76031

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Howdy,

I went to an Art Guild meeting last night. It was neat. We had a demonstration of acrylic painting. A lady did a painting of flowers. And she showed a couple of canvas of things she does, which is dried leaves and very light bright flowers. It is what I call a "dog and pony" show. She filmed it for other future cd's or sales of some sort. Kind of neat.

Thing is; we have a small show of art each month. I was thinking about this one last night this morning, trying to tell my son about the winners. There was a painting done really well, of a Native American in a typical "setting". That, I think is the problem I have with the art they do. And that too is a kind of problem I think. Not for them! These artists are winning shows and selling their art. I am the one that has the "problem".

You see, like this one painting of the Native Woman sitting in front of a hanging skin, and holding a knife and a squash. The thing is that to me it looked like a diorama. You know, one of those "window" like displays at the museum? I could see no movement. Not a hair out of place, not even on the fur of the skin hanging up. No wind. No small dog or child running. No flopping clothing. Nothing. So it was like a perfect picture of a wax figure, sitting in a diorama. And it won. Very great colors. Great art rendering. No movement. No life. (in my humble opinion).

I saw a scene once at a Ft. Worth museum. It was a scene of the typical chuck wagon on a cattle drive. The painting however was anything but typical. There were a couple of cowboys laughing and screaming and pointing at a distant object. The cook in full flowered and rolled up apron and holding a spoon was there doing much the same. The object was a cowboy on a raging bucking horse. It was fantastic art! There was a red blanket flapping in the wind that "pointed" to the action of the bucking cowboy. That made your eye follow the scene from the chuck wagon to the bucking bronco. That was some of the best art I have ever seen. I forget who the artist was....

But that is what I was trying to convey to my son this morning. That as all the women love flowers and leaves and Native Americans in their art, they also go to "schools" or art class. They go learn at the easel of artists that all went to other art classes of other artists holding art classes, all doing the same things the same way. If you see a hundred artists trying to do exactly the same flowers or dry leaves the artist did during the "dog and pony" show, that, to me, gets to be boring with a capital "B"!

A painting to me ought to show first, an appealing overall single type of work. That is; you would not mix a "Georgia Okeef", or R. C. Gorman, type of Native American woman sitting in the middle of a Remington. That would be awkward, right? So why paint a "fixed" diorama looking wax figure of a Native woman? There was no life in the art, is what I am saying. To me, there should be movement and life, if the painting is supposed to show that type of scene. An R. C. Gorman would be more like a graphic design. And so would Georgia Okeef. But if you are going to paint something like a scene of an Indian at work in a village, then there ought, to my mind, be movement, life, and more.

Of course that gives you an idea of what my art looks like! I try for movement and motion and emotion, and it winds up something quite different than what was displayed at the small show last night! No way would any of the people locally vote for my paintings over their wonderful, to me, "art class" paintings. Nothing wrong with showing perfection, if that is your style. And it sure enough sells. But it is just boring to me to see the same old brush strokes of "here is how you do it".

I know, I'm weird. And opinionated!

Later,
Dan Bunch
TX

Cowboy and Friend

"Cowboy and Friend" $55 U.S.

Painted in Acrylic on 9" X 12" 140 lb. paper.

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Dan Bunch
2236 Co. Rd. 314
Cleburne, TX
76031

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Howdy,

I am looking into publishing my book as an ebook. I got a URL to Amazon from a buddy, who suggested I take a look there first. First, meaning that there are many that publish an ebook, but also send or market to Amazon. Thing is; that the whole process is quite complicated. That is for an old man that hardly speaks English in the first place.
I was raised in North Texas. I do speak a form of English. It is more of "barnyard" English than what you might be used to. It involves a lot of "dropjaw" and "rounding off" of words, punctuated by fits of spitting on the ground. You think that is vulgar? Well, then you haven't been standing in any old corrals lately! If you do, you will want to spit every few minutes in order to try to get the stench of the animal waste out of your nose. It filters in with all the dust churned up my the feet of the animals, as they twist and fight each other as if they were not all going to be fed. Just like people, they want to be fed first!

I got online and took a look at the process. I was not stunned. It was more like confused. I often stay confused. Do you know what that the "process" of publishing the ebook yourself involves? It is torture just to think about it!

First you have to learn the Amazon or whatever site you are going to use, process. Then you have to learn in that process how to convert to PDF, how to pick your "book size", then how to "trim" the pages. Then you will want to post the actual book. That is; after you look at a long list, and this also means spending time studying, the many things that "newbies" make mistakes the most at. Then you get to make a book cover, which involves picking out one from 150,000 visuals! AND learning how to make the cover. You see, it too has to involve reading for days and study, just to line the picture up you want to use. Then, if that goes well, you have about fifty other small leaning processes to do to finish your "easy" ebook publishing.

Oh! By the way, they have a list of people who specialize in all of this. I have no idea why, since it is so easy! Why would you need to hire someone to do something that is sooo easy to do? I think I know why. (see above list, which is only a partial one!)

I can hardly type. Which is the one thing, the one skill, that I did learn in school. I have no memory of anything much that I did in school. No one back then ever thought to say to me, "Learn to learn". Then ya got it! I can study and learn anything else I want to do. But it seems that publishing an ebook is like becoming a pilot. First thing is not to study flying, it is to get over the attack of nerves and the jitters from being suspended over Brooklyn or something! As my buddy, who by making this remark to his wife on what was his last flying day, told me, "I asked her, Honey; what the hell do you think that chair is bolted to that you are hanging onto with such white knuckles?" And that did it! No more flying for him, cause she would not stay at home while he want up, and now she would not go flying!

I may have to hire some college kid or perhaps find a preschooler to do the ebook thing for me? But I am going to try to digest it first. I hate to find something I cannot do. It drives me up a wall!

Later,
Dan Bunch
TX

Passing Through

"Passing Through"  $145 U.S.

Painted in Acrylic on 9" X 12" 140 lb. paper.

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Dan Bunch
2236 Co. Rd. 314
Cleburne, TX
76031

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Howdy,

I am a serious artist.

That is the main work I have to do these days. I paint. I do some sculpting, when I get an urge to make a mess. Usually that is only in clay. But wax, stone, even Crayola for kids sculpting (forgot the name) is not above my materials list. My "materials list" usually means whatever is at hand!

I have presented my artwork to a few galleries. All like my work, but so far only one gave me any hope at all of making room for my art. I paint in a Primitive art genre. I paint trying to show motion and emotion. So far I have not connected to the right gallery, nor perhaps agent. But I will, hopefully.

Do you know of a gallery that has room for Primitive paintings that show motion and emotion? Send me an Email

I do love to do art. I must have on hand now some 30 or more canvas of all sizes, and hundreds of Acrylic paintings done on 140 Lb paper stashed away in portfolios. I just cannot quit. And I love it! It is getting to be awesome, in that I have progressed a bit in my artwork. I try to progress. Progress to me means that I am beginning to reach that point where I can disassociate from my own environment, but reach into my souls environment to find that world of peace and contentment. That world where we should live. The one we messed up by letting the greedy live amongst us. That sounds brittle, but it is true. Think about a world where there would be no wealthy, no gold to lust after, no forests denuded. No reason to sale one's minutes for tokens in which to buy bread.

The sweat would still be there. The toil. The heart-break and naturalness of man's living. But it would be ours. Our sweat, our toil, for the bread that we got by our own hands. Too bad that we didn't take on the good parts of the Indian's life, and let him take on the good parts of ours. Too bad. Think how that life would be inside that world.

To drift along on all the land instead of down ribbons of it set aside to direct us, and our money (tokens) into places we don't really want to go, in order to reach the places we do want to go. Which sounds nastier, and which the more wholesome? Pitching our Tee Pee or Wigwam on a slight incline to the South, where the Southern sun would reach the entrance on first light of sunrise. Instead of breathing the manufactured air filtered down metal corridors to reach us in near windowless rooms, we could breath deeply of decaying pine needles, mixed with the smell of water moving along the stream below. We get meat from the hanging deer someone shot early this morning for our breakfast. Or we scratch the bites from the bedbugs as we pick up the telephone to order food handled by people we must trust, but perhaps shouldn't!

later,
Dan Bunch
TX