Wish Wash

"Wish Wash" $250 U.S.

Painted in Acrylic on canvas. Send a cash donation to:

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

Oh, my! I love this time of the year.

Trees are trying to bud. The weather is more than great, with seventy and eighty degrees showing up on the thermometer hinging on the studio wall. The birds are increasing in kind and numbers. There is a breathless wait for spring!

The family is planning our first cook-out. I think it will only be hot dogs. But "Hot Dog!" I am ready for that.

We cook-out, just off the porch, using a butane fired grill, all winter. But come spring, it will be to keep the heat out of the house.

That is a long-time think here in the south. In old days, the cabins had a living cabin, and under the same roof, but with a "dog-trot" between them, a cooking cabin room separate. Even when people got wood to build a proper home, the cabin was left standing lots of times, just back of the house, to use as both storage and cooking.
Wood had to be hauled by horse drawn wagon from Longview or further away East. Lumber mills were almost non-existent in the Central to West Texas. Cotton would be hauled East, and Lumber would be hauled West on the return trip. That and some food supplies, was about all the farmers hauled. Whiskey was a main staple in the diet in those years. Corn, believe it or not, was not considered food! Pioneers thought of corn as a feed for livestock, not as food for people. That is because they had a poor strain of corn I think. have you ever eaten "yellow dent" corn? There is quite a difference you see, in corn types. "Yellow Dent" is not very good for the pallet even when it is in very young ears. But I have eaten a lot of it.

Reminds me that I have pulled a toe-sack (feed sack to you Yankees) for miles to pick up corn on the "halves". That is, you would walk along where the corn picker had picked the corn. And you stepped on the shucks that looked promising. As your foot "found" a shuck that had an ear in it, or even half an ear, you picked it up and put it into the sack. At the end of the day, half of what you picked up was your, the other half was the farmers. It was money to us very young boys. And spent just as well on movies and soda pop (cokes to us Southerners, as all soda pop is called) on the weekends, as the later jobs of hay hauling and newspaper delivery. Only that was for the "older" boys to do.

Later,
Dan Bunch
TX

THREE CROWS ON PLAINS

"Three Crows On The Plains" $55 U.S.

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

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Howdy,

HELP! I need help.

How in the world can I Epublish my book?

I read and read, and the more I read, the more I am confused.

It seems there is more to this publication of an ebook than I figured on. I have to spend hours reading a "how to guide"? And then I have to "translate" my book to some other handy dandy dot something file? And then I might get it in shape, but probably not on the first try, to publish it online with a site such as Amazon or smashwords.

Thing is; the problem is; me! I'm about as illiterate, and intend to stay that way, than anyone concerning computers. My trouble is that as I tend to wake up every morning in a "new world", one of no "order" by the way, I also wake up to changes that I cannot cope with. I cannot cope due to the fast changes. And I can't keep up due to my complete "care less" (Is that la' se' fare' :) attitude of the computing world. I just don't want anything much past being able to write, post, get email, and simple stuff such as that. Computers are good as a communications device. A telephone, letter writing, telegraphing, thing. But as a way to do business, it is just a mess. That is not because of changes, it is because of fast changes. Too fast to keep up due to the constant reading and studying one has to do in order to keep abreast of these changes.

Change would be ok, but it is not like other changes in my world. If I see a change in automobiles I don't like I can say "no thanks". But in the online world, if the online world changes to Java, a thing I now hate in its newest form, then I have no option! If I want to read things online, I MUST have the java, and for that matter the latest version of Internet Explorer, or I can't see the newest pages! It lets one be behind a bit, but not forever. Sooner or later I MUST make the change.

Now I know that is good for business. That is a good thing. I like business. And causing people to change to something better is good for business. Offering the latest is right up there with good business practices. I ought to know.

But there should be such a thing as options. If I want to use this or that, it seems, now a days, there is little in the way of options for the computer user. I have to pay out the nose too. Which sort of hacks me off. I don't mind buying a new pickup, if I need one. But it should be up to me. Not up to someone that changes the roads so the regular old tires and wheels on your older model can't even get on the street! See what I mean?
Now, what am I to do? Who, or more like, which, publisher should I go with? I wrote a good western genre book. Now who can I go to? I have been looking online at a few of them.

And which would be best? To self publish on Smashwords, or use an Ebook publisher that also publishes on Smashwords and Amazon and others? What financially is the difference to my wallet?

Lots of decisions, and not much time to read it all to make the decision. If I spend the time necessary to read and understand it all, the market, and the business is apt to change before I get to a decision!

So I do need help deciding. Anyone out there have any suggestions? Please!

Later,
Dan Bunch
TX

My Back Door

"My Back Door"  $230 U.S.

Painted in oil on canvas.

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2236 Co. Rd. 314
Cleburne, TX
76031

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Howdy,

My wife is going to a basketball game today. That reminds me of a story.

Have you ever been surprised? I don't mean, sort of mildly surprised, but "WOW!" doubled?

I am an old man. I can't be surprised by much. I have seen or been exposed to so much over the years that I could hardly be surprised by anything.

Oh, I know some "actor" is found doing "such and such". And that is sooo interesting, and titillating, to the ill-informed, but it is hardly a surprise to me.

For instance I don't believe the TV news local show out of Dallas-Ft. Worth that has a "birthday" guess-along for the famous every once in a while. "How old is this.......(old fart)......actor today! Besides the "who cares" attitude that I am filled with now a days, I know that Actors pay good money for publicists that create a "mystique" and do form a background that must be a huge lie, or else they fail. Part of that lie is the age of the actor! How do you extend the career of any actor? By starting them out at the age of 13 or 14, when actually they are about 20 to 25! That's how.

So now you see that I am not only a pessimist, but a realist-pessimist. So nothing can sneak up on an old war-horse like me that would make me do a "double-take" and say "WOW"! aloud. Not me brother....except.....

One day my wife and I were coming home from the VA hospital, where I had just been poked, punched, radiated, pruned, and gawked at. I was riding on the passenger side half asleep, and eating my favorite food, Gardetto's. I love the stuff. I like to think it is the Iodine I am after, but I doubt that; secretly though. (It was invented to give iodine to the Italian troops during WWII) Anyway, I was just letting my dyslexia loose upon the world, which means that I was reading the billboards and advertising that I saw exposed along the highway. It is sort of a fun thing, when you read signs that get turned around to make absolute non-sense when read by a dyslexic mind that is sort of running on idle. And mine was.

But then all of a sudden! I saw a picture of my Granddaughter! She was smiling down at me from a huge billboard suspended over a viaduct, a railroad track running underneath, and she, or more like her face, was over forty feet high! "WOW!" I said, that's C....!!

The wife turned out on the next exit, then we circled the suburban around to go back and do 'er again. When we got close enough to the hill before the viaduct, we also noticed an exit. We took that one, and pulling up below the billboard, we sat both aghast and giggling like school kids.

I got out my ever handy camera and took a picture. (My wife says not to post it) The billboard was advertising the benefits of the college she was going to further out west, but the billboard was right about three miles north of Waco, which sports a college or two that is not likely to be low on anyone's list of preferable snooty colleges for the well-heeled. And that was the point. It was saying without saying it; "If you can't afford this swanky well known place, we have a campus and a program that is right up there with the best of the best, like here in Waco."

So it was quite a surprise to say the least. How many people get to drive down a road and see an eye-catching billboard showing their Grandchild smiling down at them? She is quite a star among the best of the collage basketball colleges in her league. At the least she makes more than a few scores every game. And that' no brag.

She used to shoot a hundred goals every day, just for practice. Once, having come for a visit, riding with her parents, she forgot to bring a basketball. And there wasn't one at my house. So we had to take her to "Wally World" to buy one. Just so she could shoot one hundred baskets that two day weekend. Now that's dedication.

But no surprise!

Later,
Dan Bunch
TX

Just For Fun

Painted in Acrylic on 9" X 12" 140 lb. paper. Send me an Email

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Howdy,
These were done mainly jut for fun! I love to do art. Thing is; so much of the art supplies are getting expensive. Guess I will have to just suffer a bit then, as Art comes before most else in my life. I could start riding a bike again I guess? Na...just a thoght.

Later,
Dan Bunch
TX

SPANISH BEACH

"SPANISH BEACH"  $80 U.S.

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

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Cleburne, TX
76031

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Howdy,

All this chaos in the world has made me realize what art means to the world. Without art to look at, own, and enjoy, what would this world be like? Who could live in a world where winter robs you of all the greens, browns, purples, reds? I know winters up North might be quite lovely. But here in Texas it is like wet dry grass where ever there happens to be grass. And then acres of mud! White rock mixed with mud. Black mud, a type that is not seen in the whole world is in parts of North Texas. It is quite boring.

But thankfully I have a retreat. I live in an area south of Ft. Worth where it is much like East Texas. There is deep sand running to a clay. There is tall oaks, tall pines in places. Although the pines are not as thick, nor are they harvested as in the Piney woods of East Texas. Yet they do liven things up in this area. Lakes are abundant. Animals are thick in population. Deer, not as big as those in the hill country. And eagles. Nesting in places along the rivers and lakes. These birds are making a nice comeback from almost extinction around the state.

The sand is much cooler to live on than the black land. The sand cools off quickly as the sun sets. The black land that I was raised on holds the heat and releases it during the night. It is horrible in the summer, as it holds the heat and builds until it is like living in an oven!

By having art around to look at you get a chance to think and see, like out of a window. Horses galloping by. Cowboys riding up a road or across a stream. Cattle on the hills. And other things that you choose to calm and strengthen yourself to make it though the tough times, and even weather the storms outside during the harsh times around you. It is like saving a small place that is next to your heart. A memory that you can take out and live once again.

Makes evean an artist appreciate art all the more!
Later,
Dan Bunch
TX

"Primitive" Western Art of Dan Bunch

"VALLEY BUFFALO HUNT" $65 U.S.

Painted in Acrylic on 9" X 12" 140 lb. paper. Send me an Email

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"WAITING WATCHING" $45 U.S.

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Howdy,
I thought I would show you a painting where I tried to combine motion and emotion at the same time. It is a most difficult form of art for me to do. I have seen where artists paint in oil a horse and rider and "smeared" the background sort of. Or that is my impression. It is unique. But in my way of doing art I have quite a different look. I paint with a feeling, not a seeing with my eyes. I did have my eyes operated on. My wife said, "Finally you will see that you do not need to paint so bright!" No, I need to use right-out-of-the-tube like I am doing. I do mix some paint, depending upon the subject. But as you might be able to tell, I certainly am not a painter like other "schooled" artists!

 

"HERATIGE" $150 U.S.

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I am a



"Primitive" western artist. My dad loved art. Not the "wierd", "schooled" art of the times we lived in, but the, to him, "natural" and "native" art, with its color combinations, of his world. He taught me much about "seeing". Once when we were walking to a Medicine Mound, and along an old Indain camp, it's southern slight hillside exposed to the early sun (a neat way of finding those sites!), we had to cross a shallow, narrow, water seep, that was not more than anything other than a draining of the deep East Texas sandy land. He stopped me, and asked if I was ready to die at such an early age? I was some mystified by his question, and mumbled a "No sir!" He pointed down right below my feet. Hidden in the quick rappids running across what was the day before, grass growing in a low spot, was a cotton-mouth snake! I learned early on to look and to "see" like a Native American. I have ancestors that I am very proud of! Cherokee, Choctaw, and African. I am a Melungeon, and proud of it also. The more I learn the more I am amazed at the audacity of the European to consider, using Christianity as a sort of "cloak" to take what was not theirs. But then the Native American Culture asked for a "taming" in my opinon, and they got it. If you don't progress as a society, then you will be over-run by the societies that do progress. Or so history would seem to me to make it seem.
(Research; Melungeon; and; Walter A. Plecker; Hitler loved his solutions. So did the rich in at the time America, and they still do! Only they hide it inside purposefully "Mis-named" programs today.)

Later,
Dan Bunch
TX

My Son's Horse

"My Son's Horse"  $55 U.S.

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

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Howdy,

I am missing the campfire and the cooking out! Here is a pic of my backyard campfire, just in case you think I am not a serious out door cooking enthusiest.

We love to cook out and swim in our "above the ground" pool That is sort of a mis-nomer in that you are allowed by the warrenty to have parts of it up to three foot in the ground. We chose to keep 'er level, but put it all about one and a half foot to two foot in the ground. It is prettier that way and easier for the kid to hand someone a cold Corona when they are sent to the kitchen to fetch some refreshment for the adults. We love wading (not deep enogh to swim overmuch) across the four and a half foot deep by 15 foot wide pool and watch hummingbirds feed from the many places we supply them. Or floating on "noodles" and watching the birds flitteer here and there doing their jobs of feeding youngsters in the trees nearby. A roadrunner chasing a bug, or in the late evenings, starlings diving and swinging away above us after flying "no see-ums" is a real treat, and it is some kind of very calming to the nerves.



Come on Spring! I need 'cha.

Later,
Dan Bunch
TX