Cut mango

Got a nice mango at Fiesta Mart and painted its reflection in a deep Revere Ware pot.

Rite of Spring

For years, my father would paint the first flowers of spring from our yard.

my Horned Toads

I've been making clay horned toads lately. When I was a child they lived in our yard, but
now they are extremely rare.  I'm using soft iron wire wrapped in newspaper as an
armature. I'm having trouble managing shrinkage of the clay and my toads tend to shed
their legs.  The poor chap on the left is unfired and probably will never be strong enough
to go in a kiln.

Lasagne ai Funghi

Um, I haven't been painting much lately - I've been working on this recipe for fungus
lasagna. Actually this is just the armature for what I want. The bumps look random
but they're arranged so multiple copies of this shape would fit together without any
seams.  Here's a bottom view:

Dust Bowl Ranchers

Painted from a still I snapped of a PBS show about about the Dust Bowl. I didn't quite
catch the narration, but I think this pair were brothers who committed suicide because
they couldn't pay a bank loan. 16" x 20" purplish monochrome.

Now with multi-tile goodness

I've been working at the limits of my ability to think straight and managed to get a
simulation (raindrops in this case) spread across multiple tiles. I haven't tried to
fry my PC yet, but it should work for more drops and larger sets of tiles. The
placement, number, and impact force of the drops is set within limits by a
random generator* so I don't have to make any decisions :)
*Mersenne-Twister by Takuji Nishimura and Makoto Matsumoto 

"I know people have different abilities, but when I do something I want to be
respected for it because I'm doing it the best that I can." 
- Olivia Robertson, age 85, 12/24/2012

Red Truck

Incredibly red old Chevy at an auto show in a Shriner's club parking lot.