Lots to paint and see in the "Baja del Sur". I just got back home to my studio in Santa Fe after a wonderful trip to the southern Baja of Mexico. Although I arrived in the cold and snow here in New Mexico, I did so, with fond memories of migrating grey whales, fresh sea food, good tequila and also with a few paintings from the land and sea of Mexico's grand peninsula! Now back to work!

Well, here I am in front of the computer trying to discover all the bugs in different browsers and operating systems that effect the cyber presentation of my website! What!? If any of you have looked at my website, you might notice that it is still a work in progress to say the least. What was it? Rome was not built in a day.... or was it not conquered in a day? Whatever! I just want to paint.

Back in the day for example, Vincent only had to worry about having enough primary colors in stock for his palette and surfaces on which to paint. Also, maybe he had a preoccupation with an occasional letter to his brother Theo to help him understand why he was sending Vincent money all the time. Oh yes, and of course, he had to negotiate his room and board now and again, in the different locations where he painted  with the periodic trade of a small painting. (Which by the way, have surfaced from time to time at garage sales and such making the purchaser a multimillionaire. Lucky guy!) Vincent had no use for high speed internet, fast computers, blinding monitors nor Facebook! All he had to do was paint mostly, right?

Vincent van Gogh has become a house hold name in the world's society as the quintessential artist who made it huge. Few people however, realize how little interface he had with his world while he was living, as is true with many artists over time. He unfortunately only sold one painting " Red Vineyard at Arles" for 400 francs shortly before he died in Auver sur oise near Paris.

I find it interesting that the technologies of painting itself , the process of putting paint on canvass have not changed an iota in its purity since the beginning of civilized art, but look what has happened around us! Technology up the wazoo! I know it (technology) is a lot of work for me outside the venue of painting, but I must say, I am grateful for a medium in which I can participate in a platform that allows me to show my work to thousands. But, if I cut off my ear, it won't be from painting!