After nine straight days of coffee, I take a day off.  With a pot of Earl Gray Tea, I discuss caffeine, painting, cast iron, and grasshoppers.

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Ky Burt the bearded and talented troubadour joins Painting Pictures for a post-goat-petting Paonia conversation about airplanes, commuting to work from a remote campsite in the national forest, making music, sense of place, and his upcoming summer tour.

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Check out Ky and Melanie’s Kickstarter and support their summer tour: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1360257005/project-in-pursuit

Visit Ky’s website for numerous upcoming shows; catch him and Melanie this summer in Arizona, California, Oregon, and Washington: kyburt.com

It’s May!! Spring and flowers and sunshine and warmth coming back in. Summer around the corner, 2015 getting into full swing. Are you prepped? Hydrated? Rested? Engaged? Excited? Engaged to be married?!?? Whaat?!??! Congratulations! I’ve had coffee. Here’s a new background for your desktop:

This is a photo from my front yard here in Paonia, CO. I did some Photoshop doctoring to simplify things. That orange really caught my eye and I hope it does something for you. Click one of dese here links here to download dis here image for your desktop: 2880×1800, 2560×1600, 1920×1200, 1680×1050, 1440×900, 1280×800

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Happy May!!!

A solo rant about crap art of the $150 and $25,000 variety. What it’s like being an artist, taking commissions, pricing and selling work, and what great paintings do that crap paintings don’t.

The voice memo included within this podcast was the basis for my stand-up act April 25, 2015, at the Blue Sage (photo above).

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Video of the Blue Sage show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwKod5HdgEg&feature=youtu.be

A three-way Paonia Palaver with local gentlemen Topher Dalrymple and James Wop aka “JC”. On a snowy spring Saturday in Paonia, we discuss horses, laboring for the man and for oneself, cosmic soup, loss of virginity, frickity fracking, and the future of humanity.

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Check out Topher’s Dalrymple Equine on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dalrymple-Equine/714785851970740

A solo Paonia shimmy from inside Suzy Subaru: ditch swimming, plant watering, cabbage eating, cheesy painting, Picasso analysis, and nutritional cooking demo prepping.

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Mechanical engineer, traveler, Paonia-lover and non-comedian Karolina Fernandez joins Painting Pictures to talk solar energy, community, relationships, and mindfulness.

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Happy April y’all!! This is the new background for your computer’s desktop, and I ain’t foolin!

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This is a shot of the streets of Paonia here in springtime. Check out the cloud shadows on the hills! And dat blue roof der…

A solo slipstream slinger episode from my breakfast table in Paonia, CO. A life/health/work sharing session, sky beam interruption, cast iron update, and Paonia news bulletin all squished together for forty-something minutes of joy.

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Environmental activist, improv comic, tango dancer, clergyman, inspector, gearhead, and tiny-house builder Chris Garre joins Painting Pictures to discuss Ute Indians, Paonia populace and politics, and oil and gas extraction.

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