photoshop collage comp for future painting titled Just Desserts

Thorny Snoots and Cactus Fruits: Weird Shit Cows Eat

Dick Van der Wurst on August 25, 2019

Making this for Pancakes and Booze shows this fall in Austin, San Antonio and Houston. The name of the show doesn’t mean in any way that I need to paint about food and booze, but it just so happens I do that a lot anyway. Well, why not make the first of my Prickly Pear Series incorporate a little delicious ice cream?

We all love the ice cream and go knows the prickly pear deserves respect for all it has done for the people that have inhabited this part of the world for so long. Here is an altar of sorts to them both. Let’s see how it come alive when I paint it.

But wait! An update…I thought cow heads to match the rams in Prickly Beers and Ram Tears would make some sense, and it really fixes the weird spaces created where the bowl and placemat intersect.

ADDED BONUS: having the candles overlapped by a painted element is an exciting new thing I haven’t done in these wall altar pieces.

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photoshop collage comp for future painting titled Prickly Pears and Fruity Beers

Fruity Beers and Ram Tears: Weird Shit Goats Eat

Dick Van der Wurst on August 25, 2019

Making this for Pancakes and Booze shows this fall in Austin, San Antonio, and Houston. So if I was already doing a piece featuring Prickly Pear ice cream, it seems obvious that this show would need one about Prickly Pear beer as well.

I’m from the mid-west and when I first heard people ate cactuses I was all, “shut up!” Then the idea of them producing sweet tasty fruits was a shock as well. Now putting them in beer? Weird. Taking the better National Beer of Texas and mixing it with a fruity flavor is weird. It is a shock every time I taste it, but you know what? It works. So shut the hell up.

Now where can I find prickly pear colored candles!?

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