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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Posted by Dick Van der Wurst

Having descended down into South Texas through the Hill Country one day long ago, Dick never claimed to be Texan, but his German heritage and love for tacos is something he shares with the inhabitants of the region. Having earned an MFA from Miami University, OH, he spent the worst years of his life up north, maturing artistically and refining an Iconoclasmatic Pop Art™ style shaped by his experiences as a recovering Catholic, cancer survivor and optimistic existentialist. He lives and works in his humble turquoise studio-home (Dick’s WurstHaus Art Shanty) near downtown San Antonio.