It’s Absolutely Positively Impossible

“Don’t always listen to the experts,” my friend Ron Scott wrote when he sent me these interesting impossibilities forwarded by his friend Herb Rebhun. I think they’ll be fun to recall the next time someone tells me, “You’ll never sell those paintings,” or “People don’t want to read books about blah-blah-blah.


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Telephone


Reagan


Rail Travel


Personal Computers


Xrays


light bulb


automobile


television


trains


computers


lung cancer


machine gun


radio


boeing 247


steamboat


tank


submarine


copy machine


british telephone


rock and roll


vietnam


electric light


moon landing


Everythingstartsomewhere This tiny acrylic painting (7″x5″), titled “Everyone Has to Start Somewhere,” represents my first attempt to use applied texture. It was fun to do, and I still rather like it.


 

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Published on February 02, 2015 06:20
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