The Night Shift - painting every day, after dark . . . .

Amused by The Muse

info@vhmckenzie.com (VH McKenzie) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:59:00 +0000

Yeah mon, yuh mek mi laff fi dead. Yuh mi MUSE fi true. Nobaddy know wha'gwan like wi. It nah go soh. Itta go SOH. The heat is creeping in at last. Clothes discarded, piece by piece. Mek yuh...

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Poolside

info@vhmckenzie.com (VH McKenzie) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:02:00 +0000

You know I prefer the ocean. Whether it be summers on the coast of Maine, where I learned to swim in the arctic-cold Atlantic, or the balmy bathtub of the Caribbean, crystal clear straight to the...

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Christmas in July

info@vhmckenzie.com (VH McKenzie) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:55:00 +0000

Seriously. Shop NOW. Save big. I'm running a special sale in my Etsy shop -- Buy Any Two Prints, Get a third FREE. Shipping always included. Note: the lesser priced print of the 3 will be the...

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Grillin' and chillin'

info@vhmckenzie.com (VH McKenzie) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:50:00 +0000

Having a laid-back weekend -- family and friends always passing through the place. King is putting the new grill, his Father's Day gift, to the test. As Empress, I am requested to season and prepare...

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Breakfast

info@vhmckenzie.com (VH McKenzie) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:04:00 +0000

Under the seagrape, Sugar sand in my coffee But I don't mind much. Negril No. 12, 9"x12" watercolor on paper

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I'm lucky, I'm lucky --- I can walk under ladders*

info@vhmckenzie.com (VH McKenzie) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:03:00 +0000

and, we hope, we'll have a home in Jamaica -- one day soon................. Last week I posted a gocco print made from a palm tree drawing I made while in Jamaica. What I didn't mention was that the...

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Beach High Kewl

info@vhmckenzie.com (VH McKenzie) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:37:00 +0000

Negril No. 2, 6"x4", Watercolor on paper Higglers, patties, palms, Catch a glimpse then hit the road: Roast yam with saltfish.

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Fren' fi life, truss mi

info@vhmckenzie.com (VH McKenzie) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:52:00 +0000

You have to pity these lonely girls. They probably never even heard of the term "rent-a-dread", at least not until it was too late. They could be reading this story right this very moment and still...

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ごっこ遊び - Gocco

info@vhmckenzie.com (VH McKenzie) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:56:00 +0000

(Please click on this image to see a nicer hi-res version) My first gocco -- hand pulled from a home-burned screen, from an original drawing. Make sense? Loosely translated from the Japanese,...

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Who's Your Daddy?

info@vhmckenzie.com (VH McKenzie) — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:59:00 +0000

Who gave you your first bath because he thought Mommy was too "frighten fi hold yuh right?" Who was the self-proclaimed expert on breastfeeding, despite not having the proper equipment himself, and...

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More and More Prints

info@vhmckenzie.com (VH McKenzie) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:45:00 +0000

Just a brief note today -- sold out half of my prints on hand: big thank you to my most stalwart patron. I will be re-listing the same pieces and making single prints as requested, same low price....

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Something Was Still Not Right

info@vhmckenzie.com (VH McKenzie) — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:25:00 +0000

You can see it in his eyes. I first painted this little rasta youth a couple years aback, when I first began this blog. It was one of many small ink and watercolor paintings I made during the...

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Half Way Tree Redux

info@vhmckenzie.com (VH McKenzie) — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:18:00 +0000

More progress on the kingman's portrait. Don't have a decent enough lens on the camera to capture the full canvas without distortion, so here are some pieces: Getting there........

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Pulling Back the Curtain

info@vhmckenzie.com (VH McKenzie) — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:24:00 +0000

I had a lot of positive feedback about my iphone drawings so I wanted to share them one more time, but with a twist: the application allows the user not only to retrieve the image outside of the...

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Finally............the wait is over.

info@vhmckenzie.com (VH McKenzie) — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:51:00 +0000

The prints have arrived. The above portrait, from a previous blog posting,"Yuh Know Mi?" is now available for sale as a high-quality, archival print. Printed on HP Aquarella Art Paper, 14.4 mil, 93%...

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Mr. Big

info@vhmckenzie.com (VH McKenzie) — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 01:10:00 +0000

I gently lowered the large ceramic pot, filled with steaming-hot chicken curry, into a heavyweight shopping bag and headed for the subway. It was time for that annual back-to-school tradition at our...

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Road Trip

info@vhmckenzie.com (VH McKenzie) — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:59:00 +0000

On the road, no paper nor paint, just the phone painting app.......not too shabby. Can even post to the blog via phone. Keepin' it short.........couple new stories on the way. Keep driving, king....

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Pretty Garbage

info@vhmckenzie.com (VH McKenzie) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:12:00 +0000

While walking home yesterday, I spotted a young couple cramming junk and debris into pink and black polka-dotted garbage bags in front of the BBQ on St. Mark's Place and 2nd Avenue. I didn't think...

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Driving While Black. Or How Granny Meg Got Car-jacked in The Bronx and Lived to Tell the Tale

info@vhmckenzie.com (VH McKenzie) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:54:00 +0000

It's been a wild ride from jump street for this little old lady from Connecticut. From the moment she stepped off the plane in Jamaica 16 years ago, and a slim, dreadlocked and smiling man...

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"When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then the painting is finished."

info@vhmckenzie.com (VH McKenzie) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:39:00 +0000

Renoir, 1841-1919 Never knew that old goat was so hilarious. And I thought it applied to this latest version of coconuts. They looked ready to touch, ready to pull off the tree. I kept glazing,...

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Picasso and Alice Neel and Art on a Dashboard

info@vhmckenzie.com (VH McKenzie) — Sun, 31 May 2009 22:09:00 +0000

Art-full weekend. Saw the Picasso exhibit at Gagosian and Alice Neel (personal favorite) at Zwirner, both in Chelsea. Go go go. Just a brief thanks to SOOOO many commenters who have responded to...

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iphone art

info@vhmckenzie.com (VH McKenzie) — Sat, 30 May 2009 22:31:00 +0000

Finally caught up the with trends and got an iphone on Mother's Day, as I mentioned in an earlier story. Big up, to the king - LOVE him, LOVE it, it has simplified my life. I immediately downloaded...

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The Wild Bunch

info@vhmckenzie.com (VH McKenzie) — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:10:00 +0000

"Paradise Palm #3", 12"x15.5" ink and watercolor on paper $300 Hmm, the title sounds as if I should have a good story to go along with it.....but not today. Working on a series of close ups of...

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The artist formerly known as PRINTS

info@vhmckenzie.com (VH McKenzie) — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:45:00 +0000

Apologies to those who have expressed dismay at the interruption of stories -- more soon come. The Big News to which I've been alluding has been the introduction of high-quality giclee prints of my...

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The fambly that plays to-geddah, stays to-geddah.

info@vhmckenzie.com (VH McKenzie) — Tue, 26 May 2009 01:08:00 +0000

No painting to post today -- the littlest empress in the house had a plan for this holiday and the latest work has been put on hold. Instead, a family outing, bike ride round downtown Manhattan, was...

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