Gil Richmond

Just sort of fishing with acrylic paint and noticing that some of us have less every year.

Hi, born 1950, authored and co-illustrated "Edible Wild Plants of Michigan" and paints with oils, draws with ink, enjoys digital and computer generated art. Please visit my website at www.surrealcity.com and feel free to send your comments or questions. I have been strongly influenced by surrealism with its normal appearance being contradicted by some parts that don't belong there or are impossible in reality, kind of like dreams that often seems real but then some things don't make sense, since that seems to be what real life is like to me....

	I just went to an exhibit about drugs, and there was a painting in it that had the same type of "fallen on hard times" theme as you have in this great work. The "Coke" referred to the character fishing. I saw a lot of different stick figures made to look like lines of cocaine, and some of them wer...
	Im confused about the Coke reference but yes hard times became a theme in this painting. When I thought of portraying the figure fishing I planned on having fish swimming around above in the sky. But I love this sky and it is so difficult to make a great sky with acrylics as opposed to oils that I...
	of these string or whatever figures, I was just playing around with the sketchbook and somehow came up with this figure that impressed me without a head and with a left arm seemingly connected to the right leg, and a right arm connected to a left leg. I did try to replicate it with wire for the sak...
	theyre truly appreciated. Gil
	Reminds me of a series of string figures I wanted to use in a series of paintings, which I'll probably NEVER do . . . . their moment of possibility has passed .... OR maybe not. Got anymore like this?

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