Another year and that spin around the sun has passed by, happily, and another cycle enters while we ride the waves on the back of that old seagoat Capricorn holding tightly to its horns. A wild ride it is that Capricorn can offer up, a wild ride up to the abyss, the coldest depths of what we call winter. I hope for all of you the best things to come into your life as the Light Bringer slowly returns our Sun to us, bringing with it promises of longer days ahead. Regardless of our circumstances and the places we find ourselves in, places that change in unexpected ways from month to month and moment to moment, it comes down to our own obligation to ourselves to bring a smile to our own faces: its then that we can share that smile with others who may need it more. It kind of hedges the bets we have with hope and its ineffective response time. Now is the time to start.

And so I wish you all exactly what I wish for myself. Good health, or at least the best you can muster. Good finances for the good treats life has to offer, good food to feed that ferocious oven down below, and good relations to keep the heart strong, kind, and open. Accept the love that others offer you, be them people, animals, bugs, fish and whatever-other-might-have-yous, and give it back. Be happy for what you receive and what you are. If something leaves your life, grieve as needs be, and then be happy for what comes into its place. Its all a part of you..

Listen to the music that life plays for you and dance to it as you will; this allows destiny and free-will to work together as they’re designed, opposites co-existing to make a whole. Be thankful for what you have, appreciate it. As for what you don’t have, if there’s something you want, turn yourself in that direction and move towards it. If it feels good, keep moving that direction, and be thankful for the journey. It’s yours and no one else’s.

It’s to you I wish a happy, happy year in 2026!

You must know by now that there’s always a catch to my posts. This one, this catch, is done as always in the spirit of sharing my colors with you by any means possible, but this is about news: news of a different color. News that applies to my need to share.

It’s something new for me, really, having news. I don’t usually have news to share, I’m an artist. I paint, and I share those paintings however I can, but those paintings are something that come around annually, roughly, in my world. I’m not a painter who puts one out whenever one is done. One is never done for me, so any news of new paintings comes slowly. I finish paintings in groups, series of seven, twelve, five and a dozen, normally one series per year. so its a slow process, and this is the reason I do blog-stories with sneak-peek details of some-such this painting and some-such that painting, but this news thing, well, its kind of fun, having news, you know?

So here it is, but without the obligatory preamble joke and long-winded introduction, but I will include the appropriate drumroll and some subtle pomp-and-ceremony. It’s time for that news.

I’ve been setting up shop for the last couple of months with the intention of making some very interesting works available as totally affordable prints and posters. I’ll be adding fine art prints later, done on heavier and more refined papers, and after, I’ll offer up original hand-painted monoprints and and even limited editions. I’ll be doing things quite differently than I’ve done before, and will be availed the opportunity to have sales and even free offers.

This is all a result of a situation that now allows me to do things with my work that I haven’t done before. With camera in hand, a new and proper SLR, a real camera!

Smartphone be gone! I’m now taking high-resolution photos which allow detail that I was unable to get before not having the larger digital image format that a true camera provides. This new tool now sits in studio excitedly on a tripod awaiting its next task. The results thus far – some close-detailed macro-style photos are lending themselves well to the Design and Photo software that’s on my little laptop. I’ve been working with color processing and other effects to produce something distinctive and unique. I realize that taking photos of my paintings offers just another way of seeing my painted shapes and colors, much like if I painted the same image in watercolor, colored pencil, markers, or any other medium, each having their specific flavors.

Everything I will share with you via this new shop will all be taken from my original paintings and drawings. Some will be full, some cropped, and some examining details of those peices. They’re the same – same, but by this new direction, one thing comes from another, a different world, and so they’re different. I now have this work represented by the Buried with all his Teeth banner and the BwahT stamp, as seen above, Read about my first foray into this new arena with my last post Eagle Eye – It’s a Grey Area.

Anyway, that’s my news for now. Trust me that I’ll keep you posted while I continue setting up the BwahT Print Shop, it shouldn’t be long now, well before springtime. The BwahT Printshop is gunna have some tasty nuggets that I know you’ll love.

Keep bringing art into your life, through social media, research and curiosity, through online gallery window shopping, and most importantly, by bringing art into your home, your crib. Art is so easily accessible and affordable these days with the global print industry having responded well to a now decade-old growing demand for more art.

Remember that what you like in art life reflects who you are, its a reference to what you feel and know, so what better place to show that aspect of yourself and with yourself but in your home, your personal space, and to those that you allow into that dwelling. Where you put images and how you put them up is totally up to you, from side table to bookshelf to wall, exposed only as you wish. Discrete or public, placement is as important to the piece as the piece is to you. Is it a bedroom piece, or a living room piece? Bathroom or hall? Smaller pieces can bring life and detail to a small corner, a larger image can bring the real juice in, demanding some kind of prominence. Larger pieces don’t sit so subtly; the size itself demands good look-sees, and are seen well even from across the room.

Art is always there for you, devoted, loyal, like a good dog, even, though it doesn’t need feeding of anything but occasional attention. Each piece of art you have stuck to your walls is an expression of who you are, what you’re connected with. Its good medicine!

For each of the many of you who have purchased my art over the years, thank you for loving my vision, my trip. Thank you for hanging it on your walls, and thank you for your love of it. I am truly stoked by that! Thank you, big time!!!