More painting junk. My painting of Nixon announcing his resignation

[swag]

that I did a few years ago is probably going to be hanging in the political art show that the Utrecht art supply near 12th & Everett NW is opening on Thursday. I think it's 14" x 18". Tried to capture that stunned, wounded moment. Also tried to price the painting not to sell, but if it goes I'll just have to deal with that, and I'll chuck the money into my Roth IRA.

[Fenris]

1. That's awesome.

Very appropriate for Halloween. :thumbsup:

[swag]

3. Thanks.

I think I should do one of him saying "Sock it to me!" on Laugh In. Wonder if I could find a still.

Might have to get rich and spend a week at the Museum of Television looking for that.

[Fenris]

10. That's got to be on YouTube somewhere.

[tigereye]

2. that's pretty good!

it reminds me of my adolescence. I had to have surgery and I was stuck in the hospital watching the Watergate hearings....

[swag]

5. Oh, I think we talked about that once.

Instead of playing little league baseball that summer, I stayed inside willingly and watched the hearings.

Really pissed off my dad, who thought I should be more interested in sports like he and my brother were. But you couldn't tear me away from that Watergate business when I was 12 and 13.

[tigereye]

13. I was a captive audience

but they don't make hearings like that anymore!


So, did you decide to dress up and go to a party? (we had ours on Sat. it was fun.) I love when people dress up in silly costumes. The kids were adorable. I got to see a great drag Morticia and my kid's ex-babysitter came as Freddie Mercury. It was cool.

[swag]

15. Nah, no parties. I'm socially imploding right now and loving it.

Fun holiday for the ones with the kids, though, eh?

[GirlinContempt]

4. Up to par

bravo

[swag]

7. Thanks, girl.

I hope this unfavorite holiday of yours passes quickly and happily for you.

[GirlinContempt]

9. Discount candy and a day off

it's actually going pretty ok. I may even find it in my cold dead heart to dress up as the proletariat and hand out propaganda to children at the door.

[swag]

29. Mustache and a rebel flag.

Drinkin' shots with the soundman and I,

. . .

[GirlinContempt]

35. Viva, viva

[swag]

37. Oh, sorry.

I was quoting something off of "Right Now!" by Pussy Galore.

The reductio ad absurdum of rock and roll.

[GirlinContempt]

38. I figured you were

quoting something. Had no idea what.
But, I wouldn't want to damage your fragile ego by letting you go response-less.

[swag]

39. Don't push me, I'm fragile

You hang around with camera crews in shell suits
You read Viz comics
You hog the bathroom
and put your hand in your pocket

[supernova]

6. Exactly how I remember it

:thumbsup: Good job, swag.

I remember watching the resignation and doing a crayon drawing on the back of a 3x5 index card during it. I captioned it "Tricky Dicky." Heh.

[swag]

8. Wow, I wish you still had that crayon drawing to post here.

I did an etch-a-sketch of Nixon once myself that I was pretty proud of. Then my fuckin' brother shook the Etch-a-sketch and erased it.

[Haole Girl]

11. I'm speechless, I'm so impressed

And, you know it takes a lot to do that!

[swag]

12. That's darned nice of you.

Thanks.

Now I'm off to lunch!

[flamingyouth]

14. Wow. That's excellent.

:thumbsup:

[swag]

16. Hey, thanks.

It was fun to do.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

17. My dear swag!

You have a gift!

This is just excellent....you've captured his expression and his shock/surprise perfectly.....

Good one! Keep 'em coming, OK?

[swag]

20. Thanks, muffin.

Incomparable sweetheart.

And thanks for not locking this thread yet!

[jpgray]

18. I did one like that of him in jr high, but he was being slain by a giant vagina

Nice work by the way! :D

[swag]

21. Devoured by the chthonian maw

whose salivary glands await all of our raisiny carcasses.

[Lisa]

19. wow! Artwork of Nixon I actually like!

I hope that someday you will get to do a similar "Bush resignation" one (they'd make a nice diptych, don't you think?).

[swag]

23. He would be difficult to paint, but I would love to commemorate any

further (and one assumes accelerating) deterioration in his position as the barricaded imperial intrusive dictator he so fancies himself to be.

I probably wouldn't do any representation of that hideous, delusional, self-justified, lying sebaceous face of his, though. I couldn't stomach to do that without the intercession of many decades.

[lavenderdiva]

22. Wow! That's really good!!

Obviously, you are very talented and gifted- Really great likeness!

[swag]

24. Thanks, lavenderdiva.

Enjoyed painting Nixon. I'm glad you were able to recognize him.

[swag]

26. Iced tripio!

[swag]

Thanks, lavenderdiva.

Enjoyed painting Nixon. I'm glad you were able to recognize him.

[swag]

25. Thanks, lavenderdiva.

Enjoyed painting Nixon. I'm glad you were able to recognize him.

[Left Is Write]

27. Wow. That's amazing.

[swag]

28. Hi. How are you?

You disappeared for a while.

Good to see you.

[Left Is Write]

30. Thanks, swag.

:)

[WCGreen]

31. I was 15 but looked 18 so we went to a redneck bar on the

outskirts of Cleveland, played Queen songs on the Jukebox and got shitfaced on 3.2 beer...

[swag]

40. 3.2 beer and you

quite a story to tell, it's true

[WCGreen]

47. Even the Bib Overall crowd was into talking about Nixon

that night....

[BarenakedLady]

32. Wow

That's awesome.:thumbsup:

[swag]

42. Thanks.

They were hanging the show when I visited this afternoon.

They looked confused by everything.

[av8rdave]

33. That's a great rendition of the Dickster

[swag]

43. I studied him hard when I was a whipper.

I was a big fan of his when my Air Force dad shipped off to Thailand in 1968, when I was 7.

Nixon was going to fix things. Bring my dad home.

Little did I know how bad Nixon would become.

Little did I know how we would pine for him now.

[asthmaticeog]

34. You, sir, have tight science.

[swag]

44. Even if yella

makes it a capella
I still express, yo
I don't smoke weed
or sess

(this is all a fuckin' lie)

[pitohui]

36. WOW!

nice job, i'm so jealous of your talent

[swag]

45. Thanks for the snaps, pitohui.

May you enjoy good food, sex, sleep now and well into the future.

[ChoralScholar]

41. It's as if he is saying:

Someday, you'll wish Republicans are only as crooked as me.

[swag]

46. Yeah,

exactly.

Still, he was the beginning of the long slide.

He planted the seeds of audacious and loathsome defiance of the Constitution.

These guys began their Executive Branch careers under Nixon: