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I digitally put black around the pictures here; the actual picture won’t have that. Sizes are approximate.
Original paintings on watercolor paper, signed on the back, reproduction rights reserved, shipped inside a plastic bag in a six-inch cardboard tube, shipping prepaid. 14 day satisfaction guarantee, just return in original condition for full credit, or money back minus freight.
Originals available Nov 5, 2026.
College bird studies physics. (2006)
Acrylic and Sharpie on paper
Size– 14” x 17”
$5000.00
My brother, the one on the What the other artists leave out page. When he started at Rice Institute, they had a test, calculus I think, that took 10 pages of calculations. He just wrote the answer down in a couple of minutes and got a zero. When he proved he could do that, they never changed that zero but they allowed him to do everything in his head that from that point on.
Come on in, the water's fine.
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Size– 11” x 16”
$2500.00
Turn it to the right and it’s a ride at the fair.
Fools on stools.
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Size– 14” x 17”
$3500.00
Those people having fun and gettin’ drunk in those dimly lit bars. The whole thing about Contraire is...since the object and the color are reversed, instead of drawing an outline of a bar scene and coloring it in, I drew the color (the feeling of being there) in as an outline. The color by itself became the “outline.” Then I “colored” it in with the black. That’s what Contraire’s all about.
Day dreams.
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Size- 9-1/2” x11-1/2”
$1500.00
The way my mind worked when I was young.
Drunk pumpkin.
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Size- 13-1/2” x 17”
$2500.00
Well I’ve been there, and if you have, you’ll know what this feels like.
Golden locks as Summer drops.
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Size- 14-1/2” x 15”
$4000.00
Passion and all, love at first sight, how it crowds your mind and flips your priorities.
I hope she likes it.
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Size– 10” x 17-1/2”
$2500.00
Portrait of a friend, Danny Wilson, who was a guard on a US military base in Australia with only a pistol with no bullets. Still have the boomerang he sent me.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
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Size- 11-1/2” x 12-1/2”
$2500.00
Landlord and tenet. (2006)
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Size- 12” x 13-1/2”
$3000.00
Linda Ronstadt.
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Size- 13-1/2” x 17-1/2”
$4000.00
Willie Nelson on Linda Ronstadt: "There are two kinds of men in this world, those who have a crush on Linda Ronstadt and those who have never heard of her."
Logarithms, smogarithms.
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Size– 20” x 14-1/2”
$3000.00
Portrait of Tommy Attaway, my pessimist friend. He and his brother (who did drugs), was on top of a mountain one time, his brother on LSD, snowed in. A ranger got in the car and drove them back down. Tommy said, “Don’t ever tell him it was a ranger, he thinks it was god. He stopped doing drugs and he’s going to church now.”
Look but don't touch, she's got a stinger.
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Size- 12-1/2” x 16”
$4000.00
A covert narcissist, they look good, those eyes and all, that love bombing, but…
Memories.
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Size- 14” x 13”
$1800.00
My muse.
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Size- 16” x 21”
$6000.00
My Muse, from the, “What the other artists leave out” story.
I thought about her today, the bits and pieces of the games played and not played.
One of my emails to her started with, “Trying to combine the words...butter, slather, and muffins into an intelligent morning email for you, and thought about...Did you stick those feet up in the air and think of me?” But I didn’t send it. Too something. Then I did this picture that I imagined captured the essence of her thinking about me. Looking back, I think I was like the guy at the zoo that sees the do not feed the bear sign but keeps feeding it anyway until the bear kills him.
Nothing serious, just allergies.
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Size- 13” x 22”
$2000.00
Oh my.
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Size- 11” x 15-1/2”
$1800.00
Sounds that only a fish hears.
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Size- 11” x 17”
$3000.00
Spring has sprung.
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Size– 9-1/2” x 13-1/2”
$1600.00
That old bristlecone pine, and me.
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Size- 15-1/2” x 17”
$8000.00
Old now and oh boy is that hard to right (I know, think about it.) My personal assets, although many, don’t include money, but I am the ultimate optimistic person. If I was dying tonight at twelve o’clock sharp, I would be happy until the very last moment, just like my dad. Thinking he was dying one day he decided they would find him with a big smile on his face. He sat for thirty minutes in his favorite chair with a big grin and then...Maybe he wasn’t dying, he would go for a physical the next day. Couple years later he died. At the funeral I asked the caretaker how he was going to cover him up. “Little tractor over there.” “You got any shovels?” “Got two.” Started shoveling and my kids joined in, one by one. Funerals have always been a problem for me, but when we finished patting him down...everything was in place, no returning to it over and over in my mind. And a nice letter came from his only remaining sister, saying...that was when her tears came, and looking back, she wished she had picked up a shovel herself.
The glass of desire.
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Size- 16” x 16-1/4”
$5000.00
Thoughts of being possessed. (2006)
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Size- 14” x 17-1/2”
$4000.00
Turtleman goes for it.
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Size- 14” x 17-1’2”
$3000.00
Two birds and a fish. (2006)
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Size- 14” x 18-1/2”
$4000.00
Waiting for the next big bang.
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Size- 16” x 21”
$3000.00
Even though I fired the Contraire up in 2006, and was preparing to hit the road promoting it, things happened and I stopped and wrote a four-inch thick history of my family. Then, after making it through a mother that died, I decided I better get some recognition on this new way of art , get in the history books. So I started throwing some color down and squeezing that sharpie (I use an original, the kind that bleeds if you stop.)
Painting away, then a wife burned up in a house fire (an X, but we were close), a son committed suicide, then I broke a foot and had a hip replaced, but back painting now and at your service. Cary
What marriage boils down to.
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Size- 14” x 20”
$2000.00
You hung the wrong fish.
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Size– 21” x 14”
$3000.00
Well those other artists got some pretty fancy words, don’t they? Me? I just like to make art for you to enjoy, how complicated is that? I’m paintin’ my heart out for you.
Where are you Charlie Brown. (2006)
Acrylic and Sharpie on paper
Size- 14-1/2” x 14-1/2”
$8000.00
Thank you for your consideration and patronage. Cary
In memory of my best friend, Jim Nixon, “Graver”, who passed recently. The 22 lever action at top he engraved and gave to me, but it got stolen…the other one is one I took a bad photo of, but it was beautiful in person. I think he was either number one or number two of the best engravers in the world, he could do that bank note engraving better than the mint, even his animals looked 3-d.