Category: Images

Pre Christmas Madness

A late breaking series of portaits (the paint is still dry) have just been received directly from Court Painter’s studio.The sitter was eager to have them offered as a loss leader for the Pre Christmas Madness Sale!

Court Painter trots out a series of Self portraits that always prove to be great stocking stuffers!

Rules Rule!

Court Painter relutantly accepted a commission to promote the book tour of a struggling little known academic writer however less reluctantly accepted the generous IOU commission fee as solice.

“I remember my few days as a struggling portrait painter way back when… these pictures are homage to that struggle of artists everywhere even though I have no idea what a writer does with all that time on their hands plus they get to sit! Anyway when I took on the commission I thought the title of the book was 12 Rules for Still Life…too late now….it’s too late baby now it’s too late.”

Court Painter is seen on this rare occasion..sitting!

Call It A Wrap!

New Brunswick’s next premier is a fiscal hawk and former Irving Oil executive

Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs was hired by Irving Oil a week after he graduated from the University of New Brunswick. His resume includes 33 years as a senior executive working for one of Canada’s richest families: the Irving clan.

The company is one of New Brunswick’s largest employers, with interests in forestry, pulp and paper, transportation, oil refining and distribution, retail, media outlets and shipbuilding. Canadian Business magazine says the privately owned empire was thought to be worth $7.8 billion, making the Irving family the eighth richest in Canada.

(Source CP)

The following is a list of divisions of J.D. Irving Ltd.

(Source Wikipedia)

Irving Forest Products & Services
Irving Transportation Services
Irving Shipbuilding & Fabrication Services
Irving Retail & Distribution Services
Irving Consumer Products
Industrial Equipment & Construction
  • Irving Wallboard
  • Gulf Operators
  • Irving Equipment (crane rental, heavy lifting, specialized transportation, pile driving and project management services)
  • CFM
Specialty Printing
Personnel Services
  • Protrans Personnel Services Inc.
Security Services
  • Industrial Security Limited
Professional Sports

Anti Solutionist Brain Trust

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Romer says carbon taxes are the solution to climate change. ‘The problem is not knowing what to do.The problem is getting a consensus to act’

Prominent members of the brain trust of anti carbon tax proponents include Jason Kenney, Leader of the United Conservative Party  ,Scott Moe Premier of Saskatchewan,Doug Ford Premier of Ontario and Andrew Scheer Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.             (Rumour has it that all have bought tickets on the Titanic 2  inaugural voyage)

Doug Ford threw in some false statements about science to make his anti carbon tax case. In the Ontario premier’s words, the federal plan to put a price on carbon pollution would drive up prices on every single good and service “because everything is made of carbon, one way or another.”

The Doug Ford statement is false. Carbon is the fifteenth most common element in the Earth’s crust; found in various living and non-living things like humans, plants, limestone, coal and water. It’s in the atmosphere as part of carbon dioxide, that make up 0.04 per cent of the gases in the air.

 

Inspiration

Court Painter discovered a painting that he could be inspired by!

The Republican Club, the painting and well known souvenir shop staple, by Andy Thomas — a print of it is framed and hanging in Trump’s personal dining room at the White House.

The Republican Club by Andy Thomas

“I don’t cotton much to those modern art pictures but hot diggidy dawg this one inspired me to work through happy hour to finish my version entitled “Lard Ass surrounded by A Bunch of Guys Living & Dead”

“Lard Ass surrounded by A Bunch of Guys Living & Dead”by Court Painter

Court Painter seen in studio working through Happy Hour!