Tumblr (3.0; @madjimbeau)http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/“Why did Bodhidharma go over the mountains? Because they were in his way.”http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/51066118359http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/51066118359Wed, 22 May 2013 07:41:50 -0500bodhidharmabuddhismmountainskoans<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/6ec6ed050f6d048ce6a47fa797573690/tumblr_mn5v63vQiN1qldvnho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Like me, Henri Rousseau was self-taught as a painter, and as I did, took up the brush in his forties.  ”Sleeping Gypsy” has long been a favorite of mine.  </p>http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/51002892117http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/51002892117Tue, 21 May 2013 13:25:15 -0500Sleeping GypsyHenri Rousseauself-taught as a painter<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/2f90f70c068a79da7f2ac102b196c677/tumblr_mn5r5mnZWH1qldvnho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>This is what always happens when I attempt a landscape; it just flies out of control and turns weird on me.  I’m just not a very good painter of landscapes, but I’ll keep trying.  I am working on one now, as a matter of fact.  And, yes, it has begun to go all weird on me, but I’m trying to hold it all in the frame till I can finish it.</p>http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50997905407http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50997905407Tue, 21 May 2013 11:58:34 -0500surrealismoutsider artlandscapefailurestruggleweird<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/977dd6490a3753603fe57c8b32c2283c/tumblr_mn3ku7YfnI1qldvnho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>It’s time to show this one again, I think.  The sweetest gorgon of them all.<br/>No one ever expects the Candy-coated Medusa!!</p>http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50903624584http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50903624584Mon, 20 May 2013 07:46:55 -0500medusasurrealismoutsider artcandy-coatedmythologyIf they were venomous biting insects, would we enjoy watching the butterflies flutter by as much as...http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50863206298http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50863206298Sun, 19 May 2013 18:46:18 -0500butterfliesvenomous insectsinsect bitesbeautyesthetics<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/506db5265c74f888fc8ba2303f4591da/tumblr_mn2f8pgXHe1qldvnho1_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/090a7d396bddd5e22cd37088e2619236/tumblr_mn2f8pgXHe1qldvnho2_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>If you tie Mrs. Peel to the railroad tracks, you’re only going to get your ass kicked.</p>http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50854244681http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50854244681Sun, 19 May 2013 16:48:25 -0500the avengersemma peeljohn steed<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3d18d68db9c5d678b4408df5a88ad959/tumblr_mmzvlvuYF01qldvnho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Just love whoever you want, anyway you like.  </p>http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50724492496http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50724492496Sat, 18 May 2013 07:49:07 -0500surrealismoutsider artlove<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/d692518c57b4857dd5aa50ea466b6bdb/tumblr_mmz2fuMvm81qldvnho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>Ay, every inch a king.</span></p> <ul><li><a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <em><a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/King_Lear" title="King Lear">King Lear</a>,</em> Act IV, scene 6</li> </ul>http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50696728788http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50696728788Fri, 17 May 2013 21:19:06 -0500surrealismoutsider artshakespeareking“I realize that a lot of people don’t see things as I do, and that doesn’t...http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50688247918http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50688247918Fri, 17 May 2013 19:13:36 -0500majority of oneunanimous decisionoutside viewpoint<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/094231663561d4e6e08125485914ef70/tumblr_mmx1t46IwY1qldvnho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Every harlot was a virgin once, and the progress of every rake makes for him a hell.<br/>But if the harlot and the rake should meet and marry, then <span>all is forgiven,<br/></span><span>and all is well.  ;)</span></p>http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50613340690http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50613340690Thu, 16 May 2013 19:10:16 -0500surrealismoutsider artpoetryapologies to Wm. Blake<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/eb4f44827806b7c9d1ab8088955a0cd6/tumblr_mmuaz087ij1qldvnho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I have to keep a lot of balls in the air.  Juggle, juggle, juggle!<br/><br/></p>http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50492538550http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50492538550Wed, 15 May 2013 07:35:24 -0500surrealismoutsider artjugglerballsmonochrome painting<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/ed1e9120bf4bc75b76620a6e8fd973cd/tumblr_mmthsj7rOK1qldvnho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Dalawang isda paglangoy sa isang dilaw na plato.  </p>http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50466088467http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50466088467Tue, 14 May 2013 21:05:07 -0500two fishes swimming in a yellow platesurrealismoutsider art<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KaOC9danxNo?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Space Oddity (by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo&feature=share">Chris Hadfield</a>)<br/>A real astronaut, in a real spacecraft, floating in microgravity, with a panoramic view of our blue planet for a backdrop; when would ever be a better time to record a cover version of “Space Oddity”?<br/>Awesomest music video, ever! </p>http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50376393427http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50376393427Mon, 13 May 2013 18:21:51 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/5b6691cfa990a8852aaeb8b7a35e24c2/tumblr_mmrap2zedX1qldvnho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Christ of the Shipwreck, or Drowned Jesus with Mermaids and Marine Escort.<br/>(many brave hearts are asleep in the deep, so beware…)</p> <p><br/><br/><em>My latest completely finished over and done with painting.  it went on for some time before I found the end of it.</em></p>http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50368412716http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50368412716Mon, 13 May 2013 16:36:00 -0500surrealismoutsider artmermaidmarinesChristshipwreckdrowned JesusChrist of the shipwreck<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/5905858c5e5ade762b4ffaf001c81609/tumblr_mmra5iwh8U1qldvnho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“Eviction From Dreamland; Yankee Go Home!”<br/><br/>An early painting, which I did around 1999, or 2000.  </p>http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50367502654http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50367502654Mon, 13 May 2013 16:24:54 -0500surrealismoutsider artmythologyYankee Go Home!<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/195793f25499d7083a353d7bba105992/tumblr_mmr9zvVvbr1qldvnho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Thank you for the lovely orgy.<br/><br/>(Rejected, without explanation, by Hallmark and several other greeting card companies.)</p>http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50367246487http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50367246487Mon, 13 May 2013 16:21:31 -0500surrealismoutsider artorgygreeting card<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/52f8210188dabf5566c331a81f1ea093/tumblr_mmr9oxSWdq1qldvnho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>A corpse at the picnic.</p>http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50366743529http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50366743529Mon, 13 May 2013 16:14:57 -0500surrealismoutsider artExquisite Corpsecorpsepicnicnature<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3d146a698f32d79bd123baaad5d89ee9/tumblr_mmr9k9K9dw1qldvnho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>One moonlit night in the Dry Tortugas, aboard a sand schooner of my own design, I set my mind to be a painter, and my sails for a broad reach toward Erewhon.</p>http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50366530810http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50366530810Mon, 13 May 2013 16:12:09 -0500outsider artsurrealismDry TortugasschoonersandErewhonbroad reach<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/fe03ab5d750861ce198093c36754f44f/tumblr_mmr9bm845e1qldvnho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Motivating factors are complex, to put it simply.</p>http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50366129987http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50366129987Mon, 13 May 2013 16:06:58 -0500surrealismoutsider artsexmotivationmoneypowerprogenyloveall the marbles<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/5f49993b06d1acaaf1b60a4573c9f65a/tumblr_mmr28fJP8o1qldvnho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>When something bugs me, I paint about it.  Paint is my religion.  I will be a missionary for Paint, after I retire from my job as an Ambulatory Conveyor of Epistolary Communication, in a year or two, or when my legs fall off, whichever comes first.</p>http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50355325174http://madjimbeau.tumblr.com/post/50355325174Mon, 13 May 2013 13:33:51 -0500outsider artsurrealismmissionary for Paintmy faith is in PaintPaint is my savior