Y'all Scruffys back in bizness! well I mean I'm gonna be cuz Im going home to were I'm from and I'm done tryna find a man. I just left my ex and I'm starting over and really this time gonna make a go of my art business and take care of some chickens at my sisters house and not gonna date anymore for awhile. I hope my dream man Kip will date me but I don't know. Anyways I just crossed the Texas border! So sad and so happy at the same time. I love Texas but every time I come here igit chewed up n swallered out Lol. 

Well not so funny cuz my life is a mess in a lot of ways but I'm gonna fix it once and 4 all! Time 2 get busy with my art and get to a place out of the city and that place is closer to my sister Allegra up north she has chickens and said I can come visit and take care of the chickens and I relly apreciate it cuz getting in the country is were I need 2 be 4 sho! I been in San Antonio so long. I went back north a bunch of years back but went back to San Antonio again cuz my ex from a long time ago promised to get married and stick with his job and not go to jail but he can't stop. so I'm out. 

some old art that I got wit me fro years ago

Now its finally time to get my life 2gether and make the art I alway was meant 2 make amiright?!? So anyways here I am in deming new mexico at a Rodeway inn and about to hit the road again. Nice 2 stay in such a nice place that has wifi. Crossed texas boarder yesterday and drove hard all day. I was lucky and stayed a week in west Texas and at a friends in balmorea but had to get out of the state to feel like I was actually making a move. Not sure where ill stay tonight but maybe ill camp somewhere. I have to save my money and maybe need to make some more on my way. Im working on some art and have some old art from like over 10 years ago that I have packed in my car and maybe I can sell. this last year of covid made me not like going out to the store or even being around people. Cant be scared of people no more I mean people out there aren't too scary all the time. Like yesterday I was at a gas station tryin to take a selfy this lady felt sorry for me an she said girl let me take you're picture! We were cracking up laughing an I really like d this photo. Was feeling so down n depressed and this made me fee so better so thanks gas lady!

Was thinkin of pulling over sometime on this trip and setting up a road stand 2 sell art on the side of the road. That is my spacelty I always used to sell my art on the side of the road in my big dresses and hair horns and it was a hole lot of fun. Maybe I can do that agin but well see lol! Life is so funny sometimes and maybe this time I can get it right. Been such a mess 4 so long. 

After I get a lil closer to my sisters ill get another motel. I really like the Rodeway inns so hope 2 stay there. they have wifi and ill blog again about the rode trip so far. anyways I better get get! time 2 hit the road as they say lol!

Texas Pringles Can Lady

The title of this painting is “Nobody Knows I got Wine in Here!”

Available for auction NOW on Ebay! Click here

11” x 14” canvas

This painting is based on a story from 2019 that I saw on the internet. This lady got banned from a Wichita Falls, Texas Walmart for driving an electric cart around the lot for hours while drinking wine from a Pringle’s can.
I thought about how that could’ve been me ten years ago if I didn’t clean up my act! I tried to find images of this story but none could be found. I had to make up a lady from my imagination, so the image is my own fantasy; probably doesn’t match the real account.
I am planning to make limited edition prints of this painting, so contact me if you would rather go the print route instead of investing in the original.

Returning to Posting Online

"Blacktop Tenderizing" 2016, Oil on canvas, chicken bone frame
Chicken George dragging a chicken along the road to tenderize the meat. Period painting of two artists living in the West Texas desert circa 2009

For years I've stayed away from posting anything online and put my Scruffy activities on hold. I've kept painting but have stayed away from social media and from posting to my own blog. I didn't like the work I was doing, and I thought it wise to do a hard reset.

During those previous years, I was still figuring out what to paint. It was natural for me to paint trashy, sometimes poorly rendered female figures, sometimes engaging in lewd acts, responding to  some personal emotional pain, but mainly to all of the PC brainwashing and militant 3rd wave (or whatever wave we are on now) feminism that has been going on in our culture for years. But emotional retaliation as the only subject matter in painting can be low-hanging fruit.  I don't mean to say that there isn't any room for emotions or even art-therapy. Actually, I do like a little of it as a spice added to the painting recipe. But too much salt is too much salt.

So I took some time to recalibrate and focus on simpler, funnier ideas and life situations. Someone once said, "It is better to paint small ideas in big ways, than paint big ideas in small ways." -Chicken George Zupp.

Anyway, I am back with some new art and will also be sharing a few older pieces that I actually do like on here soon. I just accessed an old Instagram account that I forgot I even registered for years ago and will be posting new work there as well.

Thanks for stopping by my site. This Scruffy blog is my original number one website that I ever made, and it is still around. Maybe I will republish some old posts on here.

Deano the Clown Ferry Ride

"Dean the Clown Ferry Ride" 2014, Oil on masonite board

This is one of my clown paintings. It's about a local clown named Deano and the idea of riding on the ferry boat with all of these clones of him. I call it "Deano the Clown Ferry Ride." This piece sold to a true lover of the Pacific Northwest and Deano.