Angel Face Rose - Artwork with the face of an angel

This is an "angel face" rose .

There is someone always looking after you...

The Gillard and The Rudd - a political poem

The Gillard and the Rudd

By Paul Howlett

The Gillard and the Rudd

Had it out one day

Both wanted the same thing

To be king pin, top of the heap

Gillard was rudderless

Rudd was gilled to his ears in angst

Lots of vitriol coming from people, from his past

He’s just awful, said the treasurer

 Forgetting that he was part of his past

Rudd and he were buddies

But that was not to last

What we see is in the life of politics

One friend is one’s enemy depending on the date

The position that you hold, but what will be the fate

Of those that spit fire and hate

Will all come back to haunt them in the long run

As karma kicks in...sends them all out of power

Giving them all a cold shower

The winner of course is the Liberal National Party

As Election Day dawns and the suns sets on the Labor Circus.

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Note: The Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is being challenged by Kevin Rudd a former Prime Minister who was defeated by Julia Gillard in a coup in 2010.  In Australia, the members of parliament elect the leader, and if the leader loses the support of the majority of the elected members of parliament –this can cause a change in leadership.

Liberal National Party is currently the Opposition in the Australian Parliament. Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd are members of the Australian Labor Party that is currently in power in Feb 2012.

Kangaroo Dragon - Australian influenced artwork

Here is a “Kangaroo” dragon, which shows my Australian background.  I have watched some shows, where the creators of lots of alien creatures have come from the minds of people - who live on the Northern side of Earth. The creatures from our imaginations all start somewhere and sometimes they reflect our culture and geographic backgrounds.

Dragon of Fire - or spitting fire

A fire spitting dragon.  This is still very early days in my journey to paint dragons. I am sure that all dragons do not have to have the gift of fire, so I have been painting some without fire...coming up on my blog soon. 

Horse Dragon - my first dragon

Horse Daragon for want of a better name - this being the first of the dragon series I am attempting at this point in time!

Synchronicy - there is more to life...poem by Paul Howlett

Synchronicity

By Paul Howlett

Synchronicity, a word coined by C G Jung

Making us think, whatever the world might think

That there is more to life, than the trouble and strife

Of everyday existence, that science calls reality

What a joke on science when they find that God is around

The corner, we have an infinite space, with infinite suns

And planets of course, and we look and look and say we

Are the only intelligent life form about, hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

People used to say that we were the center of the universe

Now a historical laughing stock, of science and Popes

Being such a dopes, without the nouse to say ...Hey

Copernicus was right; he has such insight, to work it out

Without the use of telescopes and such

He thunked it all out with a pen and mathematics

Which brings us back to today, and in just the same way

We are the blind skeptics to say, we are the only ones

And forgetting that God is always about, just look

Give a shout, and find the right way for you, everyday.

Hey, Hey Hey we all look the wrong way, look in the book

Look in the sky, look to the left and look to the right

See inward and out, look all about,

Then you will see... God is in thee and me.

Spooky Dawn - artwork in black and white

The night fades and the sunlight peeps over the horizon, the dark spooks of the night start to fade.  There is joy in seeing the sun, humankind is happy, but do spooks really need the dark to exist?

Yellow Skull - spooky artwork

Maybe it was getting close to Halloween.  Maybe I just wanted to paint a scary picture.

All in all I tried to paint a ‘haunting’ picture.  I like spook movies.  I like to fog through the trees, with the of suggestion of dark mystery.

Motobike Breakthru - a moving artwork

Motobike Breakthru by Paul Howlett

I hopefull gave this little artwork some 'movement' as I visiualised the machine just jumping out of the painting / sketch.

Shane's Car - night time artwork

Shane’s Car by Paul Howlett

My step son Shane took a photo of his car at 4 am.  There had been a light dusting of snow on the car, as it is the middle of a Wisconsin winter.  The season so far, for his area of Wisconsin has been very mild for this 2012 winter.  I sketched this little art work in oil pastels from his photo.