redneckarts
Welcome. This is your basic arts site.
The paintings and photos here are by Bill Batten and Rocky Green, guys from Ontario, in Canada *. They’ve painted and shown together some time.
Bill’s work is in chalk and Rock uses various paints.
You can see some of our pictures through links just below or in the blog roll.
see rock’s stuff here
See Bill’s paintings and some writing here.
Much obliged.
Rock
There are some found photos about.
Any usage problems, get in touch.
this site contains aboriginal nudity…
I noticed that warning before a doc on tv tonight.
jerome click here
This is such a fine site. I rarely visit it but enjoy poking around it much the same as I like poking around someone’s old shed. I have one of your paintings of a shirtless, jeaned town tough who looks like Arden in front of a barn or maybe it’s a garage. A Bancroft locale no doubt. Reminds me of Smokey Barden’s in Hillsburg. It was in front of the baseball park and around the corner from the rink. Something shiny over there, old tin signs and license plates, bits and sods in pale blue tobacco cans, everywhere something to entrance me. Someone might have an old car or truck in there that they’d be fixing up. A couple of geezers’d be over by the stove playing checkers and maybe somebody’d be watching them. We were in to get our skates sharpened. Really though, we were in so my dad could get caught up on the latest gossip, not entirely a woman’s sport. Smokey used to play hockey. I guess he used to be pretty fast but in my childhood days he’d gone to fat and cigars. For my bright eyes though it was a fascinating place to visit.
When I was last around they lit on the painting of Cleveland and his guitar. It was lovely to view it again and tonight I’ve put it up as a screen backdrop. It’s stretched out all to hell but is vibrant and enticing still. Tell me the story and if it’s available. And where you are now. But not on here ’cause I’m not likely to find it for a long time. We didn’t go to Smokey Barden’s all that often either. Makes it kind of special when you’re a kid. Love to Bill and all…j
Bill… I’m off line a few days. Call bancroft if anything comes up.
Let me know about Billy’s camera.
be good
rock