Making this for Pancakes and Booze shows this fall in Austin, San Antonio and Houston. The name of the show doesn’t mean in any way that I need to paint about food and booze, but it just so happens I do that a lot anyway. Well, why not make the first of my Prickly Pear Series incorporate a little delicious ice cream?

We all love the ice cream and go knows the prickly pear deserves respect for all it has done for the people that have inhabited this part of the world for so long. Here is an altar of sorts to them both. Let’s see how it come alive when I paint it.

But wait! An update…I thought cow heads to match the rams in Prickly Beers and Ram Tears would make some sense, and it really fixes the weird spaces created where the bowl and placemat intersect.

ADDED BONUS: having the candles overlapped by a painted element is an exciting new thing I haven’t done in these wall altar pieces.

Keep digging, WOODCOCK 🪏

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After a long exile in South Texas climbing out of a nihilistic funk, Otis Woodcock has found his way back to the open skies and quiet horizons of the American prairie. Having earned an MFA from Miami University, Ohio, he left his ancestral home in southern Indiana, spending the last three decades between Louisville, Kentucky, and San Antonio, Texas, developing his Iconoclasmatic Pop Art™ practice. On this journey, an anxious recovering Catholic and cancer survivor gradually evolved into the optimistic existentialist whose work is less interested in providing answers than in questioning certainty. Today, Woodcock lives and works where the seasonal rhythms and expansive landscapes of the Midwest serve as the backdrop for an ongoing exploration of belief systems, cultural inheritance, and the subtle poetry of ordinary things.

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