over at Ben's.....

Went over to Ben's today. Ben is a painter who has also done some wild work with clay, and we are doing some projects together, like I make the vase, he paints newd ladies on them. Or whatever. Ben lives like a real artist: in a huge loft which is in a huge former chicken coop, which is inhabited by: a blacksmith, a furniture maker (both those dudes make pieces that cost thousands for EACH item) another painter or 2, a band who has a recording studio there 6-7 different artists doing amazing work. Plus a couple of dogs wandering around. Plus Ben's cat who is Spike's cousin, and this is, like Spike, a champion mouser (needed in a former chicken coop) and also totally sweet and purrific.
Look at the one pic there---it shows a long and narrow watercolor landscape, alongside a bright abrstracted landscape? That's Ben--totally skilled, totally experimental, totally able to perfectly copy a scene OR see it through another eye....