CLICK ON THE PAINTER TO VIEW THE PAINTING ON HIS EASEL

You may be curious why anyone in his right mind would focus his modest resources, energy and attention to the subject of the painter’s palette, an art icon so kitschy, so corny and so insipid, it defies description. Think about it. The composer can invent great music with pencil and paper. The writer can create masterpieces of literature, poetry and original stage/screen plays with pen and parchment. The dancer uses her/his body. On the other hand, the poor painter, Nature bless his/her remarkable soul, is encumbered with paint, brushes, an easel, a maul stick, a paint box, palette knifes, canvas, a bottle of tequila, a cigar and a palette. Society treats some of these necessary tools with derision and contempt. The palette and the miraculous brain are two things painters share in common.

I work with palettes because I like their shapes. - Almost Maybe alias Bob Matheny
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THE PALETTE ART MANIFEST-O OF DESTINY IN TEN ORDERS

1.  Painters will forthwith mix their paints of choice only on palettes of the rectangular or elliptical persuasion including a hole of some kind for the left or right thumb or big toe.

2.  Painters will design their own palettes and make them themselves or have them fabricated by a skilled artisan familiar with palette materials and methods. You may want to refer to  the instructional film "How to Palette" by the distinguished art educator Almost Anonymous located elsewhere on these internet pages.

3.  Painters will abide by all the rules and concepts of all color theories and apply their paints of choice by squeezing certain amounts of the gooey substances only out of tubes made with lead.

4.  Painters must carefully follow their own eccentric intuitions when making the highly critical and decisive decisions about how much of a color to mix with another color.

5.  Painters will carefully select the proper tool for the mix, whether it be with a brush, palette knife, paint stick, a square toothpick with round pointed ends, finger, nose or cigar.

6.  As to what to do with the consequent mixtures, the painter must ask him/her self the very basic but important question.... what to paint?

7.  There is only one subject matter that a painter can consider painting.

8.  Painters must abandon such common decorative subjects as still-lifes, landscapes, seascapes, figures and other things. They have all been interpreted and translated before by millions of painters thru the ages, and the balance of the world's citizenry is sick, tired and bored with the sorrowful repetition. The Los Angeles based Art Disposal Service, John Manno CEO, has exhausted his allotment of landfill for the dumping of this pollution and begs for relief.

9.  Painters must only paint pictures of palettes.

10.  State and federal funded art departments, museums and galleries will post this Manifest-o for all to read, the separation of palettes and state be damned.

Almost Maybe alias Bob Matheny
Head Palette Benefactor
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My Palate for Palettes includes selections from:
Series One: Satan's Palettes
Series Two: Found Object Palettes
Series Three: Duchamp Dustpans
Series Four: Painter's Tools
Series Five: Real and Misrepresentations of Palettes
Series Six: Famous Painters and Their Palettes
Series Seven: Paintings of Painter's Palettes
Series Eight: Hard Edged Palettes
Series Nine: Palettes for Famous Paintings
Series Ten: Miscellaneous Palettes
And additional new work