Anyone who wants to run naked in the mountains has never stepped barefoot on a pine cone dodging a rattle snake because he was busy scratching mosquito bites in places he should have had covered.
This what happens to me (and most creatives regardless of disciplines), when I get into the zone while designing or creating artwork. Although I usually keep my clothes on, remembering to eat or sleep is another thing.
This is an old TV show (Twilight Zone type)… this guy visits a museum daily finds that he can enter a painting of a boat in a lake (i believe). He then steals or kills someone and breaks back in to the museum in the dark to “enter” this painting and he does but what he realizes is that the museum moved the painting and he entered one of hell. anyone recall this one???
Wild Wild West episode, season 2 “Night of the Surreal McCoy” has Dr. Loveless creating paintings that with his machine you can go in and out of them and they are their own meta-dimensions. And he is a “pretty fair metaphysician.”
I love this. This is what total freedom is like. There is hardly anything better than being outdoors , naked in the sunshine. One can be truly in tune with ones self. Totally sensuous.
Great comments all! of course this is a world the artist created for himself, so no hunger, no cold, no biting insects. comfy moss to sleep on and if he needs to eat there will be food… I do like the idea he needed to take his supplies with him however, because an artist is never free without some means to make art…. harold and the purple crayon is my reference.
“You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it lies a dimension of sight, a dimension of sound, a dimension…of mind. You have entered…The Twilight Zone.” [do-do-doodoo, do-do-doodoo…]
Dtroutma over 4 years ago
Dimensional art.
LordDogmore over 4 years ago
No mistakes, just some happy little accidents.
eastern.woods.metal over 4 years ago
I want to go too !!
RAGs over 4 years ago
It’s what happens when you lose yourself in your work.
enigmamz over 4 years ago
I hope he didn’t draw any bears…
wiatr over 4 years ago
I have a painting I’d love to hike through but not au naturel. It’s a late Fall scene.
David OBrien over 4 years ago
He’d be a wiley person to do so.
PICTO over 4 years ago
Nudity will set you free…if freedom means having nothing left to lose.
Bilan over 4 years ago
Art is subjective. Did he escape into the nature or he now stuck to the wet paint?
Superfrog over 4 years ago
Wiley bare.
Baslim the Beggar Premium Member over 4 years ago
He’ll soon discover why loin cloths are a good thing!
And if that water is from snow-capped mountains, it might be a tad cold…
And if he had taken his paint brushes and paint, he could paint up the kegs of beer and the pizzas from Wiley’s Before Eve..
Need coffee over 4 years ago
Are the little trees still happy?
GiantShetlandPony over 4 years ago
Self portrait Wiley? :P
Say What? Premium Member over 4 years ago
“… and you, too, can experience the joy of painting.”
-Bob Ross
marco2205 over 4 years ago
I just imagine this is the last thing Bob Ross did.
Phaeton51 over 4 years ago
Dabbling in Oil Painting I see!
in.amongst over 4 years ago
Makes one really wish for nature – but then there is always a chance of meeting some unleashed woke Karen along the way.
You can thank me later for unnecessarily including politics into this.
pcolli over 4 years ago
Realism…..
The Old Wolf over 4 years ago
I understand where the artist is coming from. In the immortal words of Linus, I love humanity, it’s people I can’t stand!
Radish the wordsmith over 4 years ago
“A Stop at Willoughby” The Twilight Zone.
jessie d. over 4 years ago
Hey, can you draw one where America is free from Trump and the GOP, we’ll all jump into that one, for sure.
keenanthelibrarian over 4 years ago
Wouldn’t it be wonderful …
backyardcowboy over 4 years ago
Is that the old Wiley or the Young Wiley?
Kaputnik over 4 years ago
That will be fun for about a minute. Then the bugs will start investigating you. But maybe the Wileybears will take you in.
dot-the-I over 4 years ago
Commando-painters’ next logical step.
morningglory73 Premium Member over 4 years ago
Is that Wiley?
khmo over 4 years ago
wish I could do that
crobinson019 over 4 years ago
Must be using Acme paint he bought from a Coyote…
Andrew Sleeth over 4 years ago
Wiley’s finally lost himself in one of his B.E. strips.
1953Baby over 4 years ago
THANK GAWD it’s a rear view. . .
bbenoit over 4 years ago
Wait, did he jump out the window (note the shirt on the sill) and be re-born in his art or did he just morph into it cosmically?
jmcever3 over 4 years ago
I love it that the open door makes it ambiguous as to whether he’s in the painting or just running in the streets.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 4 years ago
Anyone who wants to run naked in the mountains has never stepped barefoot on a pine cone dodging a rattle snake because he was busy scratching mosquito bites in places he should have had covered.
pony21 Premium Member over 4 years ago
On a darker note: This reminds me of the old “Night Gallery” episode titled “The Escape Route.” Still haunts me, even after all these years. shudder
connie.jensen over 4 years ago
reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode!!!
well-i-never over 4 years ago
Black flies and skeeters. Just sayin’.
l3i7l over 4 years ago
Trompe l’oeil at its finest.
Amra Leo over 4 years ago
Boy, he really got into that painting…
rmbdot over 4 years ago
Looks like the setup for a “Pierre of the North” punchline.
mistercatworks over 4 years ago
He should have taken his colorful clothing. It obviously doesn’t belong in the black-and-white world.
Linguist over 4 years ago
The Shaw’s Shanks Redemption
johnec over 4 years ago
Nice, but he should have painted himself some company! A bevy would be best!
sandpiper over 4 years ago
He looks like a lot of nearly naked people seen on beaches, so social distancing won’t be a problem.
comixbomix over 4 years ago
“The Picture of Dorian’s Butt”…
Michael G. over 4 years ago
Brought to you by ACME®
shorzy over 4 years ago
Art is life…life is art… :-)
fuzzbucket Premium Member over 4 years ago
If that were possible, Amazon would sell out of Bob Ross DVD’s.
Walrus Gumbo Premium Member over 4 years ago
Art, get into it!
the lost wizard over 4 years ago
Purple Rose of Cairo.
b95954297b48a54fcff8fddbcdef6b2f over 4 years ago
Free willy.
everett_r0 over 4 years ago
If it were only that easy….
Lablubber over 4 years ago
That forest you painted might have Wiley Bears in it.
Ginny Premium Member over 4 years ago
Did the au natural thing one morning in the woods. Sat on a log and got a tick for my trouble. That was fun.
DCBakerEsq over 4 years ago
Bob? Bob? Oh my God, BOB!
PaulKmecak over 4 years ago
A brilliant use of Acme tunnel paint.
scaeva Premium Member over 4 years ago
There should be a Wiley Bear somewhere in that picture …
Ryan Plut over 4 years ago
I always wondered what happened to Bob Ross.
Buoy over 4 years ago
It’s paramount to imagine the world we want to inhabit.
jarjimmy over 4 years ago
Is that where Bob Ross went?
marko92752 over 4 years ago
I wonder if that is a self portrait?
unca jim over 4 years ago
……and that’s how Bob Ross left the atelier… ♥
Bicycle Dude over 4 years ago
This what happens to me (and most creatives regardless of disciplines), when I get into the zone while designing or creating artwork. Although I usually keep my clothes on, remembering to eat or sleep is another thing.
Malcome1 over 4 years ago
Til the black flies, gnats, and mosquitoes show up.
blue44sd over 4 years ago
This is an old TV show (Twilight Zone type)… this guy visits a museum daily finds that he can enter a painting of a boat in a lake (i believe). He then steals or kills someone and breaks back in to the museum in the dark to “enter” this painting and he does but what he realizes is that the museum moved the painting and he entered one of hell. anyone recall this one???
sperry532 over 4 years ago
If only it were that easy.
bwsevier Premium Member over 4 years ago
Would love to head out like that!
Cerabooge over 4 years ago
Makes me wonder if Dorothy was a painter.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 4 years ago
Wild Wild West episode, season 2 “Night of the Surreal McCoy” has Dr. Loveless creating paintings that with his machine you can go in and out of them and they are their own meta-dimensions. And he is a “pretty fair metaphysician.”
cleokaya over 4 years ago
Swinging in the wind
Redd Panda over 4 years ago
“For Mister Wiley Miller, things are never going to be the same again. He’s entering a place, we call, the Twilight Zone.” and cue the spooky music…
Concretionist over 4 years ago
I could use a picture with those qualities. Alas, the best my similar pictures can give me is a purely mental journey.
bakana over 4 years ago
Forget Photo-Realism. This is Real-Realism.
The big question is: Can he get back Out when he gets hungry for a nice Cheese Steak?
DaveBufalo over 4 years ago
I love this. This is what total freedom is like. There is hardly anything better than being outdoors , naked in the sunshine. One can be truly in tune with ones self. Totally sensuous.
hdcanterbelle Premium Member over 4 years ago
Great comments all! of course this is a world the artist created for himself, so no hunger, no cold, no biting insects. comfy moss to sleep on and if he needs to eat there will be food… I do like the idea he needed to take his supplies with him however, because an artist is never free without some means to make art…. harold and the purple crayon is my reference.
Ryan Plut over 4 years ago
“You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it lies a dimension of sight, a dimension of sound, a dimension…of mind. You have entered…The Twilight Zone.” [do-do-doodoo, do-do-doodoo…]
critter8875 over 4 years ago
“The Veldt”