Saturday, May 31, 2025

More Bell Mell Sugarloafs

 May 31, 2025

Maybe twenty years ago, my old studio mate, Edmundo Mell visited me in Cave Creek.

Ed Mell at Rancho de los Caballeros
outside Wickenburg, Arizona

I took him up the ladder in my upstairs morgue area, opened the trapdoor and, on the roof top deck I showed him the Sonoran Desert vista to our north. He took a photo of the view which he later painted as "The Mountains of Cave Creek." This is a detail from that painting, a close up on Sugarloaf.


  Ed also took a photo of me up in the Crow's Nest, as we call it, and I used his photo on the back of my last Billy book:

Photo by Ed Mell
(looking north toward Sugarloaf
from the Crow's Nest)


  Recently, I realized my obsession with the Sonoran vaquero hat style—and, or, the mountain butte version—would be a cool logo for my Western stories.

Sugarloaf Suprema


Daily Whip Out: "Sugarloaf Logo #7"

  And, by the way, the hat style and the butte monikers take their name from the shape of a loaf of sugar, which was created in the form of a rounded cone, the most common way of distributing sugar until the late 19th century.

An actual sugarloaf

In Other Loafing News

Someone I know who really despises my artwork called me a "childish finger painter" and just to prove that point, here is my art desk this morning before I cleaned it:

Daily Whip Out:
"Master Finger Painter"

"Green-eyed lady, passion's lady
Dressed in love, she lives for life to be
Green-eyed lady feels life I never see
Setting suns and lonely lovers free. . ."

—Sugarloaf, 1970

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous3:36 PM

    "Somebody....." Has terrible taste. I likes you work velly velly much!

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  2. Anonymous7:44 AM

    I'm relieved that you took a photo before you cleaned your art desk. Because I think this is a work of art, too.

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