Raw Peace....
© Singleton

"She peeked out,
just barely,
over the river's edge.
Stretched her lazy pink pajama~ed arms
high up into the sky
and sighed...
The new day....
The Promise...

And for just a moment,
before the rickety rattle battle
of voices
and traffic
and chaos begins...
She's untouched.
Raw...
Perfect....."

Words and Artwork (c) Singleton 2011

A full 15" across and 1 1/2" thick, collage on wooden circle.  This heavy little Sunrise was created in the midst of Chaos.  The psychedelic Sun watercolored on Strathmore cold press paper, and collaged onto a painted and then sanded, smeared and distressed chunk of wood.  The word "Raw" and the broken Peace Sign were stamped from my handcarved  collection.

The Conversation Chair, Singleton Hippie Art

Sometimes,
you just need to be still.
Very, very still.

And pray for peace.

Recycled chair splattered with simple thoughts from peaceful times. Artwork © Singleton.  Ready for Display at Deland Indie Market, November 29th, 2015, Artisan Alley. 

Justgivemepeace takes to the streets!

Sooo looking forward to hanging out at the Deland Indie Market at Artisan Alley Again this fall!  October 11th, basking in the sunshine and all our hippie-ness!  Goodstuff!  To visit the Festival, check them out on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/DelandIndieMarketatArtisanAlley

Peace, Love, and a New Sewing Machine

She's always There, Watching ...... Singleton Hippie Peace Angel

(C) Singleton, All rights protected

I see her everywhere...
on the tea stained wings of  fallen butterflies...
in the empty clam shells on the shoreline, houses long abandoned...
in the bath powder clouds patted across the skies...

I hear her
in the music of old bamboo chimes, telling stories in the wind...
on the scratchy vinyl spinning in our living room,
in the sound of the laughter,
of babies and strangers and maybe, even ghosts..

She's here.

Watching...
Protecting...

Keeping her promise. 

Peace.
It's everywhere we find it....

Words and artwork copyright Singleton
May not be reproduced without express permission.

I'm so Glad you Found Me.... Singleton Hippie Art on found wood

I'm so glad you Found me.....
Words and Artwork
(c) Singleton

I was,
swishing, pushing,
trying to hold my breath long enough
to rise up again,
to swim up...
when I found Peace at
the sandy bottom....
where all the dreams are tossed
to sink,
abandoned,
traded for another day...

And there in the dark...
I heard you...
barely making a splash...
diving
deeper,
hoping to find your own answers...

I'm so Glad you Found me, instead.....

Singleton Hippie Art on Found plywood, painted in a rain storm.  All works copyright Singleton. 

Please do not reproduce my Art on your stuff without express permission....it pisses off the Karma faeries, makes this old Hippie really mad, and fills our Attorney's pockets with your pennies...

Just Give Me Peace takes to the Streets....

We've come a long way since this first little show....

And our Journey continues.....

We're so excited to be joining the folks at Deland Indie Market at Artisan Alley on Sunday, May 24th!  The Weather is supposed to be rockin' glorious and good food, good folk, good vibes will be everywhere!

Ray and I have turned our little vintage hippie camper inside out getting ready for this one.... We've got prayer flags flying free, cardboard stories everywhere, and we're covered in paint....  Just countin' the days!  Stop by and see us!

https://www.facebook.com/DelandIndieMarketatArtisanAlley

Touching Sirena, Singleton Hippie Art on hand drum

TOUCHING SIRENA
(c) Singleton
Hippie Art on Giant Gourd Hand Drum


"The dirty sands shifted,
ever so slightly,
and sunlight scattered through the darkness....
instant fireflies falling in the rheumy river....

She reached up and touched one....
two...
caught another...
building a candelabra
from the shattered rays
to light her way....
As
the currents crawled,
trickled, tripped,
snaked
through the woods....
running north, north east...
clinging to the thick earth,
sloshing past alligator eyes...
and banjos
until
Sirena,
swimming amongst the Manatee,
reached the salty sea.....
and the waters made brackish love to each other....

Here,
she became whole again...
The free spirited  Hippie Princess of the River,
and Mermaid of the Sea...
Sweet Sirena...
Mother of it all....

Words and Artwork (c) Copyright Singleton 2015

Be Cool  (Sounds like Karma) and please don't reproduce this Old Hippie's Artwork without express permission and licensing. 

We Circled the Moon, Singleton Hippie Art

We Circled The Moon
(c) Singleton, Hippie Art and Words

I watched your fingers...palms...
dancing,
falling,
catching themselves again in a tribal dance of weightlessness....
drumming....

Your blue eyes,
endless tidal pools,
swirling in the warm waters of new and old....
clashing,
crashing,
splashing together...

And listened to your spirit,
singing in a thousand tongues...
a love language that only we understood...

We circled the moon,
and scattered the stars....
Psychedelic confetti for another day......."

Words and Artwork copyright Singleton.


Be Cool.  Be Good. And respect this old Hippie's rights. 
Please do not reproduce my artwork without express permission and licensing. 

The Spell Spinner, Singleton Hippie Art

THE SPELL SPINNER
Singleton Hippie Art 
Words and Art Copyright 2014

" I kicked the dirt,
and didn't look up....
didn't catch your eyes catching mine,
but felt them...
a Butterfly net softly capturing my lashes...

and I 
kept walking...

And then it was,
The  heat,
the Hello that didn't happen,
the wild current of electricity,
sweet serendipity,
almost  meant-to-be,
but not-just-yet,
fate....

That Almost tripped me up....

We were spinning spells....

And we had just begun...."

Over My Blue Moon, Singleton Hippie Art

Over My Blue Moon
Singleton Hippie Art

I looked over your shoulder,

past your drunken rheumy brown eyes and
into the deep sea of the night time sky....

and there...
just over the Tip~toe Tree,

I saw it beginning to show,
to glow,
to grow....

The First Full Moon....
The Sturgeon Moon....

so Bright and incandescent and foolish
that it wore a petticoat of Goldshine
as it teeterd in the sky,
as wobbly on the skyline as you were on cheap wine and all my stories.....

And we laughed...

And embraced the wildness of our first full moon,
the one before the meteor showers.....
the one before the Blue, Blue Moon of Once Upon a Time...



Artwork and words (c) Singleton 2012

Created with peace, love, and a hangover....on the morning after the stars fell at the feet of the first full moon.....

The Psychedelic Forest, Singleton and Singleton Hippie Flash Art

The Psychedelic Forest
(c) Singleton and Singleton

"We camped on the Banks of the River,

Nesting under a Full Moon that
rolled over into the morning ,
an open armed Sunrise....

Night eyes watched our every move,
listened to our laughter,
  windchimes in the dark,

and waited....
for our breathing
to fall into quiet rhythm with the water....

Waited for us to sleep.....

To dream.....


And then they danced around us....
Faeries and Things that go Boo! in the night....

Wild ones, and winged ones,
and Spirits from before....

Alive....
In the Psychedelic Forest......"



Words (c) Singleton
Artwork (c) Singleton and Singleton



9 x 12 Original on 140 lb Coldpress paper. This little baby is an awesome collaboration between myself and my son. Water colors, markers, ballpoint pen, colored pencils in a frenzy of style.

The Psychedelic Promise, Singleton Hippie Art

The Psychedelic Promise
(c) Singleton 2012 word and Artwork

"I teetered...

quietly leaning into the white tunnel...
pretending I was only tripping....
and just before I crossed over
into the Peaceful arms of
the whiteness....

I remembered the colors....
the sounds,
the smells,
the laughter of Life
and I remembered I wasn't finished....

Not yet.....

And I fell back,
fell foward
to
the new now,
landing smack into the eye of the storm,
into the littered aftermath of the beginning,
and the quiet lull before the end still to come...

Fell quietly into your arms,
and
the psychedelic promise...."

111x 15" Psychedelic tribute to the Circle of Life:)  Watercolors, markers and peace and love....

Imagine, Singleton Hippie Art Original

IMAGINE
(C) Singleton
A Hippe Art Box of Thoughts....

I reached down and scooped up
tiny abandoned periwinkle shells,
the colors of pastel rainbows,
and buried them deep into my pockets....
Seaweed, a deep forest green,
wrapped itself around my ankles,
an impromptu braided bracelet from the tides....
And
I knew
I was in Love again....
With all my forgotten Dreams,
my lost imagination......

And I knew then,
that
I would Dance again"

The Psychedelic Bird Nest, Singleton Hippie Art Original

The Psychedelic Bird Nest
(c) Singleton

Rafia Ribbon and spent matchsticks,
Remnants from an old tye dyed bedspread....
Tiny little fragmented moments gathered from the the leftovers of everyday living
and woven again
into a harbor....
of comfort.....
a place of Peace....
A nest of memories,
of make~overs,
and make~believes....

A resting place....

A beginning place...."

Singleton, Artwork and words.
Original Hippie Art Mandala, watercolored free hand on 11 x 15" 140lb cold press paper, and then sharpied in for detail.

Psychedelic Tidal Pool, Original Singleton Hippie Art

The Psychedelic Tidal Pool
(c) Singleton

She lay there,
belly down,
arms and long fingertips at one with the sand...

The gentle green bath water rolling over her,
splashing her in salty Peace.

It was almost low tide...
Almost the New Moon...
Almost time for her to move on...

To Dance in the deep, deep waters....

But for just another moment,
she lingered....

Daydreams are like that"

Words and Hippie Art (c) Singleton

Painted on a salty day at the Sea.....Peace is like that:)

Peace Love Forever, Singleton and Son Original , Hippie and Flash Art United

Peace Love Forever
Singleton and Son
Hippie Flash Art Original








"Draped lazily over the bed in the Sunday Sun,
I painted him a thousand colors,
idled away the Sermon Times,
inking endless lines
up and down his arms,
powerful wings across his back,
spidering up his neck...
until

I could read him like the Sunday Comics....

My Tattooed Lover.."

Artwork (C) Singleton and Singleton
Words (c) Singleton

Peace, Love, Eternity...Singleton Hippie Art

Peace, Love, Eternity is Now...
(c) Singleton

"The sky above me
was tangled with
twisted little twigs,
their boney fingers laced together
against the wind....
strumming sweet violin music
just before
the storm...

a hundred thousand
dragonflies paraded by,
swirling,
tumbling,
dancing,
laughing....

And then, I knew....

This was Peace."

Words and artwork (c) Singleton

Painted on a haunted hippie camp~out, watching eternity through the Tree tops....
the face of yesterday's Love, painted on the Ghost moon.... the wings of freedom, telling their story in the sky:)

Mother Earth Unplugged, Singleton Hippie Art Original

Mother Earth Unplugged
(c) Singleton 2011
Hippie Art


"Stranded on the muddy river,
I played in the tar riddled sand...
scratching Peace Signs and writing LOVE
in giant cursive letters on the bank...

And there,
with the brown water slopping up my shins,
with the greatest sunrise ever smiling on my shoulders,
I met a Man with no voice...
a teensy weensy fish with no tail...
an Alligator older than Earth herself...

And
I met...
Myself
basking in the blessings
of Ma Earth,
unplugged."

(C) Singleton 2011 Born on a blazing hot Sunday, in my own World....where sometimes engines are meant to take you nowhere...and sometimes they're meant to stop running...And sometimes you're meant to embrace each and every moment, every miracle, every meant~to~be.

Psychedelic Dreams, Singleton Hippie Art

Psychedelic Dreams

(c) Singleton 2010

"I tossed and turned

and flung my arms....

tumbling through the dark caverns of everyday chaos...

falling

deeper and deeper

into the cool waters

of Saturday night

Peace....,

a make~believe~for~the~moment place...

And in my middle of the night sleep,

skinny arms tangled in sun dried sheets,

I painted smiles

on the wayward faces

of every haunting that's ever crossed my highway...."

Words and Artwork, Singleton, on a crooked Saturday, painted Left handed, because that's what happens when you tumble unexpectedly and try to save your teeth...and inked, very, very slowly with the help of a friend and a beer or a two:) Watercolors, acrylics, and all that hippie hoo~hah....