Patrick McFarlin has been making art under the moniker of McFarlin Oil for more than fifty years. Picture It Painted presents fifteen handsomely illustrated chapters of McFarlin’s explorations in sculpture and painting. Never an artist content to paint the same things over and over, Picture it Painted opens with McFarlin’s sculpture done during the Bay-Area Funk movement. We follow McFarlin back to his home state of Arkansas as he works through the eighties, painting his varieties of Ships of Fools as well as large Manic-Expressive narrative paintings. When McFarlin moved his studio to Santa Fe in the early nineties, he began a series of portrait projects that became known as “Pat’s Downtown Club.” Also known as PDC, the portrait project was not just in Santa Fe but also in Napa Valley. Following a decade of portraits, McFarlin moved onto formal Dutch, Irish and American landscapes. Anecdotes, such as an ironic guide to “Starting a Saloon in Your Own Home,” add color to his artistic investigations. This handsome volume contains over 275 images of significant works, some never before shown. Each body of work is introduced by McFarlin and followed by writings from such luminaries as Thomas Albright, Arden Reed, Lucy R. Lippard, Sarah S. King, Diane R. Karp, MaLin Wilson-Powell, Sumner Carnahan and others.