Friday, November 7, 2008

It is nothing personal, you are just better off alone


Green under white, at least this pale green at this small tiny size, does not work well.
Plus I am rushing it because having a small child sitting behind you... There is no contineous flow.
"Daddy, TV."
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"Daddy, I want water."
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"Daddy, I want to play a graphically inappropriate video game that will make me happy until I get to a part that is tough so I will ask for you to break from what you are doing and play the game for me."
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"Daddy, I want to watch TV again."
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A week of blank-out, or no posts starts next monday and goes until the monday after when a new post will be made... Maybe.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Thank you for judgement without wisdom

Above: Artist recommends not painting next to a small child that wants to help and is sincere in his desire to be a help because he will then climb upon a stool to look over your shoulder and then try to anticipate your needs and fall into wet paint.
(and, nothing personal is meant by the subject titles... I am just trying to stretch my thoughts since the true title of this is something about 'Being alone when surrounded by others that are also alone but they do not know you are alone because they themselves have their own places and movements and the whole universe revolves around something but not me or you but I am some percent sure that it is connected to a theory that will include string and a big bang and maybe a few other things but no need to get really nasty in the details as it tends to take care of itself and maybe we should take care of ourselves too since no one but your mother or father ever thought they had to and they have maybe long since stepped back from that.' That is really a long title, so I am trying to find something better, you see?)

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Thank you for not putting the effort forth


Usually I get to this point of near-finish and I feel something, maybe pride or accomplishment, or like I learned something. I do feel like I learned, but the disconnect happens on the whole accomplishment part or the pride part.
I think I rather see this in oil than ink as I can "see" the limitless ways the color could be played out in oil but only see that flat limits of ink with this as posted. I mean it is only a page from my sketch book as I cannot seem to possess a digital camera that will work for me for very long (same goes for wristwatches, things that require batteries hate me) and put up the bigger pieces.

Yes we can

Yes.
We.
Can.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Home. Sick. No image.

WARNING!!!! OLD DATED POLITICAL CLAPTRAP INAPPROPRIATE FOR AN ART BLOG!!! Yes, I am not a "republican" but i am also not much of any political party or label. I must be blanketed under some label but I try to not label myself. Anyway, the below is just some stuff I vented about that I am keeping here to remind myself in 2012 if another politican calls one city in America more "American" than another city in the United States of America... Real Americans are pretty much the population of thecities of the U.S. of A., and no city is MORE american than another.

My photoshop is on the fritz, so no scanner at home, so no new image today. Tomorrow, two.
Hard to believe but I forgot for a moment what today was. Then I brought up the computer and found I had left open the screen about the flier telling these people in a predominately black area that voting was postponed for some to the 5th, but if you were going to vote for McCain that they should vote on the 4th, if voting for Obama that they were being requested to vote the day after. That and the girl who carved a backwards "B" in her face does not reflect to well on certain people. Not that the guy in West Hollywood is any sort of Brianiac for making a Holloween display with a noose around a mock Palin, and mock McCain in flames and claiming free speech when the same noose around a effigy of Obama... Legal action soon follows that.
We feel very strongly about our American path, to be apathetic seems depressing.
I read how Palin is warning of a, "Far Left takeover" and using such scary words like, "San Francisco" and "Liberal" and "Muslim" like they are not a city, or a loose pattern of thoughts, or a religion much like the many religions that transferred over here with the pilgrims seeking worship in freedom free of opression and hate. I dislike Palin, there are no pro-American areas of the United States of America, it is all America and we are ALL Americans; there are no anti-American areas for her to rail against. It is only more ironic that she sleeps with a man that is part of a anti-America/pro-Alaskan freedom party, and she talks of San Francisco as if it were stronghold of nazis or terrorists and not an american city and part of our grand diverse nation.
To be apathetic in the face of that is stupid in my view but I have a narrow view having lived seven years in the south east part of America and 31 years in the west part, I have not found any anti-american cities or people living here and that is only my take on my country.

Monday, November 3, 2008

Thank you for not noticing.

Above; This cropped section reminds the Artist that using every color possible is not always a great idea. A limited palette of colors may be less dynamic but it is better than getting to the midpoint and realizing the colors you chose have painted you into a corner and what could have been a strong composition now has leaked out all over the floor and is pushing you to rein it all in. And, shown you the next few things to embark on. Larger ideas come from seeing the smaller mistakes and moving on from there.
There is a great quote from Theodore Roosevelt that I just read in a Calvin & Hobbes comic strip, I don't recall it completely accurate as it is not in front of me, but; something "do the best with what you have where you are at" but better phrased. I will read up on Calvin and post the correct verbage later, if I recall.