Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Monday, February 6, 2012
This past Friday, there was an art walk downtown and although we were packed with a great amount of people as it was a wonderful night for a walk downtown! I did well in sales....
I feel sorry for many artists however during this time as about 98-99% of most artists are struggling to make art sales of any kind due to the economy and being election and oil prices; even though all of the world is being lied to by the large oil companies about why it's so expensive! It's absolute lies and I hope the oil cartels and oil executives get their true dues coming to them while billions of lives suffer trying to work 2-3 jobs just to pay the bills. It's really sad that oil went up because of speculators at wall street, hurricane Katrina, threats to our supplies even though we don't actually get oil from these countries that threaten us. In fact we are very close to making enough oil for our entire nation solely without any need for middle eastern oil, but they lie to us about that too. Why am I ranting about oil? Because it affects our lives hard with rising costs of shipping which raises costs of everything. The first cut backs are people cutting back on art. "Not necessary, art is a luxury item" they say while they drink alcohol, smoke and take anti-depressants to make themselves feel better in a chaotic world. Art IS a NECESSITY especially in your bedroom, bathroom and kitchen because that's where you spend 80% of your home life! I bet most people have standard, boring, "Pier-1" (chinese made) art on their walls that mean little or nothing to them. They wake up not even looking at their walls all the while forgetting that their environment controls their emotions. Bland art equals bland attitude the rest of the day.....or worse, angry and sour. How much have you spent on your bed? You know you spend a third of your life in that 6'x5' area! Why not spend the money to make your bedroom, your sanctuary great! Or make your own art! You did when you were a child, what happened?!?!? You got scared, you stopped buying for yourself, you get more scared, you drink, take anti-depressants or worse; various drugs to make it through the day when you really need to brighten up your world with art, music, meditation and most importantly - prayer! People complain about losing their jobs when ironically they are killing jobs by not supporting artists. No art sales means no purchasing of supplies from artists which shuts down canvas sales, paint sales, brush sales, frame sales, paper sales, art stores and numerous other art supply manufacturing factories. No art sales means no advertising, no rent money for landlords as galleries close. No Art Galleries means no other shops in the same area or bars or restaurants as art draws a sophisticated crowd that dines out with wine and cocktails. Restaurants and bars and other shops close and the cycle continues as less purchases of food and wine affects food and wine distributors, box and label makers, bottle factories; etc along with less need for food and wine delivery people. Waiters and cooks lose their jobs as their restaurant closes. The cycle of closures continue. Crime increases due to desperation....So you saved a few dollars by not buying any art and drinking free wine and cheese an art gallery opening while being "seen" by others out and about and socializing.....Mitt Romney wants to cut the arts budget in half which is a mere $300 estimated million federal dollars a year. That's like a penny in relation to a year's salary that is saved all the while destroying thousands even millions of jobs nationally! Follow the paper trail, do the research and you would probably understand better. Art is the backbone of society even though others might think it's not "necessary" or even "shocking, outspoken or offensive". These same people are the ones who will be the catalyst for a collapsed empire in the end. Without the arts, no civilization as we know it. Without the arts, you couldn't make television shows, sports shows and games, movies, video games or decorate various boxes and ads with cool graphics to help sell your product. Without the arts, you wouldn't have much to choose from in fashion color and design or even the latest sports car model design. Life would be bland, cold and bleak just like old East Germany before the wall came down. Support the ARTS!
I feel sorry for many artists however during this time as about 98-99% of most artists are struggling to make art sales of any kind due to the economy and being election and oil prices; even though all of the world is being lied to by the large oil companies about why it's so expensive! It's absolute lies and I hope the oil cartels and oil executives get their true dues coming to them while billions of lives suffer trying to work 2-3 jobs just to pay the bills. It's really sad that oil went up because of speculators at wall street, hurricane Katrina, threats to our supplies even though we don't actually get oil from these countries that threaten us. In fact we are very close to making enough oil for our entire nation solely without any need for middle eastern oil, but they lie to us about that too. Why am I ranting about oil? Because it affects our lives hard with rising costs of shipping which raises costs of everything. The first cut backs are people cutting back on art. "Not necessary, art is a luxury item" they say while they drink alcohol, smoke and take anti-depressants to make themselves feel better in a chaotic world. Art IS a NECESSITY especially in your bedroom, bathroom and kitchen because that's where you spend 80% of your home life! I bet most people have standard, boring, "Pier-1" (chinese made) art on their walls that mean little or nothing to them. They wake up not even looking at their walls all the while forgetting that their environment controls their emotions. Bland art equals bland attitude the rest of the day.....or worse, angry and sour. How much have you spent on your bed? You know you spend a third of your life in that 6'x5' area! Why not spend the money to make your bedroom, your sanctuary great! Or make your own art! You did when you were a child, what happened?!?!? You got scared, you stopped buying for yourself, you get more scared, you drink, take anti-depressants or worse; various drugs to make it through the day when you really need to brighten up your world with art, music, meditation and most importantly - prayer! People complain about losing their jobs when ironically they are killing jobs by not supporting artists. No art sales means no purchasing of supplies from artists which shuts down canvas sales, paint sales, brush sales, frame sales, paper sales, art stores and numerous other art supply manufacturing factories. No art sales means no advertising, no rent money for landlords as galleries close. No Art Galleries means no other shops in the same area or bars or restaurants as art draws a sophisticated crowd that dines out with wine and cocktails. Restaurants and bars and other shops close and the cycle continues as less purchases of food and wine affects food and wine distributors, box and label makers, bottle factories; etc along with less need for food and wine delivery people. Waiters and cooks lose their jobs as their restaurant closes. The cycle of closures continue. Crime increases due to desperation....So you saved a few dollars by not buying any art and drinking free wine and cheese an art gallery opening while being "seen" by others out and about and socializing.....Mitt Romney wants to cut the arts budget in half which is a mere $300 estimated million federal dollars a year. That's like a penny in relation to a year's salary that is saved all the while destroying thousands even millions of jobs nationally! Follow the paper trail, do the research and you would probably understand better. Art is the backbone of society even though others might think it's not "necessary" or even "shocking, outspoken or offensive". These same people are the ones who will be the catalyst for a collapsed empire in the end. Without the arts, no civilization as we know it. Without the arts, you couldn't make television shows, sports shows and games, movies, video games or decorate various boxes and ads with cool graphics to help sell your product. Without the arts, you wouldn't have much to choose from in fashion color and design or even the latest sports car model design. Life would be bland, cold and bleak just like old East Germany before the wall came down. Support the ARTS!
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Monday, January 2, 2012
Great art is never rewarded or given it's due. There are literally millions of artists all struggling to make ends meet. Many of them have amazing talent that will never be recognized or rewarded. They begin with a desire to create which grows to a dream of being an artist in life. Many questions and journeys begin for the artist as they start their quest for greatness. As time passes, some of the lucky, not necessarily talented ones will be chosen for market success. They will inadvertently find success, mostly early on their quest, because of being in the right place at the right time with the right people selecting who is their favorite "Flavor of the Day". It's a hard sad truth that is gaining ground more and more everyday. Simply turn on the television, the radio or go to the theater and see the talent that is is in the limelight. I'm not discounting their talent, I'm only saying that there should be more variety and more voices heard than just the "popular" artists in certain cliques. There are many more vastly talented artists with vastly superior skills being ignored or pushed aside. 15 minutes ago, I was invited to a local "contemporary" portrait art contest, the artists have already been selected, most I never heard of. The artists will have a limited amount of time to draw from a live model and the winner will be selected on true merit supposedly, but what I've seen in the past, it's not skill, but local hero fame that have allowed them to win first lace. Last year an artist used an opaque projector right in front of everyone and won. I like his work, but I don't think it's fair to the other artists who created from visual observation in a live format. I already know the outcome for this year based on the selection of artists. This is sad and I'm tired of art cliques, local connections based on looks or age rather than raw talent. I'm tired of the local stars being written about by art "critiques" who have absolutely no formal art training who have aligned themselves with the local media to give them power to control the local art market. There has to be a better or more fair way to judge art, music and film. Perhaps one day, the public will say - enough, time to see real talent again.
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Been working constantly this past week on paintings and it's been great! I've finished about 10 so far that have been laying around my studio for about 6 months. It's typical for most artists to work on several paintings at once while creating new ones whilst others sit in the darkness waiting to be born into this world which sometimes takes years for the final touches. Some people, I'm sure, think that art is just made, but true art that comes from the heart comes from inspirational times when so motivated and the work is blessed to received divine providence.
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