October 13, 2014
“As my artist’s statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance” ~Calvin and Hobbes
Still working on this one…
“As my artist’s statement explains…”
Floral
“Art is a form of consciousness.” – Susan Sontag
October 5, 2014
After two very busy weeks and weekends, I finally had a chance to start something new. We’ll see how this turns out…
The artist never entirely knows…
September 1, 2014
“The artist never entirely knows — We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark” ~Agnes de Mille
“Being an artist means…”
August 24, 2014
“Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.” ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
I think this is finished. I’m debating about fixing a few things that are bugging me yet. I’m kind of feeling done with it though and may just walk away and start something new.
“Of all lies, art is the least untrue.” – Gustave Flaubert
August 17, 2014
In the end it all comes down to this…
August 10, 2014
“In the end it all comes down to this: you have a choice (or more accurately a rolling tangle of choices) between giving your work your best shot and risking that it will not make you happy, or not giving it your best shot – and thereby guaranteeing that it will not make you happy. It becomes a choice between certainty and uncertainty. And curiously, uncertainty is the comforting choice.”
– Art & Fear, David Bayles & Ted Orland
Here’s the beginning of a larger painting that may take some time to complete…
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