I am a recent ECU graduate living in the D.C. area. I give art lessons part time and try to paint everyday. This is a little commentary and documentation of my work and current interests.
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mr. peanuts you are drunk.
This literally made me start laughing out loud. I didn’t just lol. I looked crazy for a second
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J. Morgan, “Eve_End” (?) (2009)
I really like how the square brush strokes may represent choppy waters as the figure is mid-dive, or mid-stretch. I can’t remember how I came across this oil painting, so maybe I’m reading water and swimming into it when it’s more ambiguous than that. The background is so dark and contrasts so nicely against the pinks and reds of the skin. It’s such a sudden moment captured — the look on his face, the positions of his fingers — you wonder what the greater context might’ve been.
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“You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid.
You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation
at high speed with total clarity.”
— Banksy (Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall)“Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.”
— Banksy“Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for. ”
— Banksy“A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.”
— Banksy (Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall)“A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.”
— Banksy (Wall and Piece)
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Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
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angste: grandmother portrait by ▽ LOST BOY ▽ on Flickr.
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new work
all summer I’ve been doing little still life paintings to work on my painting skills. I may get around to posting those. In the mean time I’m starting to think about city scapes. same David Pena’s work that i liked. Don’t recommend the portraits but I like the color and value shifts in his city scapes. if anyone has some suggestions let me know. thanx
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What Would You Save From a Burning House? by Kyle Chayka
The Burning House is a website and project that presents photographers showing what they would save from their house if it was on fire. If they could only grab a select few things, these artists choose notebooks, favored cooking utensils, special clothes and personal gear…. READ MORE.
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Absolutely … and now we know who it is!
Please credit the artist for her work.
Christine Wong Yap, Positive Sign #21 (Explanatory Style: Artists & Setbacks), 2011, glitter and neon pen on gridded vellum, 8.5 × 11 in / 21.5 × 28 cm.
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