Do we live in a perfect nation?
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"Perfect Nation"
acrylic on canvas
14" x 11" 2024
I started this tiny painting thinking of corruption and cover up, thought of Jack Ruby then my mind went to fast food and our nations over stimulation of sugar/and fake sugar in food. Draw your own conclusions. Our country seems to be in disarray. Hope you all enjoyed the debate last night.
On another note, after I finished the painting, it reminded me of Robert Colescott. I was kind of suprised how the piece reminded me so much of his work. He was a genius of openly showing the deepest paranoias that lives inside of all of us.
Beginning stage of "Perfect Nation"
maketh himself ...
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There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.
-Proverbs 13:7
Show Room
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Yellow Lily Flower
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LILY FLOWER ON FILM
Kodak VISION3 5207
The view down
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Corridor alley or the view from the 7th floor?
fluorescent
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Point Diptych
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Point Diptych
Point Diptych
The flesh profiteth nothing
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It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
-John 6:63
Spidey web
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Orb Spider web
Man of Acres
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"Man of Acres"
acrylic on canvas
43" x 34" (2024)
Plans begin with a Drawing
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One of the many things I've learned about being a painter is that the more I can make my paintings look like my drawings the better. For me personally, there's something raw about drawing in pencil, pen, ink or colored pencils. Often times it can be a bit diffcult to translate that into a truly successful painting. It comes down to drawing more, painting more and observing more. It even comes down to the sort of brushes to use.
It's all one continual art project. It never ends. The truest form of art is what you put down on paper because often times it's not the final plan. At times we can divert from those tall stacks of used paper; it's often very raw we think, too real. A gallery owner once told me "I like your drawings, why don't your paintings look like your drawings?" It made me think, for one that maybe I'm not doing good enough of a job translating my sketches into paintings. Am I catching that true enegry? He was not giving advice per se, but it reaffirmed my belief in what I was working toward. Art projects are a lifetime, it continues and continues.
Bar-B-Q
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Rain drops
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FLOWERS ON FILM
Kodak Vision3 250D (5207)
Double Diptych
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Double
Diptych
Diptych
but not the Pentax 17 kind
All Nighter...
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"All Nighter"
acrylic on canvas
21" x 17" / 2024
A friend in Italy wanted to know a little about the painting...
As I make this post it's almost 2:30AM
Cease from thine own wisdom
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Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
-Proverbs 23:4
Are Arbetter's better dogs?
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When was the last time you ate a hotdog?
First of the roll
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First of the roll
Vintage Bronco
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Vintage two door Ford Bronco
A Minor Oopsie
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It's just my Minor Mistake
The Internet is an amazing thing.
I first heard of Minor Threat when I was 16. I was in a Specs music store. My girlfriend, Kathy said "Hey, look! They are straight edge!" as she handed me their tape. I wasn't sure what straight edge was but it was exactly what I was.
They were no longer a band but I did get to see the vocalist (Ian MacKaye) new band Fugazi. At the Edge in Ft. Laud.(1993).
Fast forward many many many years and I'm watching an interview on YouTube with Ian MacKaye... And he introduces himself Ian MacKaye and I rewind the video and say out loud 'MacWHAT?!? I've been pronouncing this guys name wrong my whole life!?!'
I've always pronounced his name Ian MacKaye like how the word 'Okay' sounds. Ian 'Mackay'
But it's actually pronounced like how the K sounds in the word Kayak and the Y in the word eye. Ian Mac-K-EYE!!!
Someday I'll look back and laugh... HA HA HA!