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Merry Christmas Peoples!

Storage

I spend time looking for oil colors that I know I own and I spend time trying to read the tube which can be in a tiny foreign language so today I bought this bin from Sears that I will clearly label so each color can have a room with a view. Now I will spent more time painting and not rummaging for the elusive magenta or those feral umbers .

Artist quote

Balthus said
" Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don’t know what to say about what I paint, really."... On most days this is my sentiment exactly.

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As an artist if I can please the eye and the soul then I have done a great thing.

Thank you Sharon Wright

A friend and fellow artist has honored me with painting a small portrait of me from my profile photo. She is a delightful lady across the water in the United Kingdom at first chance you get check out her BLOG and say hello.

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Art is the highest form of play.

Camera

I simply must get a new camera my 1.8 megapixels just will not do anymore. I mean they have digtal cameras that have 14megapixels with that I could take a corner out of a photo and still have detail to work with, so I'm on the hunt... new camera!

Artist quote

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. Edward Hopper

Artist Blog

The creative process is one of self discovery and realization and not just technical know-how. This makes painting a very introspective art form since one of the requirement for great art should be individuality and uniqueness of style, a serious artist who holds a paint brush is one who wants a painting that is like no other so paint a mirror that is your soul...for no two souls are the same.

Bibles

I would be doing much more fumbling about without these 3 books.

Photo

A day at the Sarasota Art Museum here in my state of Florida.

I Want

10 Things I want to do today.
1.Draw the DSFSF challage.
2.Do a painting of business men playing tug of war.
3.Do a painting for James Parkers site.
4.Finish the 7 paintings I got a good start on.
5.Finish the 3 paintings I got a bad start on.
6.Work on my new web site
7.Do a happy painting of some rough looking Rappers embracing a shy old business man and call it "My Peeps".
8.Move to a loft in N.Y.C.
9.Take a nap.
10.Could not think of 10, guess I'm lazy.

Busy Busy

Spent a good portion of the day working on my new web site I'm going for a classy look take a sneek peek if you would like but there is still much to be done. I bought the domain oilpaintingsdaily.com

Fiddling about

Little Art work today I did some work on an etching but as my pictures show I fixed a way to hold small paintings on my large easel with the added benefit of removing the painting without touching it also I put large wheels on my easel with brakes it had tiny elf casters before and since I'm well over 6ft my easels taller now. Where there is a will there is a way.

Notes from my kind

A painting with poor values can account for why a work does not look real. Eighty percent of "realism" comes from choosing the correct value for each shape and not how well you matched the color.{from the new issue on International Artist Magazine }

Excited

We all know about using a grid to help us with a drawing but I heard of an idea to grid a photo and turn it upside down then paint an abstract of each square one at time on your gridded canvas. I think that because it's upside down and you are focused to see each section abstractly the results could be very interesting. One reason I'm excited is because I found out how to grid my image on my computer making things simple so  I'm am ready and excited ( I think I said that" lol") 

Just thinking

You know after looking at hundreds of paintings over the last couple of days and I mean really studying them a thought keeps popping in my head and that is it's really amazing how little some differences exist between a good painting and a great painting. There are things that please the eye and they can be subtle maybe even subliminal but knowing what works in pleasing the eye we all can make great art.

Artist Blog

Being an artist is not being a member of some outsiders secret group. We are basically people communicating. Even the most awkward, out of shape, lethargic dancer can express in movement some quintessence that is man. We who are less than John Singer Sargent or Picasso still make art. What is important is the oneness of man creating. Sure a somewhat lofty distance exists between a "great master" and a daily painter but we all share the same title "Artist". So in my opinion we are basically made of the same stuff as someone like Degas and for us with hard work and intelligences , genius may be only one year and a painting away.

Wyeth Magazine

I picked this up at a yard sale for 10 cents, Young Andrew Wyeth on cover 1942

Art Show

Today was the Gaspirilla Art Show here in Tampa . The weather was fantastic and it was a good to be had by all. A few decisions have come to me as a consequence to my attending this show and that is to paint more people...and color...give me color!