Technical I made four but haven’t finished the details on the last one.
Arizona Experiments
Spent a few weeks out in the desert making art. 🏜 🌵
Another new one
Studies of Gonzo Journalism no. 12 since these paintings of Hunter S. Thompson keep selling I thought I’d switch it up a bit. Granted next time I would paint the hand with alternating stripes and add the face tattoos.
Whoa
Well the reaction to this painting has been pretty interesting. No one actually likes it, which is what I was actually going for. The left leaning types apparently don’t want to face the reality of guns in the context of school shootings especially when it’s to scale of a real AR-15 and the right sees it as some sort of attack on their personal freedom. The fact is America has too many guns and my biggest issue with where the gun control debate is headed, is towards the scapegoating of people with mental health issues. Blaming an already stigmatized and marginalized section of society isn’t moving forward. The Las Vegas shooter by all apperences didn’t have any “mental heath issues” before his massacre.
Oh and I have two words regarding the argument about a well armed militia: predator drone.
While You
While you were exchanging political barbs on social media and marching past my old cracker box apartment in Capitol Hill with home made signs - I was toiling away documenting the events of the time with paint and trowel. Sacrificing what little I had left. Not for some inflated sense of ego or critical acclaim, not for the chance to ship my work into the middle of conservative America on my own dime. And while I’ll most likely never have thousands of Instagram followers or make 60k a year from selling art, maybe just maybe, some little kid that finishes tests early so they can draw on the back of the paper will get dragged to an art exhibit by their mom or dad, see one of my paintings and be inspired to actually creating something. Do something other than napping and walking the dog, working a cubical job that doesn’t really mean anything just like everyone else. Maybe they’ll spend all their free time creating something beautiful.
Work, Work, Work
Freehand paint tube. Hopefully Golden Paints will send me a free tee shirt or sponser a show.
Make something old, new.
32 x 40 acrylic on canvas.
Re-paint WIP because I have no idea what to show in 2017.