Mars Landscape painting, oil on linen, 34 by 26 inches, 2023 /
I don't want to be entertained I want to be inspired. Well maybe a little bit entertained /
Mars Landscape, oil on linen, 26 x 34 in. in progress /
Mars Landscape, oil on linen, 26 x 34 in. in progress
Happy 4th. Watching Fireworks with earplugs /
Wildfires in Canada humbled me. Being able to breathe is the most wonderful feeling in the world. /
They ban vegetable gardens in front yards but think it's sane to have a ton of metal machine move just one person from a to b /
When I eat watermelon I'm always afraid I'm going to bite the fork /
Literally sitting on top of my Corsi- Rosenthal box, appreciative of being able to breathe, chasing tiny hairs across my canvas, and fixing the giant Martian rock /
A report from the currently really gassed New York City. On a positive note I already wear a respirator when I paint. but it sucks to be gassed and to create because you paint with the head not the hand and any worry messes with the process. Painting at least the way I experience it is a state of zen when total calmness enters your body and soul and then you maintain steady hand for hours on end. I am not the Jackson Pollock type although I love the energy when I make installations. Here i whisper basically.
Everybody wants more cars houses tall buildings nobody wants more love /
really pains to see humanism gone from society. The only single most important ingredient unfortunately is not for sale so nobody's offering it.
Mars landscape oil painting /
Mars landscape oil painting in progress, 34x26 inches, oil on linen.
I use old Masters techniques of layering with glazes, damar varnish to make the paint buttery smooth and glossy when I think it's more appropriate for texture. I use very light fast pigments that have been tested through the ages in old Masters paintings like cremnitz white.
And for support I use oil prepared Belgian linen.
Not this planet /
Mars oil on linen painting in progress, 34x26 in.
I have been watching NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) free internet streaming programs and it's amazing. Especially the one called a cat's view of Japan /
I will highly recommend any G7 meeting to include international cats so world leaders could scratch them behind their ears and have the conversations then.
”So it's pretty clear that lots of people are going to have AI friends and relationships.” I've been best friends with my MacBook pro for the past 10 years :) /
Any AI is welcome if they can hold my brushes and remove brush hair from my paintings.
I just realized why everyone does digital art because gravity is such a bitch I mean painting is labor non-stop. It's not like you do a little bit of something and then you rest, you have to constantly apply strokes that have to be meaningful pushing against gravity with your limbs, mixing paint and trying to match the picture in your head. Yeah well any AI is welcome to try it.
Things get so subtle sometimes a little drop of something makes all the difference.
France is chic /
I've been looking at the pictures of Elon Musk with heads of France and Italy and naturally the French interior is chic and modern, and the Italian interior ( in the background ) is Renaissance.
