Chris Simonite's Cubo-Weirdism Blog! A Blog about Chris Simonite's Art by Chris Simonite. Who the Hell else?

  As my regular reader(s) knows, I have of late been using caricature as a starting point for my pop-culture paintings rather than regular portraits. And I’m having a lot of fun with it, but I’m certainly not the greatest caricaturist in the world. I mean there are amazing ones out there. But, as I’ve written before, I do think I have a bit of a knack for it. Since I’ve never really practiced it a lot, there is definitely room for improvement. But there is one thing that drives me nuts about it. Sometimes it’s really easy to capture the ‘essence’ [...]

  I’m not gonna lie. I live in a really cold place. I mean, it gets really cold. You might be surprised to know that on Saturday the temperature hit 29°C (84°F). It was glorious and that’s not even all that warm for us. It can actually get pretty hot in the summer. But those damn winters are a little rough. Back in the old days (40s, 50s, 60s, 70s?) people used to legally have to drive around with frost shields on their car windows.     Frost Shield   What the hell is a frost shield you ask? They were clear plastic sheets that attached to your car [...]

    So I had an interesting week! It all has to do with the fact that I have very tentatively started to dip my toes into the online art market. I feel like I have a saleable product, but I’m also aware that it’s a niche market. In fact, when I really think about it, what I’ve really got is art for niche markets within niche markets, but I digress…   Groovy Baby! and Evil Doctor   Anyway, I recently found out about a Facebook group called Sell your Art. It’s free, so last week I posted my paintings of Austin Powers and Dr. Evil at [...]

  As you can imagine, I follow a lot of artists on social media. It’s kind of a thing artists do. In fact, it seems that a whole lot of my followers on social media are fellow artists. It goes without saying that artists are having as much trouble coping with the Covid situation as anyone, although for myself, I have to say that not much has changed. The biggest difference is that my wife is working from home, and I have a home studio. That basically means that we have now have lunch together on weekdays. It’s a hardship, but I’m [...]

  I wasn’t one of those kids who drew obsessively. When I was younger I had a friend that I would draw with, but just before I turned 12 we moved away and I mostly stopped drawing. I still drew cartoons occasionally—I never really cared to draw anything else, but I guess I needed the push from my friend to keep it up. Cut to my University days, when I did a degree in history. I did little drawings of all of my professors in the margins of my note paper. They looked exactly like them even though I hadn’t really been drawing [...]