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

This past weekend I participated in my first ever Manitoba Art Expo here in fabulous Winnipeg. The first thing I have to say about it was, it was a success and I will certainly be back next year. Well, that is unless that fabled New York Gallery comes a callin'! But I won't count on that. So Art Expo it shall likely be! One of the things that Art Expo did for me, besides a significant number of sales, was that I signed up a goodly number of people to my email list. These are good people to have, at least those that end up keeping up with my emails. Unlike followers on Instagram, they are mine and no one can take them away. I'm looking at you damned Instagram algorithm! [...]

A couple of weeks ago in this here blog here, I posted a Cubo-Weirdist self-portrait. I mentioned that I was open for commissions. I was happy to do Cubo-Weirdist portraits of family members, or anyone you can think of. But of course, because I gotta make a living, I also mentioned that I can do straight ahead normal portraits. Soon after that, I thought, "why don't I do one"? So I did a self-portrait that I posted on social media. If you didn't see that post, here it is. I'll re-iterate, I can do this kind of thing for you! I enjoy making them Cubo-Weirdist, but I also enjoy painting in general. So I'm also happy to do a 'normal' one for you, or anyone you know. [...]

One thing you may have noticed since I started doing paintings of famous musicians is that I have kind of old tastes. Much of the time I paint my favourite artists, like the Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Neil Young etc. One thing I don't like to do is tell people how old I am because I'm convinced that the art world is all about youth. And I'm not actually old, but I do wonder if my tastes in music don't make me seem kind of old. I'll just say for much of my favourite music I wasn't even around when it was recorded. Okay for some of it I was around, but might have been too young to notice. I'll just keep ya guessing! Maybe I should also say that that grey hair you see in my videos and stuff is added colour to make me look distinguished. Yeah that's the ticket. Oh and if you get that reference, you're probably old. Obviously I don't get it! You know, 'cause I'm not old. I just said so. Sheesh, pay attention! [...]

I'm not one of the those people who shares a lot of their life on social media. When I first got my Facebook account, I recall posting my "status" pretty regularly. I don't remember what those were like, but I would guess they were something like: "Gonna get an Americano today!" Okay, probably not that banal. I'm sure I tried to be amusing most of the time, but a lot of it was sharing my day to day activities. And I did that for a few months and then one day I thought: "none of this is anyone's business." So that was that. Now I just post my art and my blog. That's not to say I've never personal stuff since. When my beloved cat Wellington died suddenly in 2016, I shared it on Facebook because I really needed the condolences. Yeah, I'm a bit of a suck! And right now on this here blog here, I've decided to share what's been happening to me for the last two weeks, because I want to hear if anyone can relate. It involves something called "redirected aggression." [...]