I did it everybody! I wrote about myself once a week for a year! I feel like that should put me in the Narcissists Hall of Fame! Congratulations me! Woo hoo! How many more exclamation marks can I use? Okay, I’ll stop now. But I did think I should mark the occasion, especially since I really wasn’t sure I’d manage to keep it up on a weekly basis. I mean it truly does seem a little narcissistic to write about your own work all the time, but it’s also been a challenge and challenging [...]
Last week I talked about the possibility of doing paintings of animals for Damaged Landscapes, which will be an exhibition of new works by the Frost Shield Kerfuffle collective of which I am a member. At the end of the post I mentioned that I had another idea that springs from a couple of sources. One of them is this phrase that’s been in my head for a while: “landscapes of the mind,” which I’ll get into in a minute. And the other one is that I keep thinking about a video I saw of [...]
Some of you dear reader(s) may recall that I’ve mentioned in this blog that I’ll be in an exhibition with the Frost Shield Kerfuffle collective next year entitled Damaged Landscapes. You also may have noticed that I’m not exactly a landscape painter, so it won’t come as a surprise to you that I’m thinking about not taking that title too literally. The thing I keep coming back to, is most of the damage being done to landscapes these days is by those pesky damned humans. And the thing that I always find particularly crazy [...]
That’s right, it’s two weeks in a row I’m talking about Superheroes on my blog. On a side note, a few weeks ago I decided that my blog should be on Tuesdays instead of Mondays since I always post new work on Instagram on Tuesdays and I always write a sort of micro-blog on that day, so it just seemed to make sense. But that means I could be writing about Superheroes on the blog for weeks, if I keep this up. Hmmm, might have to go back to Mondays. Or could I do it [...]
