tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78751877426667376802024-02-06T20:52:41.608-08:00Artistic RecompenseMy journey with art. My work and the work of others that I find interesting or controversial.Mark Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10621632079088993042noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875187742666737680.post-84551502259431721062014-09-25T16:16:00.001-07:002014-09-25T16:16:13.866-07:00the Awakening<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">I took a really long hiatus from from art...around two years. I think the last piece I completed was in December of 2012. Yeah, I suck.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">On the plus side. I'm waking up. I just finished a painting of my friends daughter which is the first portrait I've ever painted. So that was a challenge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Zoe wasn't too crazy about it at first but I think it's grown on her now. I think she felt a little freaked out by it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Something else that is helping my creativity is I moved the easel and paintings into the bedroom. It's working out well. Just aggravates the hell out of me that I didn't think of it two years ago. It's nice to wake up in the middle of the night, see my painting and if anything is bugging me about it I can fix it immediately instead of waiting until the next morning when I more than likely wont remember it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">I'm also working on three new ones at the moment. These are from my imagination which is where I'm most comfortable. I've had a lot of ideas bouncing around in my head during my slumber and they caused my style to change...I hope for the better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">The December Art Walk is coming up pretty quick and I'm looking forward to showing. This will be the first time every piece of mine will be brand new and never before seen. It will also be an unveiling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Today is my day off and most of it has been tied up with running errands. It's getting to the sweet spot of the day. Twilight is approaching, the Cicadas are singing, a far away train is blowing, the temperature is dropping, the comforting dark is coming, and my paints are calling</span></div>
Mark Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10621632079088993042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875187742666737680.post-80908604309964147012012-06-04T18:59:00.001-07:002013-05-19T10:13:03.663-07:00Another Art Walk<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The others are some of my older works. I only had about 7 pieces to show this go around because I've sold most of my work. I guess that's a good thing but parting is such sweet sorrow. </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I look like a lobster because I was on top of a 20ft ladder all day painting a sign in 100 degree weather. I'm usually white as a ghost. My hair was wet too. Not a good time to have my pic taken.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"> Just finished my latest commission. I did a lot of experimentation with it. I used a paintbrush, a pallet knife, a toothbrush, a Gatorade lid, and my fingers. Learned a lot and had a good time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"> They wanted a nude in a nautical setting but it turned out to be more aquatic than nautical. I don't have much control on how my paintings turn out. They evolve and develop a life of their own. I just kinda let it take me over and sit back and watch. It turns to crap if I fight it. I'm happy with how it turned out. They haven't seen it yet and if they don't like it I'll do a different one if that's what they want.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"> Last night was the first quarterly Art Walk of the year. It went well even though it was the lowest turn out of artists. I met lots of interesting people and got to hear their comments on my newest work. I was kind of apprehensive but it was all positive. They like the direction my work is taking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"> I just moved into a new house with a studio so I have a lot more space to experiment and throw some paint. I look forward to seeing the direction my work takes in the near future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">My favorite living artist/author is Clive Barker and I've been on a real kick with him lately, reading his books (again), watching videos of him painting, interviews with him, and looking at his artwork 24/7. He is amazing. I've liked him since the 80's and every time I go through one of these phases I try oils again because of what he can do with them. I don't see how he gets the effects he does and I can't seem to get them with acrylics either. His output is astounding. Last time I tried them was almost two years ago. I did 4 large works in oils and on the last one swore I would never try them again and went back to acrylics. So, here I am about to do it again. I'm probably being a fool but I'm going on this adventure yet again. I hope that this time will be more fruitful. Wish me luck.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">I'm getting ready to move into a new house, new to me anyway and after several years I'll have my own studio to paint in and a garage to sculpt in. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">I haven't been able to sculpt in along time because of lack of space and it is so messy. It will be nice to be able to do it again and it will be easier to clean up. These pictures on the sides are some sculptures I did seven years ago with clay I dug up in my own yard. I look forward to getting my hands dirty again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"> I will also have plenty of wall space to hang my paintings. Right now I have it all stacked in a storage room. I always felt like they had a life of their own and when I move they will be able to breath and watch over my son, me, and the house. I might even be able to try painting larger.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">Imagine someone breaking into the house and having this one come to life on them. It's called "We Watch" and it's 4ft x 4ft. Not to mention a 15o pound German Shepard charging at them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"> The old one I'm thinking about giving another once over to is about 3 years old . Not too long after I did it I started hating it but not enough to trash it or go over it. Since then I've seen potential in it and want to change some things. Not sure what yet but we'll see where I go with it. This is it to the right. I'm thinking about giving it a whole new color scheme and softening the lines. I'll post a new pic of it on here when it's done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">The quarterly Art Walk is 15 days away. It's usually in this time that I get up off my butt and really paint. I don't know why. Even though I hate being rushed I seem to wait until my deadlines to finish a lot of my paintings. Maybe I secretly like to rush. I wouldn't think so, I'm kinda lazy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"> Most of our clientele are rednecks and think everything can be solved with with beer and guns. They come in with a expression on their face while looking at the firearms that says "I want to kill something, can you hook me up?". Most of them that like my work is only because it would make a kickass tattoo. Their idea of art is something with a rebel flag in it, hot rods, or Elvis on black velvet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"> I sometimes wish I lived somewhere else with open minded people that had at least a little culture. We have nowhere to go here to meet other artists. No art pubs, poetry readings, or even a symphony to go to. No nightlife. Oh well, I'm going off on another tangent. I'll talk about that in another post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"> So many artists worry that their work isn't good enough and it sometimes keeps them from painting at all. Are you doing your work for yourself or others? Whatever the case you should do it like nobody will ever see it but you. Do what you're passionate about and others will see that passion. Not everybody will like it but you will eventually find an audience. Don't find a trend and ride it. Be yourself and be original. Nobody but you can paint like you can. I know so many artist that don't do anything just because they can't please everybody. What others see as good art may not be the case. No matter how famous or good an artist is there is going to be somebody that wont like their work. That's true with everything so don't try so hard to please everybody. PLEASE YOURSELF. There will be some that will like your work and some that wont. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"> You should get to the point that you will quit taking commissions that you don't want to do. I used to take any commission. I got to the point I didn't even want to work on the personal things I enjoyed because it was taking time away from my deadlines that I didn't want to do. If you're into painting dragons or mythological creatures don't do sailboats or barns unless you just desperately need the money because it will leave a bad taste in your mouth and a lot of times look dead to others because you hated doing it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"> Picasso said "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up". Do you remember when you were young sitting at the kitchen table drawing with your crayons just to be drawing? Then the older you got people told you what was good and what wasn't and you accepted it. You only enjoyed it when others gave it their approval at that point. We were born artist and society convinced us we wasn't.</span></div>
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was gone in the blink of an eye. I hope 2012 doesn't go
that fast especially if it's the last year of
our existence. I don't really think that's the case. I
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we usher in another year I find myself in the usual predicament...am
I going in the right direction with my art? Do I want to change
my style, even what medium I use? Usually when I try this it's
a major waste of time and I go back to what I was doing before.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Isn't
that what we do as artist? Isn't that how we grow? It
sure doesn't feel like it most of the time. It seems
like 1% of experimentation is fruitful. Is it worth it to try
new things when the success rate is so low. I guess it is...for
some of us anyway, but how will we know if we don't try.</span></span></div>
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have to take that shot. Where would we be if Picasso or Pollock
hadn't? My art doesn't look anything like theirs but
they are some of my biggest inspiration.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When
I was younger it seemed like no matter what my mood was it only
enhanced my work. Anger made my work more powerful and dark.
Boredom made me more creative. That's not the case
anymore. Now I can only seem to paint when I'm somewhat happy
or content. Part of my problem is the internet. We didn't
have it when I was younger. When there was nothing else to do I
either drew, read comic books, or watched TV and I didn't watch
much because we only had 3 channels. Star Trek reruns
and Saturday morning cartoons were all I watched so not a lot of TV.
Now it's too easy when I get home from work to open up the
laptop with the intention of being on 30 minutes or so then working
on my art. 30 minutes turns in hours then I'm too tired to do
anything else. I guess my New Years resolution should have been
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<span style="color: yellow; font-size: x-large;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What
if the Net or maybe even the Grid went down in 2012? It would
suck but it would release a lot of us from it's grip to
pursue what we was meant for if there wasn't roving packs of maniacs
trying to kill us. I'm an information freak and the
internet is just too convenient for me. I used to go
to the dictionary, encyclopedia, book store, or library, now I can do
it even better without having to get out of bed. Kind of cool
but kind of sad. </span></span></div>
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probably heard that everything has been done. Surely not, but
there really hasn't been anything that unique done with art in 50 or
so years in my opinion. Could that be a sign, an omen? Maybe
the big change would be a new Renaissance of art, a new beginning
among other things. I don't know, wishful thinking I guess.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I've recently become interested in Street Art specifically Wheat Pasting. For those that don't know that's where you draw or paint usually on thin paper at your home or studio then take it to the site and paste it to the surface with a 50/50 mixture of wheat and water. One of my favorite Wheat Pasting artist is Swoon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">It's amazing how much you can forget over a short amount of time if you're not careful, especially so with art. Part of the reason I got into a rut with my painting was because instead of experimenting I fell into a groove that I became comfortable with. Without realizing it I eventually became bored with it. I've been working on a commission off and on for the past four months, becoming more and more bored with each session. It hit me what I've been missing for so long, it wasn't a challenge and therefore not inspiring me anymore. Like I said in an earlier blog 2007 was my best year for painting. I was on an adventure with my art that I eventually fell out of. Yesterday I rediscovered what I had been missing. It almost felt like I'd been reborn. I'm at work right now and I can't wait to get home and get back to work on it. It's been along time since I looked forward to working on a piece instead of dreading it. It feels great.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> The person I'm doing this commission for is probably wondering if I'm ever going to finish it. It will be soon now. Even if they decide they don't want it it will still be worth it just for the artistic rebirth I've experienced with it. I've discovered that the longer you don't paint or experiment may cause you to forget things and bury them with repetition and useless information
making it harder to recover them when you start painting again. The artistic path is filled with many pitfalls but the few moments of insight are bliss and well worth it. I feel like a Phoenix rising from the Ashes. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: x-large;">I am an artist and my own worst enemy. I'm very passionate about my art but very inactive lately as well. I want to support myself with it but when I get a commission I tend to put it off until the last minute because knowing I'm getting paid for it tends to take away from the artistic experience for me. I hope to get over this and enjoy working on commissions as much as personal paintings. I'm in a conundrum, a perpetual irony. This is my first Blog entry ever unless you count my journal entries on DeviantART <a href="http://arum1966.deviantart.com/">http://arum1966.deviantart.com</a>. My intent is to show you my artistic journey, to record it and to look back on later as I slowly crawl out of this hole of an existence to possibly eventual contentment. The only way I seem to be happy is when I'm doing/reading about/thinking about/talking about ART.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: x-large;">I've been an artist ever since I could hold a pencil. My dad is an artist and so was my grandfather. I didn't start painting until I was in my late twenties. I used to have a problem finishing anything and had 20 or 30 unfinished paintings sitting around at any given time until I read the book "Life, Paint and Passion" by Michelle Cassou and Stewart Cubley <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Life-Paint-Passion-Michele-Cassou/dp/0874778107">http://www.amazon.com/Life-Paint-Passion-Michele-Cassou/dp/0874778107</a>. If you haven't read it you should check it out. It helped me to get over the block of trying to please everyone else and helped me to paint like I was the only person who would ever see my work. I later figured out as long as you paint what you're passionate about you'll find and audience. If you only paint what is trendy or what you think people want to see chances are your art will seem tired and unoriginal to the viewers.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: x-large;">If you're interested in seeing more check out my gallery <a href="http://arum1966.deviantart.com/gallery/">http://arum1966.deviantart.com/gallery/</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: x-large;">Like I said before I'm working to become more productive and to achieve a higher quality of life and happiness. I'm also here to meet other artist and talk art. I hope all is well with you and to see again you soon.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." ~ Pablo Picasso</i></span></div>
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