Sunday, December 10, 2006

Uploaded my old animation "The Flying Snowman" to youtube for the holidays (made in 2001 using Blender). Enjoy!

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

I am ALMOST finished with my final semester of regular classes in Graduate school. I am still worrying about everything, because I have a lot to do in a very short amount of time, but overall, I think things are going well.

So much has changed in my life in the past few weeks. There are things that I can't wait to talk about, but I have to wait. I am still pretty nervous about doing my student teaching in January, but I am also really excited! My hope is that once I am in there, I will quickly overcome my fears, and start having a lot of fun being an art teacher. I know it's in me to do a really good job at this.

Friday, October 27, 2006

I've been running around like crazy trying to get all these paintings done for my November show at Western. I am proud to say that there are no less than 5 new paintings in the traditional section... I'm also proud of some other things, but I have to wait to talk about them...

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

So glad it's October. I love how it's getting cooler. I've added a new portrait "Brother in Law" to the Traditional section. It's a portrait of my brother in law Dave. He rides bikes all over the appalachian mountains and is in terrific shape. I feel rather large next to him, lol.

Friday, September 29th, 2006

New painting "Coffee Mug" in the traditional section. I'm proud of it because I haven't done a painting quite like that. I focused a lot more on detailed shadows, etc. It might be something I want to do a lot more of.

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

Man I'm looking forward to October! I really need some good cool, fall weather. Also, I've got the October show up and running at my new site http://www.contumacies.org. I am going to have a new show there every month, showing artists from deviantart.com.

Things are also heating up on the teaching front. This Stuckism thing has been a nice escape from the realities I've been having to deal with. I'm still shy about getting up in front of people, and teaching does not come to me naturally.

Still, my involvement with this Remodernist group and all these new thoughts have given me a confidence I didn't have before. Hopefully it will see me through this and next semester....

Monday, September 18th, 2006

I like this manifesto found in this month's Artforum. It's in an ad for this exhibition
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(I think the emerging presence of these artist's manifestos and declarations is a sign of positive change. Artists are finally starting to stand up to the establishment and go their own ways. Some always have).


MANIFESTO
For Abstractionists and friends of the non-objective

BE A FORCE

Don't shoot blanks

Black and Brown: that sh*t is the future

Triangles are your friend

Don't pretend you don't work hard

When in doubt, spray paint it gold

Perverse formalism is your god

You are greased lightening

Bring your camera everywhere

Never stop looking at macrame`, ceramics, supergraphics and suprematism

Make work that is so secret, so fantastic, so dramatically old school/new school that it looks like it was found in a shed, locked up since the 1940's

Wake up early, fear death

Whip out the masterpieces

Be out for blood

You are the master of your own universe

Abstraction never left, motherf*ers

If you can't stop, don't stop

Strive for deeper structure

Fight monomania

Campaign against the literal

ABSTRACTION FOREVER!