sigh sigh sigh cough cough cough

Being sick is so awful, yet it's so easy to complain about! For the first time ever, I missed a day of school because of being sick on Tuesday. It felt great, partly because I was actually productive, and because well, I wasn't at school.

So I recently I don't really know what I want to be drawing or painting or making...I've been half-heartedly looking at art but nothing really strikes me. Whenever I think I'll just draw what I see when i close my eyes, I just see slightly dirty things that don't translate really well onto paper. hahaha
These are a few gems that I've stumbled across..

http://plslala.com/#


http://www.thorazos.net/index.html

http://robagorni.blogspot.com/

So as of late, I think what I'm trying to be more moved by is the aesthetic quality of something, like the way it was rendered on the page, than the actual concept. I'm a bit done with really conceptual things right now, and I think I want to focus on developing my style and exploring ways of doing things in all kinds of media. I don't REALLY know what that means, but we'll see...

two

the week of being grounded produced...

and two other paintings that i haven't photographed yet.

I tried to do a painting a day and i made it until about Friday...I've realized that you can't stay in all day and paint because you need to get inspired. being grounded sucks!! i need painting ideas...

visual fodder

FISH!!!!!!!!!

I wish I had that on my walls. too bad my mom would kill me!


more fish!

Travis and I were talking today, and we held a consensus that the social quality of our art class has been severely diminished by the absence of a retreat at the beginning of the school year. Goodness, we were looking at the work above the windows today, and I'll admit to experiencing some memory slips of the names of some classmates or even of their presence in class.
Are all political activists cynics?
images from kinseyvisual.com

streeeeet

this is art from an artist in brazil known as Os Gemeos. Will says that he's seen some of this guy's larger stuff when he lived in brazil. I'm so jealous.
I love stuff like this because even though it's totally unlike my style at all, i really admire the freedom in it. I mean tagging is cool and all, but real art like this it's amazing. If I ever get around to doing stuff like this, my goal is to make something that will make people think "oh, it's kind of a shame to have to paint over this..." or "hmm that's vandalism..but kind of awesome..." I think will and i are going to start with wheat pasting!
I think street art reminds me of andy goldsworthy a little bit, that artist guy who did stuff like
this, in that his art was so transient and he had to accept from the beginning that it was going to be destroyed one way or another. I think that's real freedom in art!
A lot of artists tend to care a lot about keeping track of all their work and even more so they care about who gets to see it, like they're embarrassed, but if you've done a huge painting on a public wall, you can't really do any of those two things, and instead you just get to care about making something you find funny or cool. That's freedom.

winterbreak

I hate painting.
I decided to say screw concentration pieces.
how about another fish painting?

yeah!

happy new years

merry christmas!

Man, I really hate painting. I wish I could just draw all day and use watercolors and markers and pens. Paint is just so messy and old



this is a christmas card i made for my friend Emi! I cut it all out by hand with an exacto knife! It's by far the coolest christmas card I've ever made. I put it in one of my college portfolios

more inspirationy stuff

david choe is such a babe