May 21, 2018May 21, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes # 19: with Gan-Q

If you are new to this series all the images are based on recent photos of me after being fed through Faceapp (which can change age, gender, etc.), then altered in Photoshop, and then painted in Corel Painter. None of the people actually exist, and thus they are like self portraits from parallel dimensions or […]
May 16, 2018May 16, 2018

Runaway Rant. Instagram – Tit for Tat – Spammy artists…

Sometimes I wake up and it just seems like everything is stacked against me, though not me in particular. As people like to say, “it’s not personal”. No, it isn’t. It’s an affront to the personal and the individual. It’s calculatedly indifferent. It’s clinical. It’s commercial. It’s about power and money, money and power. It’s […]
May 9, 2018May 12, 2018

Quotas for Art Museums. It’s here!

QUOTAS FOR ART MUSEUMS Are quotas a good idea for art museums? Should museum collections be based on race, gender, and sexual orientation/identification? The Baltimore Museum of Art is doing something very similar to that: selling off works in the permanent collection by white males, and replacing them with new art by marginalized persons. Some […]
May 7, 2018May 7, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes # 18: The Cure

If you are new to this series all the images are based on recent photos of me after being fed through Faceapp (which can change age, gender, etc.), then altered in Photoshop, and then painted in Corel Painter. None of the people actually exist, and thus they are like self portraits from parallel dimensions or […]
May 4, 2018May 5, 2018

Egg On Egon Schiele

Maybe Egon Schiele was a bad egg, and maybe not. Maybe I watched too many Frankenstein movies as a kid, because whenever people get out the torches and pitchforks I find myself sympathizing with the “monster”. What if he’s just misunderstood? I tend to think it’s better to be the person weighing the stone in […]
April 28, 2018April 28, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes # 17: The Prisoner

If you are new to this series all the images are based on recent photos of me after being fed through Faceapp (which can change age, gender, etc.), then altered in Photoshop, and then painted in Corel Painter. None of the people actually exist, and thus they are like self portraits from parallel dimensions or […]
April 24, 2018April 27, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes # 16

If you are new to this series all the images are based on recent photos of me after being fed through Faceapp (which can change age, gender, etc.), then altered in Photoshop, and then painted in Corel Painter. None of the people actually exist, and thus they are like self portraits from parallel dimensions or […]
April 24, 2018April 24, 2018

Reflections on 5 Years of Blogging, and a Few Insights

A small graphic from WordPress appeared a couple days ago notifying me that I’ve been blogging for 5 years. Two things come immediately to mind when faced with that fact. One is that I’ve continued to blog, and expand my site far beyond what I could have ever conceived when I started. I have 560 […]
April 14, 2018April 30, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes # 15 “Elle”

If you are new to this series all the images are based on recent photos of me after being fed through Faceapp (which can change age, gender, etc.), then altered in Photoshop, and then painted in Corel Painter. None of the people actually exist, and thus they are like portraits from parallel dimensions or alternate […]
April 13, 2018April 13, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes # 14 “Mad as Hell”

If you are new to this series all the images are based on recent photos of me after being fed through Faceapp (which can change age, gender, etc.), then altered in Photoshop, and then painted in Corel Painter. None of the people actually exist, and thus they are like portraits from parallel dimensions or alternate […]

April 8, 2018April 10, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes # 13 (2bl Portrait)

March 23, 2018March 23, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes #11 & 12

March 22, 2018March 22, 2018

Pretty Dumb Bombast: Hirst’s New Shit

March 21, 2018March 21, 2018

Instagram Gem O’ Th’day #5: Troy Brooks

March 20, 2018March 20, 2018

Instagram Gem O’ Th’day #4: Trude Viken

March 19, 2018March 20, 2018

Instagram Gem O’ Th’day #3: Lucien Freud

March 18, 2018March 18, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes #10

March 18, 2018March 20, 2018

Instagram Gem O’ Th’day #2: Alex Grey

March 17, 2018March 20, 2018

Instagram Gem O’ Th’day #1: Charlie Immer

March 15, 2018May 5, 2018

Good Guy Hunting: In Defense of Matt Damon

March 12, 2018March 15, 2018

People Who Shouldn’t be Allowed to Teach Art!

March 11, 2018March 11, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes #9

March 8, 2018March 8, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes #7, #8

March 4, 2018March 4, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes #5, #6

February 27, 2018April 13, 2018

New Series Underway: Portraits From Alternate Universes

February 26, 2018February 26, 2018

Movie Recommendation: Beautiful Accident

February 22, 2018March 30, 2018

Is Immoral Art Bad Art?

February 21, 2018February 21, 2018

New Art (#47) ~ with a Galapagos Marine Iguana

February 18, 2018February 18, 2018

Wonderful Documentary about a Chinese Van Gogh Copy Artist.

February 18, 2018March 4, 2018

New Page for “Thought”

February 17, 2018February 17, 2018

Everything You Never Wanted to Know about Francis Bacon, in HD

February 15, 2018February 15, 2018

The Obama Portraits and Wiley’s Beheaded White Woman Paintings

February 12, 2018February 13, 2018

Rebuttal to Sonya Boyce’s Defense of Removing Waterhouse’s Painting

February 8, 2018February 8, 2018

Get Politics the F out of Art!

February 7, 2018February 7, 2018

The Waterhouse Water Nymphs Debate: Is Censorship Art?

February 2, 2018February 4, 2018

Chucking out Chuck Close for Allegedly Being Naughty

January 30, 2018

New Index of Artists I’ve Written About

January 29, 2018January 29, 2018

Eerie Alfred Kubin: Forgotten Pioneer of Symbolism, Expressionism, and Surrealism