September 14, 2017September 14, 2017

New Art (#43): Gorgon-Odalisque

Look if you dare. Do the typical swipe before even blinking once. But beware if you linger. This is one of my darker pieces, dredged up from the subconscious. If you stare at it you start to get sucked in and images will suddenly appear. The more you look, the deeper it gets. There is […]
September 2, 2017

Work in Progress using 3D Sculpting

I have plans for this guy, which include putting him in color, once he’s done, and incorporating him into one of my digital impasto paintings. If you follow my blog you’ve seen several B&W drawings recently, purely 2D stuff. Those are a lot of fun for me, but I’m also working on a more ambitious […]
September 1, 2017September 1, 2017

New Art (#42): Looking With the Inner Eye

Dear Readers: Here’s my latest creation, and I’m having so much fun with this style. It’s a way of working I started decades ago, but which was beaten out of me, metaphorically speaking, in art school. If I were in art school today I don’t think I could get away with churning out this sort […]
August 31, 2017September 1, 2017

Rant: Modernism’s shortcomings, debate, being censored, insulted, blocked and banned.

A few things are annoying me today. Top on the list is people banning me, insulting me, and blocking me when I challenge one of their ideas and they can’t hold their own in an argument. Now, I’m not talking about just some jokers, but people who publish fairly serious articles. Apparently, you can write […]
August 26, 2017August 26, 2017

New Art: (#41) Ancient Alien Cave Art

Don’t worry my discerning fans, the title is humorous. I don’t think we descended from an alien/ape hybrid. Well, not, y’know, like an alien named Enlil, who was an Ananyaki space commander from planet Nibiru, came and inseminated a bunch of chimps in order to create a hybrid slave force to dig for gold. I […]
August 24, 2017August 24, 2017

New Art: (#40) With Chains

This is #40 in this series so far, and the 9th in which I’m using the same basic technique. I have a very hard time working in a single, definitive style, mostly because one of my primary objectives is exploration, as opposed to the much more popular and practical approach, which is to produce a […]
August 18, 2017August 18, 2017

New Art: (#39) Alien with Helmet

This is a very different way of drawing from my last piece. This is deliniating form with line. This has a lot more rules, though I surely broke just as many. It’s body doesn’t quite make sense and it doesn’t need to. This is a drawing, not a design for an alien. The helmet works […]
August 17, 2017August 17, 2017

New Art: (#38) With Arachnids

As I finished up details on this image I was listening to news. And I’ve been trying to listen to news that I don’t agree with, in order to make sure I’m hearing both sides, or rather multiple sides of issues. And the more I do this the more clear it becomes that various groups […]
August 14, 2017August 14, 2017

Gerhardt Richter’s Crappy Digital Stripe Paintings

I’m a big fan of Richter, especially his squeegee abstractions done with oil paint, but his digitally created “Stripe Paintings” are trite, and a technique I figured out at least 15 years ago. When I saw them a few weeks ago for the first time, they reminded me of some early digital experiments I did, […]
August 10, 2017August 10, 2017

500 Posts on My Blog

I got a notification today from WordPress that I’ve posted 500 times. I wouldn’t have thought it was that much. I remember counting my art criticism articles at one point when there were 50. But of course this includes all my art posts as well. A lot of people come and go in the blogging […]

September 1, 2017September 2, 2017

10 Tips for Cycling in Cambodia (Siem Reap)

August 22, 2017August 22, 2017

The Argument for Free Speech & Against Censorship

August 11, 2017August 12, 2017

Nuclear Ugliness: Fire and Fury like the World Has Never Seen

August 9, 2017August 9, 2017

New Art: (#37) Veil of Dreams

August 7, 2017August 7, 2017

New Art: (#37) Looking at Fire.

August 3, 2017August 4, 2017

Censorship for Good in Art and Politics

August 3, 2017August 3, 2017

Aliens, Monsters & Robots

August 2, 2017August 2, 2017

New Art: Alien Head

August 1, 2017August 2, 2017

The Risk of Increasing Diversity of Bodies but Uniformity of Minds in Art

July 27, 2017August 6, 2017

Radical Activists Demand The End of an Artist’s Career

July 25, 2017July 27, 2017

Great Art by Famous Artists Lost, Destroyed, or Censored

July 22, 2017August 4, 2017

Carl & Ana: Art, Suicide, Murder, Belief

July 20, 2017July 20, 2017

New Art: (#36) The Little Mermaid

New Art: (#35) Untitled in B&W

July 11, 2017July 13, 2017

What is Real in Art?

July 11, 2017July 11, 2017

New Art: (#34) Upon Death the Mutant Sees God.

July 9, 2017July 10, 2017

Shitting on Michelangelo Makes YOU Great!

July 8, 2017July 9, 2017

No Hands Art and De-Skilled Art!

July 6, 2017July 28, 2017

What is the Purpose of Visual Art?

July 4, 2017July 6, 2017

Trip and Evidence I’m Human

June 20, 2017June 20, 2017

New Art: (#33) Death of an Android

June 12, 2017June 20, 2017

New Art: (#32) Her Beautiful Alien Voice

June 8, 2017June 9, 2017

New Art: (#31) Experiment 02 in 2.5D

June 7, 2017July 27, 2017

Censoring and Burning Art in the Name of Progressive Morality

New Art: (#30) Experiment in 2.5D

May 25, 2017May 25, 2017

Koons’ Ballerina Plagiarist Buffoonery

May 21, 2017September 20, 2017

Basquiat’s Lost Portrait of Warhol Poised to Fetch $150,000,000.