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 […]
August 9, 2017August 9, 2017

New Art: (#37) Veil of Dreams

There are some barely visible images in there. You may even find things in there that I don’t see. Here’s all 37 pieces in the series so far in a slide show. Or, if you prefer, you can see them in a click-through gallery: To see other posts about other pieces in this series, go […]
August 7, 2017August 7, 2017

New Art: (#37) Looking at Fire.

Notice the man looks like he’s carved out of wood and that if you look in the fire you will see things yourself. There’s an obvious scary head in there, for starters. Just wanted to mess around with a sort of charcoal-looking drawing technique, which brings me right back to my charcoal drawings from the […]
August 3, 2017August 4, 2017

Censorship for Good in Art and Politics

Apparently, we now live in a climate of dastardly deeds for noble causes. There are elaborate arguments to justify suppressing this or that person in the name of morality, and it is supposed that we will be sufficiently wooed or intimidated by these arguments to not notice the tactics themselves are sinister. If you pan […]
August 3, 2017August 3, 2017

Aliens, Monsters & Robots

Here are 39 aliens, monsters, and robots (and an android or mutant or two…). I don’t consider myself a sci-fi artist, but these are all sci-fi creatures with a fine art sort of treatment. You an watch the slide show or click in the gallery below it. I recommend watching the slide show through once! […]
August 2, 2017August 2, 2017

New Art: Alien Head

This is a sketch of an alien head for a new series I’m starting. I’m planning all aliens for the next few months. We’ll have to see if I stick with it. The series is unified around the topic, not the medium or style, so allows for stylistic variety. There’s a lot more to it […]
August 1, 2017August 2, 2017

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

[This is a reaction to an article that appeared in Artnet News.] I think most everyone would agree that we don’t want one monolithic vision or art, or for people to be excluded from art careers because their perspective, culture, or biology is being discriminated against. We don’t want to miss out on great art […]

August 11, 2017August 12, 2017

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

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, 2017May 25, 2017

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

Found a Mantis

Work in Progress

New Art: BB&F #1

May 13, 2017May 15, 2017

Mark Bradford: Political Action Painter?

May 8, 2017May 12, 2017

Inextinguishable Originality: Refuting Rosalind Krauss.

May 4, 2017July 9, 2017

The Giant Hovering Orb Paintings of Masakatsu Sashie

New Art: (#29) Human Fly On The Loose

Interview with Painter, Dean Reynolds (Part 1)