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    September 18, 2019September 18, 2019

    Finished the Course!

    Above is the final demo in the class, and all credits go to Andrew Hou for the digital painting, which I recreated as part of learning his process. As my regular readers know, I’m a trained “fine artist” working in digital media, and currently learning the industry standard digital painting techniques from illustrators in order […]

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    September 14, 2019September 14, 2019

    Runaway Rant: “Iconic” is overused to meaninglessness

    Hi kids. Another word bites the dust. We’ve seen a lot of that in recent years, and you probably think it’s some dumbing down of America or the world. Probably true in regards to facility with language. If you follow my blog you know some of the ones that really get to me. Just a […]

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    September 9, 2019September 9, 2019

    What is a successful artist?

    Hope you don’t mind if we just cut through all of the avalanche of bullshit, right to the proverbial bone. This is something I figured out when I was 18, but somehow there seems to be a cloud of confusion around the topic. To best address this, I’m going to go with an analogy. Let’s […]

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    September 7, 2019September 8, 2019

    Runaway Rant: I am NOT an artist!

    Everyone is an artist, and anything and everything is art (except painters and paintings)! Words have come to mean, if not their precise opposite, something quite different from what is or was in the dictionary. Literally now means figuratively (ex., “It was literally raining cats and dogs!”). Random means all sorts of things, like cool, […]

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    September 5, 2019September 5, 2019

    Runaway Rant: Artists Don’t Need to Suffer

    The popular notion that artists need to suffer is a threadbare excuse to underpay and exploit them. [Note: Van Gogh would have suffered a lot less if he’d sold more than one painting in his life.] The notion that artist need to suffer in order to gain inspiration or have something to say is really […]

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    August 29, 2019August 29, 2019

    30 Minute Fire Demon

    More fun things you can do with digital painting that would be quite difficult in traditional mediums. This was just a quickie exercise to see if I could create some sort of fire entity using a couple custom fire brushes I made. I didn’t even bother making it bigger than you see it here. Just […]

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    August 28, 2019August 28, 2019

    Swarm of Bees in 60 Minutes: Digital Painting

    In my last post I boasted that an advantage of digital painting over traditional painting is I could knock out a swarm of bees in 15 minutes, but it could take days and days to do it with physical mediums. I did say it would take hours if I made more custom brushes, and I […]

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    August 27, 2019August 27, 2019

    Quickie Clouds: Why Digital Painting Is Amazing

    Just some experimental clouds I knocked out in a few minutes after creating a couple cloud brushes, which also took just a few minutes. This was my first breezy attempt. I know they aren’t magnificent. I only used black and white, and they need to be blended better, etc… The point is how much one […]

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    August 23, 2019August 23, 2019

    Learning from Copying Along when using Tutorials.

    If you have a good eye, whether or not you ever look at this kind of art, you can tell which one is mine, because it’s the flawed copy. Of course I can’t imitate someone else’s style the first time I try. Don’t fear my familiar followers, I would likely never work in this style […]

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    August 19, 2019August 21, 2019

    Skill Matters in Art: Part 2

    Rather than go back and edit my prior post, I decided to write a follow-up to expand on the ideas a bit. I want to give another example of why skill is necessary, but also elaborate on why it’s considered just busy-work and not important in contemporary art. First, I want to give a more […]

August 23, 2019August 24, 2019

Are We Avatars Or Players?

August 18, 2019August 18, 2019

Runaway Rant: Skill Matters in Art

July 25, 2019July 25, 2019

Difference Between Digital and Traditional Painting Approaches

July 17, 2019July 27, 2019
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Fun and Instructive Reality Art TV Series on YouTube

June 30, 2019July 1, 2019

Radical New Boring Shit: New Series

June 20, 2019June 20, 2019

If You Are Pro-Art, Pro-Artist, and Pro-Painting, You Are A Pariah

June 15, 2019June 15, 2019

Arthur Danto’s “The End of Art”: Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.

June 14, 2019June 15, 2019

Killing the Imagination in the Name of Art

June 12, 2019June 13, 2019

When Bullshit Becomes Overwhelming

June 9, 2019June 13, 2019

Runaway Rant: Did Duchamp Make Art an Exclusive, Elitist Practice?

June 8, 2019June 10, 2019

Someone’s NPC Head Painting Destroyed as Performance Art

June 4, 2019June 5, 2019
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Abominable Ideas About Art #6: Radical

June 3, 2019June 30, 2019

Shocking lack of Women and Artists of Color in American Museums’ Permanent Collections

June 1, 2019June 3, 2019

Reflections on: The Personal in Art

May 30, 2019May 30, 2019

New Art [Page Revised]

May 28, 2019May 28, 2019

Where I get my views, and what I can learn from it.

May 23, 2019May 26, 2019

The Ugly Truth: It was Beauty all Along

May 20, 2019May 21, 2019

Why I have nothing new to say about Koons’s latest record-breaking sale.

May 19, 2019May 24, 2019

Runaway Rant: What isn’t art?

May 16, 2019May 19, 2019

Runaway Rant: A Personal Attack is Not an Argument

May 13, 2019May 14, 2019
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Abominable Ideas About Art #5: The Purpose of Art is to Ask Questions

May 10, 2019May 10, 2019
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New Art: SFAU # 31

May 6, 2019May 7, 2019

Runaway Rant: Is Facebook/Instagram Going Too Far With Censorship?

April 27, 2019April 27, 2019

Death’s Dream Kingdom 03: The Monster In The Mirror

April 6, 2019April 7, 2019
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Abominable Ideas About Art #4: If Michelangelo were alive today, he’d be a conceptual artist.

March 31, 2019March 31, 2019
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Abominable Ideas About Art #3: The Public Decides What Art Means

March 29, 2019March 29, 2019

MoMA’s ‘Salon’ on the topic of “White Male”: Flogging a Dead Scapegoat

March 26, 2019March 26, 2019

Runaway Rant: A Problem with Morality and Art

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  • Finished the Course!
  • Runaway Rant: “Iconic” is overused to meaninglessness
  • What is a successful artist?
  • Runaway Rant: I am NOT an artist!
  • Runaway Rant: Artists Don’t Need to Suffer

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