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my first real attempt at

my new wacom tablet experimentations...

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Hall of the Muses

Also known as the Museum... a place to display art, particularly paintings, drawings, and sculptures-sometimes installations. A silly, yet completely logical concept. I wonder what my life would be like without these architectural features. Yet all of this thinking about museums and muses led me to thinking about my own inspirations...

Music plays a huge role in my art-making. I feel like I have to be listening to music or else I can't create - it's that simple. I'm always looking to find new and inspiring music, but sometimes the classics can do it for me...

Right now, Lady Gaga is my muse. She's crazy and fabulous and I love it.

I'm hoping to eventually do a painting inspired by her. But for the time being, I'm more interested in abstraction. I'm currently working on several series, experimenting with a few different types of painting in preparation for my thesis next year.

The painting that started it all was a text-based painting that was born from a landscape, and then I turned it on it's side to make it a text-based abstract painting. If you look closely enough, you'll see that it says 'BOOM'... I say that with some regret because once I mention the text, you cannot see much beyond that, and you will be stuck making the word. Maybe eventually I'll make a GAGA painting...

The other series I'm doing is a series of commissions-they are all realistic paintings. I do not get the same gratification from them as I do from my abstract paintings.

Currently, I'm working on some 'found' paintings that I've painted on... there will be more to come about those paintings.

I'm in the process of gathering materials to make a book based on my inspirations. Including the miss Lady Gaga and the many artists that I look to for inspiration.

Recent Paintings, 2009

So this is happening at the end of a decade. A decade full of disappointment, recession, and decreasing hope. In an attempt to combat the inevitable, I find myself thinking and creating. Though such deep thought might be my curse, I have this need to create.

This is my first real attempt at abstraction. As I delve deeper into this painting style, I'm realizing that it is the most difficult type of painting. I feel like painting realistic is almost a cop-out for me, while abstract painting is just more challenging and ultimately more gratifying. This is partially because I'm beginning to realize no matter what the subject of the painting is, that there is no solid point to which an artist knows that the painting is 'finished'.

I created this layering effect by painting over a previous less successful painting. The areas that I taped off and painted over are still somewhat visible. The original painting was a study of a sunset I had observed over a year ago, and I still believe it has a feeling of light similar to that of a sunset.

Abstraction interests me because I feel like there are different levels of abstraction. Since art is so subjective, it is hard to determine those levels, and the lines are then blurred in-between. I could create a painting that has a solid subject, but is so skewed through different techniques that the viewer perceives the painting as abstract.

So, this is the beginning.