“It’s easy to paint Betty as the villain in the family. She’s cold and judgmental and quick to take out her frustrations on her kids. She’s not charismatic or funny (at least never intentionally), and she doesn’t get to dazzle us with her brilliance in some other field so we’ll forgive her personal flaws.”
Taken out [...]
I did a painting last night that rapidly set in motion a chain of depressing thoughts. It was so horrible that I to leave the studio early (albeit at midnight) to get away from it. When I saw it again this morning I lost my shit completely and couldn’t concentrate at all. I tried [...]
I’ve never been able to understand why my mind becomes so active really late at night, like a furnace of synapses roaring, blazing coals powering a steam train of conclusions and epiphanies hurtling at break neck speed from one breakthrough to another (metaphor combo 40 points). I try to ignore it and convince myself that [...]
I got too many tabs open of amazing art stuff and it’s making it difficult for me to remember what I’m doing so I’ll post them here, most are from Meathaus (the best place on the internet) and CGUnit (the place where you go to to feel inadequate about your work):
James Blagden, I found an [...]
People tell me I complain heaps on this blog. A big factor as to why I don’t censor all that stuff is because my intention is to somehow chronicle, for my own sake, and for anyone else interested, the experience of doing what I do.
So often you read artist interviews and it is all about [...]
There is no ‘fill’ tool so if your whole background is black, and you’re only working in graphite, then you have to colour in all of that shit – yeah man real life shit.
For some reason, after the ultimate shopping/culture experience which was Tokyo, I decided it’d be a good idea to stop working, despite my credit card and bank account taking massive casualties, I decided against better financial judgement that I wasn’t going to take on any more work for the next three months.
Instead, I decided to [...]
I was put onto this guy by Leon Li, who is an amazing artist in his own right studying at UTS. I’m a mad hoarder of action figures so when I saw this I had to have it, made by Xue Liu, who just graduated Fine Arts in China. Taking three months off freelance work [...]
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