I was thinking something earlier about how art is the study of the perception of beauty, or just what people find beautiful, and like a negotiation with them to try to coax them into finding different things beautiful.

I did a really bad job of shrinking these images down into the post, so click em to make them bigger and undistorted.

here's Elephant Map, which doesn't photograph well:

here's Chelsea Food, so far:

here's my eye after I accidentally sprayed it with wood finish:

here's what my onion painting, still unfinished (it actually doesn't even look like this anymore), looked like Tuesday of last week:

here's a classmate's, whose name I don't know, drawings of butterflies:

Cezanne

some sketches by Cezanne. I'm told that, even moreso than with most painters, a Cezanne painting is something you have to see in person in order to appreciate, due to the nature of his brushwork.
http://pbckt.com/sb.UIC

this is my alter ego project

And here's my progress on Chelsea Food. Yesterday I was considering cropping out some of the left side, but now I think it looks ok. I am planning to add blue to the white space, just very subtle little marks under gesso that you won't be able to see unless you get right up on it. Hopefully that'll give the space a blue tint to compliment the orange figure.

start

Artists have to have websites. There's no getting around it.
I tend to shy away from the word artist, but nonetheless.

Mission Statement:
Mostly, this will be an easier way than email to show works to my girlfriend and other people I know for feedback.
I'm also going to post classmates' work here, 'cause I always take pictures of it anyway.
I will post works and artists I enjoy,
I will post proposals and statements for works I'm doing.
Perhaps draft some artist statements for myself.
and write about all of these things, in addition to any other art related thoughts I feel like recording for later consideration.

Right now I'm working on, among other things, a project I'm calling Chelsea Food. I will try to find and post the proposal that goes along with it later. Chelsea is my girlfriend, model, and artistic collaborator. She's actually a much better artist than me, but she is having an artistic dry spell right now. Click it to make it bigger, I think.