Posted: April 30th, 2009 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Projects, Sketches, Thoughts, Upcoming | Tags: anavasthaa, art chicago, hieronymus bosch, new things, Public Art | No Comments »
This weekend is going to be exciting for several reasons:
1. Art Chicago
2. A new idea for a public art project that will be launched soon
3. My bike from Madison is coming in tomorrow morning because I cracked my frame on the old bike: damn Milwaukee roads.
4. Anavasthaa drawings are coming along and a flood of new ideas has arrived. I actually have enough drawings for about 6+ pages and more in the works.
And now a little something from our friend Hieronymus Bosch:
Related posts
Posted: April 29th, 2009 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Thoughts | Tags: painting | No Comments »
Last night I started painting again for the first time in almost 4 months. Needless to say it felt amazing. I forgot how much I liked it. It helped that the painting turned out pretty well. Sadly I can’t post it here because its not for the internets to consume. Focusing on one work for more than three hours has been a serious issue for me this past semester. Because of this my work out put and quality has dropped sharply, but the time is now to turn things around.
Related posts
Posted: April 28th, 2009 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Projects, Thoughts | Tags: anavasthaa, drawing, house of leaves | No Comments »
I’m at the computer lab for drawing class. I can hardly contain the ideas racing through my head. The flood is too great, the brain strom is clogging the drains and I’m reaching saturation. Img archive Img archive Img archive. Anavasthaa is going to take a hard right and get all up in your space like a house of leaves. I’m too excited to stay here any longer, must go before my fingers start into flames from keyboard burn.
Related posts
Posted: April 27th, 2009 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Public Art | Tags: graffiti, Public Art, stencils, street art, wheatpasting | No Comments »
Perusing around town yesterday I found some cool stencils and some wheatpastings as well:
Related posts
Posted: April 26th, 2009 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Artocalyptic News | Tags: blogger, css, post updates | No Comments »
All the posts from my old blogger account have been successfully transfered. Also style.css and I had some pretty rough sex tonight and the site looks much prettier.
Related posts
Posted: April 25th, 2009 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Projects, Thoughts | Tags: anavasthaa, artacious, directions, ideas, Projects, Public Art | No Comments »
I cannot wait for this semester to be over. There are too many projects to do, too much art to make. This semester my artistic productions have fallen drastically. There are a number of reasons for this, but there are no excuses. I have yet to fully exercise my potential and I’m itching to flex my artistic muscles. This list is for oganizing my thoughts:
1. Anavasthaa – emphasis on experimentation and breaking out of the graphic novel format into something new. Musical (and perhaps other forms of) collaboration to play around with new ideas. A book with a soundtrack. Artwork with a soundtrack.
2. Artwork to sell – begin working on work that is playful and educational. Instead of focusing on what you might think people want to buy start making work that you enjoy with content that isn’t too confrontational. Figure drawing/painting, still lifes. Creating this type of work is important in regards to understanding visual space. Most works that I’ve sold in the past year have been from drawing class where I’m just having fun with simple content. Create studies to learn and sell them to earn.
3. Public Art – It interests me to put “fine art” out into public. There could be lots of reasoning made about how public art breaks out of the gallery and is challenge to art establishments, however to me this is more about reaching a broader audience. Its about creating something that sparks something in the viewer, even if its just a smile. I like this way of communication, because it is more intimate imho. The artist is not recognized and thus it is an image that isn’t trying to sell you something and its not necessarily a means to an end.
4. Artacious – this project is the most challanging of them all. Starting a business is not something I’m sure I’m ready for, but I feel the need to push forwards anyway. I do think it will be a great boon for milwaukee. My only fear is being tied down to this city if I start this website. Need to think a lot more about how this is going to work.
Related posts
Posted: April 19th, 2009 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Artocalyptic News, Projects | Tags: blogger, images, links, transfer, webstie news | No Comments »
Today I played around with the design of the site and I feel it has improved the feel around here. Also, I’ve imported all of my blog posts from blogger. The only issue with this is that none of the images or links have been imported. My new goal will be to import the 100+ posts with all their images and links, hopefully this won’t drive my sanity off a cliff, but it shouldn’t be too bad. It will allow me to reflect on all my past thoughts..
(a drawing from long ago)
Related posts
Posted: April 17th, 2009 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Artocalyptic News | Tags: captcha, computer, painting, photoshop | No Comments »
Over the past few weeks there has been an accelerated bombardment of spam attacks on one of my email accounts and this website. So, to remedy this I’ve installed a new plugin which forces unregistered users to fill out a Captcha. I hate to do it, but I hate the spam more. During this process I found some cool paintings of Captchas. The one above is one and the rest can be found on the artist Gautam Rao’s blog. He has some other Captcha paintings which can be found here. I especially like these works because I like referencing computers in art making:
Related posts
Current Talk