Sometimes it can be really hard to just do the the obvious unfinished work in front of you. A fairly unproductive week put me to mind of this famous engraving by the artist Albrecht Dürer, […]
Category: art
My art… on pillows!
Here’s a random thing— my sister, Christy Bishop, an interior designer, is releasing a line of high-end printed pillows, and is including some of my old (c. 1997-2001) works on paper in her art. So […]
Value in art
$138 mil, actually. As I was pulling together that De Kooning post, I came across this factoid re: the sale of his painting Woman III for 100+ million dollars— a figure that happens to be […]
A few De Koonings
A little palette-cleanser today. Here are some comments on some nice Willem De Kooning paintings I’ve never seen reproduced anywhere before, and a little thumbnail sketch of his career— minus the well-known “high” phases. First, […]
VOQOTD: Joan Miró
In the beginning, it’s a direct thing. It’s the material that decides. I prepare the ground-by cleaning my brushes on the canvas, for example. Spilling a little turpentine can also work quite well. If it’s […]
Best books: some non-musical selections
Here are several books that have been valuable to me creatively over the years. The Adding Machine by William S. Burroughs Great essays about art, language, and the craft of writing. Along with Exterminator!, […]
A lot of hip LP covers
Jazz specialist for the US Library of Congress, writer, and blogger Larry Appelbaum has a couple of huge galleries of LP covers which you should be looking at right now. Emphasis is on jazz of […]
Brice Marden talks about painting
Here are some excellent YouTube clips of one of my favorite current painters, Brice Marden. The comments are entertaining- people are affronted when you talk about art as if it matters. To weed out the […]
Know your paint: Prussian blue
I have no idea what got me thinking about this, as I haven’t been painting recently, but it’s my blog so what the hell: Prussian blue is an earthy, ferric-looking blue that reminds me of […]
Erased De Kooning
Believe it or not, this work came up on a drumming forum. Admittedly, I was the guy who brought it up, but it was in response to this quote from GK Chesterton, posted by someone […]