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Thursday, September 27, 2007
NEWS
The Klaudia Marr Gallery in Santa Fe, NM asked me to be part of their Annual Realism Inivitational from Oct. 5 - Nov. 5 (now in its 14th year). I sent them a couple of paintings and look forward to how my art is received down in Santa Fe.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Rants & Raves
It's getting down to crunch time for the big show at the Rovzar Gallery in Kirkland. I have about five more painting ideas I want to get out before the opening, and the show is coming together quite well.
TG & Art Dog signing off.
I always gets stoked around this time because the show concept really starts to culminate, and I can see all the hard work coming together.
Not only am I creating my annual Rovzar exhibition, but I am in midstream on the renovation of my house. Most people would actually hate working on their house, but I really enjoy it. I find it quite therapeutic to do physical labor in contrast to painting.
Through this process, I have learned to appreciate some rather odd things, and have learned to hate some odd things too.
I'm particularly fond of the paint sample scanner at Home Depot. I think this is an ingenious invention. I don't know how it works, and I don't want to. I find it to be like a great magic trick. I just mix a color with my art paints, bring it in to the guy in the paint department, and say "mix me one gallon of this color in semi-gloss" and three hours later, my entire sun room is a color I invented.
I'm NOT particularly fond of those stupid little golf pencils. I was at IKEA today and they have these boxes of golf pencils to write your orders down. What exactly sharpens these things? These mini pencils are always sharpened with some of device that leaves a needle like nub, but only stays sharp for the duration of six letters. They drive me nuts.
I love friends with big-ass trucks. A big dinged up truck is like the holy grail when renovating your house. It's really a never ending, thousand-pound assistant.
My contractor and I have come to the conclusion that drywall is an invention that has had its day in the sun and now the sun needs to set. Why are we still using this crap? Drywall is everywhere. I see it in retail stores, all dinged up and chipped. This product is like putting burnt toast on your walls. Then you mud all the seams with what looks like masking tape, and after it dries, you sand it smooth. Let's not forget all the dust this process kicks up around your entire home. You'd think that was it, but no, you have to create several layers of this like icing on a cake. On top of that, you have to apply texture to the walls to cover any imperfections. Then comes two coats of primer and only then do you get to paint!
What decade is this? It's 2007 and we are still using this crap. It was invented in 1916 and has not made any advancements since that time. Someone needs to solve our dependency on this product and the waste it produces.
On the flip side, I love that my local dump is open 24hrs a day. I can load my friend's big-ass truck (see the circle of life at work here) with all the leftover drywall and hit the dump site at three o'clock in the morning. The only people around at that hour are night-owl artists and sketchy looking murder suspects disposing of mafia issued black garbage bags. No lines, no waiting, just dump and go. I don't know why it's open, but I love that little perk.
TG & Art Dog signing off.
