New studio prep October 2014, Royal College of Art, London
Tag: art making
Should i get you another beer?
In the process of documenting this piece, i’ve thought a bit how i want to describe its undertaking. A phrase, it’s the hardest thing i’ve ever done, has come to mind, but that wouldn’t be the truth. I’ve done much harder things all of which aren’t really appropriate to talk about on this blog. What… Continue reading Should i get you another beer?
Just get on with it
In process…pouring My friends out there know i am working on this big-assed (it’s a technical term—look it up) painting. It’s the largest piece i’ve ever tackled, and only the second in oil in a long while. While it’s been a joy in many ways, but the sheer size of the piece and the practicalities… Continue reading Just get on with it
Kurt Vonnegut via Russian Red Lipstick
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
The Dawes
The only piece of advice that continues to help: Is anyone that’s making anything new only breaks something else.
Toby in response to cutting the NEA budget on The West Wing
There is a connection between progress of a society and progress in the Arts. The age of Pericles was also the age of Phidias. The age of Lorenzo de Medici was also the age of Leonardo Da Vinci. The age of Elizabeth was the age of Shakespeare. Toby in “Gone Quiet” on The West Wing
Artist in his studio
Artist in his studio Remabrandt, c. 1969, 9.8 by 12.6 inches, MFA Boston One of my all time favorites. A perfect representation of the intimate art making process.
bradenbetts: By Christoper Niemann via Brain Pickings I shudder what the “What does it take to execu
Aaron Sorkin’s Poet Laureate
An artist’s job is to captivate you for however long as we’ve asked for your attention. If we stumble into truth, we got lucky, and I don’t get to decide what truth is…I write poetry, Toby. That’s how I enter the world. Tabitha Fortis in “The U.S. Poet Laureate” on The West Wing I whole… Continue reading Aaron Sorkin’s Poet Laureate
When in doubt on where to begin, take from a smart albeit grim ancient Greek. Luckily i’m an optimist.
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment fallible, judgment difficult.