Art Show

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Tonight I am going with friends to Andrew Noel's art show at a winery on Bainbridge Island. Last time I saw his work, it was impressionistic and full of colour. We still talk about the "fourth dimensional bubble" incident. I can only wonder what he has been doing for the past year, and how much he has improved on his style.

Lately I have been swamped with the amount of work I have to do, but I'm not complaining! I have almost finished up adding the text and information to the album cover for Grape Juice. I knocked out most of the hard work on a private illustration for another friend, and after that I'll begin work on the single-strand text for Ben Masters' business card. I think I hear my ride, so I'm cutting this short.
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Breasterits

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I was having an online conversation with Ben Masters about how much artists will charge, and how much people will pay for relatively simple paintings such as abstract impressionism. Not that I do not like abstract impressionism, but aren't people tired of paying $6,000 for a painting that could be made with a Spirograph and a willing elementary student?

"Maybe I should use my breasts to paint a picture, and then attach a huge price tag to it."

Mr. Masters seemed supportive of the idea [pun intended] so I think I may go through with it. People like big canvases, they like good colour combinations, and most of all they like breasts. So I am going to dig out one of my old giant-sized canvases from before I quit painting and go to work on it. At the very least it will be a temporary amusement that should elicit a few laughs at the next pARTy I attend.

To the right we see "Tulip"a genital painting by the talented Stephen Murmer.
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A Modest Proposal

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I am a big fan of good sculpture, mostly because I am so terrible at it. I am amazed that there are people out there that can think of something, let the idea gestate for a while, and then create something so realistic or out of this world that you can not help but stand and gawk in amazement.

Case in point, Beth Cavener Stichter, who creates wonderful sculptures that are simultaneously enthralling and disturbing to behold. "The sculptures I create focus on human psychology - stripped of context and rationalization, and articulated through animal and human forms."

Be sure to check out the nonplussed expression on the rabbit that is being humped in the "Modest Proposal" gallery.
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