crab

I re-drew my DNA Crab. It is best not to be lazy and even if you think something is "good enough" it can be better. it only took another four hours so not so bad, here it is without the corners scanned... fix it soon...need nap.

Friday with Gardega

Weekends mean very little to freelancers. I awoke this morning thinking it was Saturday. There is an advantage of working in a company and that is you can leave work behind you on Friday as you step out the door into Happy Hour. I will load some drawings up today, I am working on my Salvation drawing.

gardega travels the MILKY WAY

I do my best to make sure to feed the intellect of my audience as there is great danger of the internet and television imploding the collective intelligence into a collapsing souffle...Here is a website that lets you journey through the solar system!

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html

Salvation Rough Drawing---Gardega

Here is my rough study for "salvation". It concerns the Sacred Horseshoe Crab and DNA. It is pieced together to scan as it is a large drawing..I am going to work on this until completion. purchase below...



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coloring books

As a child I told my parents never to buy me coloring books. I saw no point in filling in someone else lines when I could make my own lines. I never owned one coloring book and I never cared for comic books. My favorite book was an artist series on Rembrandt my mom bought me in Piggly Wiggly. I was fascinated by the painting that Rembrandt made of a man getting surgery, it both fascinated and horrified me. I still refuse to draw within the lines of society.

Alex:

First of all I would like to thank you so very much for the palette. I received it last week and was so very impressed. I truly don’t know the reason why other than I have a strange fascination with history and tools. To receive this tool from you is like owning Babe Ruth’s glove, or Isaac Asimov’s telescope or William Shakespeare’s note pad or Frank Lloyd Wright’s T square. It is truly priceless.



VIVA!

sneak peek!

A SMALL PEEK AT MY NEW DRAWING, ALMOST FINISHED..

How to be a genius!

If you asked 100 people how they would go about becoming a great chef, 99 of them would tell you to COOK, COOK, COOK!! Alex would would have a different answer for you and that would be---EAT! EAT! EAT! A chef, like a scientist, must know what he is dealing with and if he/ she is skinny he is not a chef to be trusted! To artists I would not say Draw, Draw, Draw! I would say read, read read, and look, look, look! It is most important to be a well-read artist! Most artists I know have barely read enough books to balance out a short table leg in a lower east side cafe. Dali was a man of letters and philosophy and Leonardo devoured books like a drunkard at the bottle.If you wish to become enlightened one can do worse than to feed at the breast of literature as hers is the milk of wisdom (even if you are an art-school drop out.)

I awoke and I was Gardega

As I awoke today I found I was not Kafka, nor was I Sartre nor Camus. I checked my feet and they were still my own and my hands had the pencil and ink stains from the nights labor. It is good to wake up as yourself, especially if you are Gardega.

January 2---Gardega Winged Helmet

There is a few hours left to buy my winged helmet painting. She will help you soar through the humdrum of post holiday skies and land you into warm gentle lap of Primavera!


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nautilus

I found this image today and had to post it.

pyramid cam

As much as Alex despises Big Brother and shudders at the thought of a "surveillance society" I occasionally find a brilliant use of technology...Imagine that we take for granted that you can watch the sun set over the pyramids in real time on new years day!

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all is quiet...

Alex stayed in alone last night and watched his ritual twilight zone marathon. It is nice to wake up to the new year without the champagne dagger in the skull. It is my Dad's birthday today, so Happy Birthday and Happy New Years! (my parents have never looked at this website, I think they are not sure I have a website. ) I much prefer the hands off approach to parenting--- I was never guided or pushed, I was left happily alone with my pencils to face the world. My only resolution for The New Year is to work as hard as I possible can so I can look back next year with a sense that I did something with my time. People often ask me why Alex speaks in the third person. I speak in the third person because I do not think it is appealing to talk about yourself all the time---I, I, I, me, me, me blah blah blah...By using the third person I can remove myself a bit and pretend that I am someone else talking about myself, almost like a nature program narrator talking about an ant eater or a marsupial.

Happy New Year! a new canvas

The sun sets on another year and time paints her final, gentle shadows across the landscape of 2007! Soon a blank canvas will stare back at you from the easel of possibility and it is up to you to a timeless masterwork that will inspire the ages. The greatest enemy of art is fear. The same is true for life, if fear is the guiding force of "your brush" your canvas will turn into a lifeless thing. A lot of people from all walks of life read this "blog" which makes no sense to me because it is just me trying to figure out life and art and hanging out my reality like so much dirty laundry. It is strange to open up to strangers but I guess it is cheap therapy. I think people like this site because they can sense I am walking a road that I don't truly understand and that I am just reporting back from the field. The idea that people like my work and art is what keeps me going so any feedback is always welcome even if it is criticism. Thanks for supporting my art habit.

alex

MR. VONNEGUT READS BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS

I found a great link today of Kurt Vonnegut reading his book, "Breakfast of Champions." It is great to hear him read his own works in NYC.



LISTEN

(to listen, scroll down a bit and click play.)

this painting is in my brothers home and as of yet, unframed...

ebay

some people have been complaining that I do not put stuff up for sale anymore. I have been caught up on projetcs but i have a few things in my ebay store and will load up more today.

in the wings

I drew this last night out of my head and video taped the process.