all those years ago...

art has many forms

This car is for sale on ebay. It is around $500,000.00 last time I checked. If I ever get rich as Picasso or Dali I will buy this.

New York Post

I did my daily ritual of a five AM Pepsi and a NY Post. My regular readers know that I have a fascination with the Post on many levels. Today I bought it and something did not feel right. I realized that they have shrunk the Post down in size by an inch or so! Most people wont notice but Alex noticed and was deeply affected. My pepsi can was still the same size.

quote of the day------a. einstein

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” Albert Einstein

quote of the day--machiavelli

Niccolo Machiavelli - "Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times."


-----I never learned this lesson

Drawing of the day---by gardega

I drew this today--- I cannot reveal the whole thing as it is not time to sell the wine....Glass is beginning to be a medium of much strain for me as there are so many issues and problems with equipment and breakage. I must hide beneath the umbrella of possible futures.

gabriel in Central Park---by gardega

I will be painting a large canvas in central park tomorrow and it will be b filmed by the CEO of New York Artist Series. I will do one of my "Gabriel Pieces" a work inspired by the music of peter gabriel. I may use a song from the Passion album. It will be edited friday night or saturday and up for internet viewing over the weekend. I like to paint in the park especially when I am ignoring the park and painting an "internal piece." (No ducks or pets or people)....The downside is you usually get a crowd so you dont want to paint badly and it puts pressure on but such is life in love and art. People usually expect some swans or the like and generally not the chaotic madness that drips from my psyche.

36 views of mount fuji---by hokusai

This is one the great images ever made. It is the "Great Wave" and part of a series of 36 views of Mt. Fuji.


here is a link to the other 35.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36_Views_of_Mount_Fuji_(Hokusai)

one year anniversary of this thingy

I am coming up on one year (may 17th) of running this here website. I am throwing a small "bash" and will be meeting for drinks at the St. Regis at the King Cole Bar on 55th and 5th on May 16th (Friday). I will be giving away some free sketches and watercolors etc. All are invited and welcome, I am going to try to reserve a table space etc. Not sure if you can do that there. I'm thinking around 7:00 or so...Please RSVP if you would like to come, it will be fun and informal. There is a small chance of a change of venue if there are logistic issues but I think it will be fine.

all the best,

your humble narrator and scribbler

email me at alexgardega@gmail.com

all are invited.

quote of the day--joseph conrad

Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of the might within the land, bearers of a spark from the sacred fire. What greatness had not floated on the ebb of that river into the mystery of an unknown earth! . . . The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealths, the germs of empires.


Joseph Conrad

the family and the fishing net

here is a video of old of me painting a watercolor to a song. trying to do more of these soon but tech. issues causing me stress!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wg4UXt8sHM

link of the day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Z9mTlllPo

alex the curator

I am curating an art show for the artist Marshall Arisman in club Europa (Brooklyn) in mid May. All are welcome and I will update soon.

artist of the day---gahan wilson

Here is a photo of one of my favorite artists. For once I am not going to elaborate on an artist. I am going to let you google to find out about this great and demented genius.

man trapped in elevator for 42 hours

here is a great video of a man trapped in elevator. I am not sure why I find this video so interesting.


http://www.newyorker.com/online/video/2008/04/21/080421_elevators/?yrail

glass medusa

Here is my glass Medusa (for my new viewers.)

quote of the day---james russel lowell

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
James Russell Lowell

postage stamps etched in glass

My brain has been looking back on the glass stamp project I completed months ago. I have decided I want to make some more stamps in glass but I want to make them Gardega style, kind of surreal- Americana. Coming soon--- I have already designed two of them.

the pope---by gardega

I was walking up town today and I ran into another barricade and the cops were holding back people so the pope could pass. I saw the pope in his limo with another person who (I think) was the cardinal. I am not religious but it was a nice NYC moment.

vienna watercolor

I had a dream about Vienna last night. I have never been there. I woke up this morning and painted this--- a spiritual watercolor of a city I have never visited.

a different sky---by gardega

Art is a respite from the day to day world. It is an escape into another reality, another world-- a different sky.


watercolor 11 x 15