note

barry..give me an email from new email account. tried to send you one and it bounced back.

please vote

People are logging in but not voting in my artist election. Please choose Dali or Picasso (to the upper right.) I made it painlessly easy.

yolk of genius---words of the day

The yolk of genius is sun-bright and yellow. Her radiance gives light and warmth long after death. After the "bag of bones" that we call our body is taken from us we can still radiate our being through the art and life we lived and left behind. Michelangelo is very much alive to every person who walks into the Sistine Chapel.

(authors note: when I paint an egg it is hollow. I called in a hollywood fx crew)

I will post some memory lane stuff today. The last year has been a busy one and it is good to gaze into the dark pool of reflected memories. I will also post a new painting of central park.

some visions of the past year

order and chaos

I found this picture of another artist's palette online---I had to laugh. My palette has never, will never, could never, look like this. My palette is always a big chaotic mess of dripping oils and smeared colors. My art comes out of chaos and not out of order. I do admire people who can keep a palette like this. Generally they are not painters of shadows but of fruits and pets. I am not knocking a neat palette it is just not me.

great video!

http://www.casspix.com/client_folder/fight_day.mov


my friend made this video. I think its is a great documentary. It is about a man who goes to a nursing home and shows old boxing films.

watercolor a day

Here is a watercolor at The Spotted pig in NYC. I have titled this piece "girl with book." email to purchase.

my 1,594 entry

VOTE!! picasso or dali.

dali or picasso!!

please vote on the right it is much easier than voting for a president and this actually matters...

black bird

murals by gardega

Dali is up five to zero and if he keeps the pace Picasso will have to be put out to pasture like an old horse.

vote

forget about the presidential vote!


do something important and vote for Dali or Picasso.

quote of the day---douglas adams

Douglas Adams - "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."

the art of humor

does humor belong in art? Frank Zappa

I drew this in 2004. I sometimes like a good chuckle as it helps release the stress of being an "artiste"

Please Vote.

Please vote on the right for Picasso or Dali---I am curious as to the public's stance.

drawing age 6

As a child I had an obsession with American Indians. (I always wanted the Indians to beat the cowboys on TV) I used to find arrow heads on the farm I grew up on. There was a baseball field near our farm and I could hear the people screaming sometimes---My dad told me it was Indians and I believed him for years. I have some American Indian blood in me. There was a joke among certain friends of mine that it was impossible to "sneak up" on me when we were growing up. Perhaps that is genetic and accounts for my love of fire water when I was in my twenties. "Nowadays" I dont go out--I stay in my apt and draw and paint.

portrait of lexi--by gardega

SOLD

grains of sand---

To see a World in a grain of sand,
And Heaven in a wild flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

william blake

to view grains of sand as you have never seen them, click below. So much to learn and see when you turn off your TV.

http://discovermagazine.com/photos/01-each-grain-of-sand-a-tiny-work-of-art

greetings, egypt.

update

Today I will deliver Bronx covers then I have to go to Brooklyn to finish some glass work. A great artist to google today would be Edmund Dulac. A great genius among men. I will write about him soon.

places to paint

I want to paint in the following places:

Barcelona

New Zealand

Texas (again)

South America

Florence

Atlantis (again)

great bread

Here is a not-so- great photo of my "great bread." The detail is lost but I will re-shoot. I want to tone down the reddish brown as well. I am trying to get my bread to have an "inner light" and to bring life to the mundane. It is only half-painted (or baked) at this point..

the great bread

I am still working on my bread painting and will photograph today.

central park--photo

I took this photo yesterday. Correct me if I am wrong but I think this a dogwood tree. I will paint this tree soon.

yankee stadium

Every year I have to paint Yankee Stadium and every year I battle the thought as I am not a baseball fan and I never know how to attack the painting and I fret and avoid it until the last minute when I have no choice but to sink or swim. After exploding yellow paint all over my art books I decided to paint outside behind my building in the sun. I think I have solved the Yankee cover for this year which makes me feel better but that is up to the art director and the "powers that be."

coincidence?

EDGAR DEGAS


GARDEGA

I think not!

explosion

Sometimes, when you are under deadline pressure and your primary yellow paint doesnt want to open and you have a really bad headache--- You can squeeze the tube harder to try to unblock the dried paint that is clogging the tube. Hopefully you are standing close to your favorite art books when the bomb goes off. If I had bad "modern art" books I could leave the spattered mess on and call it art.

bronx cover--by gardega

Here is my cover for the bronx yellow pages. It is inspired by art Nouveau and the artist Dulac with a few other influences from my unconscious... This is the Haupt conservatory in the bronx----I recommend a visit....I am working on Yankee stadium now as it is a dual cover (spanish and english)