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Sunday 27 February 2011
Alternative Realities - 3 new paintings
Friday 25 February 2011
Wednesday 23 February 2011
Canned Oxygen - Icosahedron Gallery, March 5 to 26 2011
The information for the Canned Oxygen -exhibition, including an on-line catalogue is now on their website: http://www.icosahedrongallery.org/SearchResults.asp?Cat=454
Only thing, the painting "Max Bygraves" is not in the show.
Tuesday 22 February 2011
Clash of the Artists
Art for progress run an annual competition for artists based on online votes - so support me by voting!CLICK HERE!!
And then scroll down - you should find me eventually! I'm just over half way down...
Thursday 17 February 2011
Market abstract - Hanging around
The Hanging around is a reference for a number of things - that this canvas is still hanging around, that I like hanging around markets - and whilst painting the Stranglers came on..
One of 'em comes over,
he's got a monkey on his shoulder
and the monkey's getting grinner
but his eyes are on the ground
He's just hanging around...
Friday 11 February 2011
Art Scams
Will they never go away? Today I've been hassled by three different scammers. Firstly some pain called "Jordana Jack" wanting me to sell her works - she'll organise the shipping. If you don't know how this one works, it's like this:
They ask for you to give them a price for a work but they will "use their own shipper":, then they ask you to take too much money for some convoluted reason and ask you to repay them the rest. Jeez they think people are stupid.
Strangely when you tell them you only accept paypal and use your own shippers they go away. In this case it was amusing in that they asked to purchase two prints - which would have cost about 10€ to post!
The other two scams are more subtle
One said I had been 'chosen' to have my work featured in a publication of art. Akl I had to do was send them 1500€... The other one asked me to enter an open exhibition/competition - at the cost of 80$ per artwork, where, if I was one of the lucky chosen ones, my work would be *gasp* 'exhibited for two years... on a website. Hmmm. And there is a first prize worth 4,900€!!! Wait a minute - the key word is "worth"... The first prize is TWO WHOLE PAGES featuring your work in a new art publication. Second prize ("worth" 2,450€) is ONE PAGE. But never mind if you don't win, you can buy a page....
I guess artists are vulnerable souls desperate for appreciation, so are easy prey for bastards like these. But I wish they would go away.
In the meantime a big appreciation is due to the following scam-fighters:
http://stopartscams.blogspot.com/
http://www.artscams.com/
They ask for you to give them a price for a work but they will "use their own shipper":, then they ask you to take too much money for some convoluted reason and ask you to repay them the rest. Jeez they think people are stupid.
Strangely when you tell them you only accept paypal and use your own shippers they go away. In this case it was amusing in that they asked to purchase two prints - which would have cost about 10€ to post!
The other two scams are more subtle
One said I had been 'chosen' to have my work featured in a publication of art. Akl I had to do was send them 1500€... The other one asked me to enter an open exhibition/competition - at the cost of 80$ per artwork, where, if I was one of the lucky chosen ones, my work would be *gasp* 'exhibited for two years... on a website. Hmmm. And there is a first prize worth 4,900€!!! Wait a minute - the key word is "worth"... The first prize is TWO WHOLE PAGES featuring your work in a new art publication. Second prize ("worth" 2,450€) is ONE PAGE. But never mind if you don't win, you can buy a page....
I guess artists are vulnerable souls desperate for appreciation, so are easy prey for bastards like these. But I wish they would go away.
In the meantime a big appreciation is due to the following scam-fighters:
http://stopartscams.blogspot.com/
http://www.artscams.com/
Tuesday 8 February 2011
Who killed Bambi?
Gentle pretty thing
Who only had one spring
You bravely faced the world
Ready for anything
I'm happy that you lived
For your life is mine
What have I except to cry
Spirit never die
Birds of the air
Beasts of the earth
Overjoyed at Bambi's birth they gambolled in the glade
Who killed Bambi?
Who killed Bambi?
Who killed Bambi?
Who killed Bambi?
Who killed Bambi?
Who killed Bambi?
Who killed Bambi?
Who killed Bambi?
Who killed Bambi?
Murder murder murder
Someone should be angry
The crime of the century
Who shot little Bambi
Never trust a hippie
'Cause I love punky Bambi
I'll kill to find the killer
In that rotten roll army
All the spikey punkers
Believers in the ruins
With one big shout
They all cry out
Who killed Bambi?
Who?
Who killed Bambi?
Who killed Bambi?
Who killed Bambi?
Who killed Bambi?
Who killed Bambi?
Who killed Bambi?
Who killed Bambi?
Who killed Bambi?
Who killed Bambi?
Sunday 6 February 2011
Something Right
I was hanging some pictures today on the gallery wall. One of the paintings I was going to hang was "Something Ain't Right" - an abstract inspired by the Talking Heads song. But when I went to hang it I thought: "hang on, something ain't right". So I spent the next couple of hours working on it. So now here it is, reborn as "Something right".Better, I think.
Saturday 5 February 2011
Fenêtres Vista
The title is an unsubtle pun. I use a mac.
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