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Over the respiratory 'flu and over the holidays. If I have to make a new year's resolution (something I try to avoid), I guess the most basic and useful would be to make myself ignore criticism from people I have no reason to give any credence to - random crazy people on the street, for instance, and anonymous people on the internet who are angry about contemporary culture. Since I haven't learned to do this yet, I'm awake at a quarter to two gnashing my teeth because lately, everything I paint, I feel good about on a technical level, but in the back of my head this guy who's recently been monopolizing BoingBoing's comments section starts whispering about how it's all just ironic hipster kitsch which is so two years ago; which is probably true and one of the reasons (along with lack of self-promotion skills) I wouldn't try and get it into a gallery even if they did take it, because I'd feel like a hack.
At the same time, I really *don't* have anything particularly profound to say - the world is full of other people saying stuff, who are either (a) way more qualified than I am to do so, or (b) pompous jerks I don't want to be like.
I can't not judge my work by the standards of my time, though, because let's face it everyone else is going to.
Starting to lose coherence. Roll cartoons:
Pencil and gouache on two 8x10" dollar-store canvases, painted as a Christmas present for theengineer and his brother.
Ink on paper, sketched earlier today.
Ink and watercolour on paper, also from my sketchbook, also earlier today.
Ink and gouache on canvas, earlier today - this is what pleased my enough to do the faux-classical ones above. I actually do like all these, so really this has been a pretty passive-aggressive fishing-for-compliments post.
At the same time, I really *don't* have anything particularly profound to say - the world is full of other people saying stuff, who are either (a) way more qualified than I am to do so, or (b) pompous jerks I don't want to be like.
I can't not judge my work by the standards of my time, though, because let's face it everyone else is going to.
Starting to lose coherence. Roll cartoons:
Pencil and gouache on two 8x10" dollar-store canvases, painted as a Christmas present for theengineer and his brother.
Ink on paper, sketched earlier today.
Ink and watercolour on paper, also from my sketchbook, also earlier today.
Ink and gouache on canvas, earlier today - this is what pleased my enough to do the faux-classical ones above. I actually do like all these, so really this has been a pretty passive-aggressive fishing-for-compliments post.
