I have the next two days off, and hope to accomplish as much as I can in preparation for an art sale going on next week.  I've found that listening to CYNE increases productivity by roughly 60%.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6Rdpy3e1FM&feature=related

It's beautiful today.  I came to work early to work on some digital painting, and it has been most rewarding.  Hoping to have a new heading picture for the lounge up in the next couple of days.  It's going to be epic.

Much respect to Giant Panda.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd5YtUdF-a4

I enjoy both Radiohead and People Under the Stairs very much.  I was overjoyed when I found out I could take in both at the same time.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-1GfHOO_8c

Also, I am now a volunteer at the largest wildlife rehabilitation center in the country.  I'll be feeding baby birds, most likely with a syringe or something like the color picker tool from Photoshop.  I'm excited to be in such close proximity to birds.  It will be a great time for me to study them up close, and observe their movements.  I know it will benefit my art, and I think there's a chance I might find inspiration to animate.

Hip Hop

I asked a coworker of mine today if she listened to any hip hop.  She said yes, and then mentioned "apple bottom jeans," Christina Aguleira, and something else that I blocked from my memory.  Not hip hop.  Here's a lesson in true, retro, ultra funky hip hop by Souls of Mischief. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlUrk1RTQ7A

painting a painting

Worked 5.5 hours this morning, read about Biblical cosmology for my own personal enrichment, ran four miles, ate roughly 900 calories of pasta, and here I am, finally about to paint a painting.  With my last painting I kind of just did it, there was no premeditation involved.  That's right, Mondriardinals from start to finish took under two hours.

I've already got more time invested in just the composition of my current project.  I'm excited to see if following some art rules makes a difference. 

Also, I've been pierced by the arrow of God.  Your turn.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP2ISUThbcQ&feature=related

I've spent the past two hours playing around in Photoshop trying to work out all the kompositional kinks for a bird painting.  It's all set, now just for the long, arduous task of drawing and painting it.  Well, laundry and a four mile run, and some dinner will precede any work I do on the canvas, but I'll get to it.  I'll also be listening to a Helena Beat remix at least three times throughout the rest of the day, by one of my all time favorites Com Truise.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGNsFH0NRP8

No pictures to post tonight.  Sorry.  I'm very tired, probably going to work on a new painting for a couple hours though, which is exciting for me. 

Also, some bed time beats:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJnqr5sm7-s&feature=related

Mondriardinals

Oil on canvas

Behold!  My latest painting entitled, "Mondriardinals."  Two cardinals and some lines.  I showed this to another artist and dear friend of mine and was told it was a weird, awkward hybrid of Piet Mondrian and Audobon, hence the title.  An apt description, no?  Her work deals with light and is very clean, functional, and thought provoking at the same time.  You can check it out here:
http://cargocollective.com/shainarenaelund

You can also check out this 8 bit masterpiece from Groundislava if the cardinals didn't quite do it for you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwYdS4TjSQw&feature=related

White guy from Wisconsin

I am an average sized white male, hailing from Ladysmith, Wisconsin.  And these are the sounds I like to hear:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTUbCuS93IU

I listen to a wide variety of genres, but good hip hop will always have a special place in my heart.  I'm off to my weekly meeting with the Gunnar Collective.  We're a group of Christian artists who talk about art, and Jesus.  Yes, art and Jesus.  I've seen a few performance pieces that were all right, but rubbing dirt on a blind guys face and restoring his sight?  Performance art by Jesus.

No images to post tonight.  You should check this remix out though:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWb5jf3F3Hw&feature=endscreen

It's Starfucker's alter ego, Skeletron, with a mashup of their tune "Dragon Monkey" and Gucci Mane's "Running Back."  Simply amazing.  If you like it, I recommend listening to this one as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLlvkJAkkMc

All their other choices of songs to remix were pretty terrible, so I don't much care for those.  Polished Turds.

N.S.O.Y.A. Update

http://voigtlanderlounge.blogspot.com/2010/02/stab-at-painting.htm


Just a link back to an old post I updated tonight.  It's an abstract painting, basically me trying to figure out how oil paint goes down.  Not an easy task, as it turns out.  This owl, however, suggests that I am making significant improvements in my technique.  It's not done yet, don't judge. 

Professional Sparrow

Today, I applied for a position with the Wildlife Conservation Service.  From what I understand the work would consist mainly of monitoring sparrow like birds in Yellowstone National Park.  I think it would be beneficial to find a job that directly correlates to my artwork as this position would.  Also, I thought it might be wise to draw a bird on my resume to show the folks at WCS what I'm all about. 

Just realized all my contact information is visible in the picture.  Guess you all know where to find me now.  If you're not creepy feel free to come live the high life with me in #223.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnF3n5ojX6o&feature=topics

I wish my initials were W.I.P.

I have no work that is ready to post yet. All ideas and nothing to show for it.

 I've got two paintings coming up, a bad-ass mother owl, and a double perching bird composition which will be entitled, "Black death/Red death." They'll be all right.

I'm thinking about my drawing process too. I want to have complete control of it, and make sure any part of it that lacks principle, or reason, is discarded. Arbitrary rules? No, thanks.

Off to my nephew's birthday party for a few hours, then back to the drawing table to make some birds that are gonna stretch yo face.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgcHlZsOgQo&feature=related

Outsider Art

I read this quote on the wikipedia page for "Outsider Art"

Jean Dubuffet characterized art brut (outsider, or raw art) as:
"Those works created from solitude and from pure and authentic creative impulses – where the worries of competition, acclaim and social promotion do not interfere – are, because of these very facts, more precious than the productions of professionals. After a certain familiarity with these flourishings of an exalted feverishness, lived so fully and so intensely by their authors, we cannot avoid the feeling that in relation to these works, cultural art in its entirety appears to be the game of a futile society, a fallacious parade."

Amen.