value of art

It's 2:17 am.  I'm just chilling on the couch.  Hung out with some cool people tonight, was going to go to this outdoor thing but thunderstorm.  I did this drawing though.  There is good art and there is bad art.  And mediocre art.  All levels of art really, all art is in the same category and it's worth within that category also has a place.  This is some good art that I made.  I'm living in a society where a beautiful woman can upload a picture of herself on the toilet, call it art, and get more views than this drawing probably ever will.  And that's a tragedy in my opinion.  The world, society, rewards a woman flaunting her sexuality and, I don't know what she's saying actually, like "me shitting is art."?  I mean I don't know how else to take that but, no.  Just no.  Sure, she can call that art but it's definitely not good art.  Let's be smart people.

Everybody has their thing

Here's mine, in progress.  Barn Swallows for a collaboration with Shaina Lund:

And one of my favorite songs:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etbt_8Qkb30

Celtic Junction

http://www.thecelticjunction.com/art-gallery/kyle-voigtlander/


So the Celtic Junction has me up on their artist profile page.  Pretty cool, the lady did a good job with it.  I believe Carrilon is her name, well done Carrilon.  Thanks for supporting local art!

The Crow

I've been really pleased with the development of this piece.  I've been working on it more lately.  It often reminds me of seeing hundreds of crows gathered together on the edge of downtown Minneapolis last fall.  They pooped so much, the sidewalks looked like a Jackson Pollock.  Anyway, here's a progress shot:

Campin' out on friday night

Camp

Progress shot of a celebrity pigeon.  I've got so many projects going at this point, I'm thinking I'll die before I complain about being bored again. 

It's a "People Under the Stairs" type night:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc7H3SrK4DM

Space Falcon

Space Falcon

This the latest drawing I've completed.  A personal project, this drawing was just a fun experimentation playing with scale, and trying to capture the feeling of the bird being more of a character than a bird. 


The lack of more realistic portrayal of our solar system is a distraction for some.  I didn't really anticipate that, as I was more concerned with trying to pack too much into the background, and in doing so take the focus away from the falcon.  I'm looking forward to taking what I did successfully in this drawing and improving on that in  another space bird drawing.   


This is a cool song, even cooler music video. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ID1plssS4s

Vision Poster

We've all had near misses with love.  But does that mean we give up on love?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0n4dtroy7Y

This is a mock up of a poster I was asked to do.  I'm liking the layout and general idea.  Finding the fonts for the final draft will be a challenge, but one that I take on gladly. 

raven

This is a Buddhist raven from Tibet.

A lot of good things are happening.  One of them this color scheme.