Looong Break

Yeah, I ditched this blog for a while, but now I want to make it move again. I wanted to do some serious art and explore some subjects outside my norm, horror. I have done so and still am a HUGE advocate for nudes and dispelling the myth that ANY body part is wrong inappropriate, or obscene. Even an erection is just another body part when viewed logically. The idea that the human body is dirty comes from religion and has plagued us for far too long. I say, end it now! To that end, I painted many many nudes and showed them at a very successful art show in Donelson TN it was a blast and I laughed at every scandalized face. In this post, I have provided some of my contributions. I would love to hear your opinions.

Sold!

Sold!

Sold!

Look out! This last one is too much for many people!

I warned you!

Some quotes to take with these images.

This one is in some ways, my greatest work. It forced me to push past the cultural stigmas I have been programmed with and the fear of  offending people with controversy. 

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. Salvador Dali

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do. Georgia O'Keeffe

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. Thomas J. Watson

Creation

 

 

I love the Creation of Man; in one of my drawing classes we had to mimic some art styles outside our norm and this was the result of my efforts my first try. It has some problems, but I enjoyed making it. Death watches, ready to start his work.  

Censorship

I was commissioned to create an illustration showing how the imagination refuses to be repressed and the internal struggle of the creative in oppressive situations by a professor I work with at IADT of Nashville. I am a strong advocate of creative freedom and agree with the following quotes on controversy. The images erupting from the man’s head show a progress of thought from left to right of shapes forms and connections in one way or another, illustrating the progress of thought. All of the other symbols are fairly straight forward and do not need explaining.

“I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.”
― Marvin Harris

“How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?”
― Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

 

"The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting."
Vincent van Gogh