first of all let me say that the portrait of 'kelsey' is finished and it looks beautiful!...i'm looking forward to showing my client what it looks like...
you might have noticed that today's blog entry is being posted much later than usual...this is because i took a brief break from working to meet with a friend for coffee downtown...we did our usual routine of visiting a few galleries near the coffee shop...well, i must say that i was amazed to find in one gallery a showing some pretty nasty abstract work...messy, uninspiring and absolutely no point to it whatsoever, unless of course you have a huge rat hole that needs covering up...along with the abstrat work, the gallery had devoted a big space to a brand new wheelbarrow...hmmm?...i wondered, what would happen if i took this wheelbarrow around the gallery and hauled out the ugly paintings to the trash?...would the gallery thank me or ban me?...and if the work wasn't shocking enough there were first year art students sitting on a bench in front of one large piece studying the work before them as though it was an aparition of salvador dali...to accompany their serious gawking,they were taking notes and making sketches of the painting...if there was enough room in the wheelbarrow for all of them, i would have hauled them out to the street...they should be directed to a gallery is showing really interesting, thought provoking work and not someone's idea of a joke!....
and so i sit here in my studio wondering, 'why do i spend so much time on a painting, when i can go out to the garage and pull out that rusty rake, prop it up in a gallery, slap a price tag of $13,000 on it and call it art?'...do you think art students would feel compelled to sit there and sketch it??
tomorrow, i start again on 'zoe'...unless i visit that undiscovered bevy of art, the home depot...
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