AJ FOYT #2

Here's another Foyt. This one really looks like this:

... but I couldn't resist photoshopping it yellow, because that is Mick's favorite color.

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ACEOS FROM BEN

Life is full of unexpected turns. For instance, I did not expect to ever become an art dealer, yet here I am, selling the work of a friend of mine who is too lazy to set up his own eBay account. Or he's hoping to ride the coattails of my meteoric rise to ACEO stardom. Either way, I don't mind. He's giving me 50%. So bid high.

Here are three others, all for sale on eBay:

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DEBUFFET-ISH PINK CAT

You knew it would happen eventually.

In my art education travels, I find masters who inspire me. Debuffet, who's all "three dimensions are for suckers," (I might be paraphrasing a bit) makes for a great Kitty experiment. No depth. Two dimensional. Haphazardly, even chaotically, put together. Not entirely unlike me. And yet... and yet you love kitty, don't you?

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SCREAMING KITTY

A fan of the kitties once told me that Francis Bacon's SCREAMING POPE gave her nightmares.

What's stronger: Love for kitties, or fear of Screaming Art?

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VARNISH TARNISH

You can't frost hot brownies. You can, but you'll have to offer them to your dinner guests as Abstract Brownies.

So here's an Abstract Painting^TM. I'm not going to lie to you: this was not how I expected it to turn out. I had made a cool little painting of an angry looking geisha type. It would have been a perfectly suitable addition to my FACES collection. And then I tried to emulate a certain popular aceo artist who shall remain nameless. All I will tell you his name rhymes with Lick Freezer.

I tried to add a glaze to gouache. Either it wasn't dry enough, or I was using the wrong glaze. As you can see, everything ran together. This is the result.

The real title, by the way, is RED LADY WITH FORKS STICKING OUT OF HER MINI-SATELLITE DISH HAIR-DO, but that won't fit.

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BECKMANN-ISH

Max Beckmann is one of those artists many people have said I should check out. Alright, already. I've checked him out. And, as usual, those people were right. Cool stuff. So here I offer up unto you, verily verily, my interpretation of Beckmann's Still Life with Three Skulls.

I suppose you could find a poster of this somewhere. If you bought that, you'd have a more accurate representation of the real thing. And it would be bigger. But, and I hate to be the one to break it to you, posters are tacky. And even though this aceo is a painting of someone else's work, it's realer art than a poster.

Just be happy that I didn't try to make it more my own by adding a naked Belly Punker.

Anyway, here's the real thing:

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ART CLASS SKETCHES

Here's that Cezanne painting again, this time sketched in 15 minutes. Stop watch and everything.

And here's what I did with the rest of the class time. Interpret as you will. Or don't. I don't control your mind.

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Look, "Cezanne," if that is you're real name (sounds French to me), don't make me send my wild pack of lawyers after you. Here is my painting:

and here is what I find floating around the internets under YOUR supposed name:



You. Me. Playground. After school. Bring your lunch money.

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BURCHFIELD-ERIFIC

When I first started painting, smart art people suggested Charles Burchfield as an artist I might enjoy. They were right - his work is very good.

I'm not going to school for any of this, so to educate myself on the masters I'm reading books and, as you may recognize here, copying their work. This is my attempt (homage?) at Charles Burchfield's "Gothic Window Trees.

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I've been a bad blogger. A good school photographer, but a bad blogger. Here's the latest non-aceo stuff.

First, I worked on the jaundice man painting a bit.

I decided he was at sea, mainly because I over-squirted the blues for a different painting.

Here's an art classmate's birdfeeder.

She potteried it herself. I made up the environment in which it sits.

Red flowers, grown by another art classmate.

I don't like the drapery it sits on; I was doing well with wrinkled fabrics recently. I must have taken it for granted. I like the flowers, though. And even though you can't really tell what it is, I like the way the stems look in the jar.

And my latest, a blatent Burchfield rip-off:

I especially like the happy accident with the trees in the background. I'm going to play around with that style for a bit, I think.

CHAGALL-ISH BOUQUET

"I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment."
- Marc Chagall

A wise old man (he may have been Canadian - possibly even a Mountie) once told me that in art, it's not stealing if you call it "inspired by." So this painting is "inspired by" much of Chagall's work. You see, we here at HarmoniousJosh Inc. are not just about selling tiny art. We want to educate. But we're lazy teachers, so go google Chagall yourself.

You may (or may not; I'm going to tell you either way) be interested to know that the bouquet is actually in front of a window. I had painted a little scene out there, which was actually quite nice. Then I got carried away with the flowers. I'm quite happy with the final product, I just thought you should know you're actually getting two paintings in this deal. Unfortunately, you can only see one.

You know what to do by now.

Posting to the ol' blog might be a little light for a while. Seems like Mick Reasor, whose art can be purchased here, has decided to report me to the Canadian Authorities:

(Illo by Mick Reasor)

Stop laughing. He knocked out one of my teeth!

In retaliation, I think I may have gotten myself in bigger trouble:

(Illo by me)

Sigh.

I've got three new ones on ebay. I posted them all at the same time, so I could get a better indicator of what style is more popular. You, dear reader, could also help out by leaving a comment or two, letting me know which one you like best!

These three are: TOUR DE SKULLY, LANDSCAPE 1, and SUN PRACTICE. The landscapes are influenced by the paintings of Charles Burchfield, who've I've just been clued into. TOUR DE SKULLY comes with a rant, which goes as follows:

So anyone who at the very least glances at the Tour on TV will notice how skeletal the riders are. Many of them are downright ghoulish, especially in the final stages. In this anti-obesity hysterical society we live in, it should be pointed out that exercise more often than not is very unhealthy. That’s right, I said it. Being fat isn’t a health crisis. Maniacally demanding people adhere to some arbitrary waifish beauty standard is. Athletes should not be viewed as the pinnacle of health. They severely abuse their body to successfully compete for our enjoyment. If there was a drug that had the same effects on the human body as the Tour, you can bet our bed-wetting politicos would be earning popular points for demanding it’s prohibition.

To purchase, click on my What am I selling now? link on the right.

TOLTEC WARRIOR

This is an image I've been meaning to do for a while. I just wasn't sure how to do it (marker, color pencil, etc). After finishing the skull last night, I new I had the style I wanted.

The image is that of a Mexica warrior of the Coyote order - that's a coyote's maw his face is emerging from. Cool stuff.

(Man, what a drought. No sale again.)