Welcome!

i like it a lot. it fills me with memories of love and what it feels like.

interesting the black and white balancing. i had to save and turn it to negative to read the right side.

what can i say... i am an artist. artists have time to study things and get a full impression.

example: a typical modern lady came over for dinner last night. she comes in my apartment/studio, notices a new painting in progress on the easel... all she did was see that something was on the easel. she didn't see the painting itself.
and all evening she wore me out talking about her very negligible problems. there are a hundred paintings stacked against the walls. people just don't see. or read, or care. i swear i will never get used to it.

good thinking, friend. i, in my uncanny wisdom was just staging a rehearsal for a lady i am really interested in.

recently, i had an aim to paint 30 paintings in 30 days. 17 days was my limit. but of course i have probably, 300 originals right here in my apartment. watercolors included.

my aim has nothing to do with this accumulation of work. i just wish to continue to be able.

i can't afford to be alive, right now, but i have a constant urge to paint. powers that be, steal my time. but if i don't comply, i will be buried.

a few days ago i applied to disney for writer/producer. to comply with social pressure from unemployment insurance.

there is no gentility in the world anymore. cyber is negligible. one is unaccountable. in the old days i would have had a gentle letter expressing their sadness that i didn't quite meet their profile for a new writer.

finally, i answer your question. some oil paintings take months. watercolors will be completed within that day.

take the last first. you get a little rusty. so sometimes it is cool to do a dress rehearsal.

the painting that took me six months was my first opus, "progress"

the midnight suitor for "japanese love poems" took a long time. not to paint but to conceive. all of those japanese love poem paintings took a month or more to work out. since it was the first time i would be published i was really trying my best and did a lot of research and a lot of dreaming.

no i am not successfully selling my art. even my ability. the world has grown too big. my plan is to just go ahead with projects of my own and to hell with the business world.
i don't care if my work doesn't see the light of day until whenever the universe wishes it.

nine years ago i asked for funding to work on a couple of projects. this is announced on the website hungryeyegraphics.
i have never even received a single email from it.

when a few people bought the originals of 'japanese love poems' on the venice beach boardwalk, they felt so guilty for stealing them for $20. then, i was just surviving one day at a time.

'progress', or 'protest', was stolen on the boardwalk. so was the self-portrait when i was 16... the blue ribbon winner, and "the lovers", my 15 year old masterpiece. the los angeles police art theft department is still looking for it.
one of my more laconic friends says, i did all my best work long ago. but i disagree. barring any more cataclysms in my life, i should be able to complete not only the books i am illustrating but many more paintings from my own heart and imagination.

i'm something of a rusty rooster myself.

I guess I should introduce myself.
I am Themugs other half, and I've heard a lot of good things about you so I decided to stop by and check out your most awesome blog.

It's nice to finally meet ya!

The pleasure is mine, and you are most welcome.

I enjoy your blog.