Are you an art lover? Have you fantasized about being an artist? You know it would be too hard to try to actually be one.
You know the isolation alone would make life unbearable. But you still have that daydream. In reality, it is a hard life.
What I am going to do on this website is to try to bring you really close to creating one of my paintings as best I can,
outside of a video. You can get close to a painting's creation by just checking in on this website, which will be continued
again in the future. For you that are unfamiliar with my work, they are very detailed and take hundreds of hours to complete.
I am going to re-create a small but very detailed, favorite painting of mine into a large one, freehand. My original "Joan
of Arc" is 16"x24". The new one will be 48"x84", that is 3.5 x's the size of the original. I am going to take a digital photograph
and publish it to this websitw, when I paint it. It will take a very long time, in today's lightening-fast pace.
As you can tell by these sites, I have other creative endeavors, although a project is never abandoned. Projects sometimes
overlap. It's a part of being self employed in the Arts. YOU ARE NEVER EVER OFF. It's hard to have a life, particularly if
you need a little job in order to get health insurance. I paid for my own, for many years, but as everyone well knows, it
can get quite expensive.
This should not be, in this country. What the hell is going on, anyway? How have we gotten to this point?
I sincerely
hope Obama can help our hideous state of things, but it can not happen overnight. Since 9/11, it is like we woke up in an
alternate universe, a bad science fiction movie.
BREAKING NEWS! DECEMBER 2008!
II've settled now in Orlando, but I've been working on the big Poe, and have been writing a book, over 400 pages, and
will be available at the end of December, 2008. You will not be disappointed.
Joan is put on hold for now, for painting I've been involved with the Poe, rendering the lighting
and colors more dramatic. It is still dark and gloomy, a much needed contrast to sunny Florida, but I feel being down here
has improved my sense of color and dramatic lighting. The Poe is not as dimensional as it could be.
Joan has not been totally abandoned, just put on hold for
now, which is the way I usually paint the pictures, usually working on more than one at a time. The book is as important as
anything I've painted.
I hope
you will enjoy it. The beginning is a little rough, a little hard to take, because it begins with three terrible deaths. The
Asperger qualities are quite pronounced, but it can introduce people to a different kind of logic, sometimes with humor.
The book is, nevertheless, entertaining.
xxxooo's to all of you,
lb
