Mermaids, Witches, Naiads, Dryads, Succubi, and other Femme Fatales. Imagine if World War II pilots put fantasy pinups on their planes!
Are we having fun or what?!
When was the last time you had genuine fun doing your art? When was the last time you looked at your art and started just laughing hysterically? I mean, not at it of course but with it?
This last piece, I couldn’t stop laughing. You have three distinct girls. The serious down to business one, the one who’s aloof, and the one who’s late to work and putting on her makeup while in a vehicle. Well, on a dragon.
I showed it to some friends and they laughed as well. Unfortunately, some girls do that and drive at the same time. A big no no. They could end up killing someone.
But on the back of a dragon? That’s totally OK.
We’re definitely going to work with Sophia again. She’s exactly what we look for in a pinup model. She has the personality, the attitude, and the body for it. She’s great to be around and she drinks whiskey, which in my book is a huge bonus. I may offend some folks here, but in my book, whiskey > everything else. Combined.
The other two girls? Allie and Allie. Allie in real life is a blonde. Since I see her at least once a week, I use her both for blondes and redheads. I’ve used Jin as a redhead before too.
I simply don’t have a true redhead model and honestly, red is my favorite hair color. Always has been and always will be. I even married a redhead.
Fun
I’ve also talked about beauty for beauty’s sake and how I don’t like cynicism. We live in very cynical times. You look around you and everyone looks like they’re either going to cry or blow their brains out.
So many zombies walking about. It’s just sad.
We’re all going to die. Yeah, I try to be healthy. Sure, I drink too much but everything else? I’m very healthy. Work out at the gym. Eat right.
That’s why fun is one of my artistic goals. My paintings are fun. They’re not so serious.
My music? Serious. Very serious.
Well, lyrically I’m having fun. But the music itself is very serious. Trying to do a modern version of Romantic era Classical music.
Need to live before we die
The meme has a woman assisting a dying man and desperately yelling to a professional looking man with a briefcase – “are you a doctor?”
The man in the briefcase says “yes. I have a PhD in Philosophy.”
The woman says “please help! This man is dying!”
The Philosophy guy says “but did he really live?”
Yes. It’s a silly meme. But how true is it really? Have you truly lived?
I can honestly say yes.
That doesn’t mean by any means I’m ready to die now. I still have decades more of living to go.
But I can honestly say that I’ve truly lived and you can see it in my art.
Serious exercise – you’re an artist or you’re training to be one. Or you wouldn’t be reading this article.
Have you really lived? If you can’t positively answer that with a straight face, then what do you need to do to change that?
I strongly believe that artists need to live. Truly live to create good art.
My favorites – Alphonse Mucha, the Pre-Raphaelites, Frank Frazetta, they all truly lived. And you can see it in their art.
