Hello Everyone.  You probably don't remember me.  I haven't been on here in almost two years.  Haven't painted in nearly two years as well.  I think I'm finally waking up and ready to start posting again.  Working on several paintings at the moment and posted the first of which just now.  My hiatus has changed my style and I look forward to where it takes me.  I hope to reconnect with my old friends on here and make some new ones.

Peace Love and Groovy Colors to you all.

Just found out one of my paintings has been counterfeited. What a strange feeling to see my art done by somebody else.

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Check out the art of Jeremy Baum
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LEGENDARY ARTIST JEAN GIRAUD, ALIAS MOEBIUS, PASSES AWAY.  May 8, 1938 - March 10, 2012

Jean Giraud, the enormously influential French comic artist widely known as Moebius, passed away this morning in Paris following a long illness, RFI reports. He was 73.

While Giraud and his works are far better known in his native France than in the United States, it's virtually impossible to overstate his influence on comics artists, writers and readers around the globe. For evidence, look no further than Twitter, where "Jean Giraud" and "Moebius" are worldwide trending topics.

Co-creator, with writer Jean-Michel Charlier, of the Western comic strip "Fort Navajo" and its hugely popular spinoff "Blueberry," Giraud was born in 1938 in the Parisian suburb of Nogent-sur-Marne, where he spent his childhood drawing cowboys and Indians.

Trained at the prestigious Ecole des Arts Applique in Paris and apprenticed to celebrated Belgian artist Jije, Giraud began using the pseudonym Moebius in 1963 for his more experimental science fiction and fantasy work. The name disappeared for more than a decade, only to be revived in 1975 when Giraud co-founded "Metal Hurlant," the acclaimed anthology that serialized his famed comics "The Airtight Garage" and "Azrach." In 1981, Giraud collaborated with Alejandro Jodorowsky on the science fiction comic "The Incal.".

Giraud also famously teamed with Stan Lee for the two-part "Silver Surfer: Parable," published in 1988 by Marvel.

A prolific storyboard artist and concept designer, Giraud worked on such science fiction films as "Alien," "Tron" and "The Abyss." His "Blueberry" was adapted as a live-action movie in 2004 (Giraud even appeared in a cameo role).

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For a couple of years now I've been compiling a list of Movies, Documentaries, and Books about art and artists.  With your help it has grown considerably.  Now I'm adding a category for podcasts.  I'm mainly interested in podcasts that are current and still running or that are so exceptional they are timeless.  If you can think of any to add to this list it would be greatly appreciated.  

Movies

-Art School Confidential
-Basquiat
-Camille Claudel
-Cashback (not really about art but from an artist viewpoint)
-Frida
-Gauguin the Savage
-Girl with a Pearl Earring
-Goya's Ghosts
-Klimt
-Little Ashes
-Local Color
-Love Is The Devil
-Lust for Life
-Modigliani
-Moulin Rouge (1952 version, not the new one)
-New York Stories (the first story)
-Paradise Found
-Pollock
-Surviving Picasso
-Synedoche, New York
-The Agony and The Ecstasy
-Vincent and Theo


Documentaries

-Alex Grey: The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors
-American Masters: Andy Warhol
-Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century: Seasons 1 & 2
-Beautiful Losers
-Chuck Close: A Portrait in Progress
-Crumb
-Exit Through the Gift Shop
-Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (Ralph Steadman appears here also.)
-Graffiti Wars
-In the Realms of the Unreal - Henry Darger
-Ken Burns' America: Thomas Hart Benton
-Max Ernst
-Painting with Fire - Frank Frazetta
-Rivers and Tides*(Andy Goldsworthy Working With Time)
-The Cool School: How LA learned to love modern art
-The Mystery of Picasso
-Who Does she think she is?
-Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?


Books

-Art & Fear-David Bayles and Ted Orland
-Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain-Betty Edwards
-Life, Paint and Passion-Michele Cassou, Stewart Cubley
-My Name Is Asher Lev-Chaim Potok
-No More Secondhand Art, Awakening The Artist Within-Peter London
-The Master Painter-Edwin Mullins (fiction)
-The Sound Of Sleat-Jon Schueler


Podcasts

-Art a GoGo Podcast artagogo.libsyn.com/rss

-Bad at Sports badatsports.libsyn.com/rss

-Untitled Art Show untitledartshow.com/uas.xml

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My apologies if this is all over the map. It's just some of my hopes and fears for the future.

  2011 was gone in the blink of an eye.  I hope 2012 doesn't go that fast especially if it's the last year of our existence.  I don't really think that's the case.  I do hope things drastically change for the better.
  As we usher in another year I find myself in the usual predicament...am I going in the right direction with my art?  Do I want to change my style, even what medium I use?  Usually when I try this it's a major waste of time and I go back to what I was doing before.
  Isn't that what we do as artist?  Isn't that how we grow?  It sure doesn't feel like it most of the time.  It seems like 1% of experimentation is fruitful.  Is it worth it to try new things when the success rate is so low.  I guess it is...for some of us anyway, but how will we know if we don't try.
  We have to take that shot.  Where would we be if Picasso or Pollock hadn't?  My art doesn't look anything like theirs but they are some of my biggest inspiration.
  When I was younger it seemed like no matter what my mood was it only enhanced my work.  Anger made my work more powerful and dark.  Boredom made me more creative.  That's not the case anymore.  Now I can only seem to paint when I'm somewhat happy or content.  Part of my problem is the internet.  We didn't have it when I was younger.  When there was nothing else to do I either drew, read comic books, or watched TV and I didn't watch much because we only had 3 channels.  Star Trek reruns and Saturday morning cartoons were all I watched so not a lot of TV.  Now it's too easy when I get home from work to open up the laptop with the intention of being on 30 minutes or so then working on my art.  30 minutes turns in hours then I'm too tired to do anything else.  I guess my New Years resolution should have been more self control.
  What if the Net or maybe even the Grid went down in 2012?  It would suck but it would release a lot of us from it's grip to pursue what we was meant for if there wasn't roving packs of maniacs trying to kill us.  I'm an information freak and the internet is just too convenient for me.  I used to go to the dictionary, encyclopedia, book store, or library, now I can do it even better without having to get out of bed.  Kind of cool but kind of sad.  
  You've probably heard that everything has been done.  Surely not, but there really hasn't been anything that unique done with art in 50 or so years in my opinion.  Could that be a sign, an omen? Maybe the big change would be a new Renaissance of art, a new beginning among other things. I don't know, wishful thinking I guess.
Let's look to the future with hope instead of dread. Instead of looking at it negativity let's look at it with positivity.

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For a couple of years now I've been compiling a list of Movies, Documentaries, and Books about art and artists.  With your help it has grown considerably.  Now I'm adding a category for podcasts.  I'm mainly interested in podcasts that are current and still running or that are so exceptional they are timeless.  If you can think of any to add to this list it would be greatly appreciated.  

Movies

-Art School Confidential
-Basquiat
-Camille Claudel
-Cashback (not really about art but from an artist viewpoint)
-Frida
-Gauguin the Savage
-Girl with a Pearl Earring
-Goya's Ghosts
-Klimt
-Little Ashes
-Local Color
-Love Is The Devil
-Lust for Life
-Moulin Rouge (1952 version, not the new one)
-New York Stories (the first story)
-Paradise Found
-Pollock
-Surviving Picasso
-Synedoche, New York
-The Agony and The Ecstasy
-Vincent and Theo


Documentaries

-Alex Grey: The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors
-American Masters: Andy Warhol
-Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century: Seasons 1 & 2
-Beautiful Losers
-Chuck Close: A Portrait in Progress
-Crumb
-Exit Through the Gift Shop
-Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (Ralph Steadman appears here also.)
-Graffiti Wars
-In the Realms of the Unreal - Henry Darger
-Ken Burns' America: Thomas Hart Benton
-Max Ernst
-Painting with Fire - Frank Frazetta
-Rivers and Tides*(Andy Goldsworthy Working With Time)
-The Cool School: How LA learned to love modern art
-The Mystery of Picasso
-Who Does she think she is?
-Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?


Books

-Art & Fear-David Bayles and Ted Orland
-Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain-Betty Edwards
-Life, Paint and Passion-Michele Cassou, Stewart Cubley
-My Name Is Asher Lev-Chaim Potok
-No More Secondhand Art, Awakening The Artist Within-Peter London
-The Master Painter-Edwin Mullins (fiction)
-The Sound Of Sleat-Jon Schueler


Podcasts

-Art a GoGo Podcast artagogo.libsyn.com/rss
-Bad at Sports badatsports.libsyn.com/rss
-Untitled Art Show untitledartshow.com/

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