the ART COLONY

[GRH]

Gardening is my most creative outlet as of late. Granted, it is closely associated with my job, but it's something I absolutely love to do. Composing with the color and texture of foliage and flowers and then having to care for the little buggers.

It's funny what education does...It usually informs you, but it doesn't always inspire you. My wife and I met in art school and fell in love, at the time I was the faggoty little goth kid who wore skirts and dresses and wore lots of black makeup. At any rate, we followed each other into the same program, and ended up graduating so incredibly cynical and embittered with the whole art world once we finally graduated. She has rekindled her artistic passion though, I have largely redirected mine. I have occasionally poked around with knitting, latchhooks, things like that. But my biggest creative draw as of late is that of writing. I have been told once-upon-a-time that I'm a half decent writer, and I enjoy writing poetry and have the ambition of writing a novel documenting some of my memoirs.

Jim, do you do the majority of your art on a computer? Computers were always too sterile and mechanical for my taste. I preferred media that provided more tactile stimulation.

[sesame]

Would you consider these images as artforms?
I used to find pleasure in creating 3D art.
But lately I enjoy sketching very much;
As, in my opinion, the lesser number of props I use,
the better is the flow of bliss and aesthetics.

Beauty like poetry, philosophy and music has
the power to deliver bliss in a very pure state.
And its a matter of heart.
Art resides inside the heart.

[jimnaseum]

The majority of my artwork was done on the margins of school notebooks. That's great, sesame, I expect GRH to post an artwork or garden photo posthaste! Maybe one of his wife's things he loves the most. I hope the Art Colony can be a place where people can de-pressurize after a few weeks of torrid tranny photos, and maybe share the personal touch of art.

[GRH]

Yes Sesame, those are quite good in my estimation. Art is whatever you feel it to be...It doesn't have to measure up to any critical standards. I should post some pictures, but what is the best way to go about it around here? Setting up a third party photobucket account?

[jimnaseum]

I wondered about that too.

[cham]

Sesame, great stuff. Please post more of your sketches I do computer generated art, or rather derivative works, of shemales.

Cham

[jimnaseum]

testing one two. Here's a couple of my favorites one photoshop and an older oil painting. I'm using imageshack, so if that's against the rules, just delete. I know new viewers don't get many downloads so I don't expect them to waste their limited selections on this.

[twistedone]

I wish I could draw. I can barely draw a stick shemale.

sesame and jimnaseum, those are great samples of your talents. Don't let them go to waste.

[SluttyShemaleAnna]

I think 90% of art is more accurately classified as Shite, there is a problem with art, and that is fucktards. There's nothing worse than a tard with no tallent of his own, who flocks like a sheep after whatever seems to offer him an air or coolness by association. And thus the buzzwords edgy and provocative were born, and then wrung dry of all meaning. Words like composition, aesthetic, palette, and are replaced by retarded blithering on shapes and movement and ohh look at the pretty colours, while some retarded monkey blabbers about the artist message or some such shit.

Basicly art has been debased by consumer culture into a state where a fucktard can put up a painting, and noone will look at it and say 'fuck, that is the biggest piece of shit I've ever seen, get it out this gallery and put something worthwhile there', because they are afraid they might have the opposite opinion to someone cool.

That's not to say that there is no good art around, but when someone puts a broken piano in a gallery and says this is art, no, that is a cool looking object, but that is all, I saw a broken piano in the street the other day, If I had painted the broken piano sat in the street, or photographed it, or built a sculpture of it sat in the street, that would be art, to take the broken piano itself and put it in a gallery is not art, any more than randomly digging a bone from the ground and walking off with it is archeology, or glancing at some stars is astronomy.


Anyway, enough criticism, I'm more of a scientist than an artist, but as anyone knows scientists are better artist than artists are anyway.
I did do a lot of stencil stuff, but I could never get people to keep watch for me when I want out spraying, and I never liked doing it on my own, I was worried a copper would sneak up on me right in the middle of spraying something.


I once formed a group called UBX, our purpose was to go into restricted areas, and explore places we were not allowed, we still haven't penetrated most or our targets, and the best exploration we managed, we got in by chance when we only had a phone camera, we also had a mark we left behind which we always forgot to take with us too, the mutant wasp.


Here's a pic of a huge fork n spoon mountain we found in an abandoned kitchen, and the stencil I made for us to spray in places we went.