Morning Walk

Here's a video from a morning walk. In the morning the air is clear and everything is quiet and there is no one around. Just the quiet sounds of the waves rolling up to the snow.

Graton Gallery

I'm currently showing paintings at the Graton Gallery located just outside of Sebastopol, California. The exhibition is showcasing several well known artists from the Northern California area. The work is outstanding and I'm happy to be surrounded by quality.

Come check it out.

http://gratongallery.com/

Here's a sad story

Towards the end of Michelangelo;s life he was found one day to be tossing old sketches into the fire. He knew that he was going to be remembered into posterity and he didn't want work that he thought wasn't quite up to par.

What's annoying is that his below average pieces are still mind blowing and we all could have learned so much from those works. Sometimes when a painting is ''too good' it's hard to comprehend how the artist did it. If you take a painting that isn't mind blowing is easier to understand how it's done. And replicate the idea if need be.

Amazing Woodblock Artist

Nice woodcuts. Worthy of checking out.


Tom Killion...




http://tomkillion.com/app/index

Purpose

This is not the first blog I've set up. While travelling through India, I set up a blog to tell about the stories that happened. The main motivation was to fill in my friends and family. I knew they would appreciate it, but I've never been one to talk about my adventures all that much. I've already lived through the story of my life, I don't feel the need to tell everyone else how cool my life is. Besides, there are enough people out there with an incorrect assumption about their own personal importance.

Telling stories reminds me of being in high school. I remember several times where something funny would happen to me, and I just couldn't wait to tell someone at work about my crazy day. Then when I get into work I tell the story once and I'm done telling it. Even if I didn't like the person I told it to and I really meant to tell someone else, I would hardly ever retell the tale.

Another time I was telling some people about this ridiculous accident I had on Tioga Pass Road. There was this boulder that almost crushed my car and could have sent me over the cliff. So I was telling the story and getting into all the details and the excitement. Afterwards another guy came up and wanted to know what happened. I said, 'A rock almost hit my car.' He said, 'I don't believe you.' I said, 'ok. That's nice.'

I think my aversion to repeated story telling has to do with hanging around drunks. A repeating drunk who drones on and on about something he just talked about five minutes ago really irks me. Just like when someone is retelling me something, I get annoyed. 'Why are you telling me this again? Obviously what you're telling me isn't important enough for you to remember you told it to me in the first place. So why should I remember it or have to listen to it twice?'

Regardless this blog scene is interesting. It's a possible source of new clients and new patronage, which is always good. And technically the story is only told once, but it's out there forever. It's permanent. My opinions and ideas change all the time and to have people quoting my blog saying 'well back in '08 you said you liked Gummi Bears, but now you say you don't eat 'em. What's up?'

I'll tell you what's up.... if you're going to spend time on the internet, you might as well read this, but if truth be known, I'd rather have you not reading this and doing something more productive.

That being said, since you already are here, why not read some more.