Artist's Manifesto/Creed/Mission Statement.

I, ___________________, will make art because I want to.

I will make one original work or pop out one idea a day.

I will enjoy looking at art almost as much as making it.

I will experiment with and delve into art making both popular and obscure.

I will fail.

I will triumph.

I will believe in myself and doubt myself.

My muse will kick my rear end in both reality and fantasy.

I will take more chances.

I will connect to the learned know-it-alls and attract and amaze the regular guy.

I will believe what I want to believe in and thumb my nose at gimmick and trends.

I will both conform and live on the left side of the radio dial.

I may not be as smart as you(booksmart, trash talker, name dropper, pop culture knowledge bank, art history speak, etc.) but give me adequate tools and I will create a smart, multidimensional, deep and profound, riddle-like statement in a manner that suits my soul.

I will admire and utilize simplicity and complexity. I will believe that both can walk hand in hand or apart, if need be. Redundant, maybe. Possible, for sure.

I will talk less and work more.

I will eat, drink, love, and sleep art, family, and inspiration.

I will fall apart physically. It’s because I am “working out” artistically.

I will fuse realism, abstraction, cartooning, expressionism, fantasy, and narrative.

I will claim to have it all figured out and be a clean slate at the same time.

(Feel free to add to this if you'd like,I wrote it one night, in my sketchbook, in a fury. It is largely unedited.I truly believe in and hope to live true to this manifesto/creed/mission statement.

just finished 43 new paintings over the past two months.
Stealing 10 minutes here and 30 minutes there. In between underdogs at the swing set and PBand J sandwiches on demand. i will post more soon.

Haven't posted in a bit as i am working on some stuff for a pretty big show in August. Waiting to hear on other shows and for $$ from the Madlab show. I sincerely hope to post a whole spell of work soon and publish an artist's manifesto that I scribbled one morning. HOpe you all are well and dipping a brush or pen every day. If you aren't, Shame, shame, shame...

Had a great opening on saturday. sold more than half of the 50 paintings on opening night. hopefully that will entice more buyers this month. Big things on the horizon. about 30 works in process between sketch and finished.

I love my family, my job, my friends, my life. Thank you art for saving me from boredom and sure dip shittery.

busting butt to get work and frames done for a show of fifty paintings at madlab gallery and i just got two paintings into a sweet juried show at the Metropolitan library. i work and exist to work. how easy is this life if you remain on a couch or planted in regular routine?