Michael Barrett
If you think about it, all art is conceptual. A painting, for example, is colored mud on a surface. Why is that a thing we feel like has any value? Why is it different from signage? Well, because there’s this idea of paintings that goes back 400 years.
I first learned about Simon Freund when I stumbled across https://allipossess.com. I like the cool, dispassionate, thoughtful nature of it. There’s a hint of devilishness and humor throughout.
This piece “Stock Photo” by Simon Freund is an installation - but it’s much more poignant to me as a photo. Sure there’s some fun irony in calling an installation a ‘stock photo’ but framing something as a photograph explicitly says “look at this”…
countless.info is an online installation by conceptual artist Simon Freund. The amount displayed is a reflection of the artist’s financial situation at any given time.
Apple Calendar still doesn’t support HTML in event descriptions. Calendar seems very opinionated as to what belongs in a calendar event. Time, guests, location, title, maybe a paragraph. That’s it! No notes for you! Weird.
Did some morning painting on the train. Drawing from old photos on Shorpy.com. I’m trying to develop my sense of value and trying to stay loose. I tend to get fidgety with detail way too early. There’s so much I didn’t learn in art school.
Coincident with joining Micro.blog I deactivated my Facebook and Pinterest accounts and cleaned up some other social media. I want to focus on things that help me create or produce.
I am finding that the frictionless nature of writing on Micro.blog encourages me to write more. I fail to journal regularly (in Day One) and I only write a “proper” blog if I have art to share or talk about. This is easier and freer.
Lovely landscape study from concept artist and illustrator Ivan.
Do you have a pool?
“Do you have a pool?” is a web painting of an infinite Motel 6. I’ve painted this Motel 6 before. When I say “this Motel 6” I really mean every Motel 6 because they’re all alike. They might even all be literally the same Motel 6.
When I was making this piece I thought about that feeling at arriving at this American classic and walking by all the doors in the hot sun until I arrived at my door. There’s something comforting and democratic about how they’re all the same, but also unnerving. Each door is anonymous. Each door is closed against the sun. What’s going on in there? Anything? Is anyone even alive here?
Technical notes
I created the imagery in Procreate with an Apple Pencil on an iPad Pro. I exported the painting as a layered image file and broke it up into repeating sections. The three-dimensional effect of the parking lot is accomplished with CSS 3D transformations. The parallax effect of the railing is a simple layer animated slightly faster than the layer behind it. One of the accidental effects I love is that on smaller windows, the scene passes by more slowly. It’s fun to scrunch up the browser window so the effect of the infinite is exaggerated by scale.
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This musical illustration is totes adorbs.
Speaking of friends who make art - one of my oldest friend (who is one week younger than me) has returned to making big abstract art.
Sterling’s Art is about layers and process and cubes.
My buddy turned me on to this artist today.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who wants to raid the office supply cabinet to make giant compositions
The first web painting I made was about 75% a joke for a friend…but I loved it. Now I’ve done 4 more and it’s starting to be a thing.
majid.coffee shtacks.com guacamole.tips littleoverripe.com doyouhaveapool.com
What’s a web painting? It’s just a single-serving web site with art on it. I’ve been making these things for a while now, inspired of course by www.newrafael.com/websites/
I try to make a simple idea or expression and deliver it on the web.
I am almost done with this little web-painting.
Hyper-realist painter Yigal Ozeri
Photorealism is fascinating to me because the subject of the painting becomes the photographic moment and not the content of the image itself.
Rafael Ochoa is an artist working in oils and digital media. His digital process is fascinating. He creates a 3d model, renders it, then retouches in photoshop.
