Aim for what you want your subconscious to focus on
Aim for
what you want your subconscious to focus on
It might be easier to define what my work is not. I
am careful to point my psyche to thoughts that
inspire. I do my best to avoid dark thoughts and
experiences, Especially horror films or things easily
avoided which can harm your thinking for extended
periods of time. Why submit your subconscious to
something that will shock and make it scared? It
takes time to dispose of this garbage from your
subconscious like a coral reef having to resolve
contaminated water. The biggest shame of all is that
during this period your wasting precious quality
time. Time that could be used for the reverse… making
people feel welcome and appreciated. It’s a choice.
It’s my choice. However recently, I have started to
consider the ugly because we should “Never Forget’
some atrocities so maybe it is time for my Guernica
You will have to come back to see.
Would you sell your soul to sculpt like Michelangelo? or Paint like Rembrandt?
We have stories that show how the old masters lived on a daily basis. It seems the lost art or methods are not so lost once we consider these.
John Singer Sargent – Woke at dawn, Draws most of the day, had dinner and then went to meetings to discuss art. He does this day after day after day. Imagine the year 1820 and consider the distractions. It was a much simpler time. And maybe this is one of the keys to success.
Feel the tug of Mortality
Feel the Tug of Mortality
When
I paint I can feel the tug of mortality. The infinite
potential for composition leaves me dumbfounded. I
still paint because I know that this sense of
mortality is one of the key driving forces of life .
. . to stay alive and to share it on many levels. For
me it is easy in visual format as it seems less
contradictory than words. John Singer Sargent says
something like… “Learn all you can or become a
mannerist.” In other words, your individual life
experience can be the only guide to your composition;
everything else is just that--someone else’s ideas or
experience.
Being an Artist
Being an
Artist
Being an Artist is finding your voice, your creative
voice and shaping it.
Being an artist is knowing in your heart that
something is right.
Being an artist is having the ability to discriminate
clearly what is good and bad about a painting or
drawing.
Being an Artist is learning to master materials that
make it easy to create.
Relieved of the 3rd dimension which leads to
sculpture and Architecture the Artist can travel
lightly not just Plein Air but it does not take much
to have enough tools to create something.
Creating something again and again makes it possible
to create things again and again and again.
Creating things relieves the anxiety of not being
creative or being blocked.
It is easy to be blocked.
Just put a mark on a page. In doing so you have
established your space, exercised your freedom and
started the process.
Depending on where you take this mark depends on how
you relate to your environment.
Depending on where you take this mark depends on all
the learning that you can muster and all the
unlearning that may need to also be learned.
We get wound up like clocks just a bit too tight yet
it is in the winding that we learn. What the teachers
cant tell is if they are going overboard this is the
unlearning that comes much later.
To allow paint to drip and make it meaningful is not
easy yet once you learn it or let it you realize how
right it is.
Being an Artist is an exercise that takes all your
being. It's a challenge in the extreme. Being an
artist allows you to flow within the continuum of all
other artists to be compared and classified.
Being an Artist gives you a voice that is unbounded
except by yourself. This letting go is critical to
large organizations. Large organizations tend to lead
towards committees which have difficulty making
decision and worse creative decisions.
Being an Artist is a light in a dark philosophical
space. It gives you a way out into the light
Being an artist to the center of your being gives you
the ability to have an ongoing conversation that has
the capacity to lead to new worlds.
Being a serious artist does not have to be serious.
Being an artist is showing others things that you
experience without words.
Being an artist if your really careful will help you
in ways that are unanticipated.
Being an Artist will build your confidence.
Being an artist will give you a purpose always.
Sometimes we all loose our voice. If you step back
and work the basics it will come back.
Every drop of oil on water will spread outward. Paint
is the oil and Canvas the water.
Being an Artist...
The Art of Music
Peering at the future from my University of Florida Studio
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My Family
My Family
I credit this to my son. He was three when he did it.
I was studying the ancient Mesopotamian sculptures
from UR. The ones with the big eyes. I was showing
him how to create art with a large surface and
pastels. We stumbled upon this image together but it
would never have happened without him. The picture is
funny. It's Jason on my shoulders next to mom and his
brother Jaime and the crazy Shepherd, Jedi. The hat
he is wearing is something I will never forget as a
father because he would not take it off for about 1
year. This is a personal work but sharing it with you
makes it even more fun.
Acrylic on Canvas, 1993 My Family - Jason
Shooster
Color Study
Color Study
The idea is to make a painting that is grey to a
color blind person. By only changing the hues but not
the range of contrast. I did not achieve my goal as a
picture in black and white will reveal the shapes but
I got close and the idea is still evident. The final
image is large. 8 ft x 6 ft. Under the proper light
their is a rhythm and magic created b he shapes. I
hope one day for it to be discovered and put in the
proper museum environment for it was made.
If you stumble across this and know of a museum that
would like an original piece of fine art I would very
much like to know. Please send me a message.
Color Study
6 ft x 8 ft
1980 BFA Student Work University of Florida
Close up with better show of the colors.
Vigilance
Vigilance.
The purpose of a museum.
The cost of Freedom.
A story.
Inspired by taking my drawing pad to the museum and
studying the Guaguin painting I stumbled upon the
security guard looking at me looking at him. He
became the main element in my completed piece. The
original is watercolor pencils on paper and ink and
the final results were appended via photoshop and
printed as a Giclee.
Shoosty