Trying Red Mango while I wait for my car to get done at Jiffy Lube.

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Finally trying Pocky for the 1st time. Strawberry cream flavor

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s is for summer: Danielle Mysliwiec

untitled, oil on wood panel, 24x18in. By Danielle Mysliwiec

She was part of Art Fag City's summer emerging artist series in 2006. 

07-19-10.

017 Engine Holiday

For sale now on Etsy. $50.00. 12x12in. (30.5x30.5 cm)

r is for rain: Charline von Heyl

"Defenster 2", 2004. By Charline von Heyl

"The exhibition also offers a few representatives of past trends made current. One example is the German-born New York painter Charline von Heyl, the show's token abstract expressionist. Von Heyl is gritty; her fire can be recognized immediately in her paintings. Defenster 2 (2004) unleashes a fluid tempest in rust-colored paint, an unpleasant hue that signals decay, as though the canvas had been left out in the rain. Hidden among the sweeping painted lines is a pair of pale peach-toned human legs. Barely visible, this remnant of a painted figure makes the work seem fresh. This hidden element, a mysterious shadow, implicates von Heyl as a painter grappling with the desire to paint the representational and finally being overcome by the nihilistic and violent impulse of abstraction." - from "A New Lease on Painting" by Nicole Davis, artnet.com

07-18-10. Tour de France fairy cakes (British for cupcakes).

q is for quail: Rayna Hanna

"Quail", ink on paper. By Rayna Hanna

07-17-10. Hummingbird eating nectar from the hostas in our backyard.

Sky blue Saturday. Reading for hours on the patio. Ahh

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p is for petunia: Robert Kushner

"Petunia", 1994. Oil & other media on paper. By Robert Kushner.- 

07-16-10. Girl in a fez.

o is for oil: Mona Marshall

"Oilfield", encaustic. By Mona Marshall

07-15-10. Pickles.

n is for nutmeg: Nina Ozbey

"Allspice and Nutmeg", 2007. By Nina Ozbey

07-14-10. Mongoose.

Lego games. Kind of interesting. I bet people were already doing this

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m is for marrakech: Claudio Bravo

Calabazas, 2008 Oil on canvas 51 1/8 x 76 3/4 in. By Claudio Bravo.
Claudio Bravo lives and works in Marrakech, Morocco. 

07-13-10. Young rabbit in June.

016 Ballad

016 Ballad. Oil painting by Kamilah Gill.

This painting is available for purchase.

Medium: Oil paint

Support: Canvas

Size: 16x20in. (40x50 cm)

$150.00

l is for lavender: Olga Antonova

“Cup Pyramid on Turquoise’’ by Olga Antonova.

07-12-10. Watched My Neighbor Totoro for the first time. Very sweet, like all Miyazaki movies.

k is for knit: Frances Twombly

Balloons, 2004. By Frances Twombly

07-11-10. Found Brics (Broad Ripple Ice Cream Station) open on the Monon today. Excellent ice cream.

My cone at Brics (Broad Ripple Ice Cream Station) before it disappeared.

Brics ice cream is excellent. Smooth cream, chocolate chips that aren't gritty. Nice and cool inside, too. Ahhh

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j is for jade: Kenny Scharf

"Jade Pea Pod", 1989. By Kenny Scharf

07-10-10. Lots of tiny frogs and tadpoles in the pond now, but almost no big frogs for some unknown reason.

i is for ice: Ian Davenport

Poured Lines Painting Ice White, 2003. By Ian Davenport

07-09-10. Lightspeed Champion.

h is for hemlock: Chris Martin

07-08-10. I couldn't find any exciting images of citric acid, so I drew this pretty picture of oranges instead.

g is for ghana: El Anatsui

El Anatsui, "Intermittent Signals", 2009, found aluminum and copper wire, 11 feet x 35 feet

07-07-10. I discovered the Clay Sanskrit Series today. I started reading some of Dandin's Desakumaracarita (What Ten Young Men Did, or The Ten Princes).

Ballad (d) and 015 Vuvuzela

Ballad (d), pastel drawing. 16x20" (40x50 cm)

015 Vuvuzela, oil painting. 12x12in. (30.5x30.5 cm)

I've realized that the internet image painting concept was biting off more than I could chew at the moment. So I'm setting that aside for now and retreating into nice, safe pretty still lives. The drawing above is a study for the next painting that I'm about to make, so you're all getting a sneak peek at it. I was just getting too frustrated with the other idea. I was feeling like it needs to be more than just a painting, and I'm not exactly sure what I would do for that or how I would sell it (because yes, selling things is important). So, for now, for a while I'm going back to fundamentals. I hope I'll produce some nice (and sellable) pieces in the process. The more conceptual stuff will still be in the back of my mind, though.

Both pieces are for sale now on Etsy. $25 each.

f is for french: Isabelle Duval

Girl Power by Isabelle Duval

07-06-10. Kamilah, Basement Spider Slayer.

e is for egypt: Judy Ledgerwood

"Egyptian Blue", 2007. By Judy Ledgerwood

07-05-10. Sweet potato vs. yam. Sweet potatoes are not yams.

d is for dragon: Janet Fish

"Dragon Kite", 2007. By Janet Fish

07-04-10. Niece & brother-in-law.

c is for cinnamon: Benjamin Edwards

"Cinnamon Gardens", 2006. By Benjamin Edwards

07-03-10. Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis).

Wait, what? A very special handpainted sign. Someone doesn't know how to write small enough...

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b is for burnt sienna: Francesco Longenecker

Francesco Longenecker, Landing, 2008, oil on canvas, 60" x 96"

07-02-10. Butterfly on hibiscus on Mass. Ave. in downtown Indianapolis yesterday.

a is for angle: J. T. Kirkland

Fortress (2008), Wenge wood, house paint. By J. T. Kirkland

This is a little different from my usual daily artist posts. I just went to see this and other works by Kirkland in person earlier this evening. I even got to meet the artist himself. I also met Christopher West, who runs the gallery. It's connected to the Dean Johnson gallery and located on Massachusetts Ave. in Indianapolis.

There were four of Kirkland's pieces on display for this first of two consecutive shows of his work. White paint highlights the sides and fronts on parts of the work. The dark areas consist of glossed wood with the grain visible. These are minimalist, but also a little active and even playful, as in the piece entitled "Slope", which plays a little optical game by encouraging the viewer to make a complete shape out of the white highlights around the negative space of the frame. Another piece becomes sculptural by jutting out of the wall.

I think that the work would have benefited from a bit more space in the gallery so that viewers could stand further back in order to see the work better from a distance. However, the work did reward close examination. Everything was very cleanly constructed and finished.

You can find out more about J. T. Kirkland and his artwork on his blog, http://thinkingaboutmyart.com/. These pieces will be on display at Christopher West until July 21st. On July 22nd, a second show of Kirkland's latest works will begin and runs through August 14th.

07-01-10. Psychopsis orchid.

014 321123

321123 by Kamilah Gill

I'm still working on what to say about this new direction I'm heading in... I'm trying to make the ephemeral more permanent so that we can examine it more closely. I also want to show what's happening right now, or just 5 days ago. Eventually that will be years ago. The sources for these images will have long since been forgotten and buried underneath trillions more images, but I will have preserved a few of them for posterity. Every second of every day, thousands more images from all over the world get uploaded to the internet. I'm selecting a few at random for their pleasing juxtaposition within a grid. I don't rearrange the images. This is the way that they appeared together on the site that I used.

Certain sectors of the art world keep declaring that painting is dead. It kind of is. Really, all "fine art" is on life support because it's competing with so many much flashier and sometimes more compelling media. Movies, video games, even animated GIFs, and billions upon billions of photos. So I'm portraying what I see: too much of everything. I prefer painting because it forces things to hold still. Sculpture might be acceptable as well. People want things to move and be interactive all the time, but I feel like there are already too many things to watch that take up lots of our limited time. Interaction might be okay on some level, and I hope to explore that more in future pieces.