my name is gM (pronounced “milburn”) and pablo picasso is my biggest inspiration as of this current phase in my life. i am so glad that i have found this website and i intend on becoming a regular visitor here. a little about me: i am an oil painter, i have been painting for about 8 years, my influences and inspirations are cubism, cubo-futurism, fauvism impressionism, surreal automatic impressionism, braque,francis bacon, van goh, juan gris, cezanne, da vinci, ect ect,. my town is very smallll and not very sophisticatied..so i have yet to find my own art buddy or braque as i like to joke about it, so i look to the internet. it is my firm belief that i was born in the wrong year. any new friends are certainly welcome. my online catolouge can be found here myspace.com/iloveujesus8 jesus was my dog for clarification lol. ciao<3

It is so hot and dry right now, that I feel the water content in my bodies is slowly vanishing just as it is everywhere else on the planet. We have stopped watering our grass to save water, and instead of green I have yellow and more yellow when I look out of my window.

This image, from Color chuck is the first cool in my day. It awakens the breeze, wets my dry mouth, and inspires me to think about water,how it feels and what it looks like, sounds like, moves like

How to capture on canvas or paper

Some art work needs to be seen up close and in person, such is the art of Jeni Spota, Who is showing in the Santa Monica Museum of Art through August 22nd. If I was in the area - I would make the effort to clear up a few hours and go and see here work. At first glance, to me it has some of the qualities of Naive art, the busyness and the continuous story often embeded in this kind of art, and the truth is that she does deal in a multi layered way in religion, resurection and more

A blurb from the Museums site

Jeni Spota brings contemporary elements to classical themes in her paintings, exploring traditional, often religious, imagery, in a new way. Through her small canvases, the viewer is able to peer into another world, watching epic scenes play out with a surreal, impressionistic twist.

Ed from I Call it Oranges says

I was immediately skeptical of Spota’s works, despite how much their apparent skill and aesthetic impact seduced me. I was smitten with the works but wondered why, I wondered where these paintings could take me and if they hold up under the pressure of their content. Could they properly dialogue with Pasolini, an extremely complicated and misunderstood figure, a person as mired in the past as he was desperately engaged in the action of the present? To cut right to it, are Spota’s works ironic? Are they unapologetically spiritual? If they are critical, what are they critical of? Is it possible to be spiritual in the arts at the moment, when the official stance seems to be the promotion of the exact opposite? Do the works try to have it both ways, presenting a religious face while undermining it at once?

This is pretty much Along my lines of thinking, and part of why I would so love to see her work up close an in person.