Daily Keemo. 10.13. Portrait Of The Devil With Head In Clouds

Portrait Of The Devil With Head In Clouds
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The next painting from the devil series. Portrait Of The Devil With Head In Clouds. I'm not sure that there is much to say about this one. I suppose that sitting down to paint tonight after travelling the past 5 days and being on trains and busses and cars and ferrys and bikes and cars and taxis and going from the backwoods of a Northern Michigan island all the way to downtown Chicago and finally sitting back here at my desk I find that the only place my head really is, is in the clouds.

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Daily Keemo. 8.23. Portrait of the Devil With Clouds, Sun and Tree

Portrait of the Devil With Clouds, Sun and Tree

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Another from the devil series. I know it is contrary to popular belief but I am sure the devil loves the sun and clouds and plants just like all the rest of us. Of course, I am just guessing but I figure if he was to sit for me while painting his portrait, it would be like this and it would be summer and we would be drinking lemonade with big ice cubes... Enjoy!

Daily Keemo. 8.4. Better To Be Over Head Than Under Foot

Better To Be Over Head Than Under Foot
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I walk around with my head in the clouds. A lot. Part ADD and part daydream and part who knows what else. I am sure that in some medical journal somewhere, there is a specific diagnosis for it and there is probably even a pill or an injection or a therapy to fix it, to bring me down out of them clouds but between you and me, I don't think it really needs fixing. The other part of it is I know many of you are up there too and frankly I would rather being hanging out there with you art lovin folks than down here with well... non-art loving folks. Well, honestly, I don't know where I am going with this. I guess wherever I end up it is with this painting... Enjoy!

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Daily Keemo. 3.29. I Suppose I Could Enjoy That, If I Was Poor.

"I Suppose I Could Enjoy That, If I Was Poor"(and other things to say to further distance yourself from reality)
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I found myself sitting in the waiting room at the dentist today for an hour and half. I will skip all the stuff about why I was there because it really isn't important to the story. While waiting for so long I skimmed through magazine after magazine partially reading headlines and skimming through articles until I came across an article about the changes that the art world is going through now that people are spending less money on artwork. The article focused on the "serious" artworld in New York and Los Angeles and dropped names of famous living artists and talked about how just like other areas of investment, the artworld has been a little over inflated as well. One art patron was quoted as saying the following after viewing a painting priced at $150,000. "I suppose I could enjoy that, if I was poor." Anyway, I am getting a little off track here. All the artwork that they were showing and talking about where these over sized "important" pieces of art. It all made me a bit ill to be honest. I enjoy art. Art of all kinds. However, the idea of "importance" throws me a bit. As I sat there, I thought back the stack of small paintings back on my desk and the thousands of paintings sent out to mailboxes around the world and I couldn't help think that what I deemed as "important" and what the art critics deemed as "important" are two completely different things all together. I kept on daydreaming after I finished the article and put the magazine down and I told myself that when I got home that I was going to sit down and make a simple painting, with simple colors and no pretention and just be who I am and just make the artwork that I make and not worry about what is "important" or not. For me, art is about something completely different and when it gets down to it, there is only one person who can decide what art actually is... And that is you...Enjoy!

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Daily Keemo. 3.22. When The Destination Is Irrelevant The Path To Get There Is Not

When The Destination Is Irrelevant The Path To Get There Is Not
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I was driving down the highway in the rental car with the windows down and it was 71 and my winter jacket was balled up in the passengers seat and I reached over and turned off the radio and just listened to the wind blow through the car and I was daydreaming like I always do when I am driving down the highway. The sky was a brilliant blue and the clouds where a brilliant white and everything seemed brilliant like they always do when I daydream. I drove like that for a while and then finally turned the radio back on and I skimmed through the channels and stopped at an old Kinks song and turned it up and just kept on driving...Enjoy!

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