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Thursday, June 25, 2020
Monday, June 15, 2020
The King Of Staten Island, Judd Apatow? Just ApaWow!
The King Of Staten Island, 2020 is an American comedy-drama starring SNL cast member Pete Davidson, directed by Judd Apatow (HBO’s Crashing, another absolute favourite of mine with philosophical underpinnings on what it means to struggle and achieve as an artist) and written by Judd Apatow, Pete Davidson and Dave Sirus. Dark, funny and tender, The King of Staten Island is largely based on Pete’s real life struggles with depression and suicide after his father died a fire fighter on September 11 when he was 7. In this version, Pete plays a mid twenty something aspiring tattoo artist whose aspirations have stalled. Unable to get out from under the roof of his mother (Marisa Tomei)’s and stuck in a time capsule smoking pot with his buds on the basement couch, Pete finds everyone else around him evolving: his younger sister (Maude Apatow) is moving away to college, his mother starts dating another fireman (Bill Burr), his girlfriend (Bel Powley) becoming a city planner and wanting to make their relationship public and official, Pete just can’t seem to try nor commit to anything when everything can just go blank in a blink. Nothing resolves until Pete insults then befriends a senior fireman who once new his dad, played by a former fireman (Steve Buscemi), need I say more?
A movie about loss, heroism, getting your act together and floundering and family. I loved every bit of this flick by Judd Apatow? Just ApaWow!
Saturday, June 6, 2020
FAQs What Are the Best Conditions for Art Making?
Anytime is a good time for art making! but I like the early mornings best. Sunrise to 11am offers the best daylight, I can see the full spectrum then before the sun gets warmer in colour around midday. I also like the peace and quiet of this time as the rest of the world is just getting up and or heading to work, I feel so free and lucky basking in the colours with little distraction. If I'm working in the daytime however, I'll paint in the evening under lamplight. Sometimes I'll save the trickiest colour parts for daytime painting and paint the more easier to see stuff at night. To maximize my attention span I usually paint no more than 1 to 2 to at most 3 hours at a time, roughly taking a 10 minute break between 50 minute sessions. I usually start by painting to music because I love music and art is a great excuse to listen to lots of it but when the day gets lonely I'll toss on a show or a podcast. I like funny clever things so usually an hour long set from a favourite stand up comedian or a tv show with characters I like hanging out with.
I keep my studio space in my living room, I like being able to work on it every spare moment I get. I like the instant access when I get up in the morning after brushing my teeth to being able to tinker on it when I'm waiting for something to bake in the oven. My apartment is tiny but I have adapted. If I'm not eating over the kitchen sink while reflecting on my current progress, I'm eating at the tv dinner table where I keep my paints on.
Body mechanics are important which took me the first few years to learn. I spend so much time here I had to learn to sit straight to avoid back aches and neck cramps. Here I have a small foot stool I'll sit on to work at the bottom of a painting and an ergonomic computer chair that raises and lowers depending on what height I want to be working at. I can stand on the foot stool too to work on the top but often I will just flip my painting upside down and work on it while sitting.
Sustainability was a thing so keeping production costs low was important. I used to buy palette paper but now I just use the free pizza, restaurant, condo, dentist, etc. flyers I get for free in my mailbox. I cut old clothes to use for rags for wiping down my palette knives and brushes which cuts down on the amount of paint that gets washed down the drains. I struggled with carpal tunnel a lot in my early years but now I have it fairly under control. I paint with a brace, ALWAYS. and do regular stretches and massages when I feel it creeping up again. I've been painting everyday since 2007.
Friday, June 5, 2020
Puzzle Town
Tiger Queen puzzle 11.8 x 16.9 inches 108 pieces
Puzzles are available! With the kids bored at home I couldn’t help myself and started getting custom puzzles made. They come in a variety of sizes depending on which image you want printed, inquire at lisangart@hotmail.com for more answers. Here are 2 from a happy customer, they turned out super. All the detail make for a great puzzling exercise, plus you’re left with a pretty print to look at in the end, prices range from $60 to $120 (depending on size) 🧩
Flamingos In The Bathroom puzzle 11.8 x 16.9 inches 108 pieces
Thursday, June 4, 2020
FAQs If You Could Put All of Life on the Cover of One Magazine, What Would it Be?
God's Key Chain, Spooky Astronauts Drawing Club, 2014
Good question! Originally thought it would take me a long time to answer but in actuality the answer came at me within minutes. If I could put all of life on the cover of one magazine, I'd put the 2014 digital drawing, "God's Key Chain" by The Spooky Astronauts Drawing Club. A decade old this year, The Spooky Astronauts Drawing Club is a drawing collective based in the Hamilton and Toronto, Ontario area. Founded by a rag tag team of old friends, although lately more like a bickering old family of misfits who just can't seem to get along except in drawing, I stumbled into the delightful mess early on in its inception. Starting with a small handful of regular contributors, the group has spiralled out like a virus with over 60 participants. Astronauts take turns drawing in pencil and after some erasing and re-drawing and sometimes squabbling, a piece is declared finished and an inker and a digital colorist takes over before the final product is posted online.
God's Key Chain to me represents all of life with so many contributors I've lost track of, naturally it contains the viewpoints and chaotic mess of many and yet densely packed all into the palm of God. Dissecting every inch poses more questions than answers but an experience to be had nonetheless!
Get in touch to obtain a print lisangart@hotmail.com or obtain one online:
Since COVID19, The Spooky Astronauts Drawing Club are still in continual production and have begun to do their drawings together via snail mail, boldly continuing on the exciting work of imagination exploration.
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