Like, so true, you know?
“Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.” – Albert Einstein Can’t get truthier than that. – A. R. Tist ”
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A. R. Tist
Groovy to think about
Man, isn’t it awesome to think that a lot of art is created today just as it was, like, centuries ago? The oil paint’s pretty much the same, the canvas gets stretched really in virtually the identical steps, and any artist is going to hold a brush similar to the way daVinci or Degas or
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That painterly style
When I think of myself in a beret, holding a palette and wearing a look of intense concentration, I have to laugh. It’s not that I don’t take art seriously, man; after all, it’s my livelihood and my life – but it’s just too much to expect a RAH (Rapidly Aging Hippie) to conform to
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Bricktown in Oklahoma City
Nearly psychedelic – type in bricktownokc.com and just groove on the many facets a ‘shopping mall’ can grow to include. Man, this is way out – beyond what yours truly envisioned about a year ago, in this column. There’s not just art to be enjoyed (and bought – sorry, without commercialism, bro, it’s hard to
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Art and Andy
“Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad,whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.” – Andy Warhol I hope to live long enough for this to happen constantly in my life. A.R. Tist
It’s deja vu all over again!
Rain, wind, lightning, tornado watches – man, it’s getting crrrazy again. Like, how funky can the skies actually get? We may soon find out – that’s going to be a real bummer if I’ve got to wait to post my latest vibe until the storm cell troopers retreat a little all this summer too. Sorry
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“You can do it”
Bob Ross – Photo courtesy of Wikipedia Yeah, like, someone called my bluff last week and wanted to know just where they could learn to paint like Bob Ross. That’s when the net is really beyond cool. YouTube has every episode of “The Joy of Painting” hosted and taught by Bob Ross and you can
Happy little accident
A suggestion – when you’re struggling with an idea, or a ‘happening’ just isn’t … try putting two or more unfinished pieces of your current art crop together and see what happens. Sometimes ‘groovy’ results. A.R. Tist
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Treasure in unlikely places
It’s not cool to just blatantly post ads for products or stores if you’re getting bread for doing it, but since no one’s offering or accepting even a tip for letting readers know about a place to look for art supplies, there’s no guilt trip laid on me. And I’m talking about Five Below, a
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Wouldn’t it be great …
If artists could wave a magic wand and hey presto! that stubborn tree that refused to look like anything except daubs of paint would at least begin to resemble something from a forest. Or the still life looked more like a traditional art form than a stiff life. The portrait looked less like an underworld
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