Recent content by OliveOyl

Well, this work is a pleasure to see. Feel better…❤️

This is fantastic, Hermes. Well done. It has a “groovy” 1960’s feel and those particular colors remind me of some kind of wild hippie nation flag. ✌🏼 And…it looks like fun to do… Have you done many batiks before? How do you mount/display them? Are your shingles gone forever now? Will you/did...

Hi Steven…it all looks pretty good to me. That landing page is an intense bolt of color…like wow. But I’m curious about your technique and unless I missed it, I don’t see it described on your site. Maybe it’s not necessary to include. But *I* would like to know about your technique. It’s light...

Well, to clarify myself (to Bart mostly)…I don’t “suffer” for my art. I’m just neurotic and it’s always been a way to sort out my inner messiness (meaning unruly emotions and chaotic thoughts) into order. It’s more or less like therapy but a pleasant and meditative kind. I don’t do sketches and...

Hi Murray. I’ll ask WHY you would want to do a painting every day? Is it just to keep practicing and learning? Both of those things are great, of course. But if you’re in this “mode,” then how do you know when you’re done practicing? What would the next step look like for you? (By the way, I...

I SAY NO. And this is what convinced me… So, I (still) love Nick Cave, an Australian singer/songwriter who has a blog called the Red Hand Files where people write letters to him and he responds to as many as possible. This guy named Mark asked a ChatGPT program to write something “in the style...

1. Read “All Fours” by Miranda July (film director, screenwriter, actress and author) about a semi-famous artist who decides to drive cross-country. A sexual awakening ensues. Recommended reading because it was fantastic! 2. Got accepted into a show called “Women’s Work 2025” at a local...

Yep! I think you’re very good at creating landscapes with this “abstracted sense of reality” (if that’s the correct phrase…). Sophisticated colors. Layers of a dream. (They’re ALL a pleasure to see, even though I don’t usually comment).

Hi Bongo. Very nice! It’s so simple but captures mystery…who, what, where and why?? The sky is deep and dark and the light illuminates the places around the picture the way light SHOULD illuminate. Not that I know how light illuminates, or even how to paint it. I just mean - to my eyes - it...

I don’t know what oil paints you’re using and I’m no expert on what’s what anyway, but if you feel comfortable using house paints, I say use them! And if you want things to dry super fast, then don’t use oils. But we’re all different. I happen to LIKE working on things that take awhile and for...

I just uploaded a photo of a bison and it thinks it’s a painting. Haha. Back to reprogramming class, you tool! You would think…AT LEAST…it knows a photo from an artwork, right? Like aren’t photos in its DNA? Wouldn’t that be included in programming lesson #101? I don’t know…I’m the last person...

I uploaded my last two paintings. The bot-thing used stylistic words like “pop,” “fantasy,” and “futurism” which is how I’d probably label them too. It said in the first painting that I was “perhaps commenting on societal perceptions” and in the second painting that I was “imparting a message of...

And…before I start painting and head back into my winter hibernation, I wanted to say this stuff: So, I woke up to the news of the election just as we were also being hit by an “unprecedented” blizzard that lasted for the following 3 days. Figures. This storm did the usual kind of winter damage...

You all are such good doobies with your donations and such. I just can’t imagine anybody would want/need any of my weirdos. Do they take anything? Do they ever say, “Ummm. No thanks?”

REM was one of my bands way back in the day. The chorus of this song would still rattle through my mind every now and then. But today, as I listened again to the whole song (and the sweetness of the boy in the video), it hit me in a brand new way. Almost made me cry. Nostalgia for the innocence...