88's paintings

My dad would love the "Use your fucking turn signal", something he yells out very often.

I'm ok - I like that the most.

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Originally posted by Nick
I disagree with Dolemite about the need for more detail, but I do think you could use some more subtelty.

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Hey, I like his style. That's just the detail-whore in me bitching. If I ever get around to posting some of my work you'll see that I have an almost obsessive-compulsive amount of detail. I both love/hate drawing in this style. I love it, because the finished piece looks pretty impressive, but it takes forever to do. Sometimes I think I go so detail-heavy to mask flaws I feel I have in my technique (like, I feel I could improve my drawing of the human form). I've been trying to experiment lately with simpler stuff. I really do like 88's stuff, however. Painting's not easy. I'm a pencil/marker/pastel man myself.

Damn... I really appreciate everything that all of you have said.

I agree 100% with the "heavy handed" comments... :)

I'm really happy that you guys like this stuff, hopefuly I can put some more up here.

If for some fucking odd reason you are serious about buying this shit from me send me a PM. :)

I agree with rezo about the text not being necessary in all of them, The "I'm ok", "Cheer up", and "Use your fucking turn siganl", being the exceptions for me. It's probably because I just usually hate text in art (everyone at my school used text and even some of the teachers required it in work) it just never seems to gel with the work, or seems to be redundant/repetative. That's not really the case with these though, they all seem cohesive even with the text. Use your fucking turn signal should be on a billboard and be a poster in every drivers ed classroom. It's great stuff.

88 are you classicly trained (going to school for) or do you just do this in your spare time? If the latter there are some great outsider art galleries that would sell your stuff in an instant.

I like perfect citizen the best, but I'm a sucker for the grunge look.

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Originally posted by Jester
88 are you classicly trained (going to school for) or do you just do this in your spare time? If the latter there are some great outsider art galleries that would sell your stuff in an instant.

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I went to art school for a year and took Photography and Sound Editing courses.

Thats all the art training I've had.

Where are these places that will sell my stuff? :)

There is a member gallery in Chicago that is pretty nice for an outsider gallery (they usually aren't as nice as commercial galleries) but the name escapes me right now (I'll check the gallery guide and post an update). Also there is a commercial gallery in Chicago called Flatfile (they're a photography gallery, but they're opening an all media gallery soon, depending on the size of your paintings they'd sell em, but they're on a 4 month Sabatical from taking Dossiers.) There are also a few here in Toledo and in Cleveland (also escaping me at the present). If you want to seriously sell your work I can dig out some of the business cards.

On that note, do you have an artist statement? I'd like to read it if you do (i.e. post it), if you don't, you'll need one to sell your work at a commercial gallery.

What the fuck is an artist statement? I'm not even an artist...
I did all those paintings in one afternoon because I needed something to do.

An artist statement is a short (usually) paper about your work (inspiration, media used, technique used, what the entire body of work is about in general.)

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Originally posted by 88mph
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I did all those paintings in one afternoon because I needed something to do.

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The above could be the thesis of your artist statement, but you might want to dress it up with a little more B.S.
Gallery directors for the most part aren't artist, and they like to have evrything spelled out for them, thus the need for/purpose of the artist statement. It's the number two most important thing to have when pimping out your work to a gallery.