Time is the Enemy of Art

Time is the enemy of art.

As I take time to struggle with writing, the longer it takes the harder it becomes to finish.

Or as it has been said,
"Time is short and Art is long."

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Calvin and Hobbes

I read only one book a year...

... if I'm lucky.

I think I've found the book I want to read for 2010.

Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip by Nevin Martell

It's a fun read. Trying to find out about a man who doesn't seem to want to be found.

My question is this: what is Bill Watterson doing with his time?

Cartooning seemed to be such a big part of his life growing up. School papers, yearbooks, college papers, local papers and national syndication. How do you give that up? And if you don't give it up completely, where is all the new art going for the past 10 years?

Is he doing gallery paintings? Is he illustrating books under a pseudonym?

Maybe when I finish reading the book I'll get answers.

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Zazzle and Doctor Who's Timey Wimey

I like Zazzle.com.

Every couple of months I get an email that someone has purchased one of my products.
(Even if it's just about 15 cents each sale.)

I have only one design and I haven't pushed it out there. It's a for niche market. I have paraphrased the old saying, "Same Day, Different Stuff". (Or is it "Same Stuff, Different Day"?

Anyway, mine is "Same Timey-Wimey, Different Wibbly-Wobbly".

It describes how time is flexible and changeable.

I think it sounds cool even if it doesn't make sense.

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Milton Glaser

"What paintings do, and what theater does, and what poetry does, is to penetrate people's immunity and to embrace the puzzles to be solved. That's what I mean by the phrase 'moving the mind'." --Milton Glaser

Found a book today at the library titled "Drawing is Thinking" by Milton Glaser.
Looking at the cover, it looks like a ponderous book art essays.
But flip through it back to front (like I like to do) you find that it is all art and no captions (for the most part).
What a delightful surprise!
(There is an introduction and an interview at the beginning. Plus an index of the art in the back in case you want to know what year each painting was done.)

I like it.

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Flux Museum Call for Entries

Here's an interesting site with a call for art.

www.fluxmuseum.org

I may do a flux box to send in by the end of June 2009. The show is in July in Texas.

Maybe one of my silly ideas will work.

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Non Objective Objects

Okay, here are some more abstracts.

W.W.W.= wide-world-we

The Wide-World-We (as in us... as in all y'all)

I have a FEW blogs I follow. I like seeing the UPDATES when they arrive.
(Some of you need to update SOON... and you know who you are. I'm not mentioning NAMES...)


Besides the updates from PEOPLE I don't know, I like looking at the blogs THEY follow from more PEOPLE I don't know.

Because they FOLLOW the other blogs, I can PEEK in whenever I want.

And I LEARN more about the Wide World that is We.

For instance, I follow the blog
http://papercutsandcoffeehuts.blogspot.com/
and that leads to a blog
http://bunnywax.wordpress.com/
that leads to an artist, Deth P. Sun, that I think I will like.
http://www.dethpsun.com/

Connections.... and more connections...

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Sketchbook

I like looking at sketchbooks.

I like collecting published sketchbooks of artists. To see their thoughts on paper.

Raw. Fresh. Inspired.

I'd like to write a book called "Gesture Drawing Saved My Life."

(I like the title anyway. Gesture drawing hasn't really saved my life. Yet. There is still time.)

I like looking at sketches that artists "dump" on their blogs. I'm following some French animators. The sketches are great. And the animation is great.

To see someone's passion on paper is exciting.

Will I "dump" my artwork here in the future?

Maybe.

What is the reason to share art? What drives us to share with strangers or friends?

Scanning in my doodles is a lot of work. I'll have to plan ahead for this. (It tires me to think about it.)

But for the rest of you, keep it up. I like what I'm seeing.

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Zazzle

Have you tried Zazzle.com?

It's a site like Cafe Press where you can upload your artwork and they will make products from the art.

You can make T-shirts on demand. Or buttons. Or stickers.

And if someone else likes your design, they can purchase items online.

Recently someone bought 3 buttons I created with a Dr. Who-inspired idea.

3 buttons doesn't seem like much, but the satisfaction of having someone buy your idea is priceless.

There is a link below if you care to look.

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