This one done on black sort of semi-gloss paper. The colors don’t really pop out like I had hoped (in the photo). It’s done with metallic watercolor pens, so there’s a bit of a glow to the work. Done on paper that’s 11×14 inches.
Hope you like it.
Here’s a mostly finished painting that I previewed as a work in progress a while back. Still trying to get used to working in acrylic paint, as my preferred medium is oil paint.
Anyway, here it is:
The photo here is taken at night under incandescent lighting. The colors seem to be realistic and the glare is sort of useful, as it shows the characteristic shine of acrylic. The painting is approximately 16×20 inches, metric of course, since the canvas on cardboard is from Temu, although from a stateside shipper.
I also paint on real canvas, mostly on commission, as expenses are higher.
More paintings and other work forthcoming.
Sorry to those who make honest comments on posts and don’t see those comments in the website. I get about 80-125 spam posts per day and it gets discouraging to have to dig through all the disingenuous posts, mostly from Russian sources and binance websites, to get to the real, genuine comments. I spent a while, because WordPress has such a shitty interface and my web hoster or WP have an interface that’s dog slow, going through almost 1400 spam messages in order to find one, count it, one, genuinely good comment. I know I should subscribe to an anti-spam tool to hopefully excise the cruft, but the budget just isn’t there. Again, sorry to the honest visitors, and I’ll schedule comment digging every 7-10 days if time allows. This process takes away from my creativity, as today’s work caused me to shelve a music production session.
Yeah, I’m still working on putting out some kind of multi-track EP or album, depending on how many tracks I can beat into shape. And I’m busy working on paintings and drawings, which bring in the most money.
Speaking of stats, here’s some stats from Jetpack for this web site. Lots of countries have checked in, which gives me hope that running this web site isn’t a total waste of time.
Here’s hoping for better results in the next twelve months.
Here’s some links for you to peruse:
https://linktr.ee/jaypeach53 – this site has links mostly to streaming sites, although there are sites like Bandcamp and Mirlo where you can listen to some of my catalog. Maybe even purchase some music.
Here’s direct links to the abovementioned sites:
I’ve been getting more plays in more regions on Apple Music lately. Here’s a sample from Apple Music of my reach. The stats from Apple Music supposedly got an upgrade, something I don’t see.
As you can see, I’m now getting listens in 7 countries, so Apple’s been successful in extending their reach outside the US.
And this is a sample of Apple stats for a single release:
Small progress, but progress just the same. And I guess the stats from Apple have improved slightly.
Like I said in the last post:
Well, I had a productive March, with some paintings worked on, some music moved along in the production process, along with some music recorded .
This post will go into more detail about the progress, even though the weather lately hasn’t been conducive to working outdoors. Today we had a wind advisory, meaning 20-30 mph winds, just enough to get the dirt and dust flying if I felt adventurous enough to try painting when it was in the sixties temperature-wise. It’s hard enough painting when the bugs try to kamakaze themselves into the acrylic paint that I usually paint with. Dunno if the oil paints I recently bought will have the same attraction to bugs.
I got a copy of Henry Dreyfuss’ “Symbol Sourcebook” as I’ve been unsuccessful at locating to copy I bought probably 30 years ago. And that being the second copy I’ve purchased. I include those symbols I think are relevant in my paintings. Just another odd way I have of distinguishing my work from others. Though, I don’t think I’m unique in that respect as I think I read that Jean-Michel Basquiat also had a copy of that book.
“Symbol Sourcebook” is a rather primitive compendium of symbols that Dreyfus’s collected in his endeavors. Originally published in the early 1970s, print quality has either degraded through numerous reprints, or the quality wasn’t great to begin with. But this is no concern to me as I just freehand the symbols in the book, to the extent that the symbols in my works only have a fleeting resemblance of the “original” image.
The sourcebook was an offbeat production even back in the ‘70s, collecting a foreword by Bucky Fuller, which is probably how I got introduced to the book.
Well, I had a productive March, with some paintings worked on, some music moved along in the production process, along with some music recorded . And a personal high water mark in visitors, though I don’t know what they looked at because WordPress stats suck so bad.
This is WP ‘s (there goes the fucked up “smart” quotes again) stats page:
It shows 408 pages viewed, from 400 visitors, (which is weird; usually a visitors views 3-5 pages) but only 48 homepage hits. Where are the rest of the page hits? Who knows. And the referer links are significantly lower than expected.
Well, Jetpack on iOS ipad shows different stats than iOS iphone. Here’s the iPhone stats for March:
This time the individual page stats look normal , but the visitor count is different. Way to fuck things up Automattic!
And to just throw a monkey wrench into the mix, here’s Google’s Analytics posted today. It shows significantly lower viewership, more in line with the expected results.
And here’s two snapshots of viewers and page hits which seem more believeable:
All told, Automattic needs to revisit their stats generation process; it seems to be genuinely fucked up.
What’s a secret skill or ability you have or wish you had?
I just wish I could paint more often without having the shakes. Between my hockey injuries and the fact that two of my medications can cause tremors, I’m constantly having to compensate for the tremors. Mostly I just avoid any kind of detail work that requires fine motor skills. So my work tends towards that of Basquiat, I wish I could afford the canvases Basquiat used in his work, it might make creating work a little more appealing.
Got some work done on a painting featured in a previous post. Here it is:
Taken at night, I added stuff a few days ago. I took the photo with info about the picture.
More delays have cropped up in my musical endeavors. I keep a notebook of my progress and the thing has gone missing, along with my recorder, the Zoom H8. So until I figure out where I left them, and yes they’re almost inseparable, I’m up shit’s creek without a paddle. My memory doesn’t work as well as it used to and I have a habit lately of burying things under piles of junk mail.
