This week I’m taking a little time off from my usual stuff and working on some artwork for Gavin Castleton’s next album. Gavin is a fantastic musician and is making some of the best and most honest music around today, and it’s criminal that he’s still relatively under the radar.
I’m at 35,000 ft. — on my way back to SFO from Boston. it’s Virgin America, so i’m writing this and watching Die Hard, aglow in purple light and surrounded by what looks like a giant flying ipod. It’s now been over a week since I painted anything, and I can’t wait to get back to it.
Fantastic artist, Jeremy Lipking, posted this on his Facebook profile today. It’s a sort of video essay that aired on the BBC by philosopher Roger Scruton. It was immediately re-posted by a slew of excellent figurative painters…so It peaked my interest. The first 2 segments, which i’ll embed here, really struck a chord with me (but if you have some time, check ‘em all out).
I have a folder I keep on my computer called “inspirado”, where I keep images of anything that may inspire me…from good graphic design to my favorite paintings. If i’m not particularly feeling a piece i’m working on or I just need some motivation, I’ll take a look through hundreds of images i’ve saved and it almost always gets me back on track. I figured that in light of any new work of my own to post (i’m still working away), I’d add some of these here.