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Dream On

Back to painting my rock chick – ‘Dream On’. This is so much fun to do, you can’t see it in the photo but some of the sections are painted over in a glaze with glitter in it. That’s the first time I’ve used this combination, love it!

 ’Rock Star’ by Lara Adams, available on Kindle.

Utrecht Miami

No, I’m not living in the store.

I’m describing it like that because I’m now the regular artist who will once a month paint live at the store and interact with the customers. This is going to be fun! I’ll be able to try out lots of new paints and finishes and learn a lot. And interacting with an audience is always great fun of course.

I hope there are going to be lots of kids who turn up, I’d much rather kids do wonderfuL things like paint and exercise than heavy drugs and other forms of destruction – smoking included. The best highs don’t require chemical intake – much as I enjoy drinking!

Most artists I know in Miami, myself included, have had very little if anything to do with what’s been going on with Art Basel in Miami this week – excluding a few good parties, of course!

There are some good artists being given coverage in Art Basel – thank God – but the word is that some very disappointing/disgusting garbage has risen to the forefront yet again. What’s the garbage? Chopped up naked body parts of women – is this de rigeur? And pictures and sculptures of genitalia. Seriously. If you haven’t been around Art Basel before you might thinking I’m joking. But this is real.

Art is a serious part of humanity’s evolution – sometimes. It’s so sad to see crap dominate the art world yet again in this art fair, and good artists go unrecognised and unpaid. Literally. There have been artists working live in Art Basel and I very much doubt any of them got paid – I’d like to hear of any exception/s. I was lucky enough to see some graffitti artists painting live at Transit Lounge, and I very much doubt they got paid.

Somehow there’s a common belief that artists don’t care if they get paid. TOTALLY ridiculous. People often ask us to work for free as if we’re walking charities. Not. Allied to the common description of artists as ‘starving artists’ this is really surreal and absurd.

I would very much like to see the major resources committed to small parts of the art world going to WORTHY artists for a change.

I’ll be doing a series of live paintings at the Red Bar Gallery in Brickell called ‘Dream On’. Yes, inspired by the bikini-clad guitarist below, yes, more bikini babes that people love!

If you have a commission in mind it’d be a good place to talk to me – and since it’s the Red Bar, have a lot of fun!

‘Dream On’, above. The title comes from the words on the bikini bottoms. Photo I’m working from with much thanks provided  by Betty Bangs of www.BettyBangs.net.

‘Dream On’ in creation, with Cooey enjoying the process below.

I’d continue working on this right now but it’s nighttime and the place I’m living right now doesn’t have enough light to continue. Domani…

Back to the sexy babes I enjoy painting - there are those that love them and those that hate them.

This is of a beautiful woman in a bikini and top hat who has a guitar – you can’t see any details on her yet. I’m enjoying doing the blocks of colour around her – I don’t usually do blocks of colour like that (that I can recall), and the colours like softer yellow and pink are not my usual colours either.

The adventure begins…