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simplykumquat.blogspot.com

Also, some old originals for sale here.

]]> ~Platinumox http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/19576692/ http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/19576692/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:50:30 PDT more)

]]> ~Platinumox http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/18364054/ http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/18364054/ Sat, 17 May 2008 08:54:24 PDT
Anthony will no doubt be heartened by this, both in terms of my fulfilling a painting goal -- which has been rare for me in the last few years -- but more to the point, by the mere fact that I was painting. In his mind time has no meaning, and despite the fact that my mother arrives with the uhaul in nine days he still seems to think the majority of my time should be spent where I really want to be: partaking in the leisure that was robbed of me during my four years of school. It's a romantic notion but unrealistic. He'll call while on break at work and I will mention that I'm at home.

"Painting?" he asks knowingly.
"Packing," I correct him.
"Right..." he muses for a moment, but it's as though his brain simply skips over the very real pending seperation. "Too bad there's no painting, huh?"

I hope to alleviate this problem by packing up the art room first, and had waited until this moment only because I knew I wanted to make something for Dani.

]]> ~Platinumox http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/18213321/ http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/18213321/ Wed, 07 May 2008 14:50:13 PDT I am moving to Portland in about twenty days.

What that means is that here pretty soon I'll be able to to art again. Amazing, no?

I am actually in the process of designing a studio space for my new place, which should be magnificent, because it means I won't have to tuck away my collage stuff, pack up my paints, nor put aside my pencils so that I can use the desk for a paper, because in fact: no more papers! Not those kind, any way. I will have desk space / wall space designated for each of these things.

Hell. Yes.

]]> ~Platinumox http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/13989252/ http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/13989252/ Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:18:51 PDT I have an art blog!

[link]

It only just started, so there isn't a WHOLE lot. But some.

]]> ~Platinumox http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/13436268/ http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/13436268/ Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:30:31 PDT
On top of it all I am broker than I've ever been, which is still not TOO severe (I can pay rent and all that) but this month I had to cut back in all areas, coffee included (that alone should speak miles if you know me at all) and basically make my own paint out of chalk and egg yolk.

In the midst of all this I am trying to get the children's book ideas that have been rattling around in my brain for the last few years, trying to paint something that doesn't make me feel crusty and misshapen, keep my (mostly) full time job, and you know. Sleep occasionally. I toyed with the idea of opening an etsy store, but I don't have a strong enough portfolio to start selling some old stuff. I also worry about the prospect of selling originals, but uh. Desperate times and all that.

So um. It kind of sucks over here. And it's hot. And there's bugs. Blech.

How are you?

]]> ~Platinumox http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/12050386/ http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/12050386/ Sun, 04 Mar 2007 07:31:27 PST Rise above it, Shades of mediocrity (renamed) and A blatent misfortune will be available for veiwing and purchasing pleasure.

That's actually about all the deatils I know, but I will keep you guys posted.

]]> ~Platinumox http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/11546874/ http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/11546874/ Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:47:09 PST
See Appendix A.

Apparently I'm all about some tall blue* thing with orange and purplish and small green accents. And a light source in the upper mid-left.

Well, in the Colored People it's exagerated becuase of where I took the picture and where the actual light was, but in the painting itself it looks like that...because of how fubar'd the blue lady's skin is -- at the moment she really does have a fierce light on her there -- and the bald head really is highlighted.

Weird. Weird. Weird.

*That blue is very close -- yet still not QUITE -- a blue that I've had dreams about. The blue was antagonistic to a degree, and it kind of haunts me in real life as well as I can't ever quite capture it. I think the main reason it is so difficult is that it most likely changed but was considered the same hue in my dreaming mind.

]]> ~Platinumox http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/10797517/ http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/10797517/ Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:08:13 PST
Reason being: I am taking 16 credits at school, working about 30 hours a week, and then you know. Eating. Not a whole lot of time for the art these days (and TRUST ME it's not a fun time) but there is a winter break coming up after finals, and there are several things rattling around in my little skull that I'd like to paint/draw/do. I did a collage for my bathroom yesterday, but that's nothing for the pages.

I may post a few notebook-colleges here in the next few, just to have something new to look at, and maybe some sketchbook shots so keep an eye on the scraps, but honestly there will probably be nothing bug until Dec./Jan. when I hope to finish the point of veiw series. I have high hopes for that mo-fo. It's been really fun to work on.

]]> ~Platinumox http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/8525721/ http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/8525721/ Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:14:46 PDT ~Platinumox http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/6682868/ http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/6682868/ Tue, 04 Oct 2005 23:17:42 PDT My teacher said something about the shame of being stuck with time. And how time and history are slow. It was many years after the fact that we truly knew what went on in the Nazi death camps. She said, “Artists now, are they responding to Abu-Graib?”

She did not know.

I know.

The answer is yes. The answer is dA. And THAT is why it is so important. Despite the hostile take-overs and petty power struggles, the reality is we are doing something here that artists back in the day could have only dreamed of. That they tried to achieve but only did so were they in a closely knit network of insiders. We are bypassing the academy and the gallery concept entirely and making an open forum of all art of the Now, free for everyone. We are skipping even the network and the elite; these are real artists with real ideas, both tired and edgy, both poorly executed and painstakingly researched, to bring some sort of unity to the visual world. Globalization one step further. Not so much a wiping-out of culture or categories, but rather windows into everyone’s world.

That is why I subscribed again. That is why I will not yet leave. This is revolutionary and is extremely important. I see ideas churned out directly.

Are they responding? I have seen the reactions. They were instantaneous.

]]> ~Platinumox http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/6446513/ http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/6446513/ Wed, 07 Sep 2005 23:52:47 PDT
2. Keep an eye on the scraps. There will be peeks of the series I am currently working like mad on, stylistic ideas and directions. I also just submitted a work-in-progress multi-canvas fiasco, with extensive notation, (which is a completely different project).

Thanks.

-Plat'ox ]]> ~Platinumox http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/6235544/ http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/6235544/ Mon, 15 Aug 2005 15:35:06 PDT Ha.

Three more today.
I have three of my four Crocodilian "Happies" series done, and once I finish number last and get pictures of the second one (I forgot to grab one before he went to Anthony's place to hang on the wall. Whoops.) I will post them, since they all belong together I think.

I am also working on a point-of-veiw series that is part installation and is making me drool on a daily basis. You lose half the experience when they aren't positioned just so, so I may not be sharing all of that one, but you will certainly get glimpses.

Mostly, my laptop is back which means I can upload stuff again instead of hanging around like an orphan waiting to check email at the library. So that's good.

Peace.
Plat'ox ]]> ~Platinumox http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/6161996/ http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/6161996/ Sun, 07 Aug 2005 19:24:42 PDT
But it looks like I've missed a good deal of anger and aggression, in various places. So maybe my absence was all right in terms of ducking the bad vibes.

Everything's a bit muddled and hard to decipher, but I think I get the basic gist, many thanks to jasinki's informative journals on the subject as well as just reading the story from both sides. Kind of gross. I feel icky at the thought of DA going corporate, the whole things makes me very sad. Because Art and Business seems a little contradictory. There's a fine line between whoring and sharing. ]]> ~Platinumox http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/5946190/ http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/5946190/ Fri, 15 Jul 2005 21:34:32 PDT Therefore.
A few new items this week, mostly just what's been hanging around in the garage freshly finished. Keep an eye on the scraps for sketchs from some recent illustration jobs as well. Thanks.

- Plat'ox

]]> ~Platinumox http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/5359878/ http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/5359878/ Sun, 15 May 2005 21:49:55 PDT
2. Year one of college was completed well: straight B's

3. Big external art thing happening soon

P.S. I AM TIRED OF ALL THE NAKKIE GIRL PICTURES ON THE DD'S.

I mean yeah, the female body is lovely, but must we oggle at the female nude EVERY DAY? It seems like every time I go look for some interesting painting stuff all there is some new little floating head and a naked woman.

Do we not get enough Girl Body in the media? I understand the use of the body in Art, and some people can do it really well, but about 80% of the "artist nudes" here tend to be just HEY LOOK BOOBS kinds of things. Just once I'd like to be in a community that is sort of progressive and beyond the whole titilation just for the sake of it. Is this asking too much? It certainly tells me something about the Daily Deviation selection staff.

Human beings are not objects, though often they tend to function as one in art. I just worry we are perpetuating the tiresome and downright agrivating. ]]> ~Platinumox http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/5087561/ http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/5087561/ Thu, 14 Apr 2005 14:01:38 PDT
Yeah I've been posting never. I have a few things in the works, one of which is a really phatty sun-window thing that will be going to my friend but not before I get a decent picture of it for a giant print, and the other is literally changing daily; at the moment it (or the direction it's heading, as I speak the brushes are drying) reminds me of Lounge Jazz from the early sixties, maybe a tad darker than that. It started as a stark comparison, and then it was illustrating a song off of Seed by the Afrocelt Soundsystem (check them out they rock), and then I almost whited out everything and did something semi-realistic but didn't. It's dangerous to just have one play-surface.

We've been studying 20th century everything lately, which makes me want to come home and paint and paint and paint, next year I am taking a full semester of these guys, so hopefully there will be less scraps and more paintings.

Also: there is a third book in a series that I will be doing illustrations for, I may or may not keep you posted (I did the first one when I was twelve, no I'm not kidding, so I sort of have to stick to the design that I did back then to keep everything cohesive, and let's be perfectly frank: It's dull.) At the very least visit the scraps section here in a few weeks when I start muddling over character design.

Is it weird that I am growing my hair out a little so I can get the look I need for a photo idea? Maybe. ]]> ~Platinumox http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/4473907/ http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/4473907/ Tue, 01 Feb 2005 18:22:44 PST
Sister Bert

(0 servings)

Part 1
3 Tablespoons flour
1 cup coffee
12 oz. Diet Dr. Pepper
1 large brain
1/2 cup wit
1 cup wonder
cynisism

Part 2
8 ideas -- peeled and thinly sliced
1 Tablespoon sweetness
2 Tablespoons intuition
2 cups creativity
6 Tablespoons quirks, finly grated
2 Tablespoons zest

Put the flour into a mixing bowl. Make a well in the center of the flour and add the brain. While whisking, pour in the coffee and then the Diet Dr. Pepper. Continue to whisk until the batter is smooth and free of paranoia, then whisk in the wonder and wit. Cover the batter and set it in the rain for 30 minutes.

Preheat a small, heavy nonstick frying pan for about 1 minute over medium-high heat. Spray it twice with the cynicism. Spoon just enough batter into the pan to form a thin layer over the bottom, about 3 tablespoons, and tilt the pan to spread the batter evenly.

Cook for 1 to 2 minutes, just until the edge is at peace and begins to seek solitude. Flip with a spatula and cook for 1 to 2 minutes more on the other side, until severely myopic. Remove to a sheet of waxed paper.

For the filling, combine the sweetness, intuition, ideas and creativity in a medium frying pan. Cook for about 10 minutes until the mixture turns thick and syrupy.

To assemble, place the first bit on a sofa with a large novel. Mound 1/3 cup of the second bit on the bottom half of each and flip the top half over. Spoon a tablespoon of the second bit up over each and sprinkle with quirks and zest.

NOTE: If the batter becomes schizotypal, add 2 cups of comfort and wrap in a large blanket.


PS, I edited this a lot without knowing there's a "do not notify" button on the bottom of the page. Please ignore me...I'm a moron...

]]> ~Platinumox http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/4457982/ http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/4457982/ Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:44:49 PST mammouth31, who you should go see. I did switch the "physically" and "emotionally/mentally" one, because I think the latter is more important.)

Thirteen random things you like:
1. Coffee
2. Diet Dr. Pepper
3. Rain
4. Books / reading
5. Art; both importing and exporting
6. Panera Bread
7. Cuddling
8. Imaginations
9. Fresh flowers
10. Contemporary jazz
11. Coffee houses
12. Swinging on swings
13. Libraries

Twelve movies:
1. Amelie
2. Chicago
3. You've Got Mail
4. In America
5. Singin' in the Rain
6. Les Miserables
(on Broadway, NOT the movie...but just pretend it fits in the category, deal?)
7. Pirates of the Caribbean
8. Father of the Bride
9. Patch Adams
10. Requiem / Human Traffic (depending on the mood)
11. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
12. Under the Tuscan Sun

Eleven good bands or singers/musicians:
1. Five Iron Frenzy
2. Gaelic Storm
3. Afrocelt
4. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
5. String Cheese Incident
6. The Decemberists
7. StereoLab
8. Reel Big Fish
9. Crosby Stills & Nash
10. Gene Krupa Trio
11. Moonraker

Ten things about you, mentally/emotionally:
1. Balanced
2. Self-aware
3. Peaceful (often a mediator figure)
4. Intuitive
5. Intelligent
6. Verbose / eloquent
7. Happy
8. Childlike (not childish)
9. Quirky
10. Spontaneous

Nine things about you, physically:
1. Small
2. Earth-toned
(think weak-tea colored skin, brown hair/eyes)
3. Proportional
4. Slender
5. Severely myopic
5a. ...often use glasses
5b. ...mostly use contacts
6. Eclectically clothed
7. Erect; very good posture
8. Six rings
9. No piercings other than ears, no tattoos

Eight favorite drinks:
1. Coffee
2. Diet Dr. Pepper
3. Orange Juice
4. Water
5. Milk
6. Tea
7. Chai with espresso
8. Yerba Mate (steamed with milk, served with honey.)

Seven things you wear daily:
1. Six rings
2. Knee socks
3. A smile
4. Corrective eyewear
5. Underwear
6. Something on top
7. Something on the bottom

Six things that annoy you:
1. Pessimism
2. Ambiguous homework/paper criteria
3. CDs that skip
4. Materialism
5. Inanity
6. Girl-pants

Five favorite foods:
1. Peach crepes
2. BBQ chicken
3. Things involving chicken and pesto
4. Toasted bagels with cheese
5. Goldfish Crackers (Cheddar)

Four shows you watch:
1. Reading Rainbow
2. Dexter's Lab
3. Monty Python's Flying Circus
4. Jay Leno's Monologue sometimes

Three celebrities you have a crush on:
(They're all going to be female, even though I'm straight)
1. Audrey Tautou
2. Meg Ryan
3. Emma Watson

Two things you come in contact with everyday:
1. The mattress
2. The coffee maker

One song you like right now:
Run by Snow Patrol

]]> ~Platinumox http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/4436021/ http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/4436021/ Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:14:05 PST for to [the] noises of people who have not yet stirred from their beds, the sounds of sleeping and rustling comfortably under blankets from the inside of walls, noises I can only imagine for they can never emerge detectably for my ears. My eyes are ears, my mind my eyes.

Though false I like to pretend that I am whitnessing the blooming of the world, something rare, perhaps I am the only one capible of enduring the delicate simplicity of this place; I am dangling somewhere between light and dark.

i like to say the words aloud and feel their smooth marbley texture on my tounge, when they roll about cooly with a specific mass. The sense in nonsense enchants me, fills me with a warm green of calm and normal, a re-setting of my dials back on a comfortable register.

yes, this is home.

]]> ~Platinumox http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/4314368/ http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/4314368/ Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:03:47 PST
Welcome, welcome one and all to the Platinum Ox. I am subscribed to get DAprints going and so far haven't because I have no idea how to get my pictures big enough, I know not to go into Photoshop with what I've got and say "resize!" because pixelation is never a good thing. Hi. I'm not a moron.

But, I haven't gotten the sizing junk down quite yet, and am not entirely sure how large I should be saving these, what a good resolution is and so on and so forth, any thoughts other than statistics that I can find at the prints FAQ would be appreciated, otherwise just hang on for a while and I might get the hang of it sometime. Time is an issue, and file size might be an issue at this point since I don't have a USB or anything to save big files on an external hard drive. Or am I just blowing hot air?

Print help. Emphasis on sizing and pricing. Go.

]]> ~Platinumox http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/4164962/ http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/4164962/ Sun, 26 Dec 2004 21:02:09 PST ~Platinumox http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/3869303/ http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/3869303/ Fri, 19 Nov 2004 07:48:29 PST
1. There are several things in the making, two of which I would really like to have on here since I'm not sure I will get to hang onto them long...they're aren't commission but they practically are...roommie's boyfriend and the guy two doors down both are very willing to buy paintings off of me. And what can I do? Part of me gets pretentious and is like, ah no way, you can't buy me off like that so easily, I'm no cortisan. The other part is: dude. Christmas is coming, and the goose is not getting fat. One way to look at it too, is that I live in a dorm. To have 2-5 canvases taking up room by the closet thing is not the most intelligent way to go about things.

2. Everyone is amazing. One of the hugest reasons I love this site is that one can go and peek at other people's creations when one's own creativity has run dry. And it's great to see what everyone else's creativity brings them. And seeing all the colors and asethetics wakes me back up as well. So thank you. Everyone. For rocking so, so much. ]]> ~Platinumox http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/3701092/ http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/3701092/ Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:39:58 PDT Kenya believe it? Isn't it tasty? Yeah, I didn't think so either.

This is what happens to me here: initially I load up some stuff, like a baker opening up a new shop, and make decorations and put my very best creations in the display window, and then I put on my brand new bow-tie and stand beaming by the counter, excited about the newness of it all.

Then a few weeks go by, minimal comments are left, the show-cakes start melting and attracting flies, and I have to throw them out. I get slightly discouraged. Then I remember that I am doing nothing obscenely amazing as far as digital art goes, nor are the things I've loaded up very crisp and computerly user-friendly, and was mass interaction what I was after anyway? No, of course not. I just like to have my things online so that I can refer to them in various other online outlets, and I like to be able to refer potential clients here and say "here is a breadth of work." And if I get some comments are see some amazing art in the process (see the favorites list for more details), well! That's all I need really.

So then what happens is I go for a long time and look at nothing, and then I come back and flip through the dailies or look at the people who are on my list, or look through their favorites and poke around, and then post a few things if I have them or if I feel like it. I also post in little clumps because once I post I want to more and more and more, but if I've left it for a while, it makes it easy to keep neglecting.

Have I justified myself enough now? Disgusting, all this justification that's leaking, ma'am? Would you mind tucking in your justification, etc. There's one more for today and then from now on I promise to sit back and give you updates about life in general or just Shut Up And Make With The Art. ]]> ~Platinumox http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/3446406/ http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/3446406/ Sat, 25 Sep 2004 20:22:31 PDT College is a bitch on the ol' creative process sure.
I'm ebbing on the break, I hate that I just keep saying "there will be stuff here" so I'm not going to say that this time. But I thought I'd keep everyone good and informed... ]]> ~Platinumox http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/3058327/ http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/3058327/ Wed, 18 Aug 2004 20:50:21 PDT I've recently sifted thorugh all of the old stuff to make way for the new, so now many of the things worth looking at are all in the same place, which is helpful. This means I can submit things more often, this means you will have more to look at. ]]> ~Platinumox http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/3013290/ http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/3013290/ Sat, 31 Jul 2004 18:49:54 PDT ~Platinumox http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/3007209/ http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/3007209/ Fri, 30 Jul 2004 21:30:57 PDT ~Platinumox http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/2750861/ http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/2750861/ Sun, 27 Jun 2004 21:08:36 PDT ~Platinumox http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/2698242/ http://Platinumox.deviantart.com/journal/2698242/ Sat, 19 Jun 2004 15:31:20 PDT
Mazi was a little too sporatic, and as I found outlets for my writing, this is going to focus mainly on the art. Photography stuff but also other pieces, mostly in the realms of traditional art, with a little character design on the side. Prints account pending.

I'll submit some oldies before I start giving you guys some new things to look at; so patience, please, as I move in. ]]> ~Platinumox