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-Andy Warhol poster: "i think everybody should like everybody."
-Andy Warhol poster: "the idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting."
-Andy Warhol poster: "but I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party."
-Andy Warhol poster: "in the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes."
-A 5"x5" abstraction of the letter: ë
-A photo from dA
-Electrnoica
-Table tennis gold medals
-As The World Turns
-The Reaper
-Series Four.1.2
-Wimsically painted cork board with nothing but a half naked girl on a flyer I got in Copenhagen wishing me a happy birthday.
-Metallic Series
-Series One.1.2
-An assignment from Arts and Crafts class
-Kandinsky poster
-Picasso poster
-Monet poster
-Dali poster
-Margritte poster
-Degas poster
-A painting I did two years ago that I haven't put up because it lacks imagination
-Hopper poster
-Picture of Jay and Silent Bob
-Photo of a dandilyon
-Photo of a tree
-Andy Warhol poster
-Poster of the School of Athens I got from the Vatican
-A comic strip I drew in high school
-Poster of David
-Framed photo of a flower
-Andy Warhol poster
-Two little watercolors I bought from an old man painting in the streets of Florence, framed.
-Andy Warhol poster
-Three abstract watercolors I did three years ago

THEN ON MY LEDGE:
-Various DVDs of movies and TV shows
-Video games I want to be playing
-Books I read a long time ago but thought imparitive to bring to college
-30 Vogues
-Picture frames holding memories of things I'd rather be doing than writing a proposal for a fucking English class.
-Fish tank lacking fish
-Two Polaroid cameras I bought at a garage sale that I will never use because film is expensive as fuck
-Dead plant
-Giant kool aide pitcher with nothing in it
-The New Your Times from last year

THEN THERE IS THIS SHELF
-30 gallon fish tank with pirahnas and 10 gold fish unknowinly being stalked from a dark cave.
-Oil paints calling my name
-Last years projects
-Unknowingly being stalked from a dark cave fish food
-5 shoeboxes with paint in three, buttons in one and nothing in the other.
-Paint thinner I would love to crack open and get a few heavy wiffs of
-Cans o paint
-Three paintings stacked on one another probably getting dismantaled from the pointy corners pressing into their surfaces.
-Fish catcher
-The scissors my roommates have been accusing me of stealing but I've been denying for the passed year.

IM NOT EVEN STARTING WITH THE FLOOR



So if you can imagine all of this stuff going on around me, I can't get anything done.

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Along with selling a couple canvases here and there, I have three paintings and a series lined up as comissions. SOOOO for you followers out there, keep in mind that painting for you makes my world.

]]> *buchanc3 http://buchanc3.deviantart.com/journal/27514198/ http://buchanc3.deviantart.com/journal/27514198/ Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:38:56 PDT .photo of work(s) which is conected to dA
.genre
.size
.medium
.date

.influence(s)-here I list any influences I came across related and leading up to the work.

.technique-as most of my abstract work is done somewhat unconventionally, I explain processes and reasons for them.

.theme and reasoning-a breif overview of any themes and where I came up with them.

.concept-an in depth look of the conceptual aspects of the work(s). Here, I talk about composition and aesthetic in relation to the concepts.

.critique-IF I get any critiques, I'll pop them in here. That's where you come in!

.If the painting has been bought or given away, here it is.



I like this blog thing because I can really talk about the work in depth. On here I feel the majority of people could care less of concept and the path one goes through to get the end result, that the general audience doesn't stop and think about a piece, they judge by how pretty the colors are. Obviously not everyone is on this level and I know some people thrive on concept, so if you do, try to figure it out here first, then go to my blog to see what I thought about it. The blog will only have completed paintings and will be much more organized than I have been on dA. I know there is a bigger audience than I'm reaching on dA, I want to touch lives with my paintings.

Another reason is because Lynette was trying to get me to explain a sketch of mine and its concepts and I just couldn't do it out loud. I'm not sure why, I can write all day about a piece, but when asked to verbalize it I just go with, "I don't know, its... I don't know, you figure it out." Now she can hear all the concept she can handle when it comes to my paintings.

So if you're interested (you better be): [link]

Lynette's work: [link]


Also, if you're interested, even a little, in critiquing art you can definitely practice on mine. I'd love to hear any constructive input you have to offer. If you're nervous try this site as a guidline: [link]


I want my own site. crystalbuchanan.com? Sounds good to me, anyone want to build it for me... for free?

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]]> *buchanc3 http://buchanc3.deviantart.com/journal/26746595/ http://buchanc3.deviantart.com/journal/26746595/ Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:57:45 PDT They don't just come out, they explode out of my throat and jolt my entire body!
And if I let my mouth open to really let them out, they're uncontrollably loud!
They are so ginormous, they actually hurt!
And they never go away!
I'm trying to go to sleep!
But I can't!
They keep coming!

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Also, if you'd like something critiqued by me, let me know. If I don't jump on it asap, I'll do it within a week or so I'm guessing. But don't hold me to it, I'm not the most reliable.


Also, I got a new camera yesterday, fucking sweet one. Can't wait for a nice day to do some work with it.

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CAD Ryan came up and he, Kate and I hung out a bit in Traverse. We visited many galleries in the downtown area, all but one were just all wrong. The Inside Out Gallery seemed to be the coolest place I've seen and I really like the work they display there. I think my work would find a home easiest there. One rainy afternoon I found the courage and the time to bag up some paintings and make the trip over there to chat with the gallery owner. I talked with his wife for a few minutes, then she took a look at a few of my paintings. She told me to call back a few days later and speak with her husband who makes all the decisions. While we were talking, I mentioned that no one has really looked at them. I said, "my friends think they're great, but of course they do, they have to like everything I make." She made a comment that really got to me. "Then why don't you just give them to your friends then?" She realized what she had said and tried covering it up, "haha, but of course you need to make a living." This really shook my confidence and made me doubt basically everything I have done. I really don't know if what I do is good or not. I never called back.

I have realized something. Most of my paintings don't have content. A few of them do, sure, but most of them do not. If I had to, I know I could justify them all in some way. They are all experiments in color, medium, or application; but really, they're just a line of bread crumbs showing my path to finding myself as an artist. In order to make a great piece of art, it must have an idea, one with a backbone. It can't rely solely upon appealing to the eye but it has to have a moral, story, or an idea to convey. Experiments like mine are just minor details in aesthetic, it's quite trivial in the grand scheme. My abstract pieces are mostly all just eye pleasers. That's what sets the artists from the masters, or maybe the hopes and dreams from the realities. You must put forth the time and energy to create an idea, have an opinion and find a way to paint the picture without making it too obvious.

I need to start using my imagination more. I have the most ridiculous dreams but haven't ever taken the time to recreate them. Anyone can throw an array of pretty colors together, arrange them this way or that and call it a work of art. I need to get my creative mind thinking, break through my "make it look pretty" wall and give my works a beating heart.

As I have been studying the history of art for the past few years, many of the greats who chose to do things differently, whether it be style, medium or style of medium, were criticized and rejected countless times. It helps getting your confidence up when you read about the rejection Monet, Manet, Degas and the rest of the Impressionistic gang went through before making a mark on the art world.

I know I haven't found my place yet, that I'm still trying to find my niche. But right now I feel like I am making progress. It takes many artists years and years to figure out where they belong in medium, style, and subject matter. So for now I am holding off on showing the big at the Inside Out Gallery and I'm going to give most of my paintings away (or sell them for milk money) and start over. I have a few ideas that I have been putting together for a while now and just have been too lazy to get them started. But this is a new beginning for me and I promise to have better works with more content soon.

It was nice to get that down, thanks for reading.

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I finished another painting and I have two on the way, I'm just too poor to buy batteries for my camera so I can't submit them..



This is my last week of school for the year so I will have tons of time to paint all summer

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I've been experimenting with style, technique, and medium trying to find myself and such. When I get some of them up I would dearly love to hear some comments from you. All of my friends think everything I do is great no matter what, so I need some real opinions to make me better. Hopefully within the next couple of days I will have photos of what I've been doing.

I'm looking forward to seeing what you think!

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