These server problems/interference/whatever suck! Nice timing, eh, when I’m working to promote the new book…? Please pass on that this book is available. My voice isn’t as loud as it used to be, so the help is very much appreciated.
Last week someone tried to make a post from NYC* with a fake UK address slagging my paintings (ie. they were just posting to be rude and trying to hide who they were; I don’t let through anonymously posted rudeness)… If I remember right it was a general “this sucks, no better than a doodle, this isn’t art” sort of insult. I thought it was a little funny because I’m perfectly capable of doing a “technical” painting, but it’s my strong feeling that the role of an artist is not to paint what they see, but to paint how they see. Of course there’s a place for more visually literate story-telling in art, but for me, I prefer trying to communicate the way I feel about the world — bright colors, simplified forms and characters, a slightly “off” construction, a sense of joy and childishness, and a cartoonish sloppy haze of psychedelia.
* I’ve been asked to mention for the rumormongers that this was not my ex, who was in LA at the time! It was “someone” from IP 68.173.69.99.
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got my tshirt thanks good quality…. happy bunny….send a photo over the next few days have fun ….
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It annoys me when people do that :/ It’s easy to look at a picture that’s already been created and think “yeah that looks easy I could do that” but if that were the case more people would. It’s hard to start with nothing and create something, it takes imagination, talent and skill so it feels cheap when someone looks at a finished product and tries to dismiss it as a doodle!
The other thing I’ll add is that even if you’re painting something directly representational, it’s not the job of the artist to be a camera. The job of the artist is to stimulate the eye of the viewer into moving over the painting in a certain way so as to elicit a desired response.
I for one *love* Shannon’s unique paintings. It’s like looking at a huge bowl of sweet sweet candy and I am such a sugar addict :P
i love your painting style man.
ill admit, at first i thought they were all made for some twisted children’s book…but now im hooked!
keep it up man, you know what they say about critics…
So King Lizard… Looks to be a self portrait?
I’m pretty bummed with the whole peg leg thing. I hope there is some other answer to your pain….
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