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Do The Thing
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Do The Thing
pen and ink on Yupo
8 x 10 inches
This item is unmounted and unframed
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It’s impossible to be a life-changing presence to some without being a total joke to others. Criticism is proportional to impact.
People will criticize you for your successes. They will criticize you for your failures. They will criticize you for acting. They will criticize you for not acting.
F*ck the haters. Do the thing. - MARK MANSON
It has been brought to my attention that a number of you creatives are feeling stymied by the situation in the world. That perhaps your inner critic and naysayer, that finger-wagging shame-ball lobber is telling you not to create. The inner voice is being a hater, sending you down the toboggan chute of procrastination and inaction.
Well, I have a message (and a permission slip) for YOU!
(If you have trouble with the video, here is the link to it on YouTube)
Well, I have a message (and a permission slip) for YOU!
(If you have trouble with the video, here is the link to it on YouTube)
Here's a little something to fire up your creativity!
The AI bot recently launched the ability to take your art and animate it. Whoa! So the first piece into the animation incubator was Frank-on-skates. I think the bot did a great job of bringing him to life.
Can you see me rubbing my hands together with glee? Oh oh OH! The possibilities!
About the art: I like to work pen and ink drawings into the mix while layers on oil paintings are drying. This keeps my hands busy so I don't succumb to the temptation to fuss with the oil paint while it is still damp - it's a real problem, I tell ya! So this week I wanted to create a piece inspired by attending the NO KINGS protest here in Portland, along with the general sense of frustration and anxiety going on all around. I'd really like to have this woman's outfit and boots.
WoW! Do The Thing is fierce and strong, not waiting for any danged permission, that one! Ironically, a few weeks ago I actually recommitted to a decidedly more active creative life, as I think you know as one of my chief cheerleaders, and I did so precisely BECAUSE of world conditions and circumstances. Best antidote going, I tell ya!
LOVE your fierce strong command of pen and ink. Knocks my socks off!
And you are so wise to commit to more active creating as a response to everything! YES! Antidote! Love that description!
Thanks for loving my pen and ink! It is really cool coming back to it so many years later and seeing what the muse has waiting. xoxo
Off to do my Instagram scribble! Love her stamina!
Carl
Oof, Lola - did I need to hear this! Yeah, there are *those* who are well-practised in the low pseudo-art of goal-post moving. They will issue criticisms regardless of what one does. Speaks more to their character (or lack thereof) than it does to ours, eh!
Imma keep doing My Thing (and I reserve the right to do whatever Thing I may put my mind to)...so there, haters! Nyah!
Oh, and her kick-ass boots? WANT. : )
As always - great work, my friend xx
And thank you so very much. :) xoxoxo