Thursday, March 29, 2012

Life and Changes.

      Hello my friends. The great thing about writing a blog is that it gets your fingers limbered up so you can paint! I am done with the Mark Farner portrait, and I have to admit I have been feeling the pressure I have been putting on myself to do the best I ever have on this. It means a lot to me for several reasons. The first is because I am getting to do something for someone who has given me years of great rock and roll and the others we will talk about later. I don't mean to be evasive, but lets just take this one step at a time. Once you know all the reasons, I am sure you will understand why I am putting so much pressure on myself to do the best that I possible can at this point in my career. Career? Is that what you call an Artist's life? Actually I would think Journey would be a better word for it. Here it is. I will hopefully have a better photo of it next time, but when the paint is still wet, it reflects light and I haven't figured out how to stop that. It's not from a flash. The original is 18 x24 on a stretch canvas. An yes i do commissioned portraits. You can write me at nixonjohnsart@gmail.com if you are interested.


     I have made a decision that I believe will make some of you happy. I walked away from doing "Dark" work, but I have decided to continue my painting of the fantastic, namely fantasy. Fantasy is my first love, and I got away from it because of all the "dark" things and people that surrounded me in the first decade of 2000. I would guess that my art takes on the mood of whatever is around me and for 10 years is was bad and dark things. I am by no means blaming others for what I went through. Looking back and being more mature, I understand that I put myself in each of the situations I was in. My problems with my step-father where my own fault. I should have never contacted him again after putting him out of my life for 20 years. My fault. I knew better, people do not change. Lesson learned. But I do wish him well. We just see life on different terms and I can not hate him of think badly of him because of that, or others that have crossed my path and where part of my life for a time. Like I said, I have grew up and the only thing that matters any more is the future and the positive things I can do with it. So after saying all of this, I will be returning to my fantasy roots other than portrait work. I think the "Sexy" women paintings are going to take on a fantasy element from here on out.
    I am very proud of myself for a lot of reasons these days, and I know there are things I need to keep working on as well.  My health is doing great compared to 2 years ago, but I  still need to improve on it with more exercise. I am taking my art much more serious than I ever have before. I spent 2 days a week just working in my sketchbook.  Learning and practicing anatomy. I hope to master it in a few years, maybe more, but my goal is to be able to draw any pose and paint it and make it believable with very little to no reference. I have been very inspired by the work of Frazetta once again. It is like an old love has come back into my life, and I am happy about it. lol. The bottom line is that I am more inspired and working harder than I ever have before.
   I will be opening a E-bay store next week to once again start selling prints and originals. Although, not many originals will make it to market. I intend to keep them scarce and leave them for my heirs and their children to benefit from. I am going to make damn sure that my will and wishes cannot be challenged as they are in the Frazetta case. That is one huge mess, and I don't want my love ones to have to go through that once my time comes.  Hopefully, my work will have some real value in the future.
   Something new I am going to start doing with the next blog is this, I am going to include a short video with each one that is designed to encourage, motivate, and help you along your path. I am going to try to keep these to under 5 minutes each. You don't have to watch them to enjoy the blog, they are simply a new dimension I am adding to speak to you face to face sorta.
    I pulled out a old painting that I started a year and a half ago, but never got past the pencil work. I have decided to finish it now. You can still see the old Nick Rose signature in the bottom left corner, but that will be painted and Nixon Johns will be added when the painting is done, hopefully by the next blog.
  Until next time my friends. Love each other and be at peace. Hugs.
    

2 comments:

  1. I am proud of you and proud to have met and know you. I am inspired by both your art and your positive outlook on life.

    Be well,
    Ron

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  2. Thank you Ron. I am blessed to know you as well my friend. Hugs.

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