Sunday, February 8, 2009

Selling out is hard to do...

Ok, so for those of you who missed the great moral quandary leading up to 'Art and Soul', I was torn over the question of weather making an Obama-themed piece would be a crass, commercial exploitation of a rather significant moment in American history. I finally decided to go for it- principles be damned! A decisive, if despicable, plan of action... if I had had the chops to pull it off.

Which I didn't. Crashed and burned.

This image is amazingly frustrating- for instance, using the wood grain as a flesh tone comes so close to working.... while still *thoroughly* failing to work at all. Bah.

Well, here it is, the infamous Obama piece, standing as a testament to the fact that selling out really is hard to do, just not for the reasons that you'd expect.

Art and Soul

A good friend of mine who works for the Indianapolis Arts Council recently recruited me to do some face painting at their 'Art and Soul' event... which was a blast! The event's director was gracious enough to allow me to try to sell a few little paintings. Due to their high-gloss sheen, they didn't photograph very well- but, for what it's worth, here's what I was able to come up with: