MICKEY MOUSE has grown up A COW :: Tom Gameson's blog ~: dylan

Showing posts with label dylan. Show all posts

your magnetic movements still capture the minutes i'm in

Did a new Dylan painting.

I have to say that I don't think of my paintings as 'art' really, other people use that word sometimes (tho I spose flippantly) and it's nice to be complimented but I don't. These don't say anything - but I don't mean that as a bad thing. They are just done out of enjoyment. I see it like this - the same way you dance to a song you love, that's you reacting to the energy of the music. This is just me doing the same. Painting was completed whilst listening to Highway 61 thru headphones, on repeat, late into the night.

Anywho, this was my first attempt at oils and I'm defintely glad of how it came out. I don't think it's great, but it's a good start, and I felt I learnt alot doing it: I've never been one for colour, I usually just ignore the idea of it completely, or if I do use it am quite blaize & throw it down in an abstract way instead, but oils really give you time to play with colour - mixing on the canvas. This was a great revelation. Watercolours are the opposite - you gotta be very fiddly & precise with your colour mixing before you lay it down, was great to not have to do that.

Everytime I do a painting I mean to not say much atall but always end up spouting off about this and that. Oh well, tis the way the penny drops. Every painting is a lesson learn'd

Here's a great quote from the man from his book Chronicles about his sound (or his art/style):

"The closest I ever got to the sound I hear in my mind was on individual bands in the "Blonde on Blonde" album. It's that thin, that wild mercury sound. It's metallic and bright gold, with whatever that conjures up. That's my particular sound. I haven't been able to succeed in getting it all the time."

Here's the photo it's from.

New Year manifesto

1) Drink coffee not tea.

2) Love love always

3) Anytime you see yourself reverting to inaction - anytime you see yourself pity yourself ('oh well I have had a long day..' 'well I am tired..') replace it with action - Jump up! Paint! Read! Whatever.

4) If you can fall asleep watching a film you can fall asleep reading a book

5) Wake up & read. Whatever youre reading add's that glint of perspective to your day & your life.

6) Only watch TV programmes you already intended to watch.

7) "Go to bed already asleep" - Brian Clough

8) Remember your integrety, and be aware of its feedback; "when you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks." - Dylan

9) "Be Here Now" - George Harrison

10) "Write in recollection & amazement for yourself" - Kerouac

11) Stay focus'd & be intent on your pursuit

12) Remember that life is a choice, & wherever you are & whatever you are doing is a choice

13) Sincerity & honesty - most earnestly

14) "Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass / You know his faults, now let his foibles pass / Life is one long enigma, my friend / So read on, read on, the answer's at the end." - Sir Frank Crisp

15) Drink water not coffee.

16) Be aware of your ego & contentiously quarrel with it

17) Humility trumps pride.

18) Ears as big as your mouth

19) Be like a sponge & soak it all up. Committed to experience

20) Sometimes its healthy to remember you're an animal

21) Stay prosperous, be wealthy

22) You only need enough $ to stay afloat

23) "I've had money, i've had none. But i've never been so broke that I couldn't leave town" - Jim Morrison

24) Be aware of your ignorance,

25) Abolish your ignorance.

26) Pleasure for reward not gluttony

27) The best time of day is the night.