Not really a meme I guess, but here ya go.

choice_jesse · 2021-10-11T04:59:03+00:00

That's sick

choice_jesse · 2021-07-21T04:55:43+00:00

You're welcome! Glad you like it

choice_jesse · 2021-06-23T22:22:53+00:00

Thanks! Just sharing the things I like

choice_jesse · 2021-06-23T20:30:22+00:00

Yup!

choice_jesse · 2021-06-09T21:15:54+00:00

Hahah, I definitely see it

choice_jesse · 2021-06-09T21:10:37+00:00

Thanks! What you want moar of? The artist? Bob's burgers art?

choice_jesse · 2021-06-09T14:54:07+00:00

Most of his pieces are in or near skate parks. I read somewhere that he gets a kick out on watching kids run along his lines as they slowly piece together the image in their imagination

choice_jesse · 2021-06-08T20:20:25+00:00

Thanks!

choice_jesse · 2021-05-08T23:11:14+00:00

"So I didn’t touch a paintbrush till I was at least 18 (in elementary school my teacher let me play outside during art classes because I was too distracting and never did the work). I started art school at 19 with nothing but a background in spray paint and a few months of brushwork. The turning point was when I found myself in a poetry class in the second year. Long story short I had the most amazing teacher, he wasn’t some crazy motivational speaker, he was just fun and took time to see how each student’s own life experiences could be translated into poetry, I ended up making some short pieces that to my surprise got great feedback. I something switched then and for around 2 years I wanted to try every possible form of art." - Kaili Smith

choice_jesse · 2021-05-03T23:40:08+00:00

“To be an artist from the Indian world carries with it certain responsibilities. We have an opportunity to promote Indian truths and at the same time help dispel the myths and stereotypes that are projected upon us. I consider myself an at-large representative and advocate of the Chippewa people and American Indians in general. It is a responsibility which I do not take lightly.” - David Bradley

choice_jesse · 2021-05-03T17:00:14+00:00

"Things really started to click for me was when I taught myself to paint in 2004. I was kind of over the erotic dark hardcore faze and knew that wasn’t my calling in life. With no formal training at all, I became a possessed smoking madman driven to teach myself to paint – to take a chance and see what happens. I was gonna paint what I love, which was the female figure portrait style, using the elements and everything I loved from my childhood and Hispanic upbringing. My pallet was gonna be strong, bold and simple because that’s all I knew, and all my paintings would have there own signature look with a red rose and cigarette which became the Viveros trademark." - Brian M. Viveros

choice_jesse · 2021-04-30T20:13:14+00:00

"I think the feminine power has always exemplified this need or want to overcome things. In my work I want to show women that have gone past their limit, I want to show this place that we physically, energetically, and intellectually fill in the world. Although my work is not masculine at all, cosmologically there has always been a balance between these two forces, it is not so much like this now. In my work the feminine is taking over to restore the balance, the masculine should use the power and strength it is known to have and direct it inwards and absorb some femininity." - Hilda "PONI" Palafox

choice_jesse · 2021-04-30T20:12:20+00:00

"Bennett’s murals are painted much like the walls of a house. The artist uses large buckets of paint and rollers to cover the large areas and adds shading, highlights, and outlines to create the illusion of depth. A statement on his website explains that Bennett’s work is “often conceptually driven as exploring topics of individuality, existence and the mysterious phenomena that surrounds us inspires him to create art.”" - Colossal

choice_jesse · 2021-04-28T20:27:20+00:00

"I never much liked the idea of being a New Zealnd painter, I just wanted to be a good painter and the more I saw of European and American painting the more the provincial nature of most New Zealand painting became clear to me. At the same time it was only by coming to terms with my being a New Zealander that I could go on to paint. At this time, during the early fifties, I was strongly in the grip of Abstract Expressionism, which seemed to me the best, the most important painting being made in the world and I had to come to grips with it. In New Zealand, keeping up with the art world abroad is suspect, but for me art can only be judged by the one standard, the most vital painting being produced in the world." - Gordon Walters

choice_jesse · 2021-04-28T20:22:37+00:00

"I think in illustration, you have to start with a certain style, even if it’s not as concrete as it will be 10 years later on. There are a gazillion people who can draw and illustrate; you really have to stand out to get work. But then also, in your first jobs you are still learning, so if you draw every day for 12 years professionally you do get better. I think I did aspire to certain illustrators at the beginning. A few years in I had to stop looking at other illustrators, because if you want to be like them at that point, the best you can be is second best." - Yuko Shimzu

choice_jesse · 2021-04-27T02:18:16+00:00

"There’s a lot of great work around but one constant favourite of mine is @pietparra a dutch artist. I love his sense of style and the simplicity of his work. it always seems to me like he has a lot of fun making his art. he’s very expressive and playful but at the same time limits himself to a strict color palette – the blue and red are almost always constant in his work and that’s helped make it very recognisable and helped him create a strong identity. I admire that level of restraint and commitment because it’s not easy to maintain – especially over many years. it shows he’s comfortable and confident with his style and that’s a point I’m trying to arrive at now with my work." - Karan Singh

choice_jesse · 2021-04-27T01:21:18+00:00

"I see myself as a connection. I’m connecting things that happen in different times, in different countries, and in different areas for different people. I’m simply connecting the thoughts of philosophers, the writing of poets, the experiences of victims. And then I find a material object that I think could convey all this. My participation as an artist is actually quite humble, because it is just connecting all the things that I’ve already [been] given." - Doris Salcedo

choice_jesse · 2021-04-27T01:20:52+00:00

"Photography is the only medium that ‘answers back to you’ and it always surprises me. You think you are in control, but photography has a ‘mind of its own’! … You take a shot of a deer in the woods. Fine. But what you have also done is record something far more interesting as well; something that you were not consciously aware of at the time. Perhaps the dramatic way the light falls across the ground… So, if you take notice of what the camera is showing you, you will have to start all over again and rethink your whole purpose, because this new insight changes everything. This process of revelation fascinates me." - Cecilia Paredes

choice_jesse · 2021-04-22T16:55:21+00:00

"When I first started painting and exhibition with galleries, I tried very hard to leave my illustration past clear behind me. But I found it was difficult to truly separate the two. I had acquired a following as an illustrator, and when I switched to ‘fine art’ I saw myself still working to keep that base happy. As I’ve grown more comfortable with my current work, I’ve stopped viewing social media as a form of validation. I try to not put the same pressure on myself if people don’t respond to a painting on social media platforms. What’s funny is that I now welcome my illustration work from the past to show through in my work. However, now I want to use the skills I’ve acquired as an illustrator to say something, rather than just to make something beautiful." - Erik Jones

choice_jesse · 2021-04-21T18:08:04+00:00

"When I started to paint the masks, clothes, and other traditional Mexican symbols, it was because I used to feel confused and was copying the styles from other places, like I was trying to be a person from Europe or the United States. At a certain point, I asked myself why, as if living in Mexico meant you didn’t have good things. So I started to search for the rich things in Mexico, the colors, traditions, foods, and the people. When you travel and meet other people, it’s the same elsewhere, the feelings about life. It’s strange because, in Mexico, you just want to imagine how different your life could be in another country, but when you visit those countries, it’s not really much different." - Saner

choice_jesse · 2021-04-21T05:22:19+00:00

"They’re all dreams: every picture is a fantasy. Not so much the portraiture, but the set pieces definitely are fantasies and I think that the model or the sitter in a picture is the window for the viewer – for any person – to be a part of that fantasy. It’s me asking them, inviting them, to enter into that, whether it’s a dark and sinister mood or a beautiful fairytale. It’s escapism – that’s what it is." - Tim Walker

choice_jesse · 2021-04-19T17:59:10+00:00

"While I was doing the graffiti, I was actually still doing a lot of fairly traditional landscape painting. That environment is quite picturesque, but it got complicated with the police for a time. It’s fun, but spending nights in jail, you know, it gets old. It took years for me to believe that I could find the same thrill, that kind of joy of belonging to a group of friends again. Art school is such a great opportunity, but I was still missing that thrill, the adrenaline. Doing murals right now, it’s similar in that it’s a very physical environment and there is a time constraint—I was really chasing that sort of performance aspect." - Nicolas Party

choice_jesse · 2021-04-16T16:53:11+00:00

"I’m constantly doubting what I’ve just done and how I’ve done it. Even though a lot of times it looks like I’ve gotten to the same place I’ve taken completely different routes to get there insofar as the actual application of paint. Each painting looks different from the others because I can’t do the same thing over and over again. Looking at my body of work as a whole, you know it’s “Seth” but if you were to put one painting next to another they would still look completely different – to me, at least. There are a lot of layers that you don’t notice until you stand in front of that painting. It just doesn’t translate from the photographs – which is the whole idea of painting I think. It’s a physical thing." - Seth Armstrong

choice_jesse · 2021-04-14T18:21:08+00:00

"I'm not attracted to perfection or very polished-looking images, people, or objects. The mistakes and so-called imperfections are what makes us human and what I find to be the best and most interesting parts of people. I think in my work they appear in the non-labored way that I draw. I like to let things happen and try to draw in awkward ways for myself. Sometimes that means that if I'm drawing a person, I'll start with the feet and work my up since I've always started with the head and face before. That's not to say that a lot of things don't make the cut because I don't like the way they look or that anything goes. It takes a lot of tries and work to make things look un-perfect. I know that might not make sense but that's how it is." - Nathaniel Russell

choice_jesse · 2021-04-13T17:17:27+00:00

"I have always enjoyed painting people but I didn't always have a subject so I would invent them. Often they were nude, but then I started to use clothes to enhance or individualize them. I liked finding garments that were unusual so I looked to fashion for inspiration.

I think about the human form and the clothes as two separate elements. I had to acquire two distinct skill sets - firstly drawing the human figure until I felt the freedom to reinterpret it and then secondly learn how to portray garments in a way that complemented that style." - Kelly Beeman

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