this painting hangs in my office at work (but still for sale). the first time one of my coworkers saw it they commented that someone who likes the dallas cowboys should buy it- because of the star in the top left. i fashioned this off of a picture of a beautiful woman in a magazine. sometimes when i paint i start out as bold as i can and mock up the portrait with bold strokes. the best way i can describe it may not even do that good of a job of describing it...sometimes it gives me anxiety to go to google maps and pick a remote area either in the ocean or somewhere completely vast like australia or russia but usually just the ocean and zoom in to a 100 yard area. it makes me feel lost and alone and so i quickly zoom back out so i can see the whole picture. that fear sometimes seizes me when looking at a blank canvas. It takes courage to make those first marks when taking on something that you are not sure how or where it is going. i jump head first into that fear and start. when painting totally abstract i don't have that gut check but for this one i did. it kind of has a dia de las muertos feel to it which i love. i was in mexico by myself once during this time in november and there was a group on the beach late at night speaking in tongues and getting in touch with the spirit. in the loudest voice possible i yelled "i am king of atzlan!" from the balcony of my hotel. it was kind of a mood killer for them. i wasn't really doing well at that time. while down there i hung out with a guy that drove an old ambulance for transportation. He was there because his father didn't turn his business over to the state and the family was banished to this town. i stayed in mexico for a few months and ended up back in san francisco penniless.
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