ARTSY FARTSY

Come here frequently if you want to make fun of my artistic ineptitude, or if you're actually INTO this sort of thing, inquire about purchasing original 'art'...

Recently I just started getting the hankerin' to paint again. This was brought on by lots of things - seeing friends and collegues making more personal work, etc. - but mostly it got brought on by the fact that my multi-talented girlfriend Leigh decided that a wall in the apartment needed some color, so she just jammed out this amazing acrylic painting as if it took no effort whatsoever. I'd post it here if it were small enough to scan, but just trust me... it's very rad. And, like I said, she just decided she wanted to do it, so she just DID it.
I tend to overthink things - particularly when it comes to creating 'art'... I become far too stunted by my anal-retentive desire to make everything perfect and it winds up giving me multiple excuses for procrastinating.
Well NO MORE!
From now on, I'm gonna just make stuff and if it comes out right - great... if not, c'est la vie. If people like it - great... if not, I'll just kill myself so that I won't have to hear their taunts echoing through my head as I lay curled up in a corner of my studio! I think that's a healthy attitude, right? RIGHT?!?!
Anyway...
I've had the idea for a long time to do a series of 'pinup girl' paintings... firstly, because I like pinups... secondly because it's a hot trend in the art world right now and I wanted in on the racket.
The type of pinup girls I have always enjoyed were curvy ones during the pre-Kate-Moss era of America (sigh)... women with 'hourglass figures'...
So, as a guy who simply can't resist a good pun, I give you the first in a long series of paintings of hourglass women...
I call this one 'WASTED TIME'

I gotta say, I'm having a blast with this little venture - I'll be updating this as frequently as possible with new ones.