Im supposed to be writing a paper but I am intensly distracted by the objects in my room. They are:

-Andy Warhol poster: "i think everybody should like everybody."
-Andy Warhol poster: "the idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting."
-Andy Warhol poster: "but I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party."
-Andy Warhol poster: "in the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes."
-A 5"x5" abstraction of the letter: ë
-A photo from dA
-Electrnoica
-Table tennis gold medals
-As The World Turns
-The Reaper
-Series Four.1.2
-Wimsically painted cork board with nothing but a half naked girl on a flyer I got in Copenhagen wishing me a happy birthday.
-Metallic Series
-Series One.1.2
-An assignment from Arts and Crafts class
-Kandinsky poster
-Picasso poster
-Monet poster
-Dali poster
-Margritte poster
-Degas poster
-A painting I did two years ago that I haven't put up because it lacks imagination
-Hopper poster
-Picture of Jay and Silent Bob
-Photo of a dandilyon
-Photo of a tree
-Andy Warhol poster
-Poster of the School of Athens I got from the Vatican
-A comic strip I drew in high school
-Poster of David
-Framed photo of a flower
-Andy Warhol poster
-Two little watercolors I bought from an old man painting in the streets of Florence, framed.
-Andy Warhol poster
-Three abstract watercolors I did three years ago

THEN ON MY LEDGE:
-Various DVDs of movies and TV shows
-Video games I want to be playing
-Books I read a long time ago but thought imparitive to bring to college
-30 Vogues
-Picture frames holding memories of things I'd rather be doing than writing a proposal for a fucking English class.
-Fish tank lacking fish
-Two Polaroid cameras I bought at a garage sale that I will never use because film is expensive as fuck
-Dead plant
-Giant kool aide pitcher with nothing in it
-The New Your Times from last year

THEN THERE IS THIS SHELF
-30 gallon fish tank with pirahnas and 10 gold fish unknowinly being stalked from a dark cave.
-Oil paints calling my name
-Last years projects
-Unknowingly being stalked from a dark cave fish food
-5 shoeboxes with paint in three, buttons in one and nothing in the other.
-Paint thinner I would love to crack open and get a few heavy wiffs of
-Cans o paint
-Three paintings stacked on one another probably getting dismantaled from the pointy corners pressing into their surfaces.
-Fish catcher
-The scissors my roommates have been accusing me of stealing but I've been denying for the passed year.

IM NOT EVEN STARTING WITH THE FLOOR



So if you can imagine all of this stuff going on around me, I can't get anything done.

I have recently gotten in the 'business' of finally selling my paintings. I think I am getting somewhere with my art, it is speaking to the viewer and leaving enough of an impact that they feel the need to own it. It gives me a certain pride knowing that I can create something that people will gladly go out of their way to make there own.

Along with selling a couple canvases here and there, I have three paintings and a series lined up as comissions. SOOOO for you followers out there, keep in mind that painting for you makes my world.

One of my professors, Lynette Vought, a well established artist has an art blog. Here, she shows her work and provides a brief explaination of her works. I've decided to start one as well. Every day I will make a new post of a painting or a series and explain the piece(s) in depth. I list the following:
.photo of work(s) which is conected to dA
.genre
.size
.medium
.date

.influence(s)-here I list any influences I came across related and leading up to the work.

.technique-as most of my abstract work is done somewhat unconventionally, I explain processes and reasons for them.

.theme and reasoning-a breif overview of any themes and where I came up with them.

.concept-an in depth look of the conceptual aspects of the work(s). Here, I talk about composition and aesthetic in relation to the concepts.

.critique-IF I get any critiques, I'll pop them in here. That's where you come in!

.If the painting has been bought or given away, here it is.



I like this blog thing because I can really talk about the work in depth. On here I feel the majority of people could care less of concept and the path one goes through to get the end result, that the general audience doesn't stop and think about a piece, they judge by how pretty the colors are. Obviously not everyone is on this level and I know some people thrive on concept, so if you do, try to figure it out here first, then go to my blog to see what I thought about it. The blog will only have completed paintings and will be much more organized than I have been on dA. I know there is a bigger audience than I'm reaching on dA, I want to touch lives with my paintings.

Another reason is because Lynette was trying to get me to explain a sketch of mine and its concepts and I just couldn't do it out loud. I'm not sure why, I can write all day about a piece, but when asked to verbalize it I just go with, "I don't know, its... I don't know, you figure it out." Now she can hear all the concept she can handle when it comes to my paintings.

So if you're interested (you better be): [link]

Lynette's work: [link]


Also, if you're interested, even a little, in critiquing art you can definitely practice on mine. I'd love to hear any constructive input you have to offer. If you're nervous try this site as a guidline: [link]


I want my own site. crystalbuchanan.com? Sounds good to me, anyone want to build it for me... for free?

For my drawing class, I'm doing a tessellation. If you don't know what a tessellation is, shame on you, go figure it out! It is the most difficult thing I've ever attempted! I have so much respect for that man, he's a genius! I was looking through a book of his tessellations and many of them were not finish, they were just sketches. These sketches showed how he pieced everything together and surprisingly he was very mathematical about it. I still can't completely figure it out, I'm kind of winging it. I better figure it out fast though, it's all due on Wednesday.

I always get the most powerful hiccups!
They don't just come out, they explode out of my throat and jolt my entire body!
And if I let my mouth open to really let them out, they're uncontrollably loud!
They are so ginormous, they actually hurt!
And they never go away!
I'm trying to go to sleep!
But I can't!
They keep coming!