Saturday, November 17, 2007
Friday, November 16, 2007
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Introducing The Art for Dubai
This is "The Three Kelsies" portrait painting , you can see a series of images of the work as it was in progress by clicking Step by Step Obviously the models name is Kelsie of Austin Texas. She has one of the most uniquely beautiful faces.
My upcoming project or should I say is "Pieta" after Michelangelo.
Fine Art for Fine Luxury Homes
Artworks custom made to order one of a kind paintings for luxury homes In Austin Texas. Fine art works for your fine new home. Your house is unique and says much about you and what is important to you. Your walls should be covered with art. Maybe a mural of a far away wonderful place. Maybe a portrait of your beautiful wife or much loved children. Fine art for a fine home. Much like the days of old when the Medici commissioned works for kings, queens and popes. They bankrolled the Italian Renaissance.
Great art and architiecture go hand in hand. The elegant deserve elegance. portraits, landscapes, abstracts, still lifes. Your imagination is the limit.
I am looking for potential art clients in Dubai. I can make great modern artwork for your Hotel and or Office building.
New work is coming along nicely!
If You would like to exchange links please let me know.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Friday, July 13, 2007
Portrait of Star
If you love someone you should have a portait painting done of them as a way to immortalize them.
Monday, April 09, 2007
Ocean Ayde
I have never hated painting more than I do right now.
Well actually I never hate painting. I just really hate all the quantifying qualifying , moralizing that goes on over painting. I guess it should be a blast , that is, getting adverse reactions to paintings of nude women. The biggest challenge in painting is people. Portraits are always hard, especially when dealing with the vanity of the subject. Beyond that you have to deal with skin tones and facial expression. It's much easier to paint someone exceedingly attractive than it is to render someone average , mundane or bland. Usually really good looking people have landmarks like great bone structure or very unique eyes or lips. If you do a painting of a beauty then people tend to like the subject and hence they like the painting. When it comes to the nude, it is much more critical. I believe that our survival of the fittest instincts, lead us to the ability to see defects in the human form. Would you procreate with that being, would you let your offspring procreate with that being. I mean a landscape is a landscape is a landscape. An abstract , while it may not be your cup of tea is not flawed in draftsmanship skills.
I tear through paintings, one right after the other. I do not edit myself. I go from the non objective to the figurative. I am a true artist in the painter sense. I paint because I love it. Not for fame or fortune (what fame or fortune btw) just for the true transcendental experience, the endorphine release ,the o.b.e.
I paint outdoors because you can not beat the light no way, no how.
I am just a painter, I have no nutrtional value and I do not share the belief systems of just about everyone. Enough exposure to me will surely leave you insulted at some pont. In modern lingo slang I am a "dick". The only thing I give a fucking rats ass about is painting, specifically my paintings. no not your cousin Jimmy's crappy watercolors of sunflowers.
Well actually I never hate painting. I just really hate all the quantifying qualifying , moralizing that goes on over painting. I guess it should be a blast , that is, getting adverse reactions to paintings of nude women. The biggest challenge in painting is people. Portraits are always hard, especially when dealing with the vanity of the subject. Beyond that you have to deal with skin tones and facial expression. It's much easier to paint someone exceedingly attractive than it is to render someone average , mundane or bland. Usually really good looking people have landmarks like great bone structure or very unique eyes or lips. If you do a painting of a beauty then people tend to like the subject and hence they like the painting. When it comes to the nude, it is much more critical. I believe that our survival of the fittest instincts, lead us to the ability to see defects in the human form. Would you procreate with that being, would you let your offspring procreate with that being. I mean a landscape is a landscape is a landscape. An abstract , while it may not be your cup of tea is not flawed in draftsmanship skills.
I tear through paintings, one right after the other. I do not edit myself. I go from the non objective to the figurative. I am a true artist in the painter sense. I paint because I love it. Not for fame or fortune (what fame or fortune btw) just for the true transcendental experience, the endorphine release ,the o.b.e.
I paint outdoors because you can not beat the light no way, no how.
I am just a painter, I have no nutrtional value and I do not share the belief systems of just about everyone. Enough exposure to me will surely leave you insulted at some pont. In modern lingo slang I am a "dick". The only thing I give a fucking rats ass about is painting, specifically my paintings. no not your cousin Jimmy's crappy watercolors of sunflowers.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Art Austin Texas
Well what's new. I am working on the Hunting Art prize contest. So I am sort of on a sabbatical and traveling arounsd out west. I have just added a new online sales page to my new googlepages account. "The Art Store"
http://rick.calzadilla.googlepages.com/artavailableforpurchase
Temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, humility.
http://rick.calzadilla.googlepages.com/
Popped, busted .
somedays I think there is nothing to write about. Usually there is I just do not have the time. We are in such delicate, sensitive, times. Everyone must be blue and black from having their feelings hurt. You should wear a bicycle helmet,(even if you are walking in case you trip) you must not smoke, or eat cheese, you should not allow your children to play tag. W.T.F.
We should drape any and all classical paintings or sculptures depicting any nudity whatsoever. Hello marshmellow universe. Hello cottoncandy brain, hello bubble wrapped britches. hello r.t.f. tag. Throw your banned books in the fire.
Success is "never having to tell people you are successful",
just as fame is "Never having to tell people you are famous",just as exploding is "Never having to tell people you are exploding"
The latest title of my newest fictional work i.e, ergo, what with the this the that and the other thing, is
"my renewed suspension of disbelief systems"
now run all you clever little unimaginative copycats and scatter to the winds and try to beat me to the punch.
Anyone know the name of a portly cock eyed photographer that started honking his horn from a block away to warn me about his attempt to run over me. I do ! Here is a clue he drives a Volvo and his work is boring.
Hey Teacher,
John Constable,
Joseph Mallord William Turner,
Thomas Cole
Edmund Coates
Regis-Francois Gignoux
John Frederick Kensett
George Loring Brown
Thems are landscape painters. While on the other hand Picasso, Dali, Sargent, Warhol, Van gogh, Rembrandt, Renoir, Dix and Dixon, Rivera, Khalo,Hockney Bacon, Freud they all did portraits.
My point is that they all had their idiosynchrosies. They all did art that did not really look like one an others. So if you are and artist or an art instructor you must learn, that is Learn, that "the ting is what it is".
Paintings can not look how you would like them to look unless you your self are painting them. Other wise we would all be boring and teaching the same old crap over and over and over and over. loosen up baby. Or get back in your box, where you can be a technician with your narrow minded view of your four brown corregated cardboard walls.
Dear Julie,
Thanks for the warning.
I know , I have been told on numerous occasions about people taking ideas from me. A consequence of painting in public. This sort of thing has been going on through out the ages. That why I have told you in the past that I consider a true painter to be one who tackles or at the very least attempts to paint figures, landscapes, portraits, as well as the abstract. This I think is the difference between the terms artist and painter. As for those who attempt to "Jack" an idea I really feel pity and look at them in a pathetic light, it is clearly a sign of there lack of imagination, originality and creativity. Perhaps with and infertile mind they should reconsider there goals in life. To me there is nothing more fulfilling than the realization of original inspiration. When a person copies works or ideas they lower there love of craft to mere toil and labor.
Lucky for me in my mental file there is always a running list of paintings that I never seem to get through. Some dissolve and new ones emerge or actually executed on canvas.
Your freind Rick
Portrait Painting of Meredith
Definition of street art
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_art
definitely I am not a street artist. I do not create graffiti or wheatpaste posters.
Monet painted out of doors as did Van Gogh, O'keefe just a miriad of painters who did. In fact Monet championed natural light.
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1/30/08 posting
Evokes emotions and desires
leaves much too soon
Like a flash flood in the desert
Thunder and lightning Mayhem on the landscape
you ruined my day destroyed my focus
Atomic girl so radioactive gorgeous meltdown imagination
http://rick.calzadilla.googlepages.com/artavailableforpurchase
Temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, humility.
http://rick.calzadilla.googlepages.com/
Popped, busted .
somedays I think there is nothing to write about. Usually there is I just do not have the time. We are in such delicate, sensitive, times. Everyone must be blue and black from having their feelings hurt. You should wear a bicycle helmet,(even if you are walking in case you trip) you must not smoke, or eat cheese, you should not allow your children to play tag. W.T.F.
We should drape any and all classical paintings or sculptures depicting any nudity whatsoever. Hello marshmellow universe. Hello cottoncandy brain, hello bubble wrapped britches. hello r.t.f. tag. Throw your banned books in the fire.
Success is "never having to tell people you are successful",
just as fame is "Never having to tell people you are famous",just as exploding is "Never having to tell people you are exploding"
The latest title of my newest fictional work i.e, ergo, what with the this the that and the other thing, is
"my renewed suspension of disbelief systems"
now run all you clever little unimaginative copycats and scatter to the winds and try to beat me to the punch.
Anyone know the name of a portly cock eyed photographer that started honking his horn from a block away to warn me about his attempt to run over me. I do ! Here is a clue he drives a Volvo and his work is boring.
Hey Teacher,
John Constable,
Joseph Mallord William Turner,
Thomas Cole
Edmund Coates
Regis-Francois Gignoux
John Frederick Kensett
George Loring Brown
Thems are landscape painters. While on the other hand Picasso, Dali, Sargent, Warhol, Van gogh, Rembrandt, Renoir, Dix and Dixon, Rivera, Khalo,Hockney Bacon, Freud they all did portraits.
My point is that they all had their idiosynchrosies. They all did art that did not really look like one an others. So if you are and artist or an art instructor you must learn, that is Learn, that "the ting is what it is".
Paintings can not look how you would like them to look unless you your self are painting them. Other wise we would all be boring and teaching the same old crap over and over and over and over. loosen up baby. Or get back in your box, where you can be a technician with your narrow minded view of your four brown corregated cardboard walls.
Dear Julie,
Thanks for the warning.
I know , I have been told on numerous occasions about people taking ideas from me. A consequence of painting in public. This sort of thing has been going on through out the ages. That why I have told you in the past that I consider a true painter to be one who tackles or at the very least attempts to paint figures, landscapes, portraits, as well as the abstract. This I think is the difference between the terms artist and painter. As for those who attempt to "Jack" an idea I really feel pity and look at them in a pathetic light, it is clearly a sign of there lack of imagination, originality and creativity. Perhaps with and infertile mind they should reconsider there goals in life. To me there is nothing more fulfilling than the realization of original inspiration. When a person copies works or ideas they lower there love of craft to mere toil and labor.
Lucky for me in my mental file there is always a running list of paintings that I never seem to get through. Some dissolve and new ones emerge or actually executed on canvas.
Your freind Rick
Portrait Painting of Meredith
Definition of street art
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_art
definitely I am not a street artist. I do not create graffiti or wheatpaste posters.
Monet painted out of doors as did Van Gogh, O'keefe just a miriad of painters who did. In fact Monet championed natural light.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1/30/08 posting
Evokes emotions and desires
leaves much too soon
Like a flash flood in the desert
Thunder and lightning Mayhem on the landscape
you ruined my day destroyed my focus
Atomic girl so radioactive gorgeous meltdown imagination
Friday, June 16, 2006
Mission Statement
Macaws
Meat and potatoes, meet my taters.
A-hem test test 1,2,3,. Is this thing on. Can uou hear me. Ah ha low.
Well this is just as basic and bland as can be.
My mission is to be the world's greatest painter. That is right. I said the world's greatest painter. I don't know that it is possible but I will give it my best shot.
I must make it clear though that I am working within my own criteria. I love art I especially love paintings.
I know what I like and which paintings and painters I admire, repect and aspire to emulate or at the very least reach their level of skill.
So here is some of my citeria.
1.)Volume and or body of work.
2.) Variety of work, nudes, portraits, landscapes, still lifes, abstracts surrealism, nonobjective.
3.)Message, statement, story.
4.) Skill Level
This is where I am at this point.
I have a few social commentative pieces but not enough. I could probably use more still lifes. I believe my skill level is getting close to where I would like for it to be. In other words I damn well know that I can paint things most artists would never dream of.
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