bowling

I woke up thinking about the correlation between bowling and human reproduction. Doesnt it seem like the bowling ball represents the female egg? Except in this is case the fallopian tube is "the lane"and the pins, well that is easy to figure out and the egg is the thing in procactive motion--- I wake up with odd thoughts. Not sure about the cheesy haircuts or the snack bar and how they fit in. All great theories have a few holes in them.

Ten works by gardega

I am cleaning house and unloading all of my art. I sell most of my work but I make so much art that I am constantly buried in it. My art breeds like french rabbits...I am on a mission to keep it clean and streamlined in my studio...I cannot deal with clutter as it prevents me from functioning.

1) dali rip off inspired watercolor 24 x 36

2) ocean girl 18 x 24

3) the bread of genius 18 x 24

4) leonardo riff 18 x 24 oil

5) clinton illustration 16 x 20 pen /ink

6)watercolor study 15 x 24 (est.)

7)watercolor study 12 x 15 est...

8) portrait of a woman--- pencil on paper 8 x 10..

9) pot luck..


10) oil canvas--unfinished--birth of liquid flight 16 x 20

11) ballet pastel on canvas 18 x 24

inquiries...

alexgardega@gmail.com

I am buying this book!

http://www.amazon.com/Americas-Hidden-History-Pilgrims-Forgotten/dp/0061118184

I just saw a great interview with this guy on cspan on MY NEW TV. He was awesome and smart and he tells a great story. He mentioned that schools kill kids natural curiosity for learning and reading, I am sold...Truer words were never spoken. I was and always have been an obsessive reader. Reading is the greatest thing a human/ chimp can do outside of buying my art.

RalpH STeadman

http://www.ralphsteadman.com/

my favorite living artist.

my new years

I spent 12 hours yesterday cleaning my studio and when I was done I emailed my buddy who is the lead singer of the band The Knockout Drops band and asked him what he was doing for New Years. He told me he was "eating Captain Crunch and going to bed angry." I decided I would stay home and avoid amateur hour. I took a nap and woke up at 2 AM and couldn't go back to sleep and stepped out into the cold NYC night to find a beer. I stopped into a local bar and ran into a group of blind black guys who were drinking whiskey. I bought a round and talked to them about the concept of colors. Blind people have interesting ways to describe colors they have never seen. I went home and wrote my name on the snow of some poor fools windshield.

One of the great things about having this blog thingy is that I have communicated with people from all over the world. Somewhere, somehow along this line I became friends with a french artist who runs a great studio and workshop and does a lot of casting of bronze etc. I am fascinate by the process and have never cast anything and I plan I going to his studio one day and casting something and meeting the artist. My french is high school french but I try to read his blog in french to test myself. I recommend his blog and work, maybe my stalker will stalk him and not me--one can hope!

http://atelieraeris.blogspot.com/

How to be a famous artist----by gardega

STEP ONE:


If you want to be a famous artist you must have a sacred workspace. I have had the same art table for 7 years. I bought this table from a garage sale in Westchester for 25 dollars and since I had no car I carried it on my back for half a mile because there are no cabs in them there parts. I knew that this table was meant to be mine and destiny awaited--- I was so broke I gave the person my last 20 and came back later with the other five. On the table you will see a calculator, a wooden hammer, a pencil box, a brush holder and a sharpener. The most important tool for any artists is not a brush or pencil but a calculator. One must be ready add up one's sales in order to know that you are famous and actually sell a lot of art. If an artists tells you they do not like to sell art and prefer to keep it then you should take a ruler and measure their nose as it grows like Pinocchio's. I keep a number of fetish objects around me as I paint including sacred american indian arrowheads, a wooden hammer and an ostrich egg... each has its own purpose. I also paint on an easel and it all depends on my mood. My living quarters revolve around my art, everything else is second...