"Swing", 24x18, mixed media on canvas

"Swing"

Making art comes with no instruction manual. What works for one, may not with another. Although, I have found this method to be pretty universal.

Directions: 1.Focus, 2. take good aim, 3. Beat the hell out of it.

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"Prometheus Stumbled", 20x16", mixed media on canvas

"Prometheus Stumbled"

The heat incites stupid things. It fuels frustrations causing people to react in extreme manner. It stresses patience and wears at the fabric of our good nature... or at least those of us who have a good nature. It boils our brains and causes us to seek out the closest pool, sprinkler, waterhose, horse trough, etc. In our sweaty, sticky laspe of comfort, we tend to let good sense, logic and rational thought melt away. Embroiled and lost in our own personal discomfort, we become careless.

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"Drawing Lessons pt.1: The Cryptologist", 48x36", mixed media on canvas

"The Cryptologist"

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"Soliloquy", 45x36", mixed media on canvas

So-li-lo-quy (suh lil uh kwee)- noun, plural - quies.

1. an utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to himself or herself who is disregardful of or oblivious to any hearers present (often used as a device in drama to disclose a character's innermost thoughts): Hamlet's soliloquy begins with, "To be or not to be."

2. the act of talking while or as if alone.

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"Powdered", 14x18", oil on masonite

Once I had finished this piece, I felt I should have included a tiny penguin somewhere. Maybe a small American flag planted for posterity.

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Antonio Lopez Garcia

-"...Each painter has his own time speed, say longer or faster, to do his things. Sorolla was fast, Leonardo was slow, Goya was fast but you find of every kind. You have to accept your own speed. If you are slow, then you have to abide, in spite of all the inconveniences that this will create. Don't give it any importance. It's like a person who is short. That's just how he is for the rest of his life, he,he,he. In our generation, everything goes at high speed, and the slow ones are always in an eternal contradiction."
- Antonio López García http://http://www.artdetails.com/antonio_lopez_garcia.htm

"oranges", 12x16", oil on masonite