The Joy of Painting

[tech37]

Completely different style that I like. Cubism. Found it maybe 20 years ago.

Yep, Cubism... George Braque a favorite. The Billiard Table, 1945.

Is this getting too highbrow?

[Typical Lax Dad]

Completely different style that I like. Cubism. Found it maybe 20 years ago.

Yep, Cubism... George Braque a favorite. The Billiard Table, 1945.

Is this getting too highbrow?

That’s very nice….. highbrow? Perhaps. We go from the head up the *ss post to Braque…

[tech37]

Completely different style that I like. Cubism. Found it maybe 20 years ago.

Yep, Cubism... George Braque a favorite. The Billiard Table, 1945.

Is this getting too highbrow?

That’s very nice….. highbrow? Perhaps. We go from the head up the *ss post to Braque…

Ha! Yes, we've gone from submerged to sublime.

[Typical Lax Dad]

Completely different style that I like. Cubism. Found it maybe 20 years ago.

Yep, Cubism... George Braque a favorite. The Billiard Table, 1945.

Is this getting too highbrow?

That’s very nice….. highbrow? Perhaps. We go from the head up the *ss post to Braque…

Ha! Yes, we've gone from submerged to sublime.

One more for now….

[tech37]

Completely different style that I like. Cubism. Found it maybe 20 years ago.

Yep, Cubism... George Braque a favorite. The Billiard Table, 1945.

Is this getting too highbrow?

That’s very nice….. highbrow? Perhaps. We go from the head up the *ss post to Braque…

Ha! Yes, we've gone from submerged to sublime.

One more for now….

You like Basquiat?

[Typical Lax Dad]

Completely different style that I like. Cubism. Found it maybe 20 years ago.

Yep, Cubism... George Braque a favorite. The Billiard Table, 1945.

Is this getting too highbrow?

That’s very nice….. highbrow? Perhaps. We go from the head up the *ss post to Braque…

Ha! Yes, we've gone from submerged to sublime.

One more for now….

You like Basquiat?

Yes. I saw his work for the first time in Paris in 1992….. I just happened to stumble across an exhibit near Trocadero.

[tech37]

Completely different style that I like. Cubism. Found it maybe 20 years ago.

Yep, Cubism... George Braque a favorite. The Billiard Table, 1945.

Is this getting too highbrow?

That’s very nice….. highbrow? Perhaps. We go from the head up the *ss post to Braque…

Ha! Yes, we've gone from submerged to sublime.

One more for now….

You like Basquiat?

Yes. I saw his work for the first time in Paris in 1992….. I just happened to stumble across an exhibit near Trocadero.

Some stumble!

[Typical Lax Dad]

Completely different style that I like. Cubism. Found it maybe 20 years ago.

Yep, Cubism... George Braque a favorite. The Billiard Table, 1945.

Is this getting too highbrow?

That’s very nice….. highbrow? Perhaps. We go from the head up the *ss post to Braque…

Ha! Yes, we've gone from submerged to sublime.

One more for now….

You like Basquiat?

Yes. I saw his work for the first time in Paris in 1992….. I just happened to stumble across an exhibit near Trocadero.

Some stumble!

I didn’t realize it at the time!

[Brooklyn]

I didn’t realize it at the time!

Sorta like me riding on the Manhattan subway late one night - saw a guy at work drawing some linear art on the wall. Subway doors closed and we were on our way - hadn't realized it was Keith Haring. Darn! Missed my opportunity to chat with him.











https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/graffi ... th-haring/

[Kismet]

You can acquire Ross' first TV painting for $9.8 million

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/first ... r-AA1h2RSe

[Typical Lax Dad]

I didn’t realize it at the time!

Sorta like me riding on the Manhattan subway late one night - saw a guy at work drawing some linear art on the wall. Subway doors closed and we were on our way - hadn't realized it was Keith Haring. Darn! Missed my opportunity to chat with him.











https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/graffi ... th-haring/

That’s fantastic.

[Typical Lax Dad]

Bought in 1999. Large piece. 48” x 36” at least

[10stone5]

Chuck Close
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Many Chuck Close originals are still available at reasonable prices,

https://www.artsy.net/artist/chuck-close

[10stone5]

Captain Beefheart
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… is another one worth looking into,

https://www.artnet.com/artists/don-van-vliet/

[Typical Lax Dad]

Nice. Thanks for posting

[Brooklyn]

^ some really great pics above




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Meet Massachusetts' only Certified Bob Ross Instructor


https://www.wgbh.org/culture/2023-07-05 ... instructor



While the American painter Bob Ross has been immortalized through his popular PBS show, "The Joy of Painting," his legacy also lives on in a CRI — that is, Certified Ross Instructor. The CRI is someone who has been trained and certified by the Ross estate to teach classes in Ross’ style.

Massachusetts has just one CRI, Stacey Sparrow, who owns and operates Art on the Rocks studios in Gardner and Leominster. Sparrow recently joined GBH's Edgar B. Herwick III to discuss her journey to becoming a CRI and how her education at MassArt has informed her teaching practice.

Becoming a CRI was, for Sparrow, something of a “happy accident,” as Ross was famous for calling them. Sparrow grew up on the artist’s programming, which inspired her to become an art instructor.

“I just enjoyed watching him, he just made it so easy and he was so calm to listen to," she said. "And it sounds so silly, but it really was the start of [thinking] ‘I know this is what I want to do.’”


After graduating from MassArt, Sparrow became an art instructor at her own studio and began hosting paint-along nights at her studio featuring some of Ross’ television specials. That was when the artist’s legal team informed Sparrow that she’d need to be certified before hosting more of them.

Getting certified required an intensive three-week commitment in Florida, which gave Sparrow pause.

“For me to leave my business was a crazy idea. I was kind of a one-woman show at the time,” she said. “I almost felt obligated to. Like, well, Bob’s not here anymore, so who is doing this? Who can make people feel like art isn’t only for certain folks and give everybody an opportunity to paint and experience the joy of painting, like [Ross] said.”



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It's amazing how this has all expanded and helped so many people in life.

[Typical Lax Dad]

[ardilla secreta]

My masterpiece from 5th grade. Oil on canvas.

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[10stone5]

Henry Dargar is a fascinating study,

he created a number of massive tapestries in complete obscurity,
definition of Outsider Art,

https://www.edlingallery.com/exhibition ... iew=slider

[youthathletics]

My masterpiece from 5th grade. Oil on canvas.
IMG_0941.jpeg

Priceless.