marco art: July 2010

Saturday, July 17, 2010

pas de guerre

pas de guerre, originally uploaded by marcofrey.

here is my anti war piece. only mannequins should wear gas masks! i'm not usually a political person but i do firmly believe that our civilization has advanced to the point that war should be obsolete. give peace a chance... for a change.
enjoy.

Monday, July 05, 2010

it's fantastic! it's lush!

it's fantastic! it's lush!, originally uploaded by marcofrey.

i don't really care if people like my art or not (i paint what i like) and people are free to have their own opinions (i certainly do!), but this collage brings back a funny story.. it's one thing to ask someone their opinion especially if you admire their work and respect their comments, but when an artist walks up and says, "that's trite", i will have very little respect for him.. plus i never did care for his work, there was nothing entertaining or fun or fresh about it... i did not walk up to his painting and say, "that's boring as shit" even though that's what i wanted to say.
please enjoy my fantastic, lush collage!
and feel free to leave a comment :)

from sketchbook

IMG_1528, originally uploaded by marcofrey.

so i decided to photograph some of my favorite pages from my many sketchbooks... here's a page from several years ago. i love to sketch with sharpies because of the beautiful way that the ink bleeds through the paper...

so there you have it.

so there you have it., originally uploaded by marcofrey.

in 2003 i did a painting of dash that i apparently didn't like very much so i painted over it in 2004. i never made a note of it and thought for the longest time that i had numbered 2 paintings with the same number - 429. part of my great cataloging effort is to solve mysteries like this. today i was looking through my studio for these two paintings, one of dash and one of al. on the back of this painting of al i noticed an older date from 2003 and the name dash - both slightly painted over. aha! this is both paintings!
"so there you have it" is also written on the back and slightly painted over...