Comments for Ink Stained Hands on Wordpress http://billdonovan.wordpress.com Art, Books, Zines, Music Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:11:25 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on 1984 is Set Free by sandrar http://billdonovan.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/1984-is-set-free/#comment-755 sandrar Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:11:25 +0000 http://billdonovan.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/1984-is-set-free/#comment-755 Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post... nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R. Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R.

]]> Comment on My Brother Sent Me This by Mike http://billdonovan.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/my-brother-sent-me-this/#comment-751 Mike Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:46:54 +0000 http://billdonovan.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/my-brother-sent-me-this/#comment-751 Just passing by.Btw, you website have great content! ______________________________ Don't pay for your electricity any longer... <a href="http://php.mikewilson.s155.eatj.com/green.php" rel="nofollow">Instead, the power company will pay YOU!</a> Just passing by.Btw, you website have great content!

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]]> Comment on DIY Fashion by M. Lanterman by The Fashionista http://billdonovan.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/diy-fashion-by-m-lanterman/#comment-440 The Fashionista Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:42:46 +0000 http://billdonovan.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/diy-fashion-by-m-lanterman/#comment-440 Pattern Making books can be a great source for inspiration for designers. I know this place called Magazine Cafe, they have a great selection of Pattern Making books which have royalty free CD's. They also have a great selection of textile, knitting, sewing, crocheting.... magazines. You can see there whole selection at http://stores.magazinecafeny.com Hope you find this information useful. Pattern Making books can be a great source for inspiration for designers. I know this place called Magazine Cafe, they have a great selection of Pattern Making books which have royalty free CD’s. They also have a great selection of textile, knitting, sewing, crocheting…. magazines. You can see there whole selection at http://stores.magazinecafeny.com

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]]> Comment on My Brother Sent Me This by deryke http://billdonovan.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/my-brother-sent-me-this/#comment-750 deryke Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:40:00 +0000 http://billdonovan.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/my-brother-sent-me-this/#comment-750 schadenfreude schadenfreude

]]> Comment on Sam Gibbons at Claire Oliver Gallery by Katherine http://billdonovan.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/sam-gibbons-at-claire-oliver-gallery/#comment-749 Katherine Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:11:00 +0000 http://billdonovan.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/sam-gibbons-at-claire-oliver-gallery/#comment-749 My opinion - <br/>Thanotic poop. Art will eat itself. I think the mouths and the poop shapes really are about this work chewing up and spitting itself and other currently hot visual tropes back out. It is very slick and smooth and polished - eye candy, and about as nourishing to the soul as a box of Nerds is to the body. Frankly, sex and death are boring in this context.<br/><br/>From the "biography section of the gallery website":<br/><br/>Sam Gibbons' paintings are fascinating renderings of cartoons perversely entwined in spasms of death and candy-colored imitations of sex. Gibbons' work is a painterly convergence of figuration and abstraction; resembling a Rorschach test, one side of the canvas mirrors the other, lending symmetry and precision to fluid and spontaneous bursts of color and form. Employing imagery that was originally intended to entertain and pacify, Gibbons' paintings are at war within themselves. The typical role of the cartoon is subverted; these benchmarks of inexperience are engaged in violent and sexual acts. Acting as allegories for the loss of innocence, Sam Gibbons' paintings exist as a complex and beautiful mimicry of the human condition.<br/><br/>Since when are cartoons "benchmarks of inexperience"? they have been violent and made by adults, for adults from the git-go.<br/> <br/>That's my late 2 cents. My opinion –
Thanotic poop. Art will eat itself. I think the mouths and the poop shapes really are about this work chewing up and spitting itself and other currently hot visual tropes back out. It is very slick and smooth and polished – eye candy, and about as nourishing to the soul as a box of Nerds is to the body. Frankly, sex and death are boring in this context.

From the “biography section of the gallery website”:

Sam Gibbons’ paintings are fascinating renderings of cartoons perversely entwined in spasms of death and candy-colored imitations of sex. Gibbons’ work is a painterly convergence of figuration and abstraction; resembling a Rorschach test, one side of the canvas mirrors the other, lending symmetry and precision to fluid and spontaneous bursts of color and form. Employing imagery that was originally intended to entertain and pacify, Gibbons’ paintings are at war within themselves. The typical role of the cartoon is subverted; these benchmarks of inexperience are engaged in violent and sexual acts. Acting as allegories for the loss of innocence, Sam Gibbons’ paintings exist as a complex and beautiful mimicry of the human condition.

Since when are cartoons “benchmarks of inexperience”? they have been violent and made by adults, for adults from the git-go.

That’s my late 2 cents.

]]> Comment on Need A Few Days by deryke http://billdonovan.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/need-a-few-days/#comment-748 deryke Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:15:00 +0000 http://billdonovan.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/need-a-few-days/#comment-748 i have sent you my special ANTI_CHAOS waves. they should be there soon.<br/><br/>buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz i have sent you my special ANTI_CHAOS waves. they should be there soon.

buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

]]> Comment on New Sketchbook by El_CaminoArt http://billdonovan.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/new-sketchbook/#comment-747 El_CaminoArt Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:15:00 +0000 http://billdonovan.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/new-sketchbook/#comment-747 so good Bill...keep it up. I love the cult leader angle...like an NCO who can cast a spell and make you feel comfortable going into satan's den with no crewserved, a book of wet matches, skittles, and a smoke grenade. so good Bill…keep it up. I love the cult leader angle…like an NCO who can cast a spell and make you feel comfortable going into satan’s den with no crewserved, a book of wet matches, skittles, and a smoke grenade.

]]> Comment on New Sketchbook by Bill Donovan http://billdonovan.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/new-sketchbook/#comment-746 Bill Donovan Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:17:00 +0000 http://billdonovan.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/new-sketchbook/#comment-746 Thanks Jesse, yeah those are Stalin. I also drew L. Ron Hubbard (founder of the religion Scientology) and Joseph Smith (founded the Mormons), and Jesus. I was drawing cult leaders. ;) Those are all on the right page, and then I went through and drew my cartoons on the left. <br/><br/>Tried to be dirty, gritty, and fast. And you can't see it in the photos but the paint is thickish, it is acrylic paint mixed with acrylic ink. I recently learned that really gooping paint on makes the colors more intense. Thick paint = saturated colors.<br/><br/>Next time there will be some spray painting.<br/><br/>I wonder about dipping notebooks in thick paint, and then slicing them open with a razor and drawing on the inside like a surgery.<br/><br/>Cult leaders are usually inspiration guys.<br/><br/>Ok, end of transmission Thanks Jesse, yeah those are Stalin. I also drew L. Ron Hubbard (founder of the religion Scientology) and Joseph Smith (founded the Mormons), and Jesus. I was drawing cult leaders. ;) Those are all on the right page, and then I went through and drew my cartoons on the left.

Tried to be dirty, gritty, and fast. And you can’t see it in the photos but the paint is thickish, it is acrylic paint mixed with acrylic ink. I recently learned that really gooping paint on makes the colors more intense. Thick paint = saturated colors.

Next time there will be some spray painting.

I wonder about dipping notebooks in thick paint, and then slicing them open with a razor and drawing on the inside like a surgery.

Cult leaders are usually inspiration guys.

Ok, end of transmission

]]> Comment on New Sketchbook by El_CaminoArt http://billdonovan.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/new-sketchbook/#comment-745 El_CaminoArt Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:11:00 +0000 http://billdonovan.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/new-sketchbook/#comment-745 Nice work Bill. The dirtyness and energy I like...Green Stalin (?), young Stalin, and the binding/spine drawings are my favorites...(like a kid) Nice work Bill. The dirtyness and energy I like…Green Stalin (?), young Stalin, and the binding/spine drawings are my favorites…(like a kid)

]]> Comment on New Sketchbook by deryke http://billdonovan.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/new-sketchbook/#comment-744 deryke Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:36:00 +0000 http://billdonovan.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/new-sketchbook/#comment-744 we should do a SKETCHBOOK legends site and have people post selected pages from old sketchbooks!<br/><br/>how awesome would that be? we should do a SKETCHBOOK legends site and have people post selected pages from old sketchbooks!

how awesome would that be?

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