out of loop

man, when I figure out how to post videos on this, I will show you all my labor on this terrible thing called 'after effects' that I have been struggling on.


In the meantime, enjoy a still or two.. or three.

Life-Dracula.

It's pretty sad that I don't have much of an inspiring life to paint, so I must live vicariously through other people's excursions for inspiration. Stole the pics off of rox's adventures in Burning Man 2007. I liked the idea of a thing on the horizon and the naked guy wearing shoes in the desert next to it, so decided to combine them both. I actually photoshoped the texted in because I haven't figured out how I wanted to do that yet.

... almost....

So just one more of these to go and I'll be done with this blasted self-imposed project. I wanted to see if I could do four paintings of similar theme, in this case, a photo booth, without becoming so sick of the repetitivness that I would scrap the whole thing... I think I'll take leo's advice and make the fourth painting a person leaving the booth.

bad times, good times.

got inspired to do these during an emotional slump of sorts. I don't like how either of them turned out, but I liked the concept of the one with the girl blind folded and tying herself up which I filched from an old college classmate back in michigan. She did an awesome big oil painting of a girl blind folded and tied up looking away which really accurately describes me in a nutshell, despite probably being about her own demons. Art's funny in that way isn't it? I really hope that girl hasn't drunk herself to a lullish stupor due to her depression and instead makes wonderful paintings to channel her energies into. the other one with the dog is a unsuccessful attempt at 3 point perspective, but I like the dog, so I put it up anyway.

new yawwwk (murky crappy apartment)!

So the new york wig wearing photos didn't turn out so well, since there were tons of orange streaky light leaks and underexposed murkiness going on, but somehow I thought it make for a cool moody type of setting. combined a few somewhat visible photos here and there and started with this, so we'll see what happens with it when I'm finished..

This should be called the 'billiam art' blog.

I just got back from michigan/new york and must say that I haven't been making anything worthwhile since leaving... but this drawing amused me, I was pleasantly surprised to learn from my mom that there is the chinese word for 'naked' in the text, so maybe somehow the text and image actually might be somewhat relevant.

Internal battles.

The ideal

The reality