Sketches of President Barack Obama & The mood of the State of The Union Speech

     Art & Politics

“An art without an ideological function in spite of genius of its creator- or more specifically its maker- changes the artist progressively and inevitably into a juggle for the society of ‘ladies and gentlemen’ in as much as the generator governs the force of the current”

“ Liberalism transformed the private forms that were complementary, into special forms almost excessively used for the pleasure of society.

It substituted the wealthy gentleman, the art market that before belonged to the state that is to, to the masses. There one must localize the source of transformation from the traditionally social art into an art for society, into an art which is aesthetic compliment to the furnishings in the private home of the wealthy elite. And there is no man, however genial he may be, who can escape the reality sooner or later.”

                                                                            David Alfaro Siqueiros

Sketch off the TV of President Obama by A. Siqueiros 2011

The Mood I received off the applause by A. Siqueiros 2011

SIQUEIROS LIVES ON!: Breaking Through your Spirit

SIQUEIROS LIVES ON!: Breaking Through your Spirit: "The creative artist and poet and saint must fight the actual (as opposed to ideal) gods of our society-the god of conformism as well as the ..."

Breaking Through your Spirit

The creative artist and poet and saint must fight the actual (as opposed to ideal) gods of our society-the god of conformism as well as the gods of apathy, material success, and exploitative power. These are the the "idols" of our society that are worshiped by multitude's of people. 

                                                                                                   ROLLO MAY

Breaking Through your Spirit by A. Siqueiros 2011

SIQUEIROS LIVES ON!: The Beginnings of Las Vegas Day & Night Painting

SIQUEIROS LIVES ON!: The Beginnings of Las Vegas Day & Night Painting: "Las Vegas Day & Night #2 by A.Siqueiros 2011 There is a continuous dialogue between hand and instrument, hand and culture. Artwork i..."

The Beginnings of Las Vegas Day & Night Painting

Las Vegas Day & Night #2 by A.Siqueiros 2011


There is a continuous dialogue between hand and instrument, hand and culture. Artwork is not thought up in consciousness and then, as a separate phase, executed by the hand. The hand surprises us, creates and solves problems on its own. Often enigmas that baffle our brains are dealt with easily, unconsciously, by the hand. 

Pen & ink Poem Sketch

Love Waits by A. Siqueiros 2011

Dealing with Flakes in Life!

DEALING WITH FLAKES IN LIFE
By A.Siqueiros 2011

The Budda in All of Us

The aspiration to attain enlightenment

The highest form of spiritual practice is the cultivation of the altruistic intention to attain enlightenment  for the benefit of all sentient beings, known as bodhichitta. This is the most precious state of mind, the supreme source of benefit and goodness, that which fulfills both our immediate and ultimate aspirations, and the basis of altruistic activity. However, bodhichitta can only be realized through regular concerted effort, so in order to attain it we need to cultivate the discipline necessary for training and transforming our mind.

The DALI LAMA'S Quote & Painting by A. Siqueiros 2011

There are, it seems, two Muses: the Muse of Muse of Inspiration, 

who gives us inarticulate visions and desires,  

and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say, 

"It is yet more difficult than you thought 

" This is the Muse of Form!

Lost In Thought by A. Siqueiros

The Day of Laundry Hell !

Laundry Hell Sketch by a.siqueiros

Sometimes I find myself in a pit of loneliness or anti creativity, feeling trapped in some bleak life situation,or feeling trapped in some bleak life situation, or feeling that I have taken on some piece of work so large and many-faceted that if I lived ten lifetimes I could not complete it. part of me knows that a surprise, a breakthrough, a new element can come in at any moment and change the equation of my life. But all too often I identify myself as a part ( an ego, a solidified self) that sees only what is apparent and feels trapped in it. The demands of daily life and my own expectations seem to allow me no time and no room to maneuver. I am tempted to grasp for an easy outcome, a magic potion, a distraction, or else a way to drop the whole thing. At such times we can create tremendous doubt about the value of our life and art and lets not forget about the cleaning, and Laundry!

Pen & Ink Sketch

New Year ! New Beginnings!

For art to appear, we have to disappear! 

This may sound strange, but in fact it is a common experience. The elementary case, for most people, is when our eye or ear is "caught" by something: a tree, a rock, a cloud, a delicate plant, a beautiful person such as your self, a baby's gurgling, spatters of sunlight reflected off some we mud in the forest, the sound of a guitar or violin wafting unexpectedly out of a window.

Mind and sense are arrested for a moment, fully in the experience. Nothing else exists. When we "disappear"

in this way, everything around us becomes a surprise, fresh and New!

Took Pictures & Made Video of Cousin Matthews Birthday Party

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgCct8lJUIY

Computer Generated wrapping paper sketch

Looking at You

For the artist this is one of the most delicate balancing acts-on the one hand, it is very dangerous to separate practice from the "real thing"; on the other hand, if we start judging what we do we will not have the safe space in which to experiment. Our practice resonates between both poles. We are "just playing," so as to be free to experiment and explore without fear of premature judgment. At the same time we play with total commitment. T.S Eliot said that each word, each action "is a step to the block, to the fire, down the sea's throat. And artist Rico Lebrun said, " I am never agitated in executing forms, but travel rather as if the terrain of the paper was land-mined. When this journey is completed, a drawing is born.

Sketching with the Computer

Although I like sketching with pen and ink, I sometimes find my self staying clean by sketching on the computers seems to be the solution. However I rather be painting! all though the computer is good for keeping me clean,for a true artist but I rather be messy with splashing colors of paint because the computer generated programs do not have the same feeling of being directly connected to the creation that gives you the urge to want to touch them like a painting or sculpture dose. But the computer is a very good tool to put down your concepts to take it to another level in any media you want to create it in.  

Pen & Ink Sketch

      Self Portrait of the process of a painters mind. 

We have been saying all along that improvisation in life and art means moment-to moment nonstop flow, experiencing and creating each moment as it comes; but the opposite have a look at our life and art from the long view, from perspectives that telescope large amounts of space and time.

Always A New Direction in a new Creation

A New Painting emerges from with in inspired by and for my God Son Jacob who came up with the concept of Las Vegas day and night. Stay tuned for the experience of seeing the breath of strokes of colors to have this painting come alive!

Stepping into the unknown with Oil Pastels

An empirical fact about our lives is that we do not and cannot know what will happen a day or a moment in advance. The unexpected awaits us at every turn and every breath. The future is a vast, perpetually regenerated mystery. When we drop the blinders of our preconceptions, we are virtually propelled by every circumstance into the present time and the present mind : the moment, the whole moment, and nothing but the moment!

Even Andy Warhol Got Rejection Letters!

Even Warhol did not give up to enter the Art World! Each Artist has their moments in defeat but true Artist come to the reality that we can not give up no matter how deep the depression may be and create in the process. The process of accomplishing from with in one that no other has endeavored to conqueror! Not because we want to, It's because we have to! To Live Life on the other side as a artist!

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The Artist in thoughts and contemplating a painting

So after coming off the weekend of hell being probed with an electrical unit to study my Personal Brain Wave Activity. I am officially free having gone through the pain of pulling my hair and having sticky goo

on my head. Believe it or not I started the painting when I first got the helmet on my head. I call it a electrical weight control turban. Only it had along electrical cord that was added weight to a computer attached to my waist. Yes folks their is always light at the end of a tunnel!