Here’s a short animation by Tess Martin. It was animated with paint and a live actor on a public wall in Seattle.

The Great Wall of Los Angeles is one of the longest murals in the world. It was begun in 1974 and took five summers of work by students to complete. It tells about the history of California.  This short film was made by Donna Deitch.  

Here’s a re-post of an art game I programmed. It just makes an animated image using math and provides you with a simple drawing program that offers markers, spray paints, and an eraser. The point is for you to draw something on top of my atomic galaxy artwork and make something totally original. There’s a [...]

Artist and filmmaker Raymond Salvatore Harmon has written an inspiring and thought-provoking book that insists on changing the way art is perceived and approached by artists, viewers and the ever-problematic gallery world. Harmon presents several stories of his own brushes with law enforcement that are both funny and rather harrowing. He consistently recommends behaving as [...]

More artists should do this. Make their own documentary about themselves. Great idea. I like the jazz paintings. Harold Smith is a visual artist who just likes painting.

Ryan Spring Dooley (aka MarvinTiberious on YouTube) and Juppy Nash made a catchy little tune and played it on an Italian rooftop where they could enjoy the place they were in and become infected with art. Dooley’s films are a constant stream of creativity and artistic perception unlike anything else. He combines old and new [...]

For Japan via Los Angeles. I photographed the painting in morning light today to try and show the details better than in last night’s photo. The painting is not quite finished yet, but I wanted to post something. It’s acrylic on various types of paper. Dimensions are approximately 6′ x 3 1/2′.

For Japan. The painting is not quite finished yet, but I wanted to post something. It’s acrylic on various types of paper. About 6′ x 3 1/2′.

Ryan Spring Dooley (aka MarvinTiberious on YouTube) made this animated art film about home and what that means. He does lots of these free-form works that are actually the current state of the art as far as I’m concerned. The artist lives and works in Italy, painting on nearly everything.