Artist’s Notebook – setting up a website
Fat Cats and Starving Dogs is a personal website; the goal is not to sell art but to explain what it takes to make art. However, I now need an artist’s website.
For the past year and a half, I have been struggling to master oil painting techniques and to find a voice in the field of contemporary urban landscape painting. Furthermore, I have also been struggling to find time to create a consistent body of work that I can present to galleries and collectors.
While these efforts continue to challenge me, I now need an artist’s website that can place my new creations within a larger context of art-making.
So, as I create my individual works, I need a place where galleries and collector can visit and understand what I have to offer them.
As I have mentioned before, I originally started off as a portrait and figure painter. However, the challenges of post-modern identity and perspective caused me to shift focus to tree portraitures. It was my way of examining people’s character and personality via the landscapes they create for themselves.
Today, my focus is on architecture and urban landscapes. In a way, I am still continuing the themes of my earlier efforts.
By creating a portfolio that highlights my tree portraits, maybe I can bridge this pre-2006 period with what I am creating today.
FCSD Studio 