Moving

I'm in the process of getting my website up and running, this blog will be shut down in favor of a blog on the site itself. in the meantime go to my deviant art profile to see new work.

Shhhh

My blog and deviant art have largely been quiet b/c I've been working on an actual website at www.adamtlong.com, which isn't active yet. If you watch my twitter feed (on my side bar) I update that regularly w/ thoughts as well as with new artwork, so feel free to follow me on twitter or read on here.

laterz

Wash

Another day, another painting thing. I'm working today on a new sketch and a new painting, I'm still prepping the ppr tho for the painting. If only I could stop playing Tetris on my ipod touch for long enough.......

Hot

It's hot out, 85, which for SWVA is getting up there.

I'll be posting a new sketch tonight or tomorrow morning. I seriously need a better way to get these things on the comp.

c'est la vie.

random thought: ever notice how salt doesn't have much of a small by itself? just thought about that when i was mixing up some sea salts.

Untitled 6229

Im not sure what to call this, so far its just called Untitled 6229. For some reason this upload didn't come out so great, u can go to my twitter feed (on this page, down the right column) to get a better quality enlarged pic of it.


thoughts?


9x12
Sharpie on Paper

arrrrggg

It's annoying but I don't have any great way to get a quality picture of a traditional (ie non-digital) work while its in progress or at the end. I need a decent camera.


grr

Progress

Yet another not so great quality photo of a piece im working on, this is that canvas I had prepped earlier.

Prep

This is one of a number of paintings (10 me thinks) I'm prepping. These are all going to be non-digital, one of a kind works of which no prints will be made and I intend to sell the all at some point for under 25 bux a pop or there abouts. I'll try to take some pics of its progression, and sorry about the crappy pic quality, I only have a crappy camera right now, something I am trying to fix.

Cheers.



acrylic on paper - 9x12

Out Sick

I've been MIA for a bit cause of the flu. Even though I'm getting over it, I'm still not on my game. So I thought I'd post an X-Play video review for the game Fable 2, which is one of the best games...ever.

Dr. Who and Me Too

I love Dr. Who so I thought I'd put up this trailer from season 4, it's a great trailer.

O and sorry for the lack of updates lately, I've been working on some pieces and battling the stupid pollen out there.

Random

This is a random doodle I did when I got bored. Nothing fancy.

Digital, 14.22 x 10.36

Portfolio....a resume for abstract types.

So I let my portfolio of work dwindle over the years, ok that is an understatement. For a few years during and just after college I pretty much ignored every creative impulse, didn't help that life kept on hurling flaming lemons at me (metaphorically, luckily). In a move I had in mid-college most of my old paintings and drawings were destroyed or handed bad water damage, only a few remain. Thus I find myself in my current position as an out of work twenty-something who's also trying to resurrect my art career.

It's not as easy as it sounds, building up a body of work. There's questions you have to ask yourself like do you want to do cohesive collections? And if you want to then how do you want to group them, are they part of the same collection because of style, subject matter, or some unconventional medium? Of course in the midst of all of these questions you just go with your artist flow. Some paintings seem to come out of the pen with little though on behalf of the artist while others take days to plan and weeks to execute.

I think I'm doing well so far, I have a lot of work that isn't posted on deviantART yet or even mention on this site. c'est la vie.

Art is an odd animal to mess with.

Tree...Definitely A Tree

Roots. Might not seem like a big step but it pretty much means I'm running with the tree concept. I definately have an idea of how it's gonna end up :).

Hmmmm

The picture below is a thumbnail of course, not sure if im gonna keep hosting these off site, might use google or something else. I'm not in love w/ the lag time.

A Tree , Well Thus Far

Well I started off just painting a gray background with a thick layer of gray, then I laid on the black ground, and randomly I started to put a tree in the middle of it. Not sure the direction this is gonna take, stay tuned.


Size: 14 x 11
Medium: Digital

Hey World, Having Fun?

This is me. I'm Adam. My story is that I'm the literal embodiment of the term starving artist, well maybe not literal, but I did have to move back home so really haven't I suffered enough?

Im starting this Art Log because I can't afford to set up my own site just yet and with my Unemployment ending soon, it might be a bit before I can attach this thing to a proper site. Pretty much I'm gonna use this site to publish random thoughts as well as put my art out there. I've had a lot of experience running blogs so I though this was a natural step.

All of that being said please respect my intellectual property (IP) rights. Nothing on this blog is available for commercial use, so if you see some art on here you wanna use commercially email me and we'll see if we can't work something out. Also I hold the Copyrights on all of my original works of art and language that appear on this site unless otherwise noted.