Leonard Angelo Art: Recent Episodes
Leonard Angelo
- Futility of perfection
- Something done is truly something
- Survive by accepting truth. Survivingacceptance.
- Horizon line
- Taking stock, then and now
- Not exactly the journey I pictured
- Evidence suggests but the man protests
- Permission to be exactly this
- Waking Without Wanting
- All that is Had is all that is Wanted
- Envy for the Accomplishment, not the Life
- Order of Operations: Mind-Body or Body-Mind?
- One thing leads to some others
- Self-criticism and a funhouse mirror image
- Climbing one false move at a time
- Cacophony of toxic inner voices
- Stuffing napkins in my ears instead of thosenice earplugs I bought for the occasion
- Remembering the Sabbath, keeping that shit holy
- Strategically healthy and emotionally managed
- The worst airport in the world
- An aggressive place to live and a hard time tobe alive
- Christmas and acts of aggression
- Don’t ever take Century Blvd.
- Irony as a staple
- Measuring out my life in semesters
- A different kind of ridiculous job
- Higher education
- Gifting grades
- Return to Form Right at the End
- Renewed pledges, for what that’s worth
- About the journey, even if it leads back here
- Another decade invested, yielding returns, butthis inflation is a killer
- Staring down a major new milestone and flinchinga little
- Another list collected and repeated but alsowilling to burn it
- Looking forward to achieving “good enough”
Prompt 8 for #artsoundoff. Processing influences, inspiration and, as usual, insecurity.
Restating and reevaluating my relationship with beginnings – still in love song. Prompt 7 in the #artsoundoff challenge.
Prompt 4 for the #artsoundoff challenge. Making time for unproductive activity and not accounting for that time.
Happy to be participating in #artsoundoff challenge this year! Prompt 1 is Introductions, so I rambled about that for longer than necessary.
Latin: horizōn line or circle that forms the apparent boundary between earth and sky limit or range of perception, knowledge, etc.
A-ab-B-C-cd-D-de-E-F-fg-G-ga-A C-cd-D-de-E-F-fg-G-ga-A-ab-B-C No half-steps between E-F or B-C. Don’t ask.
In music theory, the following seems to be true: An octave consists of 7 individual tones, 5 transitional semitones and the original starting tone in a higher pitch. The result is 7+5= twelve points of transition in the cycle from the first tone to the same tone in higher pitch, much like the clock face […]
Mother Colors! 12 o’clock Hue: Yellow – Value: 10% black 4 o’clock Hue: Blue – Value: 60% black 8 o’clock Hue: Red – Value: 70% black (I stand corrected) B-list Celebrity Colors 2 o’clock Hue: Green – Value: 40% black 6 o’clock Hue: Violet – Value: 85-90% black 10 o’clock Hue: Orange – Value: 40% […]
Clockwise Compass rose Cartesian coordinates Color wheel Value scale Three questions about painting: Lighter or darker, what hue, warmer or cooler Octaves Circle of fifths
- Weapons of Gas Destruction 2. Welcome Overstayed 3. Haunting Selves 4. Paradox Fade Out 5. Nightmare Drama 6. What Have We Done? (feat. Roger Waters) 7. A Brief Letter for Your Benefit 8. Fantasy Without Literalism 9. Watch and Learn 10. Fragments of Soul Time Travel Advice “Savor each moment” is bullsh*t advice Listen […]
Magical motivation from nothing Weeds in the garden always do better than than the ginger It may give you purpose but there’s no market for it Checking the weather before entering the closet versus wearing your favorite outfit A set list mostly from the new album A dip in financial and emotional investments Can I […]
Ritual and skill building Weakness prompts Invisible products Imposter syndrome Fourth chair but in the band Greatness required Lean into Art – Art Soundoff Owen Jollands John Cleese Lecture Blancmange
Useful constraints Externally imposed versus internal Time, energy, relationships What is desired versus what is possible and likely Style, detail, medium and scale Market and value Valuing Project and lifestyle versus product and output Lean into Art – Art Soundoff
To skip past the uninteresting parts: I would just say I got into art personally because it allowed me to build worlds and escape, provided an identity that had clear boundaries and goals, and because it was way to build something productive from all the weird ideas I was preoccupied with. My professional development as […]
Three Art Questions I was recently asked to answer three questions about art practice that were more nuanced and challenging than I thought they should be. The questions are simple, but trying to answer them was not. This may be because I felt like my particular answers didn’t fit a narrative that I would expect […]
- Mostly Between 2. Unfaithful but Committed 3. Hang the Middle People 4. All the Wrong Things 5. Neutral. Invisible. Evil. 6. Offset the World’s Deeds 7. Outskirts of the Dream 8. At Least That, But Not This 9. Be Wanted To Do 10. For Heroes on the Clock (We Salute You)
- Prison Break 2. Green Monsters Under the Desk 3. Charbroiled Grill Marks 4. Don’t Fear the Deeper 5. Front Porch Swings 6. Framing Big Pictures 7. Can Not Knowing 8. Moody Trues 9. Over/Under Chasm Bridge 10. (Don’t Go Back To) Granville
- Enemies Mine 2. Picket Fences Falling Down 3. Keepin’ That Oath 4. Slice of Pie at the Fount of Knowledge 5. Thank You Card for Doctor Death 6. Plumps When Cooked 7. Palate Knife Scraps 8. In Your Face 9. Black and White World 10. Debate Yourself
- Hoarding Wayward Beasts 2. Rich White Trash 3. Flipping That Bird 4. Soul Connection 5. Six Lanes of Pain, No Carpool Buddy 6. For Sale: an Aggressive Dream of a Few Extra Minutes, Stolen From You (feat. BMW) 7. Go Full Douche or Go Home 8. Wedging and Bumping in Grandma’s Queue 9. Tired […]
Why do we do what we love Doing it for profit or recognition If I do it for myself does It have to be successful If it isn’t successful should I be doing it at all
The impending doom of environmental catastrophe How responsible consumer capitalism is like a fad diet A society ruled by greed and comfort cannot rule by force “Angel says that rich people don’t like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn’t pretty and perfect. You can’t put up […]
The ubiquitous god of progress Achieving the most impressive but least important Kickstarter for project humanity Making versus being and love before projects
Four-foot-five firefighter Work ethic for learning and the struggle to understand Rooming with disappointment
At the base of the Wall of Limitations Changing my instrument Mathematics, music theory, important essays, literature and other perplexing subjects
This is the best I can do Fix or tolerate Does it still communicate? Is it legible? Does it matter? Learning to look at myself in the mirror and still function
Drifting into the whirlpool of irrelevance Social identities and cultural expiration dates Freedom from the bondage of superficial information
Compound emotional interest News and feeds – everything you should be ignorant of but can’t be Removing one thing from a list can make all the difference
Splitting your work life and doubling the work A day job not a career Why the majority of time is spent on the pointless “It’s the little things”, but big things first Existential distillation or the essential oil of being Revisiting the death bed analogy
Where the heart is needs to be what matters most Questioning the motives, perspectives, assumptions and hidden agendas Genuinely good intentions is all you should expect and is probably good enough When in doubt, assume the best and forgive the rest
Questioning mythology “False” and/or dangerous narratives Literalism and Actualism versus truth Orienting around a story
How much is my success going to cost? Gatekeepers, Insiders and Gurus for hire Pay-per-dream Map of the stars’ homes Bartending academy Motivarti and the tech schools fold The difference between college, trade school, mentorships and actual education
Dual major duality of culture Academia and the persistence of the intellectual bully. Banality of subject Disconnected from the dialogue or history Name dropping Everything has to do with the art I’ve already seen
Discipline should come from desire not consequence In an abusive relationship with deadlines
Order of operations: Problems from nothing, wrong answers to problems, the best solution possible for now, a final working compromise Learn to start with a useful mistake and be grateful for the perspective it ultimately provides
Creating a safe emotional safe space in which to draw Suspending judgement and muting the criticism until the end Unicorn: formal and conceptual greatness Who invited the critic and why am I reading this piece anyway? http://www.tumblingsnail.com/leonard-angelo/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/langelo-170412.m4a
What’s it going to take to get you back out there? Disappointed parents Loving what is and leaving what is not
Time traveling without agency Confronting stubborn past selves Reboot the story but keep the characters theme Trying to see the forest through all of these trees Broken rear view mirrors and huge blind spots
December Culling – Productivity or Endurance I have been working for a while with a productivity worksheet
December Culling – Justify After a long stream-of-consciousness rant about the nature of art as work, being on and off, and so forth…I hopefully arrive at some more productive thought patterns.
December Culling – A Rant Before Clarity This morning I got worked up about the idea of strategies for detaching oneself from work because I find the entire concept flawed. Life is to be lived and work is part of life, but the nuanced juggling of creative tasks, lost experiences that cannot be reclaimed or […]
December Culling – Retraining and Reunions Reaching a point closer toward finish on this project. The scene is populated with characters walking and interacting. I was finally able to get all of them drawn and flatted this weekend. At some point, Beebo started getting judgmental about how many figures and how much detail I had […]
December Culling – Ordinary Objects My biggest accomplishment today was staying awake through my work shift. It was tough and spirits were a bit low…maybe something to ponder in greater detail when I have cohesive thoughts again. I did sketch a bit, trying to plan out a painting I’ve been thinking about. It’s often interesting […]
December Culling – Excess Success? Not much progress today with sketching my ideas out for January. I got some time to do a few drawings, but there is just too much going on this evening to count on doing more. Tonight will be spent trying to wrap up or make a bigger dent in my […]
December Culling – Avoidance versus Indifference Thinking a little about embarrassment today and how much power it has over what I choose to do. Hoping to move on to a more powerful emotion – indifference. Not a lot of sketching progress today because of this freelance project that is still keeping me up late at […]
December Culling – Letting Go I spent the weekend focused on finishing a freelance project that has been holding me up for a couple of months. I’m struggling to make good progress on this every time I sit down to work, but I did get past a major portion of the background drawing this time. […]
December Culling – Being Small & Starting Smaller This morning I decided that I would use the month of December for culling. I have this large stack of ideas and unfinished projects that I need to organize and begin developing. I think if I push past the initial overwhelm and focus on making small, rough […]