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l an aged rocker from the sixties was asked their opinion on writing a song w a i to paraphrase he said well i guess it is all right so long as they are the one writing the song that is not how it works but being of an older generation famous chances are tech is not as necessary part of their life as a regular joe a few decades younger it is safe to assume that he lumped it in with email and social media a new thing he uses a little often via personal assistant ai does not create anything it collects existing things that others made and frankensteins them into an often cheesy looking thing with co piolet whoever decided to name that version of ai that was savvy i see many authors put an image done with co piolet up and they will say it is a creation i set the parameters so if you say i want to see a rainy street in paris or i want an empty dock overlooking a bay at sunset you still have not created anything a machine then hunts for components other people made and constructs a thing for those who have tenuous grasp on the tech a broad example you invite friends over for an italian dinner you then proceed to go to various neighbors homes who are just sitting down to dinner and you take things off of each table without permission and bring them back to your place as to put it all together for your italian meal just because you named the style of meal does not mean anything it consists of all stolen things others cooked the shame of it is there are so many good artists out there who would probably gladly lend an image in exchange for credit and link back to their site if you are a band an author anyone who needs to marry an image to what they are doing take a minute away from self promoting and do a search for artists on any platform drop them a line august 21 2026 by wayne wolfson almost blue august 9 selfie blue pullover the ever present phones in everyone s hand has ruined the casual museum goer s ability to enjoy a painting now a painting must look photorealistic to be good because everyone is used to viewing art via their phones no one wants to see an artist s brushstrokes or any evidence of a thing done by human hands phones allow people to capture the minutia of their lives instantly it has almost become de rigueur even for the most informal of photos for people to do a sort of post production tweak skin is smoothed other imperfections sanded down just as people do not want to see evidence of an artist s hand in a painting or drawing photos now may only vaguely suggest one s age unless it is the point of a photo like those amazing black and white photos of aged people whose crags make them look akin to sculptures wrinkles imperfections et al are verboten one of my greatest pleasure and something i never tire of is portraying flesh with paint i did not feel like dealing with anyone but wanted to indulge in my raison d etre showing the gooniness of flesh august 9th i am looking in the mirror about to shave monk s elliptical patterns float through the half open door gazing in the mirror wow good thing i am talented almost blue august 9 selfie 9 12 rembrandt paper this is one of my personal favorites of all my paintings blue pullover 11 17 tan paper august 14 2026 by wayne wolfson cakettes 26 time is an odd beast some feel it pursues you this would be a drag to think as there is no way that one can ultimately win that race time always wins out others think it is akin to a river that we all flow down as if corks with luck you find yourself hitting against the right people but also the human condition ultimately the current is going to pull one of you further ahead into the undiscovered country time manages to be both measurable and an abstract an hour is an hour a day a day a week a month a year all unchangeable our perception effects and changes how we feel moving through it or upon looking back good times fly by bad times drag while i am a stoic and don t have many complaints believing in the tenet that even the bad is a necessary ingredient to make us who we are and become it feels like it was one hundred years ago for the last birthday creation from the cakettes this is one of my favorite albums no molds nor stencils etc used everything as always by hand here are the flavor notes magic génoise with cointreau soak clementines cointreau marmalade filling cognac italian buttercream red decorations are martini fiero marshmallows dark decorations are chocolate a brief history of the cakettes cakettes 25 cakettes the caketts a retrospective august 7 2026 by wayne wolfson two paintings ro swinger the temperature in my studio is once again safe to be in i had finished the ro piece before my brief exile while swinger lay almost done the entire time of my banishment i am very pleased with both pieces swinger has special history over a decade ago the place i had lived part of the year every year in paris for a long time had art supply stores all around it i had a preference for specific things from each store i e my pencil store my paint store et al by happenstance i became pals with one of the guys at the sore closest to me it s proximity meant that i often walked by it and would pop in just to walk the isles grabbing pencils or little notepads which i really didn t need we would chat he started letting me use his employee discount plus coupons and samples the very last time i saw him i was so loaded up with supplies lots free non sample things that when returning stateside i needed an extra bag for all the goodies he followed a proto coachella girl to ibiza then all around the hotspots for edm festivals until he vanished in the ether swingers is the very last piece of paper from all the paper swag he had given me obviously i did not use it non stop but i did use it steadily in between all other papers i was exploring i would like to think that he got the girl or maybe he realized he didn t need to get the girl that it was about the adventure and now like ulysses he is heading towards a land where people do not put salt on their food ro 9 12 rembrandt cotton paper swinger 7 9 cotton paper july 31 2026 by wayne wolfson bled ink i came up as an artist pre internet the thing that was drilled into everyone s head was that you could spend your life serving the process and never be known in your lifetime never catch that brass ring people would disappear from the scene after a year or so of doing straight jobs and then spending large chunks of their free time in solitary pursuit of serving the process for seemingly nothing of course no one would passively accept an artistic life of anonymity we made xerox staple zines we held shows in anyone who had an living room to spares place we played barbeques and house parties another way of seeing how serious one was about being an artist was effort took to actually make a zine the way they looked often did not reflect the amount of effort put in there was not a glut of zines because it was no easy thing and it cost money the internet seemed to make things more egalitarian to those locked out of the studio academic system it also allowed an artist to reach those beyond their city the great promise morphed now you had some of the gate keepers extending their kingdom to online new submitters forced to jump through new hoops as to make editor gallerist s egos throb and grow after a few years of this though the people seemed to have had enough everyone was now doing their own thing online largely under their own power yes there are still journals and galleries et al to submit to more often than not they do not look that great and their only value lay in making someone just starting out or a dilettante feel validated because someone they don t know chose one of their works often for a submission fee i am not anti internet nor anti anything which allows one to be heard however it has become too easy i have lost count of how many artist in visual medium and writing i have encountered who are not bad but need more time with a blog social media etc etc one can write a short story do a drawing and put it up and even if it is not great still garnering thousands of views it gives very little incentive for an artist to woodshed with no woodshedding and no serving the process there can be no evolution rather than work on their voice vision people now machine gun post what they are up to and selling on social media we have a new generations of artists who do not have an audience but rather customers there is an odd and often obnoxious always be closing attitude with artists now all the likes and reposts which social media posted art receives regardless of skill set and how much the work is not ready to be viewed has emboldened a sense of permission for the attachment on posts for the asking for something i e ko fi patron buy me a coffee et al i am not anti selling one s work of course if you are an artist you would like make some money for what you do if for no other reason than it allows you to continue on doing it nor am i anti self promotion but with this i do feel there is some etiquette to be observed too anyone who follows my blog knows that i do not pester with the merchant side of what i do except for maybe twice a year one of which is always the release of my latest collection often occurring in the spring my new collection is out first to be released not in the spring as i was finishing writing a novel i am both pleased and proud of it it is available in paperback and for kindle at amazon version 1 0 0 july 22 2026 july 27 2026 by wayne wolfson painter in exile heatwave series it has been triple digit heat here so of course my ac broke they ordered the part i need which is syrup time in getting here even with windows open ceiling fan and free standing fan my studio has been in the 90 s and hard to breath in this was no mere discomfort to be countered by having a large travel mug of ice water wearing sarong as i have encountered in the past exiled from my studio i had a painting which would have been done in two more sessions now laying on table in anticipation of our reunion in meanwhile i have been able do my daily drawing i only used one pencil a large kimberley 525 the book is a hard backed lay flat 11 14 which i found while reorganizing my tabourets pre inferno here are the drawings done for my own amusement dubbed the heatwave series july 18 2026 by wayne wolfson pastels as i get closer to the release of my next story essay collection i have continued to explore pastels i have done about nine of them in between my painting and drawing i enjoy the medium and each one is better than the last i am still in my naissance and so have not even begun to explore the different types of papers pastel companies yet i will be systematic about it first using up what i have then furthering my explorations soundtrack as i worked verdi aidia toscanini conducting rca red seal duke ellington ellington uptown miles davis black beauty live at the filmore el jazz y chapo echoes from another cosmogony stravinsky conducts stravinsky doodlebug tv of digable planets on youtube all pastel 5 7 campanelle july 11 2026 by wayne wolfson july fourth i am about a week or two away from my next short story collection coming out as usual i continued to paint and now further delving into pastel medium for my paintings i usually do them in twos and one always in my trusty pocket pad chloe 5 7 not shy ii 4 4 pocket pad fourth of july prayer thomas paine herman melville ralph waldo emerson henry david thoreau edgar alan poe jelly roll morton lois armstrong duke ellington charlie parker bourbon rye jazz stetson hats skyscrapers hank williams robert johnson bill finger zippo lighters ralph ellison james baldwin langston hughes kodak coca cola baseball babe ruth joe dimaggio muhamad ali rap hip hop new school of journalism chuck berry bo didley fats domino blue jeans the automat bob dylan noir films humphrey bogart ernest hemingway edward r murrow gene kelly fred astaire harley davidson maverick directors of the 1970 s patti smith george gershwin cole porter new york school of painters andrew wyeth dashiell hammett jim thompson edward hopper hedy lamar louise brooks carole lombard john lewis mlk rosa parks jack kirby steve ditko golden age comics robert williams blue note records pinball machines judy blume fred rogers life magazine our differences are our strengths until we drop the pervading tribalism and fear from being prime motivations for our actions we will continue to be a shadow of what we had been and what we can still be this limitless potential is another strength it is up to all of us and this is perhaps the one remaining aspect for now of our former greatness w wolfson july 4 july 4 2026 july 4 2026 by wayne wolfson kubla khan s dance off i just finished reading jean paul sartre s essay on baudelaire while i didn t agree with everything he said it was very enjoyable baudelaire very much lived a solipsistic life as i am not a huge fan of his work and knowing history of france during his era i think to some extent his attitude was to the determent of his art it definitely can be no fun you go to a concert and in between songs as you wait to hear a favorite the singer starts preaching or having the work in service of specific message for an artist s entire oeuvre however it is also weird to be living through turbulent times and make no comment upon them ever like most important things in life there is a delicate balance previously i have made comments so and my mission is humanistic not political i will only say now that i hope my work serves as a brief respite from all daily troubles and bleak news we all must deal with edie talen art creations multi media pocket pad 4 4 inches sun hat 5 7 paper june 27 2026 by wayne wolfson two works i had been talking to someone about what appears in my works more often than not it is someone from my inner circle or a thing from my life not staged but as is a shirt hanging off the back of a chair a demi tasse with its dregs offering up a fortune tell what had made the impressionists radical more than the naturalism of how they portrayed color shadow light was their portrayal of people and things in lieu of the typical historical and mythological subject matter were people from their lives and every day objects back then this was more radical than it seems now there is a weird dichotomy with painting now though we accept the everyday as subject matter but also because of movies television expect things connected with painting whether it is a work s creation or the painter having a chop bump up to be dramatic moviesque half pan watercolors at least for me with the exception of the few colors i use in every piece last me often i would finish a piece and have paint left in my palettes i started doing smaller pocket pad pieces with what was left there were few motives behind this it is sort of pagan my way of honoring offering up thanks to the process i will spend my 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