create2xs

Chad Martin

excessive creator, observer, urban scout, artistic detective, eclectic taste tester, and Art Director

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Mona Lisa?

DaVinci inspired discovery on Franklin Street in Brooklyn, not the Louvre. It could be an accidental graffiti Mona Lisa. Either way, it is another in a series of reproductions that collectively provide a new perspective on the classic masterpiece. Leonardo Da Vinci first painted Mona Lisa (La Gioconda) beginning in 1503, and finished it shortly [...]

Exquisite Corpse

cowboy shot dead in the head by a native’s arrow? A trucker with his lonely heart forcefully removed? A simple disembowelment, or just plain having your feet firmly planted in Hell— with the Exquisite Corpse possibilities for creative chaos are infinite. Originally, the Exquisite Corpse began as a collaborative surrealist technique back as early [...]

Blind Contour

observational drawing is the foundation of art education. It is a necessary step to record your experiences, to think through a problem, to respond to nature, to express yourself. Post art school, I have found attending community drawing sessions, like Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School, are opportunities to continue that education in a creative environment. For [...]

gobil

naïve darwinist art, big fish eats little fish – chalk drawing on asphalt by Connor Evan Martin, age 6. Humans are born artistic expressive creatures and modern society stifles this artistic freedom with what “looks good” or is right or wrong. By late childhood the freedom and purity of expression has been corrupted through movies, [...]