http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/ronald-walker.html?tab=blog Ronald Walker - Fine Art Blog http://www.fineartamerica.com/artistlogos/A6749-3227-Logo1.jpg http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/ronald-walker.html?tab=blog Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:57:12 GMT http://fineartamerica.com/nothing.html Nothing going on. What's up with you' Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:05:13 GMT http://fineartamerica.com/days-of-the-week.html I work on my art every day as I know many of you do. Some days I just don't have it, i'ts like my hand and eyes don't get along. I should blame myself but that would be no fun! So i'm blaming the days of the week. Are there some days which it's bette... Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:19:06 GMT http://fineartamerica.com/re-connect-with-old-friends-via-internet.html Just this week I received an e-mail from an old artist friend who I had lost contact with. After thinking about it I realized that I had not talked to this person for about 20 years! I talked to him on the phone today and am quite happy he found me. ... Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:07:40 GMT http://fineartamerica.com/parents-who-are-artist.html I am 49 years old, I have two great kids,ages 6 and 4. I have managed to continue to paint by making my car a studio and painting at every chance I get. It's getting a bit better as the kids are able to do more on their own but for awhile it was toug... Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:56:22 GMT http://fineartamerica.com/money-moneymoney.html I love money! Don't get me wrong here, I would love it if my paintings made more money. However please don't get the fact that someone is financialy successful with their art confussed with the idea that the art is any good! The market is what it is ... Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:07:47 GMT http://fineartamerica.com/realism-vs-abstraction.html Design , color useage, space making, composition, content, form are all the same in a good piece of art. Art is art. Chuck Close never produced a single "realistic piece and picasso never abstracted a piece of art. Realism must go through the eyes, ... Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:15:31 GMT http://fineartamerica.com/odd-art-technique.html When I was an undergraduate at a small university in Missouri I worked on a abstract painting for quite awhile. I finally quit and tossed it out of my run down trailer that I lived in at that time. The painting sat outside in the winter snow, the sum... Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:25:50 GMT http://fineartamerica.com/the-mcbrain---devil-or-angel.html I had a one person show back in the 1980's at the county government center where I use to live. I went to view the show after it had been up for about a week to see how things were going. I had one piece in the exhibit in which I sort of used phrenol... Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:01:43 GMT http://fineartamerica.com/the-critic-the-cat-and-pablo-picasso.html The all time greatest critic I ever knew was my cat named Pablo, after Picasso. In 1984 I was getting a painting ready to ship to a national competitive I had recently been accepted in, I left the work on my garage on the floor for only a few minutes... Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:26:52 GMT http://fineartamerica.com/do-you-have-a-odd-art-story.html Many years ago I was working with a acrylic mold technique in which I would make a low relief picture in clay and then cast it in acrylic. I went to a Japanesse market to buy dried fish to cast (Cool textures!). The owners of the store aparently did ... Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:19:41 GMT http://fineartamerica.com/politics-and-abstract-expressionism.html In grad school I remember a lecture about how abstract expressionism was exported and supported by the US government as a way of countering the official art of the Soviet Union. (Realism) Abstraction ment freedom and realism ment repression! Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:53:11 GMT http://fineartamerica.com/where-do-you-work.html I have two young children at home and my studio space has become a storeage area. For the last six years I have reduced the size of my paintings and have been painting in my car. So I am just currious, Where do you work' Beautiful studio, garage, out... Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:42:38 GMT http://fineartamerica.com/why-do-art.html In graduate school I went through a personal crisis concerning art. The big question was, why is art important' I started to research art produced under different or extreme conditions. The Australian aboriginals created what was called dreamtime sto... Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:43:11 GMT http://fineartamerica.com/suburban-primitive-art.html People have changed very little on the inside since tribal times.