The Fine Art and Design Blog of Darren Daz Cox

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this is a charcoal and conte crayon sketch I did at work on an 8×10 canvas board. just random doodling! below is another random sketch to celebrate summer.

As above so below, my humble sketches are a reflection of how I see the world and how it manifests for me. Don’t take the symbols literally, beautiful blondes may not be frolicking around me that often but that feeling of happy appreciation of the moment is with me and that’s what the symbols represent.

Sleeping Girl with cat by Darren Daz Cox.

This one is a random pencil sketch I did at work today, about an hour and a half completely from my imagination (I was talking on the phone with clients as I drew this).

I could draw more realistically from a model or from a photographic reference but then I would already know what the picture is supposed to be, this picture just evolved from a few lines - magic!

Another random sketch drawn at work, I spent all day on and off working on this. I really enjoy the light and shadow you can get with a simple #2 pencil (I was using a pencil I found on the Keansburg NJ beach actually) on a pretty good quality notebook.

I think that one day I’d like to sketch these figures really huge with charcoal and white chalk to see how far I can push the illusion.

Originally posted 2009-02-18 20:02:55. Republished by Old Post Promoter

above "The decaying theatre" (working) and below "The red room" also in progress!

I wrote this on the fledgling Flickr group called ART, THERAPY, PSYCHOANALISYS AND AESTHETICS

I think the very process of creating something is healthy. The connection of your mind directing your hands to make something, anything, allows your subconcious an outlet (other than just dreams!).

You can perhaps see an example in graphitti, that is often portrayed as just vandalism, gang tags or a result of ‘frustration’ or hopelessness etc. I’m not necessarily talking about the brilliant stuff, the artists who have the bravery to go large on trains and walls but the other stuff too. The signatures on mailboxes, the names carved in rocks and trees -the things you might have done when you were young and perhaps ‘grew out of’.

The idea of you changing your world, adding organic lines to ‘boring’ spaces and often spontaniously using creativity where society frowns upon it is healthy in my opinion, it shows you in a small way that things can change and that you are an agent of change and that is an empowering feeling.

Originally posted 2007-12-31 09:54:34. Republished by Old Post Promoter

I didn’t renew dazhoney.com a few months ago for various reasons and figured it would end up as a spam site as other domain names I had once owned ended up as. Surprisingly I found it was available today with no penalty whee, I know it’s not a ‘valuable domain name’ but there are several links to it out there, far more than to other sites that were bought up by spammers before. I’m guessing that as time as gone on the spammers are a lot more selective!

So anyway, as I did with gobzine.com earlier this year  I reclaimed a url and will use it to get my art out to the world. It’s not an obsession as much as an art project to see how far the internet can promote an artist without having to pay an "official" art site where the art elite will judge you but rather let the public judge my art and influence the art galleries to want me! Well, it’s a fun project no matter how successful it is!

Daz Honey is the name of my avatar (character) in the digital world of SecondLife which isn’t a game but rather a big 3D chatroom where you can build and sell things. Here’s some of the artsy things associated with my adventures in the digital world.

This one was a castle I built within SecondLife (that’s my avatar as a girl walking through).

and finally for today, here’s a current snapshot of Daz Honey at the Om Festival, I love that place!

On a different topic, today I went into the Art Alliance gallery to pick up my painting from the last show and was surprised to see a new show up. According to the newsletters and website nothing was scheduled and the big arts organization down the road hadn’t mentioned it either.

The show is photography by Dominican orphans and Alice Pearce the vp of shareusa.org a tiny local non-profit charity group that is raising awareness and money for the kids. If you live in the NYC area it’s only an hour and a bit on the train from Penn station, you can walk to the gallery from the station. Local Monmouth county folks should stop in and say hello to the volunteers or stop by their website at least. Below is the youtube video from their site, it’s not fancy but it’s good to watch!

Originally posted 2008-07-02 00:19:36. Republished by Old Post Promoter

It’s not perfect yet (my art isn’t indexed yet *wah*) but it sure is satisfying to find a larger sized image of a great piece of art you stumble across!

…and here’s some of my art (on this blog it’s generally 500 pixels wide but I have larger versions out there too and would like Tin Eye to index my stuff so people can quickly find a larger size so they print it out or make it a quality desktop pic!).

"She had no use for my heart" Fine art by Darren Daz Cox, pencil and then the liquify filter in Photoshop.

Originally posted 2009-02-01 20:36:17. Republished by Old Post Promoter