The Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox

I now need a wall to paint on about the same size of Michelangelo’s Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel.

Below is an excellent pic from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistine_Chapel

Michelangelo’s Last Judgement fresco in the Sistine Chapel

I have proven to myself that I can paint big with my 20ft by 10ft oil paint mural in the Speakeasy Art Center and gallery in Pekin Illinois. Now I wish to go bigger and really expand the ideas I started. Here is a detail of my current work that you can see on the third floor of the Speakeasy Art Center, across from the courthouse in Pekin Illinois (there are many other cool artist’s there too with lots to see but please don’t disturb their work!).

Pekin Illinois trippy mural at the Speakeasy Art Center July 12 2010 by Darren Daz Cox

I’ve been working on some smaller paintings with the idea to have something I can sell but you can’t get the detail in a small work that you can with something huge. It is nice to share art and allow people to own something that I put time and effort into.  Below are some of my current small works that will be available to whomever wishes to own them for a modest contribution. I figure I’ll sell my small paintings for $99.00 US which is a sum most anyone with a job can afford and will appreciate in value as my work gets more and more noticed.

Angel of Ambiguity oil painting by Darren Daz Cox

Angel of Ascention oil painting by Darren Daz Cox

Fern Faerie oil painting by Darren Daz Cox

These oil paintings are obviously unfinished but I work on as much as I can without forcing the work. If it becomes a chore or a "job" then it doesn’t turn out well so I take my time and slowly build up a picture while I think good thoughts! It is important to me that the quantum intent associated with my art is of a positive nature and while that has no apparent relevance in a world where scientists cannot measure such things it is very important to me,,,

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If you don’t like my post you can press fast forward… (interpolating 99 Problems by Jay-Z)

So why is my blog 99daz.com and not 88daz or 45daz or any other combination of two digits?

First of all 99 is a penultimate number, it’s one away from 100 which in terms of percent is perfect or at least complete.

I’m not trying to be humble by saying I’m not perfect, far from it, 99 is a metaphor for being one step away from God, as all of us mortal souls are.

"You asked me for one hundred dollars but I didn’t have but 99" Sonny Boy Williamson

99 happens to appear more often on my I-tunes playlist than any other combination of two digit numbers, some of my all time favorite songs are "99" songs and many of my favorite bands have excellent songs with 99 in the title too!

No, the Toto song isn’t in my playlist, I don’t hate it or anything negative, it just doesn’t make the cut, considering how many songs I’ve heard and the availability of music these days I don’t have to listen to anything but the best!

So here are my favorite songs with 99 in the title. Perhaps you can suggest some I might have missed?

99 Luft Ballons and the English version (99 Red Balloons) by Nena totally rock and the 80′s punk cover by 7-Seconds and, this took me by surprise, the best (in my opinion) version of the song appeared in the 90′s by Goldfinger.

99 Problems by Jay-Z is one of few new school rap tunes I really really love.

One of my favorite bands Social Distortion did 99 To Life which is a brilliant tune that is an homage to the darker side of those home grown American blue grass tunes. "lonely weekends lonely nights the judge he gave me 99 to life"

Sony Boy Williamson uses 99 as a metaphor for the blues in his classic song 99. After all, what is the blues if it’s not a dollar short?

Two more of my favorite punk bands have songs with the title 99 (weirdly enough), The Minutemen and Screeching Weasel, both songs are excellent.

The last song on my 99 list is a cover sung by a local Central Illinios favorite country rock performer Simon Webb. 99.9% Sure, I don’t know who does the original, maybe I should check it out but I really enjoy Simon Webb’s cover!

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Originally posted 2009-01-08 09:47:56. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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“Now the great winds shoreward blow, Now the salt tides seaward flow; Now the wild white horses play, Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.” Matthew Arnold (English Victorian Poet 1822-1888)

I bought three kinds of "gormet" sea salt and a couple of glass jars and sat them in the sun with rose quartz chunks and various magical things! There’s pink chunks of 250 million yr old Himalayan salt, light grey chunks of Celtic sea salt from Europe and big white chunks from New Zealand and Australia! Pyramids channel energy from torsion fields according to David Wilcock and he claims they allow a variety of amazing things to manifest such as ESP. So I sat my quartz pyramid on each jar in the warm spring sunlight and thought good thoughts and voila magic salt! Even if you don’t believe in magic you’ll love unrefined sea salt, it’s a lot less harsh than factory salt and healthy too! I added a scandalous hint o’ the liquify filter on that photo hehe!

~*Allegory of fishing with white feet for Deena
acylics and glitter paints on canvas by Darren Daz Cox*~ Salt is rocks that you can eat put it on your broccoli trees crystals are magic and take it from me the best kind of salt is from the seas!
~*art and poetry by Darren Daz Cox*~

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Originally posted 2008-04-16 19:38:44. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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 Potential, the possibility of a certain thing happening. Quantum intent, the scientifically proven connection between your intentions and what actually manifests. In terms of art, that intent creates a potential and then that potential manifests into a reality.

For me, positive intent is paramount, I want to inspire, I want to be appreciated and I want to be able to continue to do so.

I really am happy in the moment, just like my fortune cookie at the excellent Dynasty Buffet. DJ Disaster liked the short haired waitress and I thought the long haired girl was lovelier!  I rarely draw girls with short hair.

We were discussing time travel and I explained (because I am such the expert on everything) that you wouldn’t suddenly disappear, like Back To The Future, if you ‘changed’ your past. The ‘grandfather paradox’ is not a certainty as quantum physics has concluded that our perception of time as being cause and effect linear is really only a perception and everything is actually happening in an instant.

Imagine that every possible outcome is out there waiting for you to grab it like a gold balloon. How do you get the outcome you want? You set your intent and, because things are all happening in an instant, you act as if you have what what you want. Have no fear.

Just a note on the flu pandemic thing, trust God. The univere will provide you with what you need to survive, if you want to survive.

Appreciate the moment, for the moment is all we have.

My intentions, which will become reality.

1: To get that sweet copier Riverfront Media looked at last week, and make tons of 11×17 double-sided posters and booklets that will inspire and spread happiness.

2: To publish other artists and interesting creative types in my new version of Go B Zine (having a finisher on the color laser copier will be perfect!)

3: To print something for the Peoria Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure since their race for the cure is on the same day as the Tech this Out – technology expo at the East Peoria Event center on may 9-10 2009.

4: Get a new office and studio for Riverfront Media, hopefully near the Illinois river again (where we got our name from) or perhaps in Pioneer Park.

5: Spread the love, we’re all connected and with all this fear and negativity around it’s time to rise above your fears and be the change you want to see. 

For The Love of Seahorses – gold leafed seahorse and digital paint by Darren Cox aka Daz

I share a birthday (coming up!) with Daphne Du Maurier  who was born on May 13, 1907

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Originally posted 2009-04-26 20:13:14. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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I added a new layer of oil glazes to this canvas today. I use a drying compound (as oil paints will drive you insane like Vincent van Gogh if you wait for them to dry naturally) and dammar varnish and then a drop of some random fluid like linseed oil in my oil glazes! I will have a few more layers on this one but it should be really powerful when it’s done!

The Inspirational Beam – oil on canvas by Darren Daz Cox

I love this antique poster! I love the figure, the colors and especially the wings!!!!

Make sure you check out tineye.com too as they helped me find a decent sized version of this pic after i first saw it on a little thumbnail.

I don’t have any resolutions for 2009, there are things I’d like, but I have to be thankful for what I have and appreciate the moment rather than live for tomorrow.

make sure you check out Coast to Coast AM with George Noori this sunday as George’s first guest of 2009 will be the mighty David Wilcock!

"become the creator by creating"

INSPIRE

BE INSPIRED

APPRECIATE

~:~

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Originally posted 2009-01-01 21:35:16. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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