The Fine Art Blog of Daz and Holly

 It’s good to be on a creative streak again and I am proud that I have finally transitioned from the relative safety of pencil sketches and liquify filter random happy accidents to oil paint on canvas which is what I said I would do about five years ago on a my DeviantArt site haha!

I am so totally a Taurus in that I am stubborn and I feel my art power as a juggernaut and when I get in the zone some cool things that result, things that make it all worth while for me, even though I’ve sold less paintings than Vincent Van Gogh did in his lifetime haha!

Here’s a painting I did the other day, totally at random except for the choice of a pot of white paint, a lid for the pot that turned out to have been for the yellow paint as it had yellow paint on the lid, and two small brushes, one of which, I found by happy accident, wasn’t properly cleaned from the blue paint it still had a bit of on it. The dark lines are from a grease pencil (works perfectly with oil paint!).

The random became serendipity and I totally love this painting! I know, somewhere in the universe, perhaps on a planet similar to this one or perhaps just down the block from me, someone will love this painting too and it makes me deeply happy to know that someone will look at this painting and be happy, if only for a moment.

The Girl and the Bear oil paint on canvas board 8×10 inches (unfinished) by Darren Daz Cox.

Another painting that is still unfinished but getting there is this one…

Moon Falling, oil on canvas about 5 ft x 3.5 ft (unfinished) by Darren Daz Cox

And even bigger than that one…

Spirit Journey, oil on canvas (in two pieces) about 8ft tall. Unfinished so far. By Darren Daz Cox

Here is the pencil sketch for the original idea I had for the painting that I’ll probably re-visit many times as it hits my brain’s art g-spot to think about clouds that look like animals and why people do that, somehow it is part of the big answer to the meaning of life (or just cool).

Cloud Girl pencil sketch, (on my desk at work to inspire me) by Darren Daz Cox

I’ve still been sketching with pencil but these days the majority of those have gone directly to people in my immediate circle because it gives them something they can share with others to build a bond, whether they are laughing at it with their friends or admiring it, the result is the same, it is an object that they can focus on while building human bonds, it’s a win/win thing!

Here’s a sketch that didn’t go to anyone in particular because it’s a little too creepy to give this to someone and it’s basically unfinished but it’s here for historical accuracy to show another facet of  my ouvre. I feel obligated to draw some faeries to balance out the angels I’ve been drawing as I don’t want either group to think I’m taking sides! (you might want to read my blog post of faeries vs. angels to understand what I’m talking about here http://99daz.com/faeries-vs-angels haha!)

Random Faerie Representin’ , pencil sketch by Darren Daz Cox

 Riverfront Media (myself and DJ Disaster), got up early to film the 2009 Race For The Cure at The Metro Center in Peoria Illinois today. It was inspiring to see so many people all united for a common positive cause, to help fight breast cancer.

The music on the video is by Homer Simplex, there is link to all their free music just to the right on my blog —>

Proceeds from the Komen Race for the Cure® Series help fund important breast cancer research as well as breast health initiatives on a local level. Seventy-five percent of the proceeds remain in your community, helping to support breast health education and breast cancer screening and treatment programs for the medically underserved. http://www.komenpeoria.org

Mail Contributions To:
Peoria Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure
4700 N. University St., Suite 92
Peoria, IL  61614-5849

From small and perky to large and floppy, breasts are a part of our mammalian existance and you probably like them too since you came to my art blog, so here’s some of my art to glorify our friends the breasts, and the females that they are attached to!

Dancer, oil painting by Darren Daz Cox

 Trippy art by Darren Daz Cox pencil sketch then the liquify filter

Summer Goddess oil on canvas by Darren Daz Cox – breast appreciator!

Ok, here’s what I think can help reduce and maybe eliminate breast cancer. I suggest cash prizes and or grants for independent scientists, scientists who are not affiliated with any pharmaceutical company, who can offer their best suggestions, plus spiritual people who may be able to help in other ways as perhaps your mind can help reduce the spread of cancer.

So how do we get these huge cash grants/awards for the scientists/gurus? Simple, you rent a gathering place and you have a contest where teams of women compete, topless, for secret ballot votes and you charge the public, men mostly, fifty or so dollars to get in. It’s for a good cause and it’s women walking around topless without the stigma of it being ‘adult entertainment’ asking you to vote for them (number written on their breasts). There’s lots of ways we could work this idea but if women are serious about finding a cure, there’s no better way to get men to donate money than to show what God provided you. It’s a win win thing!

This piece of art is the color test I made from my art for the new digital printing press for Riverfront Media. We are now able to make super quality prints, 12×18 posters and tabloid books with staples, 51 pages a minute! I have always wanted to publish my own magazine, a paper one you can read while on the bus,train or toilet, and now will! All people on the Go B Zine snail mail list will get the first production run, coming soon!

And yes, there will be artistic depictions of breasts in the upcoming Go B Zine because breasts are awesome!

 This angel has pet rats who are so rebellious they disregard the law of gravity! Rats are quite graceful when they don’t have gravity to bother them! Pencil sketch drawn in Peoria Illinois by Darren Daz Cox.

There is a bigger version on my Flickr page my name there is Gobzine