Art and Photos by Buck

2012-02-07T21:20:00.000-08:00

Sunsets

2012-02-07T21:11:00.001-08:00

Sunsets at East end mooring basin. Astoria, Oregon

Linocut test sheets

2012-02-07T21:03:00.001-08:00

Been f'n around with linocut print process. Here's some of the stuff I've been working on.

If there's room I'll sit

2011-10-30T22:10:00.000-07:00

If there's room I'll sit. Cat on piece of wood. Knappa, Oregon.

Fluffy White Dog

2011-08-23T20:33:00.000-07:00

Photos of a big fluffy white dog. Near Astoria, Oregon.

Some photos

2011-08-10T20:56:00.000-07:00

Sunset near Astoria, Oregon.
Graffiti in Denver, Colorodo. Not sure on the tag name.

I suppose I should keep uploading photos to this site. I'll have some more stuff available shortly. I've been working on other projects. Bear with me.

Web Graphics

2011-08-09T17:27:00.000-07:00

I've been doing a lot of computer based stuff as of late. So the next art I post on this page will likely be web graphics or something of the sort. More to come soon. Visit my website buckroberts.com to see what I've been up to. I also have another blog on Yola. I'll post more links and stuff so you can see what I'm up to.

Alright. I'm out for now.

Keeping a sketchbook

2011-07-15T13:55:00.000-07:00

This might be a good idea. I'm just keeping a sketchbook. I'm not really showing any of my art anywhere. I'm busy with other stuff lately.

Denver

2011-06-04T11:31:00.000-07:00

Some painted pianos in Denver, Colorado.

Champaigne

2011-06-04T11:28:00.001-07:00

Some random pics from Chapaigne, Illonois.

Florida

2011-06-04T11:18:00.001-07:00

I took a trip to Florida recently. Here's some photos from my trip.

Portraits

2011-04-09T22:26:00.000-07:00

Someone actually wanted me to do a portrait. So I did. Here it is. Critique welcome.

New this week

2011-03-27T01:04:00.000-07:00

I started a stencil art blog. It's official I'm working an album cover. I'll post details when that is all finalized. I found a printmaker who is affordable so I will have some screen prints available in the next couple of weeks. I hope to offer a new edition every month. Oh yeah, I'll be building a website with a portfolio and directory of art related sites, possibly a bulletin board if I can find some people to moderate that for me. And an online store. I'll have my prints other mercandise for sale along with items from other artists. I'll probably be doing a collective with some unknown artists or emerging professionals.

Ron Paul

2011-03-19T17:46:00.001-07:00

I did these direct stencil prints of Ron Paul. Available here

For those of you who are just now tuning in, I'm kinda political. There will likely be more Ron Paul stuff coming up.

R2-Do-U direct stencil prints

2011-03-18T18:30:00.000-07:00

This one is for all of the people who haven't seen 40 year old virgin yet. Yes I'm making fun of people who collect star wars related art. Hope you can laugh at yourselves as much as I laugh at you.

Available here

Nice guys finish last. Awesome guys finish on her face.

2011-03-15T20:35:00.001-07:00

I finish this edition of Charlie Sheen prints today.

I will be putting them up for sale here

Moving

2011-03-13T08:44:00.000-07:00

I'm in the midst of moving so I'm not really putting out a whole lot of art. I have a bunch of originals that I want to make prints of. I will have that those direct stencil prints and possibly some larger editions of screen prints.

Sea Turtle

2011-03-03T17:58:00.001-08:00

Not as exciting as Charlie Sheen, but I like sea turtles. Probably going to do a short run stencil and spay paint edition of this when I get moved into my new pad. Hit me up if you want one.

Charlie Sheen! Tiger Blood!

2011-03-03T17:51:00.000-08:00

I can't begin to express how much respect I have for Charlie Sheen these days. Just a person who wants to be who he is and not take shit from other people. I just hope he doesn't die of a drug overdose because I actually like the guy.

Do a Google search for Charlie Sheen quotes. Wow! Way better than Chuck Norris facts.

Drawing I'm working on. I actually might do a print of this.

Hello All

2011-03-01T18:39:00.000-08:00

Just another update. Been a while since I posted. I wanted to let everyone know I'm still ok. I've been working on some new art lately but I haven't been getting a lot of paying work. Not feeling so hopeless anymore though. I moved to yet another city and got a job detailing cars. I'll be putting out a real print edition when I get settled.

Sunset from my rooftop

2011-02-12T20:25:00.000-08:00

Rooftop photos.

Some drawings

2011-02-12T20:07:00.000-08:00

I figure I better make some new posts so people don't just stop reading this blog altogether. Self portrait. Yes my face really is lopsided. It's a long term affect of Bells Palsy.Well seems everywhere I look people are looking are still making up Star Wars art. It gets anoying. My smart ass commentary. R2-Do-U

Rock Art

2011-02-08T13:57:00.000-08:00

I working some rock art lately. Nothing I can show you until it is finalized with the musicians.

Thanks for reading and subscribing. I hope to be back to my regular posting in a few weeks.

Mi Vida for Sale

2011-01-25T08:37:00.000-08:00

I'm selling this original painting.

Mi Vida, Acrylic on wrapped canvas panel, 20" X 30", Subject is Sasha Grey
Price $400 Gone

Gig art and t-shirts

2011-01-18T01:31:00.000-08:00

Working on some art for gigposters and t-shirts lately. Ducking out of canvas paintings and such for a while. Doing some pen and ink drawings that can be screen printed easily. Here's a piece that is not quite finished but I figure I should post it anyway since I haven't posted in a couple of weeks.

I'll be able to offer affordable designs for gigposters, t-shirts, album covers and such. Chat me up for details.

More new stencils

2010-12-24T22:27:00.000-08:00

Finished some new paintings this week

2010-12-18T19:05:00.000-08:00

Stencil I did from a photo of Bobby Fischer. My next move.

Working with geometrical shapes and superspatiality.

Willow Creek Resevior

2010-12-15T11:55:00.000-08:00

Willow Creek resevour at Hepner, Oregon has some of the mot beautiful sunsets.

More old photographs

2010-12-15T11:50:00.000-08:00

Sunrises in Salem Oregon. I remember this morning well.

Beach and stuff

2010-12-15T10:28:00.000-08:00

Seaside, Beach
Salem capital building.

Scene I liked of an intersection with some intresting weather.

Everybody loves cute little woodland creaters.

More Winter Scenes

2010-12-15T10:24:00.000-08:00

More snowfall in La Grande, Oregon. Winter 2002. Scans from old 35mm toy camera.

Snow covered Streets

2010-12-15T10:15:00.000-08:00

Snow covered streets in La Grande, Oregon.

Eastern Oregon Snowscapes

2010-12-15T10:12:00.000-08:00

Snowscapes in Eastern, Oregon. La Grande, Oregon. Photographs by Buck Roberts

More very orange sunsets

2010-12-15T10:09:00.000-08:00

Salem Oregon.

This sunset had a lot of good colors.

Rivers And Sunsets Near Salem Oregon

2010-12-15T10:04:00.000-08:00

Rivers and sunsets near Salem, Oregon. More old 35mm photo scans.

Pastel Skies

2010-12-15T10:02:00.000-08:00

Pastel clouds in the sky.

Waterfalls And Lakes

2010-12-15T09:58:00.000-08:00

Morgan Lake in La Grande, Oregon. Multnhoma falls.

More toy camera photographs

2010-12-15T09:52:00.001-08:00

Lemon yellow sunset. Salem, Oregon. 35mm toy camera. Old photos by Buck Roberts

Icecicles

2010-12-14T18:38:00.000-08:00

Winter scenes from La Grande, Oregon.

Icecicles hanging from gutters in La Grande, Oregon.

Fences

2010-12-14T18:35:00.000-08:00

Some more photos from my old toy camera shots.

More high desert shots

2010-12-14T18:32:00.000-08:00

More high desert pics. Central Oregon near Prineville.

High Desert and some other pics

2010-12-14T18:27:00.000-08:00

I took all of these pics a long time ago. I found an old CD with my photos on it. It was badly scratched but it still worked much to my amazement. Stoked.

More toy camera

2010-12-14T18:23:00.000-08:00

Some more old school toy camera pics.

Photos from Oregon

2010-12-14T18:19:00.000-08:00

Photos from around Oregon. Scans from old prints. 35mm toy camera. Photos by Buck Roberts

Found some more old 35mm photos

2010-12-14T18:13:00.000-08:00

I found some old 35mm photos that I took back in 2003. There's a few Hundred of them on a CD that I recovered.

Easy way to do a stencil painting

2010-12-14T14:13:00.000-08:00

Here's an easy way to do a stencil painting. Find an image that is public domain. Make a black white print of it. One print for each layer. Four or five layers is enough usually for a greyscale. You'll want more layers for more colors.

Dumb Dog

2010-12-09T01:09:00.000-08:00

So I had been working on this painting for some time now and this dog ran accross it. I was a little upset. No pissed off would be the expression I'm looking for. Dumbest dog in the history of dumb dogs. Painting is almost done. More paintings on the way.

Originals up for sale

2010-11-14T19:26:00.000-08:00

Put all of my originals up for sale. If you are interest in anything, email me with an offer buckroberts at mail dot com

Power and Rage and Grace. Self Destruction and Rebirth.

2010-11-14T19:16:00.000-08:00

Just finished this one. Rage And Grace Self Destruction and Rebirth.

Painted Lady

2010-11-12T00:25:00.001-08:00

Forces that grip you

2010-11-12T00:21:00.001-08:00

I painted this on my 32nd Birthday. It wasn't a terrible day. The weather was not so great. I was really sad. I learned a lot about myself that day though.

Graphiti Dreams

2010-11-12T00:16:00.001-08:00

Steven Hawking

2010-11-12T00:12:00.001-08:00

For those I love

2010-11-12T00:10:00.000-08:00

Blu Original

2010-11-12T00:07:00.001-08:00

Painting I did of a friend's dog.

Cognitive Grafiti

2010-11-12T00:00:00.000-08:00

Something I did for a friend. Grafiti meets abstract expressionism or some shit like that. There's a bunch of face in it mostly stuff that came out not all stuff I put in there.

Releasing a few new prints this week

2010-11-11T20:47:00.000-08:00

I've done a few paintings of my friend's dog. I decided to do a print of one of them. It's my first screen print. It's a 12" X 18" one color with some acrylic paint for background. Your choice of color. Edition of 60

Did some stencils of George Washington. 12" X 18" edition of 4.

I some stencils of an adrenaline molecule. 12" x 18" all are unique.

Show At Hold Fast Tattoo In Seaside Oregon

2010-11-05T08:15:00.000-07:00

Going to hang some of my paintings at Hold Fast Tattoo in Seaside. I will have an artist's reception on the first Saturday of November.

Mi Vida

2010-11-05T08:11:00.000-07:00

I did this painting of Sasha Grey.

I think a lot of people want to be like her but don't want to admit it.

A littler more about me

2010-10-30T23:46:00.000-07:00

I haven't posted much lately. I've been dealing with some haunting personal issues. When I was a kid I never was interested in doing much homework. I didn't want to do much of anything that was repetative. Once I did something it was done and there was no argument about it. When I learned something in school I learned it well. I had almost an idetic memory for semantic information. So when my teacher started teaching the same lessons in third grade as I had already learned the year before in second, I let her know we already learned that stuff last year.

The other students disagreed but I was sure some of them had been sitting right next to me the year before. I could tell you all about it. It was a skilled task I could perform or it was some kind of fact I could recite. So as the school year dragged on I became less and less interested in anything. I wouldn't do homework. Except mathematics and science homework. I was allowed to work on those subject at my own pace. As a result forth grade was even harder. It seemed to be pretty much everything I had already learned being taught over and over again. With a minor changes to the version of American History they were teaching this year. I couldn't manage to sit there and listen to the review that seemed to be set up for the students who weren't able to learn what they were supposed to already know last year and the year before.

I completely lost interest. Not that I didn't enjoy learning. I was the kind of kid who watched nature shows or the news rather than pro wrestling or sit coms. I took up playing video games by the time I was ten I had mastered every game for the old 8 bit NES. I found some of them quite challenging. Way more stimulating than school work. I had a nac for systematically exploring and finishing games. By the time I was 12 I had played 300 or so games from start to finish. The gave me some skills I would take with me to adulthood and actually use in at some kind of job. Games also inspired me to be something.

Asside from reading the dictionary like it was some kind of novel the only book I picked up a biography of Bo Jackson which I read cover to cover. Everything else I could pick up from educational TV or at that time my encyclopedia set. There wasn't internet back then it was about the time MACs came out. I didn't find computers to useful any math I had to do I could do in my head. Computer games sucked next to the Newer video game systems Sega Genesis, NEO GEO, SNES, and the other 16 bit game systems were coming out. I knew what I wanted to do when I grew up. I was going to work with video games. I really liked games. I liked when my friends at school would talk about the new games they were playing. Then I would have to play the game and finish it. I typically would rent a video game one after school one day and play it from start to finish before I went to bed around 10 pm. No I didn't do any homework. There wasn't much point in it. I got As on pretty much all of my tests. I scored in the 99th percentile in math, vocabulary, science, and pretty in pretty much every other subject.

The school district decided to put me into the talented and gifted program. I think the term talented and gift is kinda wierd because those to words mean the same thing just in different languages. Call me crazy but anyway. I met some other kids who were more like me. Some kinda nerdy, some regular, and some who were outcasted like me. I chose that though. I never cared for autority figures. I still don't. The idea that someone less intelligent than myself making decisions that will effect my future never quite sat right with me. If being normal meant submitting myself to false moral teaching of supersticious people or to authority of incompetant people I was going have no part of it.

I found the monster of social control my greatest adversary at about age 12-13. People will pretty much do whatever other people want them to do. Maybe for lack of personal courage or moral resolve or simply becuase they don't know any better. Whatever the reason, people are pretty fucked up. I don't really want much to do with most of them.

On to high school. By then people are pretty much ultra fucked up by social norms and peer stresses. Teenage girls are not the sweet little princesses they once were but insecure overly emotional wrecks of people. Teenage boys are just about the same.
Teenages are hormonally driven. The mental developement and personal discipline that should have been developed in childhood isn't there. They have no direction or purpose other than to fit and do what everybody else is doing. So I figure fuck this shit I'm getting a goddamn GED. So I did. Then I went to work doing whatever I could.
I joined the military later. Went to college for a bit. But I can't help but think there was something selected me out from everyone.

It wasn't so much society selecting me out, Noone ever had the authority to do so. I was selecting out the things I didn't like about the world around me. Setting myself asside. Waiting for people like me to come along. It was a lonely life. I had failed relationships an took to binge drinking on the weekends. One night stands were a pretty common thing for me. I lived out of my car and couldn't really hold down a job. With the kind of jobs I could get I wasn't to happy to be there. I'd learn the skills in a couple of weeks then get bored and start working somewhere else. It just seemed to work out for me. Everything was boring.

I took up art a few months back as a way to express part some part of me that was neglected. I realized I was just aquiring another skill. A few more for skills collection. Why in the fuck don't any of those skills pay? Well I'm just not normal. Normal people don't know how deal with me. People aren't going to put me to work when they don't know how to relate to me. All people have to do in communicate but they don't. So I don't. I don't make small talk. What I do talk about involves mountains of facts and complex concepts that most people just don't understand.

I quit my shitty labor job because my boss there is shitbag. The guy who will do just about anything to save money. Cheap motherfucker. The thing that really pissed me off about it was safety issues. The fact that he would cut corners on safety to save a buck. I had two time loss injuries in three months. Just felt like a complete shitbag when I went to work everyday anyway. I feel left out of social situations. Like life is a big party that noone invited me too. Don't neccessarily want to go just be invited. Like fuck. Am I ever going to be accepted by society as anything other than a fucking scrub who works for shit pay and treated like a disposable piece of shit.

For all I care I might as well walk out into the forest and build a nice hut and trap small fury woodland creatures for food. I've fucking had it. Every time I try to be someone there's always some nifty social mechanism to keep me from it. I'm just not going to participate anymore. I've given up on a world that doesn't want a fucking thing to do with me.

So people have joked with me before having some kind of autism or shit like that. Yeah, sure why not. I have a shitload of the symptoms of asperger's syndrome, high functioning autism, or PDD-NOS but.

People make jokes all of the facts I know. I think the disorder most people have is not caring enough about the world around them to take in trivial bits of information and not caring their fellow human beings.

Fuck it.

Sylvester Stallone

2010-08-27T17:14:00.000-07:00

Just finished this piece of fan art. Sylvester Stallone. Pretty sweet The Expendables came out shortly after I started working on the piece.

Based on a photo by Nicholas Genin
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicogenin/

Out of town

2010-08-22T09:40:00.000-07:00

I've been out of town on work for about a month. I haven't been working on much art. I plan to finish the piece I'm working on and maybe do a show when I get home.

Carbon Black

2010-07-04T13:50:00.001-07:00

Carbon Black is large abstract of a carbon fiber weave. Did this for a friend who really likes cars.

Cutting through

2010-07-04T13:46:00.001-07:00

I did this large abstract expressionist painting. 60" X 48"

All just representations of my feelings

Even More Abstract Expressionism

2010-07-04T13:37:00.000-07:00

Still more abstract expressionist paintings.

More Expressionism

2010-07-04T13:31:00.001-07:00

More abstract expressionist paintings.

Abstract Expressionism

2010-07-04T13:12:00.000-07:00

I've been working on letting my feelings out lately. Here's some of my latest works.

Molon Labe

2010-05-23T06:02:00.000-07:00

Molon Labe
Hand painted abstract background finish with montan gold acrylic spray paint and hand cut negative space stencil.
Edition of 18
18" X 12" On 250 GSM Canson Fanboy Comic and Manga paper
Issue price $30

For the kids

2010-05-22T21:39:00.000-07:00

I donated some stuff to a charity auction last week for a school for the children with emotional problems. Sent my canvas uniques of Night Ship and Robin along with a promotional poster for the Banksy film Exit Through The Gift Shop.

This week I'm sending out some pieces to an auction for a kids summer camp.

Here's some pics of what I'm sending out.

Official Buck Roberts art for sale page

2010-05-21T11:31:00.000-07:00

I put all of my stuff for sale on BigCartel. If you are looking for something custom contact me for details.

Thanks,

Buck

Crow

2010-05-21T10:48:00.000-07:00

Canvas original crow. Hand painted magenta background. Shack black crow with shock white accents spay painted from hand cut stencil.

Paper edition crow magenta. Edition of only four.

Gold edition crow. Edition of six.

Crow paper uniques signed, dated and titled on the back not numbered.

Playful doggy

2010-05-21T10:27:00.000-07:00

Here's a new piece I came up with. I still really like this black lab. They are great dogs.

Paper editions come on 190 GSM or 300 GSM water color paper. Issue price is $15 per piece. Contact me if you want the canvas.

Playfull doggy canvas unique.

Playful doggy brown edition. Edition of 5. Acrylic background finished with acrylic spray paint.

Playful doggy water color background edition. Edition of six. Water color background finished with acrylic spray paint.

Angelic blue playful doggy. Edition of 6. Hand painted acrylic background finish with acrylic spay paint.

Uniques I came up with while working on various color schemes for playful doggy. Signed, titled and dated the back. Not numbered. Only uniques are signed on the back.

Nephila

2010-05-20T21:11:00.000-07:00

I created a spider drawing of Nephila Philipes. Spiders of that genus live in austrailia and are documented bird eaters. I'm not sure if the philipes eats birds but I liked the way it looked so a drew a picture of it. I made a stencil of it and created a few editions of stencil paintings. There is one edition with the spider only titled "Nephila" along with a scene with the spider and a bird in it's web. I'm kinda a spider nerd. These paintings were kinda fun for me. This piece is out on Friday May 20th for sale.

The full scene version "Bad day for birds" will be out sometime after the weekend.

Edition size is 10.
Colors are black on silver.
Paper is Bristol smooth 260 GSM
Size of the piece is 9" X 12"
Issue price is $15

German Shepard orange variant paper edition giveaway

2010-05-04T21:05:00.000-07:00

Someone has aksed if I was going to do a paper edition of my orginal German Shepard painting. So by request I did an edition of 8. These are brush painted from a hand cut stencil. They will probably be my last painted edition for a while.

Edition of 8
Acrylic brushed with hand cut stencil on 190 gsm water color paper.
Print Giveaways

I will moving to screen prints or ciclees. Anyhow that means I'll be spending a little bit more time original images and producing higher quality art.

The Meeting (pre release)

2010-04-29T12:18:00.000-07:00

I worked on this until about 4am this morning. I sprayed a total of 36 Papers and 3 canvases. I'll have these available for sale by the end of the day.

Here's the project I've been working on.

3 canvas 1 black 1 green 1 yellow

36 total paper

paper black green edition of 5

black orange edition of 4

black red edition of 4

white red 2

black yellow 1

white brown 1

brown green 1

white grey 1

grey brown 1

dark green shock green 1

multi color noise 1

green orange red 1

white red multicolor noise 1

grey orange 1

multicolor sillouette multi color noise 1

red black 1

green grey 3

green brown 6

Todays's update

2010-04-28T13:39:00.000-07:00

Just an update for those of you who are following my blog.

Ugly Doggy
http://forum.expressobeans.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=51716
Official listing here
http://www.expressobeans.com/public/detail.php/121555

Night Ship
Buy directly here
http://artandphotosbybuck.blogspot.com/
http://forum.expressobeans.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=51703
official night ship listing on EB
http://www.expressobeans.com/public/detail.php/121556
It will be on Drymounted.com tomorrow and probably sold out shortly after that.

Robin
http://forum.expressobeans.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=51400
The robin has an official listing
http://www.expressobeans.com/public/detail.php/121522
All my edition are listed on EB now

The official Buck Roberts thread
http://forum.expressobeans.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=51705&hilit=buck+roberts

http://artandphotosbybuck.blogspot.com
Place you can discuss any of my art releases

Working on a new piece called "The Meeting"
That might be out later today

Night Ship

2010-04-27T07:30:00.000-07:00

Stencil painting I did of a ship in the Columbia River outside my house. This is my first artwork for sale.

Night Ship
Spray acrylic on 190 gsm water color paper. 12" X 9"
Edition of 18
All are retouched by hand. No two completely alike.
Original price $15
Sold out

If you buy any of this stuff I will throw freebies.
1. Every order will recieve a first edition photograhic print of my choosing.
2. First ten will recieve an original drawing or painting.
3. Everyone will recieve a bonus print.
4. First 16 will recieve a second bonus print. Mostly random items.

South Jetty

2010-04-23T21:10:00.001-07:00

Sunset with crashing waves at South Jetty.

Giving away some stencil paintings

2010-04-19T15:10:00.000-07:00

I'm giving away some stencils and some prints that are taking up space.

Details are here

Expresso Beans Print Giveaways

More to share

2010-04-16T19:33:00.000-07:00

I had to clean out my hard drive because it was pretty much completely full of photos. I put them on some CDs and I'm sorting through them. More to come.

Old 35mm from 2003

2010-04-14T19:08:00.000-07:00

Morgan Lake near La Grande, Oregon.

Beaches and Sunsets

2010-04-13T20:38:00.000-07:00

Some beach pictures.

Earlier sketch

2010-04-13T20:36:00.000-07:00

Here's a sketch of Addisson and Eva at Cannon Beach.

Sunrise view from my house

2010-04-13T20:30:00.000-07:00

I cought this sunrise from my yard. I will probably have some print available in the future.

More Oswald West Photos

2010-04-13T19:45:00.000-07:00

Note that this area of Oswald West should not be hiked by novice hikers or anyone without some climing experience. There are high winds and loose rocks. I think it might be restricted now. There wasn't any signs the last time I went hiking there but someone had told me that many people have fallen. The view is great. I can see people getting caught off guard by a gust of wind while checking out the scenery. I can't stress this enough. If you do decide to venture beyound the parking area but extremely cautious.

Oswald West State Park

2010-04-13T19:33:00.000-07:00

2010-04-13T19:01:00.000-07:00

Photographs from Northern Oregon Coast.

Astoria, Oregon

2010-04-13T18:38:00.000-07:00

Getting started

2010-04-13T18:10:00.000-07:00

I'll be posting several of my photos here every day.

Photographs from the east side or Astoria, Oregon. Sunset and sun river scenes from east end mooring basin in Asotria, Oregon.

Pastels

2010-04-05T21:26:00.002-07:00

Drawings and doodles

2010-04-05T20:41:00.001-07:00

I've been fucking around with different media trying to figure out what I like the best. I tried pastels, pencils, colored pencils, finepoints, markers, watercolor, acrylic and straight up spray paint. Here are some of my drawings and doodles.

Log truck I did with fine point pens and markers.

Spray paint

2010-04-05T20:10:00.000-07:00

I love spray paint. I became inspired to use spray paint when I discovered an artist called Banksy. I love his art. In fact I love street art. Not tasteless grafitti but honest art that just needs a larger canvas than your standard art gallery has rom for. I had been looking at street art for a long time and thought to myself "that looks fun" then I thought "I could do that". So I did. Here's a couple of stencils I did a few weeks back.

Because I love dogs. Hells yeah dogs rock! Big mean German Shepard.

And because being on a powerboat at sunset is so much better than being at work.

These are my first stencils. I'll keep you posted on my new stuff.

My Art

2010-04-05T19:53:00.000-07:00

I decided to take up art seriously a few weeks back. I'm a lot better at drawing and painting than I was as a kid. It probably has a lot to do with my having a lot of patience. One thing I've learned is the world doesn't move a smart speed. Most people who live in this world are dumb and they will settle for half-assed or whatever grade of mediocre you prefer. I'm sick of that. I want a better life. One of the things I realized is that I don't like anyone telling me what the fuck I can or can't do or say. I'm sick of it. I got to my crappy job where I get really dirty. I have to put up with people who are in charge but don't do such a great job of running things. I have to put up with people who I would not otherwise deal with. In short I go to work because I have to. I live a supposedly free country but really I don't have a lot of freedom. I got to work. I go to the gym. I come home. I surf the internet and read. I don't have a lot of money to go out or do anything fun. I don't have a huge amount of free time but one thing I do have is drive or ambition or whatever you want to call it. Everywhere you go you have people telling you that you should settle for less. Really you should take some liberty and just not fucking listen. If people don't want to share an idea or contribute some positive energy into my life then fuck them. They won't share in my success.

The reason I do art is simple. Noone can tell me what the fuck to paint a picture of. Noone can tell me what media to use or how I should go about techniques to use. In fact the only people I'm going to show is people who visit my website and other artists and art collectors (well maybe some galleries if they wanna rep me). Other than that I really could care less what the average Joe has to say about anything let alone what they have to about my expression. I live in small town with peopl who have small town mentallities. There are a lot of people who die without ever taking life into their own hands. I'm going to grab life by the balls. I'm sick of not being in control. People will see who I am what I have to say. Some will like it others will not. In short I'm going to live my life for me from here on out. Fuck what anyone else has to say about it. They don't do anything for me why should I do what they want?

All about Buck's art and photos

2010-04-05T19:37:00.000-07:00

I'm Buck. I work 40+ hours/weeks at a recycling company. I basically sort other people's trash. I realized a month or so ago that I have been listening to terrible life advice from people who don't know me or what they are talking about. There are a lot of negative people out there. Every time I talk to a friend about what I want to do they have something negative to say about it like "that won't work" or "that's a hair brained scheme". So I'm just not going to tell anyone anything that I'm doing from here on out. If my friends don't have anything positive to input into my life fuck them I will get new friends.

I have been doing photography for about seven year now. I started out with "Toy Camera" 35mm. I took a lot of pictures with my cheap little fixed focus camera. I scanned them and put them up on a website. Lots of people visited the website and I got pretty positive feedback on my photos. I liked working on the website but I never made a substantial income from my websites but I did learn a lot and I liked doing it. And let's face it. It is much better to be doing something you like than being stuck doing something you don't like.

I decided I would start up some new blogs and websites to share my art and photographs with the world and maybe make some money in meanwhile.

Some of them came out pretty good. I picked up a digital camera two years back and I love it.