Yanking on the Art Bear's Chain!

Did I fall off the art dummy wagon, yesterday? ha ha First rule of being an artist ...

Rule #1: Believe it when the check is IN YOUR HAND!

I was told this by a wise artist, Ron K. Smith, back in Houston, Texas in about 1983 or 84. Yes... that was the year of the big snows. All the livestock died that year and we were snowed in until spring. We had to boil our shoelaces and eat dirt. Barely stayed alive! Yes, things are different, today.

No, wait! They aren't. It's still the same. I still hear lips moving, whether they are lips "in my face," "on the cellphone," "online" (lots of e-lips flapping the b.s. like sheets in the wind!), and if the telegraph system was still really in operation, I'm sure there would still be plenty of dot dot dash dash blah blah blah (translated something like, "We LOVE your art, and as soon as we get some money .... we are INTERESTED in your art ... how much for this piece? ... etc. etc. etc.)

There are so many variations but it's mostly the same theme coming out of "ordinary" people. The final result is almost always, well..... NOTHING WHATSOEVER.

And of course there is the other "tack" used by the "well-wishers." (good thing hardly anyone I know reads anything I post online, or checks out any of my websites! har har!) This is the "helpful" advice. It is fulla permutations . . . Use the bright colors, landscapes, shiny, smaller, lighter, etc etc.

But now I gotta apologize . . . Because, I may help in the "cause" of helping me. But not entirely. So I sort of take it back. Sort of. It seems that it is important for me to be labeled an artist by the world, like an ex-con gets labeled and can't get a job.

Yes, I am one of those I guess (ex-con? no) Artist? Well, I am what I am. Who said that? An artist can't change his dots, I guess. Good thing I have always liked dots. You can see a lot of my dots here:

Robert Terrell Artist

And, since I have decided to continue down the dotted line of life as I have been, even though the "gallery" I was referring to in a previous post didn't ever call me back, or return any calls, or emails (Thank you so much you lovely gallery people - for making the life of the artist so much really fun!) ... they did poke the art bear hard enough to get him outta hibernation. Even the gen-public couldn't do that, it seems.

And now, after my little mini-pontificato-ranto ... I will say, honestly, I am cranking up the Terrell Art Studio machine again. It was a tiny bit creaky (not too much really).

See the new website, which isn't new exactly. It is a resurrection, a phoenix resurrected from the ashes. Why do I keep saying that? hahahaha

Terrell Art Studio

I am very happy with it at this time. And... not to be outdone by myself. I have some art projects in imminent approach to the runway. On the taxiway, that is. Soon to take off!

How's that for all the poking and prodding. See, friends, family, strangers, less-strangers, gallery fun folks, etc? Maybe your influences have been good, even when they weren't.