"Some People Really Suck"

Beautiful Disaster

This painting hung in front of a performance stage at a coffee shop/bar I designed called Zoe’s Coffee House. I built and designed a stage that this painting hung in front of for 4 years.

The painting came out rather easy, flowed into what you see without much struggle. I decided to outline all the shapes with black and it really popped to so I kept what I had and sent it to the framer. It’s a rather large piece and will command the attention of anyone that enters its space. Its tripled framed by a master framer out of Shelby, NC.

The title comes from several places. One, it’s a 311 lyric from their song Beautiful Disaster. Two, someone had stolen my $4,000 Sony camera. I had never had such a nice camera and my art had picked up considerably so I needed it for high quality photos, but nope someone had to be a jerk and steal it. So thirdly, I had this giant blank canvas stretched in the studio at the time and walked over to it and wrote in giant letters “Some People Really Suck”. That is what I started this painting with.

Sometime ago I saw a Picasso video that showed him creating a painting from start to finish. He had started with some numbers or letters. He just wrote them on the surface and began creating a painting based on those lines. I was simply doing the same thing just off of those words. That’s how this piece was created. Again, consequences, the whole painting came into existence through consequences. I like to think someone’s selfish and bad actions produced this painting which in turn created a lot of good.