>>3646910I'm not saying this to be confrontational.
Is there much interest in your paintings of random grils with no shirts on?
Like I can generally appreciate your pov Brian but you're the person that could most easily excel by choosing to make art that is relevant to things that people are interested in now. Like I've been shilling for you to do "subversive" still lives with your skill on contemporary bullshit but you just don't do it. If you took your skillz and style and did what I was doing, you'd be frigging crushing it.
Like I had multiple people offering me between 200-500 schmekels for a dang original print of pic related. And I'm a piece of shit!
I'm saying this from a place of love when I say that the one thing you're missing Brian is a more blunt sense of humor in your subject matter. You need your shit to be clever and contemporary.
I swear to jeebus that if you did still lives of shitty fruit sitting on your beige humidifier thing you'd generally generate more audience interest in your shit than you are currently by proving that you can do the same shit people did 200 years ago.
And I don't want to tell you what to do but you've got easy access to models. Do something more interesting than a painting of them slouching in a chair with their tiddies out!
Like think of yourself less as a painter and more as a producer that is telling a story idk. Get some interesting poses that relate to contemporary ideas. Get your model looking at a good text in limited light or something. Create a narrative in your paintings.
You don't need to be a celebrityfag but you need a narrative in your work that doesn't scream "this dude is all about painting some tiddies."
Like you've established trust with models. Now use them!
