http://www.jimmykellyart.com/art-blog.html The painting blog of Jimmy Kelly en-us art Wed, 12 May 2010 09:25:12 GMT Wed, 12 May 2010 09:25:12 GMT jimmykellyart.com http://www.jimmykellyart.com/index.html This site is basically about me, Jimmy Kelly, and my art. My paintings. The thinking that goes into the process of creating them, and all the attendant concerns that flow both into that process and then out of that whole melting pot. More comes out than just the finished work. New thoughts and ideas and ways of looking at things. That is also what this site is about. Those thoughts and writings for you to read and think about and hopefully relate to. Ill start with myself. Modern Irish artist? I dont know what that really means. All I know is that painting holds a very important place in my life, and that my work changes as much as I change, which is largely a good thing. Wed, 12 May 2010 09:25:10 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/santa.html santa walking painting Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:03:46 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/pub.html pub painting Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:30:59 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/colorful-abstract-art.html I have spent a fair amount of time browsing abstract art galleries, be it on the web or the more traditional kind. I cant say the work every appealed to me, mainly due to my ignorance of the subject and what was being attempted by the artists in question. On the upside colorful abstract art always drew me in because I guess Im a colourist at heart and this gave me a foot hold into developing a new relationship with abstract modern art. So last week I found myself with my own completed piece of modern abstract art. Of course I named it - Abstract number 1 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:50:30 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/ciao-bella.html Girl walking painting Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:01:58 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/abstract.html My first real abstract painting Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:28:38 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/tony-de-mello.html A personal encounter with Tony de Mello via memory Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:21:08 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/bistro.html girl bistro painting Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:50:51 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/Fgallery4-5.html Harlequin and friend Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:23:55 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/Know-your-audience.html Know your audience, they marketeers tell us. Read this and let me know if you are my audience Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:38:21 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/life-drawing-class.html Last night I resumed life drawing class. I didnt think during the summer that I would make it back this autumn as my son was born in September, so things are pretty hectic time wise. But last night, found me once again, back in fairly familiar surroundings, grappling with the same questions I always find myself with in front of the life drawing models, basically why am I here? and what do I want to get out of this?. Even occasionally I try to answer these questions, the most common answer I come up with is to be a better painter. But sometimes, perhaps even most times I wonder aloud to myself if I am actually becoming that better artist/painter?, and how will I know or quantify such an achievement. Its the doubts that bring me back, and so I come back with my charcoal and vast array of pencils and attendant sharpners and erasers Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:47:07 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/flirt.html girl flirt Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:30:08 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/Celtic-mythology.html Since the advent of Riverdance, there has been an explosion of interest in all things Irish, from Irish culture and art, morphing into the worlds of Celtic mythology. Suddenly all things Celtic are cool and this is reflected in the art world, which always seems to be an astute barometer of where the money is. Irelands new found economic wealth was even paraded under the once noble heading of the Celtic tiger, which has seen become a parody of itself since the implosion of the domestic banking system. But we grin and smile on while the slow moving train of what is commonly known as art sales grinds to a painful stop somewhere deep in the wilderness between the civilizations of what is real and what we hoped was real Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:51:53 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/ordering.html Place your website description in this area. This is read by some search engines. Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:28:18 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/slideshow.html Slideshow of Jimmy Kelly paintings Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:09:43 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/Fgallery1-7.html Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:38:31 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/Fgallery1-5.html Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:37:00 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/Fgallery1-2.html Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:38:21 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/Jimmy_Kelly_paypal.html A selection of recent paintings Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:24:01 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/Fgallery1-1.html Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:22:20 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/what-to-think.html what to think Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:09:07 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/gothic-art-renaissance-art.html Gothic art and the rise of Renaissance art Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:42:03 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/mr-right.html Jimmy Kelly paintings Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:03:49 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/art-therapy.html Art therapy and art therapy exercises are, like many alternative forms of remedying the human condition, growing in popularity. This growth in popularity mainly stems from an almost corresponding expansion in the common consciousness permitting a more inclusive holistic view of what it means to be human. We are more than the sum of our parts, and popping a tablet is not going to fix each problem in life. What we need is a way of getting in touch with our own inner wisdom and what the solution is for us, in this moment, to address the set of circumstances which are unique to us at this time in our lives Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:08:14 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/how-to-paint-flowers.html Always having my finger on the pulse of whats the next big thing on the net and trying to address it before the ground swell becomes to large to handle Ive noticed an unprecedented demand to answer a certain question. How to paint flowers? (Closely followed by how to paint flames). It could be the title of a booker prize novel Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:03:23 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/good-friends-youtube.html Jimmy Kelly paintings Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:26:06 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/human-figure-art.html Human figure art is one of the most demanding genres, precisely because we all have a working knowledge of what a human looks like. If it looks wrong, then it probably is wrong, because thats how we live our daily lives, by our first impressions. And this is never more the case than when we are looking at other people, be it in person or via a photograph or painting. So there is little or no room for error in figurative art. Therein lays the lure and the challenge of working on human figure paintings Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:09:11 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/life-lessons.html We live in a world, where to be is equated with to do. What happens when what we were doing ceases? Do we cease to be ?. Evidently not. Yet we get very caught up in the doing that we tie all our self-worth in with the things we achieve, with our achievements. Its good to achieve, but its a flawed way of looking at reality if we tie our self-worth in with those achievements Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:56:17 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/art-alchemy.html I wasnt in great form this morning. Maybe I was tired? Who knows, just one of those days I guess. Movtivation at an all time low, the sky was grey, so grey the solar pannel street signs couldnt even blink. I dropped my daughter into the creche then drove into town. I had chores, letters to post, stamps to buy, petrol to purchase, important stuff. The post office at the top of the town was closed, forcing me to leave the car and walk down town to the one in the middle of the narrow streets Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:46:38 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/creativity-innovation.html The best way to approach creativity innovation is to first understand what exactly are you trying to be innovative about? Ask the simple question whats bothering me, right now at this moment in time Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:31:01 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/youtube.html Jimmy Kelly paintings Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:10:18 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/suitor.html the suitor painting Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:05:09 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/artistic-nudes.html resting man painting Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:48:19 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/man-and-woman.html man and woman painting Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:24:10 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/girl-reading.html girl reading painting - inspiration Franz Marc Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:23:10 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/horse.html horse painting - inspiration Franz Marc Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:54:52 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/very-possible.html it is very possible to make money online, VERY Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:07:04 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/not-easy-online.html Its not easy to build up a following online but it can be done, there are many successful artists out there doing it, but just remember it takes Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:43:28 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/andy-warhol-art.html I was never a big fan of Andy Warhol art. I always found his work too plastic, which was really the point he was trying to make by producing the art which he did. Pop art sums it up perfectly. Popular art for public consummation, but with a good dose of irony, which makes us all stand back and laugh at ourselves. The shared joke embedded in the art of Andy Warhol is one we all can appreciate. For this reason I think its part of the mass produced culture it was attempting to deride, which layers on another level of post-modern irony, and so on until its neither interesting nor ironic anymore. Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:38:59 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/how-to-sell-art-online.html I have never sold a painting online, or anything online for that matter, not even a tube of superman toothpaste on ebay. I have very little experience of selling full stop. But as the song goes, there are certain inalienable truths that do not change and the purpose of this article is to remind you, and me of them, and how they relate specifically to how to sell art online. I will keep them short and to the point Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:23:52 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/cool-art.html One persons cool art is anothers kitsch. Every artist presumes that they are creating cool art or else they wont be bothered in the first place, the problem is, however, not all art is cool or even good Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:22:23 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/salvador_dali.html Most people have some knowledge of Salvador Dali ingrained in their subconscious, somewhere probably unbeknownst to themselves. Why? Because he is one of those artists who found themselves forming the fabric of the zeitgeist. In more accessible language, his paintings are part of all our lives in some way. Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:32:37 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/Alberto_Giacometti.html I dont know why I admire the work of Alberto Giacometti, but I do. Beauty is the process of removing all the superfluous? One theory, but then again there are so many philosophies of beauty who can say what is truly beautiful. Alberto Giacometti tried, and maybe I like him for his trying in such and unusual and severe manner. Perhaps its the cocktail of creativity and intelligence, a rare enough combination Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:23:37 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/Creativity_quotes.html Ive pulled together a handful of creativity quotes from various sources. Well, it was actually one site in fact, a great resource whose link I will provide below, with my strong recommendation that you subscribe to its weekly newsletter for pure quality and value. Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:24:11 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/fantasy-art.html Fantasy Art Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:13:14 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/how-to-sell-your-artwork.html How to sell you artwork? The question on every artists lips, including mine. The answer contains the proverbial good and bad news. So, as I understand, since youre into art because youre reading this, youll probably want the bad news first. The bad news is that there is no easy one-off answer that suits all. And you guessed it; the bad news is the good news as well. Now that your all Zend out, lets break it down Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:53:17 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/urban-art.html The rise and rise of urban art Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:38:58 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/Starting-an-art-gallery.html From the off let me say I have no direct experience of starting an art gallery, but I do know people who have. Secondhand information, short on experience can be cheap, but occasionally an idea, or gem of common sense can shine through, and that is my hope with this article. Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:32:18 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/contact.html contact Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:34:14 GMT http://www.jimmykellyart.com/Contact_Jimmy-thankyou.html contact Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:20:41 GMT