I will be having an exhibition in JUNE . It will be Friday the 6th. The gallery will open at 6 at at 7 I will be giving an art talk. A show and tell.
Art is my conversation, so come to the opening and let's talk

The Artist Doug Chess

I am going to be exhibiting at Merrymeeting Art gallery on June 6th . The gallery opens at 6 , at 7 I will be giving an art talk, a show and tell kind of. I will be talking about things I have already posted about the last couple of years.

Audiences are important.

The Artist Doug Chess

Give me your tired,your poor,your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shores
Send these homeless tempest tossed to me. I lift my lamp besides the golden door.
Emma Lazarus.

The painting "therapy". It is slowly getting there. Probably a couple of weeks to completion.
The Artist Doug Chess

@daveb23.bsky.social if it is on you it will always be in you. Keep on keeping on. Doug

Sometimes a painting can change the whole feel of a room. Nothing like staying the obvious.

The Artist Doug Chess

Despair

I keep on hearing how we have 2 years. We don't, power is being seized now. A war would be a good excuse to have total control .

One can not reason with a bully. A bully sadistically enjoys hurting others. When faced with a bully one has only 2 options, submit or match force and then some. A bully uses force for pleasure, a defender uses force out of necessity.

I used to lie but I grew up. I might still lie now but only to spare someone's feelings from unnecessary hurt. I will not lie to hurt someone, not lie for self aggrandizement nor to escape responsibility. If I lie I lose self respect and credibility.

The Artist Doug Chess

I have done a series of large drawings on construction paper. Each drawing is about 8 hours to complete . I wanted to free myself from the more worked up paintings. The Artist Doug Chedd

Trying some new things on Bluesky

I am feeling the stress of current events. I am calling this painting Therapy. It is not finished. I am actually in therapy. The Artist Doug Chess

I keep on hearing we just have to make it through. Quite possibly we won't make it through. Women dying because of draconian laws aren't making it through. Children being denied food and medicine through out the world aren't making it through.

If you support evil you are evil

The Artist Doug Chess

Ahhh it is working

Just trying to figure to this out

Just setting up