Summer sketches

99daz.com - the best art blog ever!  It’s a cool summer in Peoria Illinois. this is a charcoal and conte crayon sketch I did at work on an 8×10 canvas board. just random doodling! below is another random sketch to celebrate summer. As above so below, my humble sketches are a reflection of how I [...]

Code red in Peoria Illinois

As heard on the Wayne R. Miller and Laure "The Hot Finance Lady" Feld radio show on WMBD 1470 AM this freezing sunday morning, Peoria is experiencing a Code Red, which is a weather emergency they found out for us. It’s bloody cold alright! There is a half inch of ice on everything and it [...]

Sunset Boat Cat Love Abalone Heart

Facebook reminded me that my friend Naomi has a birthday coming up, happy b-day! Originally posted 2008-12-11 00:12:20. Republished by Old Post Promoter

Red Dragon from painting to graphic design

Welcome to 99daz.com the fine art blog of Darren Daz Cox! This an oil painting I did a year or so ago. It started as a charcoal sketch on the canvas then layers of oil glazes were added. Oil glazes are translucent and refract light so the effect is a deep rich color! Then after scanning the [...]

The Decaying Theatre and Shaman

~Decaying Theatre with Shaman oil on canvas by Darren Daz Cox~ This one is evolving, the girl has morphed into some kind of shaman, going in between worlds… The backdrop has changed from rotten to mystical symbols, writhing in the shadows…     ~*Darren Daz Cox’s painting studio march 2008*~ Originally posted 2008-03-03 10:24:43. Republished by Old Post Promoter

Why you should sing, even you aren’t that good

I like to sing when I’m driving and when I’m working on stuff in the Riverfront Media Club House (my roommate DJ Disaster and I’s house). After listening to a recent Coast to Coast Am streamlink replay where the guest **insert guest name here** told Ian Punnet that he had a whole lot of angels [...]

You Is Blue Fish You Love You Wish True This is Truth This Poem and the Blue Fish

You Is You You are you and that is good you may not be what they say you should or be that which you cannot be and you wouldn’t want to be like me but I see you as You and so if you see me unmasked say "yo" what makes me Me is all unique what makes us Us makes Us complete. ~*Art [...]

Social responsibility in the arts?

A person suggested that creativity was personal yet art should consider the needs of others. I say No. I have to say that art has no responsibility to anyone except it’s maker. Jackson Pollock didn’t heed the responsibility to make art that was ‘understandable’ or helpful or informative or  even ascetically "good" (to the majority of [...]

Studio July 4 2008

here are two oil paintings that now have added onto them wet acrylic gel medium that looks white until it dries and then it turns clear. The green and red are watered down tinted glue which is essentially liquid plastic that drys transparent. Plenty of standard elmers/white school glue has been added also. The mixture [...]

When your future self pops in to say hello

So I met the future Me at a gallery opening, oh, not an older version of the current Me in the present, like Me at 60 or something, but my next incarnation. Apparently he had decided to pop in on his past life and surmised from his awakened memory of his time as me that [...]