Art School?

So, I'll be submitting my portfolio for review to the San Francisco Art Institute's PostBac program in a couple of days. And then I will receive a call to discuss their decision in a week. !!!!!  For now I gotta get busy putting my portfolio and artists' statement together. I'm submitting basically all of the stuff I have on the blog just in an orderly aesthetic. It actually looks pretty decent all together. But I have to admit I do feel that it doesn't look nearly good enough to be considered for the MFA program. I just don't see any consistency to it all and in the end for some reason I just can't imagine my stuff in an art gallery. I don't know. I guess some people might read this and say, "yep, you're right Jack. You're shit sucks, MAN!!!! Why do you keep doing it?"

Well, it's the only thing I'm good at that I enjoy, or at least I think I'm good at it====

"Why choose this as our goal. And they may also ask, why climb the highest mountain, why thirty five years ago fly the Atlantic, why does Rice play Texas! We choose to go to the moon."

So fuck it. I'm shootin' for the moon. Here goes.

before and after: a process

In order to spice up my blog I thought I would add more variety to the postings. The first new series I've come up with are these "before and after" pictures of an older painting. I think this will give you a better understanding of the process and hopefully inspire some people to finally do some of their own ARTWORK, especially after they see how easy it can be.

In this sequence you can watch as I start out with a sketch and progress to the final product. Enjoy!

Wait, what???

Oh man, my good buddy James Franco was at a press conference the other day and some stupid reporter suggested to him that my blog may not actually be better than sex. Well, this was his reaction. .....idiots.

Art vs Real Life

There's some other paintings after the jump
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June 2011

I need to start selling this stuff. Is anyone watching? Does anyone ever visit my blog?

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Credit: Jack Hourihan
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Drive-Thru Reaction

unemployment so far

What I've learned these past several months of unemployment, other than how to skip breakfast and lunch and eat only one meal a day, is that life goes by really fucking fast. Regardless of what you're doing, whether you're unemployed or bored or working your ass off, the days just keep on slipping away. So I learned that you need to spend every moment holding on dearly to the things you love and forgetting all the other bullshit; cause frankly there just isn't enough time.






























































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Credit: Jack Hourihan
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