Nadia's Art Outlook Blog

Again, I have not been working very much with canvas, or updating this site. I don't even have time to rework the utilitarian design of my site. This site is for educational purposes only anyway.

I have been very busy with my site, http://www.deardictators.com, and coming up with new products, including elaborate custom headcovers for golf, and new iPhone case designs. As I alluded to in my last blog, I have traded in canvas for the ipad mostly. That doesn't mean I won't ever paint on canvas again, it just means I am (...)

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I haven't updated my site in a while with new art, and there is a very good reason. I've become incredibly bored with canvas paintings and have made absolutely no effort to sell or paint them. I really dislike the idea of dealing with art people, most of whom are just going to distract me from the thing I enjoy the most, creating.

I'm not interested at all in being famous, although I have a big ego. The satisfaction I get from dictating certain things more than my 50kg weight would have you believe is (...)

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The Inspiration

I wanted to reprise Kim Jong-Un in another joyful painting, and was trying to figure out my angle that the work would take for a couple months. I was reading Wikipedia in bed one night on my iPad before sleeping, when I got on the standard journey to progressively weirder parts of the internet. I started to read about kisaeng, the Korean (...)

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In case you weren't aware, the internet voted Kim Jong-Un Time Person of the Year. However, the vote was not binding, and the editors went with what they thought would sell the most magazines.

Although selecting Obama is a logical choice, Time Magazine blundered when they selected a dark funeral like depiction of President Obama. Maybe it was (...)

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the worst kind of dictator. One who denies the WWII holocaust despite Iranian citizens being outright murdered in it. He often smugly poses while making a peace sign. That is the gist of this work. He is really saying fuck peace every time he does it.

I have been working on a new project recently, and this work was the second that I created on my iPad with a stylus. Normally, I am all about painting with acrylic on canvas, but now with my iPad and new project (...)

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