has been for sale for some time, as you have seen. The maintenance and ongoing development to keep our non-profit and idealistic platform for contemporary art running and safe from hackers etc. costs money that is no longer there. Because of small investments that are necessary now and the running costs, we will have to shut down with a heavy heart at the beginning of summer on June 21.
When I was That Age Youngsters Usually Try To Explore Their Limits, The Motto Has Been The Same For The Boyz From The Hood `N Me: No Risk - No Fun!
Now, A Little Bit Wiser, Concentrating On Havin` Just Fun & Avoidin` Broken Bones. Gettin` Older, Somehow...
But Still Amazed...
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Lets face it. Santa was asking for it........ The man: 1.) "Breaks and enters" illegally over a billion times each year........ on Jesus' birth day. 2.) Depends on exploitative labor of people under three feet tall. 3.) Could be the cause of the Polar ice caps melting. 4.) Flies without a license and at his own leisure.....while the rest of us get frisked and go through metal detectors before flying. Could the north pole be harboring terrorists? Anyway.....Its the holiday season....so....... I created an artwork of Mr. Santa Claus getting arrested for all of his transgressions. I started out with a pencil drawing (regular #2 pencil. Then I added a layer of marker. I followed the layer of marker with a layer of color pencil. After the color pencil, I added oil paint and liquin. Finally, I scanned the image and did touch ups in Paint Shop Pro 9. Happy Holidays from Merrill Kazanjian
