Brutal Sun Art

@brutalsun.com

Traditional Art Celebrating Cats, Horses, and the Fantastical https://www.brutalsun.com Tucson, AZ 🌵 #artist #catart #resin #fantasy #polymerclay #traditionalart #sculpture #figurines #paintings #acrylicpainting #ooak #airbrushart

I don't just paint cats. Sometimes I paint horses. This 8"x10" original painting, "Sentinel", was painted using golden acrylic paints on wrapped canvas.

A Moroccan man on horseback surveys the horizon, as did his father and grandfather before him.

Just sharing one of the fun cats I recently created. I had to make fake grass out of paper, because there is no grass in the desert where I live. Ya'll, I'm feeling so depressed this week. I'm sure other artists reading this can relate. It feels like no matter how ... (Continued in image ALT ➡️)

hard I work, or how smart I work, I just can't get by. 

I love playing video games with what precious free time I can muster. You know why? Well aside from the fact that they take me out of this world, and put me into other worlds where I can forget my problems for awhile, it's that games reward me for my grind. Need a new weapon? I can grind in the game for it. Want a new outfit for my character? I can grind for it. Want a beautiful home for my character? I can build it; my Fallout characters have glorious estates!

None of this is true in real life. In real life, the grind is never enough. And I'm feeling so, so damn tired all the time. What's crazy is, the grind used to be enough. Hard work went a long way back in the day. I remember it. I was there. Twenty years ago, I'd list my art on Ebay, and people would fight over it. Nowadays, I work so hard, and am lucky to get $5 an hour. And my work takes so long to sell.

This world no longer rewards the grind. Or even working smart.

I hate it.