Hinnebusch Fictitious Newsletter

Ride On One Painting a Day - no. 3 - The White Paintings

2011-06-16T21:29:00.000-07:00

see the film: http://youtu.be/meObiMslVXE
Blog Post no.3 (I think)
In the middle of my show I placed two white paintings, that I had been recently commissioned to do (for good money, I might add.) He reminded me as he wrote out the check that this would be my white album which I thought was cool as the Beatles are my favorite rock band, and then Crass, if you were wondering. But I was also a bit, fuck, white paintings, how can I redeem myself by other than having an assistant do it (which I will never do!- though I would love to see Norman Rockwell put my art on the walls of his art- or I promise to really sit still and focus if ever Steven Spielberg would hang some of my art in his house next to a Norman Rockwell painting and photograph it and then start a run of realistic work with my style in the mix (you get what I'm saying here?.) But back to the white paintings- the collector was a smart cookie too, he now elevated my aesthetic to the psyche of a Rauschenberg (and we know no critic in f- Art FOR RUM or otherwise who would disagree especially with my assessment of the allocation ya dig?) Be seriously folks I was thinking how can I get this art world back for making me do this? So I figured I could paint in two whites- titanium and ivory- the ivory would yellow over time so I would put the number to cocaine anonymous and maybe in five years after the guy needed help maybe the number would show up in his subconscious and he would be saved. Then I though about Kurt Cobain and I changed my mind. So if you do what white or black paintings, I will do them, in oil, for a price, and with a pithy Ivory White or Payne's Grey saying in the middle. Hey it's money!- yeah that's what I'll script in so fancy a way all will awe.

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Ride On One Painting a Day -- no. 2 --

2011-06-16T21:26:00.000-07:00

OK- so the family that owns this I met on Venice Beach in 2001- It was my 2nd painting sale (11th ever) and he was a TV producer and when he gave me the $200 for the piece he confided in me that she knew art (I could see in her eyes she really wanted the painting which I thought was cool) and that he brother ran/owned? Christies Auction House fine art in Paris. I even went into Beverly Hills years later and told them the story but though they were gracious, couldn't help me.. I even have a picture of them! (After selling my first painting down there, I vowed to make art out of the first ten people who bought my paintings off the boardwalk! see: http://www.fakeart.net/Paintings/2001/December/source/116.html WHO ARE THEY?

Ride On One Painting a Day -- no. 1 -- " Pi Ate the Irrate Pirate"

2011-06-16T21:22:00.000-07:00

Maybe it was the Pirates of the Caribbean and Treasure Island that made me love seeing bad guys getting their due. In The Lost Angels Guide to Psychic Awareness pirates and their Jinns get an fulsome beating by Vikings and the young kids who tell the story. So this is a story about a previous life for sure. I can't say exactly where it's coming from and I know that some people will say I should stick with butter- but butter isn't enough for- ahh - it's loosing, loosing I tell you do you you hear me? How about them Dodgers! fuck! I worked on a Dodgers commercial and got some of them free tickets and had great fun CRUISING out there all along Sunset which is something I do pretending it's the 40s or something and the LA Weekly is - what I would do to see a copy of the very first New People Issue- you know see who's in it- see who's who - I'll be right back! Well that took an hour- no idea when the first issue came out. I read this guys post on why one should not donate art to charitable events and it really got my dander up! He might have Havapoint™ I have no idea. I'm still mucking about in the private sales read pirate sails world. Deep black water, stink like you wouldn't believe, the smell of death- there's a bag of gold stuff and the ship in this painting is leaning to, a bit (A bit? You have got to be kidding me!) a bal-four of bad rotten woods holding it all to gather salt dust and suey skin and sinewy sea weed slime bits that's better than butter for the utters rubbers on this boat I tell you for sure, twenty men, sad scums, tooth rot vomit and sour wine- oranges? wheat thins? grey and brown tattered clothes, rusty iron on one cannon- a bunch of bullshit foam, a foaming cow on deck- real pirates for sure water logged. Smoke that.

Paintings of Beautiful Women

2011-06-08T15:54:00.000-07:00

These are the days I long for. This is the day I have. I am grateful. I am joyful. Life is hard but not as hard for most- most hmm. Some. Some are suffering right now. Some are not. I can not saw for whom the bowl tells. I can only say thank you for my problems even though I sometimes curse you for them also.

Seth's Blog: Unrealized projects

2011-02-15T08:42:00.000-08:00

Seth's Blog: Unrealized projects

For My Valentine

2011-02-14T16:23:00.000-08:00

For Valentines Day I ordered stamps with our son's picture on it to mail thank yous to the friends of ours who came to his 1 year birthday party. I can't afford to take her to dinner and I'm too damn depressed to - no wait I'm not too damned depressed I'm fine actually. I'm stressed as all hell cause I'm doing this god damned marking bullshit because I have to sell paintings to feed and shelter my family and while I'm making inroads to be a sober companion and I'm willing to give my life back to production these are both tough and amazing times. I've never really made it as an artist but I have been making art all along. This isn't really a valentine letter is it. I guess people buy art to remind them that the world should owe them a living maybe like it really did when the hunter- gatherers where lounging around the savanna eating nuts and meat and fucking all day and sleeping and singing songs actually "working" maybe 30 hours a week- and the crazy shaman guy who was probably skits was the guy you went to for advice and I know some cynical asshole can mark up that world view just as easily- he's got an impairment in humbug and has no problem working on his script at the bean- wait I was doing that 25 years ago in Venice. I'm starting to feel better! So anyway- Valentines Day is like Christmas for me this Year- I hit the jack pot. My girlfriend tells me to stop giving my art away but the first person who reads this far gets a free painting but I know that's my girlfriend so the second person gets a $100 Hinnebux for reading this? no just for being interested in what the hell I'm doing to make it as an artist. Today I asked the post person how much it would cost to put an art card in every mailbox in Malibu but he said there are companies that do that and the post office goes around and takes em out and then bills those companies for the postage they should have paid to begin with- so I guess I'm not going to do it myself. I did hit all the stores at the Malibu Mart this weekend thanks to my girlfriend making fliers for me to give out in the first place. The stores were very receptive which was encouraging. I'm feeling even better now. I think I'm going to post to my face book a "$2468 SALE right this second- you snooze you loose!: 1st inq. get you a painting for $2, the second $22. the 3rd $222 and the 4th $2222". I might be a writer. I am a writer. See "Schmucks with Underwoods" post upcoming. So today I moved all the art I'm working on from one side of the house to the other. It's going to rain on Tuesday so I want to be ready. I did about a good-ish 4 hours of office work selling SELLING SELLING! All Correct. Now finally the Valentine Part. WHY I'M THE LUCKIEST PERSON ON THE PLANET

My girlfriend gave me her heart.
She gave me a son.
She gives me her love.
She likes to have fun.
She gave me a home and gave my the sun.
We live in a cave- now stop it Dave,
don't write two poems write one!

My girlfriend loves art
and loves mine the most (I think she tells me so!)
My girlfriend is funny
and mean with her wit.

She also can cook
and I mean like a chef
in a fancy restaurant.
I get lunch and dinner
everyday and breakfast on Sundays!

Also she loves the out doors
and I know she loves me
cause when I'm not around
she watches Charlie Rose
and pretends I'm watching it with her or some reason like that.

What else?
She pisses me off
when I get questions for answers.
But even that is just my turn to be patient
in time she says sorry
and when I'm mad I say sorry too!

OK so that's it for now
if this Valentine post sucks
there's something wrong with you

I love my girl more then the moon and the stars
and I'm trying so very hard to grow up
and get a job
even though I know
she don't really want me too
unless we have to
which we might and that's OK too!

Oh and I forgot to mention "Missy Gets A New Dress" which I named after her. The painting is hanging in a gallery in Levis, Quebec. :)

David Hinebusch Art Works Studio on Yelp!

2011-02-09T21:15:00.000-08:00

David Hinnebusch left the Santa Monica College of Art and Design in 1997 having sold his first 3 paintings right out of his first painting class under the tutelage of the famous Venice artist Laddie John Dill. He had his first solo show at The Soap Box Gallery in Venice at the same time he was moving from Venice to Santa Monica. "I had 6 large paintings in my show but I was moving and pissed I had to move so much of my art AGAIN, so I took it to the corner and screw 25 or so pieces right onto a Venice Boardwalk construction wall and the rest is history." Locals told Hinnebusch they'd witnessed people photographing his work all day and that the local taggers had respectfully left his work untagged. The night before the show, David was infront of the gallery with the owner when the L.A.P.D. arrived, having just arrested some person trying to pull his art down. "The kids were respecting the art, the cops were protecting the art. Something was going on the boardwalk I had to investigate. His show at Soap Box was a flop, so the following weekend he took his work to the people of the boardwalk and made 4 significant sales his first weekend, one to a woman connected to Christie's Auction House. With in 2 years, Hinnebusch had sold over 100 original paintings and hundred of prints of the work and posters of a punk rock collage commemorating his musical career in the Los Angeles punk band Entropy. After Venice, David had made enough contacts to work privately out of his studio then in Santa Monica, but later in Bali, Brooklyn, Quebec City, and Tribeca and now in Malibu. Over the last ten years he has participated and donated to the Venice Family Clinic Art Walk. He also does private creativity sessions and group mural parties.

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Momella 68

2011-02-01T22:46:00.000-08:00

Momella 68 was painted in my studio at S.M.C.D.A.A. From the very beginning my work incorporated images from photographs either by tracing from a projector or using a grid or using poster size prints adhering the imagery with strict golden triangle compositions and then coloring them in Hinnebusch style. This makes it easy to start; something to distract my right brain and in the end I still have to focus and make the art piece work in my psyche. Another of my artistic disciplines is drawing and a good half of my artistic interest is in making art drawing without thought of the Maritimes and as I'm working on a painting with a semblance of photographic architecture I will paint and draw paint on any number of other pieces. This method comes from having a scarcity of supplies (though some professional artists might say I'm copping out out and just focus and show your skill at rendering maybe I will one day but I think really the art I'm doing it another way is much more fulfilling personally. When I've really needed some special and being an old school trash finder- not a digger- the good stuff usually gets set next to the can and in Venice Beach, the alleys of the rich are a gold mine and really the back lots are a gold mine too if you happen to work in production which I did and still do on occasion. Right now I'm standardizing my work size to 2x2 4x4 and 8x8 feet and 2x 4 and 4x 6 feet for portrait and landscape size all on 2" thick production flats (so if you have any you want to get rid of.) I'm also going to continue to draw on these great 50 foot by 12 foot rolls of seamless paper, more production hand- me- downs. A call to action. I've added like buttons to almost all my pages at www.fakeart.net net net so have a look and pick a few you like if you'd like. :)d

Gold As Common As Sand

2011-01-31T21:06:00.000-08:00

2nd sale at the beach couple with their baby and $200 on the Venice boardwalk 2001

Leaning on a Red Ribbon

I have to look at my Hinne100 painting but this image (right), now part of a painting itself, is of the couple who bought my second painting my first weekend down on the Venice Beach boardwalk. Now I don't remember their names; he's a TV producer and she was at the time a new mother but he told me her brother was the head of Christie's art, which at the time didn't mean much to me. What impresses me was the look in her eyes she had after seeing Leaning on a Red Ribbon (A self Portrait on the Green) , and I'm sure I'm exaggerating, but early that morning, when they first approached me about Leaning on a Red Ribbon they asked me how much I was asking for it, I'd said $250 and they returned maybe an hour later holding two 100 dollar bills. I stopped them, took their picture and was off and running selling and with- in two years hit my 100 paintings sales goal. I took their picture because I had the idea to do a piece of art of the first ten people who bought my paintings off the boardwalk, which I did. The look she had was the look I've been honored to see many times since and it has nothing to with anything but what artists are here on the planet for; to give someone something that no one or nothing else can give them. Some of you know what that is. I've personally never experienced it with art so I know I've never experienced it. I get something else making the art that for me is just as fantastic because I get to keep it for awhile, I get to keep the memory of making it forever and I get to give it a good home. I'm looking at Leaning on a Red Ribbon right now and the photograph of the original is bad but I remember making it; where I was and how I felt when I made it. And I don't always feel great or like running down the street naked shouting "eureka" when I finish a painting, but often I do! Leaning on a Red Ribbon is based on a photograph of me modeling for a painting by Lauren Hartman, my school mate. I'm wearing a neck brace, which I did for real for months a good decade after fracturing my neck stage diving at a punk rock concert (Peter and the Test Tube Babies at the Olympic Auditorium Los Angeles cir. 1983). This is my third painting self- portrait. The second one I made to got me into art school and I later gave it to the owner of the gallery who gave me my first solo show in Venice.

Merry Holidays!!

2010-12-20T19:27:00.000-08:00

December 21, 2010.

Hello everyone!

This is the first Xmas newsletter from David, Melanie and Thibaud (Pronounced Tibo for all you Americans)! And I can't believe, with all the hardship we have been through, how lucky we are to have our health, a home and lots of hope for the future. Most of you know that Thibaud our son was born in February and we decided that I come back to L.A. and re- grow roots to raise our family here. And though we plan to live part of the time in Montreal in the future (and New York City, where my art career has a large part), for now we're here. Some of you know that our plans changed in Quebec City where we lived for a little over a year and where Thibaud was born. I did get to paint in an large storefront in the small town of Old Levis, across the St. Lawrence river from Quebec City and I had a small show and some press, but not much in the way of sales or real hope to make a living there. So I came back to L.A. in August and took a cool job at a rehab; 12 hour night shifts which I must admit, took their toll on my effectiveness the rest of the week. So two jobs like that a week are out. I have been looking into working as a sober companion, which again is long hours but the pay matches the work, so it will do to supplement art sales-- and I have big plans for that too! I already have a few shows lined up and best of all I have an exclusive art rep. who has been collecting my work for years now and will be great at it. And I still have my book dream in the works and some TV, film projects on the 10 year track. The nice thing is that I have everything I ever wanted in life now, and now have only to make enough money to support our family. So that's it I think, I hope you and yours had a great year and have a great 2011 also!

:) Love,

The Hinnebuschs

PS: Any ideas or leads are always most appreciated!

Below is what is available to you now. Feel free to get something! or email me at david.hinnebusch@gmail.com with any questions. HAVE A SAFE HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

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New Artworks by David Hinnebusch -- December 2010

2010-12-20T08:56:00.000-08:00

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Left Vieux-Lévis

2010-11-10T09:25:00.000-08:00

for good :)

FineArtViews Repost "Don't Play It Safe" by Keith Bond

2010-09-07T09:42:00.000-07:00

Don't Play it Safe
by Keith Bond

This article is by Keith Bond, Regular contributing writer for FineArtViews. You should submit an article and share your views as a guest author by clicking here.

I recently read something from Alyson Stanfield that I would like to address today. She wrote:

“Stop playing it safe. Allow yourself to experiment and make mistakes. It’s the only way to move forward. If you stay in your comfort zone all the time, you won’t grow as an artist or as a businessperson. Get uncomfortable and take some risks.”

I like this statement. A lot.

I think each of us has times when we are a little afraid to do something. I know I do. Sometimes it is an idea for a painting that is a stretch for me. Sometimes it is a marketing idea. Sometimes it is another medium.

Everyone has these hurdles that need to be overcome. It is healthy to stretch yourself. It is good to push your limits. As Alyson points out, it’s the only way to grow.

Think of your art and business as moving water. Moving water is clean and refreshing (at least here in the Western U.S.). Water that doesn’t move forward – water that stagnates – becomes dirty and begins to stink. Don’t let your art stagnate. Don’t let your business stagnate. Don’t just play it safe – if you do, you quit moving forward. And I’m sure you don’t want to stink.

A friend of mine has the following quote on his office wall. It was written by the prolific and great Anonymous (I am sure someone else wrote it, but Anonymous gets the credit).

“Don’t be afraid to try something new.

Remember, the ark was built by an amateur.

But a group of professionals built the Titanic.”

Here is a short list of some things you may do to push yourself.

- Learn your medium better.

- Learn a new medium

- Try a new technique.

- Attempt a collaborative work.

- Try a new genre or subject.

- Experiment with a new color palette.

- Write a blog.

- Talk about your art.

- Try new marketing ideas.

- Write about your work.

- Re-write your bio.

- Put your portfolio together to show that gallery.

- Send that follow-up letter.

- Make that telephone call you have put off.

- Send a “nice to meet you” card to a new contact.

- Teach

There are thousands of other ideas (but this late at night, my mind is mushy). I am sure you have had some. But maybe you have been hesitant. Give it a try. Take that risk. Don’t simply play it safe. Push yourself. What do you have to lose? What will you gain by trying? What will you gain by not trying?

Best Wishes,

Keith Bond

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2010-05-26T11:30:00.000-07:00

David Hinnebusch Bio- Tour Part 1 The 1st 18 Years

2010-04-07T09:00:00.000-07:00

Lucky

2010-01-24T07:31:00.000-08:00

Once and awhile you get lucky. Someone walks in you path, you get out of the way you look up and there she is. But you've been a sleep for a long time now. You've given up hope for so long 'cause you finally got honest. And then a year later you wake up and you're like "What the fuck?" and you're not in L.A. anymore, you're in the snow somewhere with grand old buildings and a fortress from a revolution with Fleur's everywhere, a hotel from the beginning of the twentieth century.. and there's a river in the place of the ocean but the ships are there, up close and personal, and the light speckled power city, with it's tower topped flame the size of a house burning bright through the blizzard, is safely down the river and the smoke belching smoke stacks are there across the river, the ice filled- ice berg filled river. And it's chillier and there's snow everywhere did I say that already? And there she is with a belly full of life. She's pregnant with new hope and she is amazingly stubborn and very high Italian and French Canadian or just an amazing woman I'm too much of idiot to know what or anything-- oh and I eat like a king everyday and I mean a KING-- so great the food I take pictures of every dinner (and some lunches too!) just so I have proof in case I punk rock head injured nut shell that I am forgets the even people like my get lucky and hit the frig gin' jackpot.

2010-01-18T16:04:00.001-08:00