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Journal Entry: Mon May 12, 2008, 1:57 PM

_{Hey hey - just a note before you go into my gallery and bust a nut sayin' "what's up dude, why no paintings? why these landscapey photographs of jungles and waterfalls and architectural wonders??" Well, let me explain a few things first - and hopefully it will put things into a clearer perspective.

I'm in Los Angeles now working with artist Nathan Redwood. In the week so far that I've been here (I have 5 left) I have learned an immense amount that I couldn't have possibly learned while I was in Waterloo or Toronto Ontario. This sort of education isn't of the degree type. It's the type that makes you realize a few things about yourself, as an artist, and especially as a professional. Painting isn't something I take lightly. It's something that has developed in me over years of practice that I hope to develop for the next 30-40 years. Painting is a process, and I think a lot of you understand that, and how important that can be to an artist's professional career.

In lieu of this, I've removed each work from my DeviantART gallery, and will likely remove works from any other online location - save for the galleries that are currently representing me, or on my own website. This isn't an elitist move, this isn't a 'I'm too good for DA' - hardly... it's part of collecting my real estate, so to speak. It's trimming down the excessive quality far too many artists have in divulging their 'babies' to the public online. Because painting is a performative act while I am creating, I've always felt something especially important when I show a work outside of what I consider a professional location. It's like a dentist only wanting to work inside his offices, because, well, that's where it's meant to be. To me, completing an entire body of work is just as important as finding the time and location to exhibit them.

In doing this, I have reserved the important aspects of painting for myself. They are available to be viewed from my website alone: [link], and the galleries listed on my Contact page. An often updated BLOG is available here: [link]

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Because I have a print account under the name `alchemism, I have decided to post photography. This will be a very broad and large range of photographs taken over the past 5 or 6 years, and they will all be available in every form of print. "Oh, what a sell-out" you might say. I retort: if you have it, go for it - especially if it's not something I take seriously as an artist. Photography just doesn't do it for me that way. If DeviantART is able to send me a cheque for a few bucks every 4 months, I will actually feel good for taking advantage of this print account.

For the fans - see my website. It's definitely the best way to see new works - as soon as they're photographed they are put up. As for DeviantART, I'll always view work, add it to my faves, and likely will complete news articles on the best of painting every now and again - I live and breathe paint, so there's no other option for me without deleting the account altogether.

In the past few years I've balanced on a fine fence where one side tells me to move on, and move out. The other tells me to keep this going as often as I can to display work for the DeviantART public. What I want to do, hopefully with no qualms from anyone, is to keep specific spaces online for the most intimate of works: my painting. There are large things happening both in my studio and in my heart. I feel like the next stage as a professional artist is upon me.}

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If the traditional art community at deviantART had only one great asset to its credit, then that asset would be named `alchemism. Scott's contributions to the traditional art community and to deviantART in general have been invaluable. His unwavering dedication to art drives him to make superhuman efforts to support the traditional art community here at DA by posting traditional art news, playing an active role in running the #traditional dAmn channel, and much more. Scott is a pillar of strength, fostering appreciation for traditional art despite an overwhelming majority of digital art submissions.

-awarded December 2004

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`alchemism

15 hours 21 minutes ago

I figured I already was... np.

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~merrowman

15 hours 46 minutes ago

thank you very much for the watch, it truly is appreciated.

*gromyko

1 day 19 hours ago

gmyx_kl2@yahoo.com

Will Be Waiting

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`alchemism

3 days 2 hours ago

that sounds cold...i meant on 'my' mailing list

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`alchemism

3 days 2 hours ago

send me your email - ill put you on the mailing list....

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*gromyko

3 days 4 hours ago

I miss your paintings

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¢elusive

3 days 14 hours ago

lol. I went to a few games at the Metro Centre. I saw a Germany vs. Finland game in person with wicked seats, about 3-4 rows up from the glass.

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`alchemism

3 days 15 hours ago

Oh shit! of course... that must be pretty hype out there. I saw the Germany game - my god..... 10-1.

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¢elusive

3 days 15 hours ago

Not much, the occasional sunshine. It's the same thing, different day, though. The men's IIHF hockey thing is on right now, which is kind of cool.

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`alchemism

3 days 16 hours ago

my friend out there was supposed to move to ontario - didn't work out work-wise, so he's staying ... means I likely will be too. what's new out there anyway?

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¢elusive

3 days 17 hours ago

I'm not seeing you in Nova Scotia yet