David J. Vanderpool

Congratulations and best of luck to you!

oh wow that is fantastic news David so here’s to you (raising my glass) and fingers crossed :0)

Indeed congratulations to you David! That’s a great thing you’ve reached with your book. Hope to see it in the local stores soon!

Thinking of it, I’ll soon send you that promised picture (if I still may!) cause I’ve been away for a few days and have forgotten it a little…

hey that’s awesome Dave, how do I buy a copy?

thats great news mate good on you na d best of luck with sales,getting exposure and being recognised for your talent. great work mate good on you!

drawing is a dead art?! what a load of bull. i have that problem with portraits also. the best place to sell portrait art, would be fairs/festivals way more interest.

hahaha yes mate dont drop off the mortal coil just yet. well im not sure if i should say what i want to say about gallery owners and institutionals who have no fucking idea about art or what it means to be an artist, to feel the works inside you, to spend hours and days and weeks or months working away on works sometimes just a single work. pouring out your heart and soul, feeling and emotion into the work and its there for all people to see you have the courage to do that to put your works up into the public arena and be seen for what you have put there and they have the hide to give us all some load of fucking rubbish statement about how they studied art history for 10 years (and probably studied their own human expression and emotional connection to themselves and other humans through artwork they themselves produce for about 10seconds) they might have studied art history and might even have favourite works that they absolutely love but really all they can tell you about is the movements, when they started, what according to biographical accounts inspired each artist what were the artists most popular pieces etc etc. Great so they are a walking schollar who’s major is art/art history or worse their major is whats in fashion in the artworld today. they are the real pustulating weeping sores in the sphincter of a hyena dragging its rotten hind quarters through the maggot infested faeces of rotten carcasses, the fucking show boats who treat art and artworks as a performance show and “scene” to be a part of the daddy’s little rich girls and boys of the eastern suburbs (if you live in sydney) whos parents are well connected and can pay for art school and have the “gallery connections” to get little precious’ artwork on the walls and into society as the next big thing because she/he wants to be a part of being the “artist at a show” “oh yes im an artist” they tout laudedly as there friends ared dropped off by drivers in cars worth more than your house while some poor bastard eating beans living in a shitbox shack and dodging gangsters in the western suburbs (again if your in sydney just think of the bronx or the projects if your not from here) whos passion and soul drives him/her to create art every waking minute and sings when they do is told “oh your just not in fashion and yes its nice but oh thats right you didnt go to art school did you hmmm” I even had (and i say had) a friend who i helped get started drawing gave them hints tips books on the subject my time etc to help them get started and then this person went off to “artschool” and i saw them a few months later and with open contempt they looked at me and said and i quote”well yes you dont really know life drawing untill you have learned it in an artschool from a qualified teacher do you” as they then turned on heal and walked away looking at me as if i had stunk. what the fuck do they teach kids at artschools i can see the curriculum outlined on the first page term1 how to be a pretentious little c&*t term2 the fine art of art snobbery red wine and cocain supplied. fuck im glad i didnt go to artschool if thats the biproduct and that not the first time its happened there have been many times i have run into a walking pretentious wankfest of an artschool student really they can fuck off! and most of the daddies little rich girls and boys just dont have time to be an artist anymore after they have gotten pregnant or been married in the right circles then there is “just no time to be an artist anymore social functions just keep me so busy” i have actually heard that statement can you imagine as an artist not having your art even if its just in your head and your personal works you do from day to day i mean fuck off princess.

pencil drawing is dead! which festering skunks anus told you that load of fucking total shit write them back and tell them to pull there head out of there own festering skunks anus of an arse your work rocks mate you keep going in the direction you want and dont worry about the shows and the fucking mamby pamby gallery scene touch people where it matters most in their hearts and souls through the works you do for each individual couple or group get on with the business of being an artist and getting paid for doing what you love. dont get caught up in the gallery scene which seems to have deteriorated into a shambles of distraction and sensationalistic rubbish for self indulgant wankers who just love the red wine lights and cocain scene while trying to look intellectual and sophisticated when really all they are hoping for is a blowjob in the toilets from the “hot chick with the huge tits by that face painting over there” (it was a print of a portrait by rubens, hmm a “face painting” indeed) so mate fuck them dont give a shit about some wanabe gallery owner who sucks arse and whores themselves to the “next big thing” in the “artshow spectacle” there recognition means shit all, go out there and get the recognition of the real man and woman and the children whom you see stare in wonder and smile at your works and say “wow that makes me feel like i can fly too” (he was a funny kid) those are the real people who you need to touch and you can become rich beyond anything you can hope in pocket and soul if you connect with these people and more and then once the numbers of people are so great that they keep asking for your works over and over again and again the festering hyena skunk anus will come grovelling at your door with bank book and lubricant in hand and the expression on their face of “oh please dont make this hurt too much please use the lube PLEASE USE THE LUBE!!!!” the shoe will be on the other foot and the last laugh will be yours my friend. better to touch peoples hearts with your works and your book than to distract momentarily before the blowjob in the dunnies! take care mate best of luck
JP

oh forgot to add why do all the old masters and ALL prominent real artists say if you want to be a good painter/artist learn to draw first hmm maybe because its the foundation of just about all art perhaps (bloody festering skunks anuses)

oh not sure if i mentioned it enough you fucking rock man!

ud have to be dead for the one guy to sell your stuff also cracked me up. what a doof! i know a few actors ive met that can beg to differ. ;) preciesly why i refuse to try my stuff in gallerys… i know its gonn abe an endless circle, unless you know the owner.

you should have said if pencil drawing is dead, then how do you explain tattooing?

no worries man happy to be your friend. keep the good work coming.