Acrylic Painting Classes Starting Soon!

Coming in late February 2012 Christopher Orapello will be holding regular acrylic painting classes at a local venue. 

Have you always wanted to learned how to paint, but didn't know how to get started?  This is your opportunity to learn!  Open to all skill levels we'll be creating beautiful acrylic works of art. Come home with a new painting every class!

Space is limited. Please inquire for further info!

Website Updated!

After several hours of love, the website is now updated!  I have slightly reformatted the individual pages and tightened up the overall appearance. I think the subtle alterations have done wonders for the presentation and page content. Check it out for yourself!

Polishing Up The Website...

I am currently revamping the website associated with this blog. It's similar to the current website, but it is coming a long as being slightly more polished in appearance with more artwork and a few more categories of work listed.  Being an artist in this world at times feel so restrictive and limiting.  Having the art background that I do makes me feel self-conscious about anything and everything I do as if it all has to work together. It's frustrating. I hope you find the new website as liberating as I do.  I will be including work from my past that I previously felt as if I had to abandon it as I moved forward. I am quickly coming to terms with the idea that it is all of value because it is all of me. 

Reinventing the self only results self stagnation.

Painting Class

I'm currently involved with organizing a weekly open attendence painting class that I will be teaching in Medford, NJ. Details are still sketchy, but this is going to be a good time for sure!

Art anyone?

Title Goes Here:

Recently I have had the opportunity to not only have an ad in the April issue of Title Goes Here: , a magazine of dark imaginative fiction, but I also have the honor of doing cover/interior art for them as well!

It's a great magazine and issues can be purchsed online via their website!

The Artist Statement

As of late I have been trying to be honest with who I am as an artist. I do not think there is any where else for one to go with their art as most avenues seem to (I think?) have been tapped and exhausted by the artists of the past. Do I see art as one's way to establish some unique perspective of the world to convey a message or make some pointless comment about society? No.

I think America has such a media driven superficiality about it that most people are fooled by the reality it portrays and are unable to see the layers of which it harbors. The world is not a genuine place. It's an ideal. It's lost from us.

I have been trying to re formulate my artist statement for my website and the most current version (12/27/009 1:32pm EST) simply states that, "originality is a myth." I have never seen anyone, past or present, do anything original every art work/movement was stolen from somewhere. And if the same work can be degraded and praised all at the same time what the hell does any of it matter?

I hate artist statements and I think they are one of the worst aspects of being an artist. Is it not enough that you've created a work? I have to now create/write something to go along with it? The original thing is not enough?

Website updated!

Just added a few more painting images to the gallery page of the website.

The titles are:

Slaughtered object
Legs with feet
Stained Canvas

Enjoy!