Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Feb 8, 2012, 10:40 pm
Chardin turnip cleaner painting This soup is inspired by painter Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin’s “Turnip Cleaner”. Doesn’t the poor woman in the painting look as if she’s just about had it and is about to chase after someone with that knife? I sense the humor in Chardin’s work, combined ...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Feb 5, 2012, 3:14 pm
The art world in Pekin Illinois is being scooped by reporters in Peoria who are more concerned with the artists day jobs than with their art. To make things worse, The Speakeasy Art Center didn’t even announce the show opening on their Facebook page,  (they usually do but have stopped updating t...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Jan 29, 2012, 11:22 pm
... no particular order). 1. Monday -The X-Files  2.Window of Opportunity ... 3. Cause and Effect – Star Trek The Next Generation  and this one ... worth watching too! 4.  Shadowplay -The Twilight Zone  Of course you ... Murray in Groundhog Day as the ultimate time loop show, and ...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Jan 27, 2012, 11:15 am
…you know the scene in the movie Titanic where the guy is sketching the girl. In that case art helps the biological needs of love become more romantic and cerebral, which ultimately make the biological parts of love more enjoyable. The picture below is a collage of a couple of artworks of mine th...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Jan 24, 2012, 11:14 am
The hug under the sea - romantic art by Darren Daz Cox Holly wrote me this poem. I am smiling! My poem for Darren Daz Cox: And If and if your feet were left, with not one right and in you beat no metronome with which you kept the time i would remain steadfast at your side on that hard, c...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Jan 22, 2012, 6:15 pm
H.P. Lovecraft was a writer of strange fiction, though not a popular genre for his era. However, a cult following developed and increased in strength after his short lifetime. Lovecraft first introduced the fictional Miskatonic Univeristy in 1922, and, due to his great skill and imagination, many ca...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Jan 15, 2012, 10:01 pm
Vincent Van Gogh’s first epic painting was his “The Potato Eaters”. He wanted, from what my heart and research has told me, was to show the honesty of the peasants who grew their own food and appreciated the fruits of their labor. One thing that art historians don’t emphasize is that the who...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Jan 13, 2012, 6:05 pm
The Comfy Towel art by Darren Daz Cox. This was an attempt to capture that awesome feeling of being wrapped up in a big fluffy towel!! I was thinking of the famous painting by Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas where the model is sitting on a fluffy towel. He excelled in capturing how the light fell on t...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Jan 13, 2012, 11:03 am
Autonomous Robot’s Fabulous Roast Chicken by Chef Chauvinist Piglette. My lovely little Chauvinist Piglettelette, Autonomous Robot, a.k.a. Autumn, shares my love of cooking, so what follows is a list of spices for her to-die-for roast chicken. IMPORTANT! You must turn the television set off and ...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Jan 10, 2012, 10:51 am
Willy Wonka: But Charlie, don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he he always wanted. Charlie Bucket: What happened? Willy Wonka: He lived happily ever after. Sometimes the art just flows. I don’t need to suffer to do great art as the cliche might go. Most of my ar...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Dec 26, 2011, 10:14 pm
I am a pretty cool guy, I make art, I write poetry and have always been a dreamer. One day I met my soulmate Holly and the adventure began. She made me a soda cap button like the couple in UP. I made this Adventure book for our souvenirs! Holly is my favorite art model and inspires my figure dra...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Nov 20, 2011, 6:07 pm
So much cool stuff going on in the Pekin area! I have been inspired and drawing some little sketches for paintings! And continuing my web comic series “Lives of the artists” based on real life! My cool artist/poet/photographer/graphic designer/art model friend Holly one day decided to make a c...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Nov 16, 2011, 4:14 pm
I’ve been busy working on bringing culture to the midwest and to the world! Eventually I shall bring it to the rest of the universe, but for now what I have been working on lately… My new web-comic called Lives of the Artists which obviously (to me!) is an homage to the mighty Giorgio Vasari (3...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Sep 20, 2011, 11:15 am
Finding out what you do best, perhaps even what you are destined to do is a wonderful thing. I think I have found out my purpose and best possible future timeline to follow. I am a creative catalyst (always have been) and I have set things up in my life so that I can literally affect the timelines...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Sep 17, 2011, 3:56 pm
This blog post documents the OPEN MIC POETIC GALA (confluence of NITE OWL-CHAMPS WEST POETRY SERIES) at the most poetry filled corner of the universe in Peoria Illinois on Wednesday, September 14 at 9:30pm – September Christember 15 at 12:30am. The place was Gavra Lynn’s ART SHOW (Abstract + Mul...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Sep 12, 2011, 11:04 am
My cool friend Chris Keller is living for the entire month of September 2011 (we call it Christember) in an art gallery called ART SHOW in Peoria Illinois! He is making lots of art, as you would expect, and bringing in bands, guest artists to collaborate on ‘live art’ (to raffle off for charity...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Aug 14, 2011, 2:09 pm
Well the zine project is off to a great start! Over 50 people have received their copy of Faerie Zine #1 (in various incarnations as I worked on it!) and some people really liked it! I’m sure everyone appreciated it that received it but it obviously isn’t everyone’s cup of tea but the art proj...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Jul 14, 2011, 10:42 pm
I’ve been working on big murals and sketches for tiny underground zines! I’ve also made a facebook page for my publishing company, GoBzine and if you would like a free snail mail zine or two for free then drop me a line on the GoBzine page. I’ve been making zines for a long time and find the...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Jun 23, 2011, 3:26 pm
Im finishing up a ton, and I mean lots of unfinished projects, uploading and then selling/giving the actual art away! Im reducing the clutter in my life and in my mind and the less distractions I have the more time I spend doing art and that time doing art is really what matters most, it is my passi...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Jun 2, 2011, 10:31 am
I added a 20 ft tall girl on this 10ft high mural so the rodent of unusual size will have its own human! You can see this mural on the 3rd floor of the Speakeasy Art Center in Pekin Illinois! I am going to publish these blog posts from my I-phone so this one is kind of a test!
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - May 4, 2011, 8:14 am
I got my art mural mojo back after a couple of months hiberating this past winter and here is the first days work on on the new mural 10ft high by about 15ft long! That’s me, Darren Daz Cox in front of the new mural in progress! and below is a detail of the transition between the two murals. You ...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - May 4, 2011, 7:56 am
Recently I was honored by having my art used in a couple of creative projects, and this makes me happy! Dannion Brinkly said that the meaning of life is to inspire, be inspired and appreciate. I think those criteria were met here! Here is a flyer made by the folks at Utah Valley University featurin...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Jan 31, 2011, 10:29 pm
This pic below shows a life sized spontanious painting I did sunday night, January 30th 2011, on the walls leading up to the third floor at The Speakeasy Art Center 353 Court Street where I have the coolest art studio in Pekin Illinois I mean The World. It took me about 2 hours and way too many li...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Dec 8, 2010, 10:27 pm
I have a really big jpg version of this picture (click link below pic!) that you can download and print if you wish, or continue to swirl the motifs in an image editing program! I love love love this picture, it celebrates that first warm, warm day of spring when you suddenly smell flowers and you ...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Dec 7, 2010, 10:33 pm
I re-worked this one just now. I drew the girl in pencil and created the dragon in photoshop! You can download the huge jpg (for printing purposes) via the link below the pic! http://99daz.com/art/dragongirl.jpg
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Dec 7, 2010, 8:21 pm
I am going to allow everyone to download and print out, if they choose to, as much of my art up to this point as I can share. Here is the first one, I call it “Treasure Box” and you can download it from this link http://99daz.com/art/jpg/treasurebox.jpg I love the idea of opening a box (or a b...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Nov 6, 2010, 11:44 pm
Here is the latest stage of my huge oil painting across from the art studios of Alec DeJesus, Doug Halstead and Doug Goessman. Tree of life – oil on canvas 30 feet by 10 feet – by Darren Daz Cox 3rd floor art studio Speakeasy Art Center in Pekin Illinois 353 Court St. Above, detail of the cent...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Oct 25, 2010, 8:48 pm
…and when you stand up and give my euolgy all i I want you to say is that I was totally in the ranks of the totally cool… Daz is a nickname I was given when I was a mere slip of a youth growing up in the south of England ( and I still
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Oct 25, 2010, 8:14 pm
 I suddenly got the jones for painting in grisaille , which means shades of grey to the regular joe. With thick and thin oil paints (the magical ‘liquid white’ that Bob Ross would prime his canvases for his famous ‘wet on wet’ technique) and a grease pencil, I can convert a pencil sketch on...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Oct 25, 2010, 8:14 pm
"Moon Nymph Dancer" oil painting on canvas by Darren Daz Cox. You can click to see the bigger version on my Flickr site! yea finally done! Oil on canvas with a scandalous hint of irridessent medium for some tiny silver beads! Wow, I started this last September!!!! There’s a blog post with my or...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Oct 25, 2010, 8:14 pm
~*Fishbird – drawing then liquify filter – by Darren Daz Cox*~ My friend Cathy Dailey came up with the original fishbird in the 80′s and it’s been a reoccuring motif in my art ever since! Another motif that appears in my art are deer! Below is a painting I did a few years ago, Deers in Twil...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Oct 25, 2010, 8:14 pm
This morning I started a magic painting, oh what is so magical about an abstract tree you might ask? Well, consider that time is the forth dimention here and I will enjoy watching the painting evolve from winter white to glorious gold! I started with a gold spray painted canvas then added four type...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Oct 25, 2010, 8:14 pm
I miss my grey cat. There was a time he was the only one, I felt, who actually loved me. I seem to know a whole lot of really talented people and in several cases, I seem to be one of the very few ‘fans’ that person has of their creative activities. I read this today in the Law of One (I haven...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Oct 25, 2010, 8:13 pm
TinEye.com, It’s not perfect yet (my art isn’t indexed yet *wah*) but it sure is satisfying to find a larger sized image of a great piece of art you stumble across! …and here’s some of my art (on this blog it’s generally 500 pixels wide but I have larger versions out there too and would l...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Oct 25, 2010, 8:13 pm
"and when I looked the moon had turned to gold"  - Blue Moon written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in 1934. It’s a great song no matter which version you hear, and there are many many versions from The Marcels doo-wop classic to Biff Brown doing a trombone solo in the pop punk versi...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Oct 25, 2010, 8:13 pm
Brian Clark asked the question "Where do you think blogging is going?". Forgetting the spam and shop blogs and concentrating on the personal  blogs, I see a future with polished, web 2.0 savvy but generally  passionless blogs. I currently see a trend happening where bloggers offer little persona...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Oct 25, 2010, 8:13 pm
Pop quiz. name the parts in the eye that translate light into colors and shades of black and white. Answer: the rods and cones, you knew that,  the good old rods and cones, specialized cells that have photo receptors. Now, answer this. Why does your pineal gland (named for it’s pine cone shape)...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Oct 25, 2010, 8:13 pm
I like to use birds as metaphors for the soul in my art, it’s an old fashioned concept but it suits me. The canvas was spray painted gold then oil paint was put on which causes the gold to turn liquid again and make some amazing shapes. The bird is silver but the way the light was when I took t...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Oct 25, 2010, 8:13 pm
Wendi kelly writes some great stuff! It’s out there no matter what you do. So why run a pig farm if you wanted to be a ballet dancer? You still aren’t going to get away from rejection. Pig farmers get rejected too. I might not have acheived much success as an artist in the 20 years since I sta...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Oct 25, 2010, 8:13 pm
As heard on the Wayne R. Miller and Laure "The Hot Finance Lady" Feld radio show on WMBD 1470 AM this freezing sunday morning, Peoria is experiencing a Code Red, which is a weather emergency they found out for us. It’s bloody cold alright! There is a half inch of ice on everything and it was minus...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Oct 25, 2010, 8:13 pm
I like the concept of starting with a black and white layer and adding color afterwards! The technique is called grisaille ( say "griz eye" it’s from the french). Here’s a painting I finished last year. It started randomly and developed a narrative but as with all my art, it is not important th...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Aug 7, 2010, 9:26 am
 I’m referring to a metaphysical concept of big rather than about scale of artwork but I am striving to make paintings as big as I possibly can to really maximize the effect of the grandeur of art (and as they did in the Renaissance, the grandeur of mankind imbued by the gift of creativity from G...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Jul 20, 2010, 5:46 am
Awesome artist Babel Wallace only has 13 images associated with his name on Google so far (give him a chance and some encouragement and he’ll get plenty more I’m sure!). 3 of those 13 images listed in Google are actually mine, linked to his name because my blog uses proper SEO (search en...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Jul 20, 2010, 5:46 am
Here’s an idea that requires a small group of friends and two PCs with microphones and speakers. Expect this project to last several hours. Set the PCs up in opposite areas near where you will be sitting, set the first PC to record all the conversations in the room and play a podcast on the
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Jul 20, 2010, 5:45 am
The world’s greatest musician, Russell Biff Brown has a new daughter! Congrats to him and his family! Desiderata – Words for Life by Max Ehrmann 1872-1945 Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good ...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Jul 20, 2010, 5:45 am
My SecondLife avatar, the ever changing Daz Honey, now as a Wynx Whiplash designed black cat anthro furry (Wynx also made the angel pig that i won from the lucky chair! and that’s Noramyr’s bloopy fish spewing hearts!) I made the gold angels art that this cat wears as tattoos here and fi...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Jul 20, 2010, 5:45 am
I’ve been cranking out layers on these unfinished paintings! I wish i had a huge studio in which i could work on fifty paintings at a time… ~*The Snow Melts, acryllic and oil paints on canvas art by darren daz cox*~ ~The Lion rider, acrylic and oil paints on canvas – art by darren ...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Jul 20, 2010, 5:45 am
yea! I really love this tree, it provides me with entertainment and inspiration every day! Ahh beautifull sunny days are when you can spray paint over the blue painters tape on your huge canvases! Here, I have taken the idea of a gold frame and reversed it, the panels are gold and framed by white ...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Jul 20, 2010, 5:45 am
 Yea, it’s an honor to share my art with you again after a brief period of uncertainty! Here’s a sketch I intend to make into a ‘lowbrow’ oil painting! Pencil sketch soon to be an oil painting! Models include Buddy the bird and Youdle the bear and my guardian angel. You can download the ...
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Darren Cox posted an article on Fine Art Blog of Darren Daz Cox - Jul 20, 2010, 5:45 am
here are two oil paintings that now have added onto them wet acrylic gel medium that looks white until it dries and then it turns clear. The green and red are watered down tinted glue which is essentially liquid plastic that drys transparent. Plenty of standard elmers/white school glue has been adde...
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