PAINTING – Announcing www.crack-hotel.com

Announcing www.crack-hotel.com a new blog focused on my paintings.

A number of months ago I launched www.canvas2screen.com, a blog focused on my 3 passions: painting, photography and technology. My intention was simply to 1) build a WordPress blog from scratch and get an introduction to the Blogsphere, and 2) start publishing and writing about some of my work. The site has been a continuous source of discovery, in technology, in publishing and in myself. It has helped me frame and focus my work and given me a focal point of reference… and I’ve had a lot fun doing it!

www.canvas2screen.com has been a great success! I did not expect many people to be interested in my opinion and work in technology, and even less interested in my abstract photography and in my paintings… but I was surprised to see the general response and support I have received from the visitors of my blog. The response has been so overwhelming that I am now ready to push the limit of my “luck” and expand my blog world.

I have decided to focus on each of my three passions by publishing three individual blogs:

www.canvas2screen.com – will focus on my abstract photography

www.crack-hotel.com – will feature my paintings

www.tech-hotel.com – will focus on technology from the user perspective

All three blogs share the same look-and-feel, which will make it easy for users to navigate and feel comfortable on each site, and all three blogs are tied together by the main menu, which lets the users jump from one to the other effortlessly (as a matter of fact I am now playing with “iFrames” which lets users navigate in a site from inside another site, so you never have to leave your favorite).

On www.crack-hotel.com I will focus on publishing my paintings, and as I tend to paint sporadically in quantities, and very much seasonally (I have painted in the great outdoors for the past 2 years) the entries may be limited to the times I complete or “build” new works, an operations diary of sorts. However I also plan to start posting my sketches, my ideas and my bar-napkins which I have never exposed before. In the Asides, I will try to find articles and other posts that are interesting, relevant and influencing me on the way I work and produce my paintings… which might give you an insight on why I chose “crack-hotel” for the name of this blog.