I have many opinions. Some of my strongest opinions however are about politics and paintings. We'll leave the politics alone and just deal with the painting though.

Let's start with traditional paintings, the sort that are created without the aid of a computer. So, to begin, we start with white. I hate white paint. White paint is like a starving artists liquidation staple. White paint is cheap and so starving atrists buy it. In mass quantity. And then, they use it. In mass quantity. They mix all of their other lucious colous with white and get this sort of faux-impressionism brushy look with all these white globs of paint covering up various bits of white canvas. White is a starting point and it is not a solution to any of your problems. Everytime I try to use white, thinking "hey, maybe I've been wrong all this time," I realize with inceased zeal that I am not wrong and that white is ugly. Then I paint over these abominations with some other bright, dark and much more beautiful colours. And that is really the operative word here, color. Like just today I was looking as some really neat-O paintings when I came accross a painting, that, had not the artist been a bit short on cash and resorting to white, would have been truly magnificent. But, I guess toilet paper or whatever was more important than a remarkable painting that day.

The second thing that really annoys me about some paintings, both old-school and digital, is this concept of "Untitled". What is that? Looking at a painting is like solving a mystery and with a clue like "Untitled" to help, there is nothing to go on except trying to figure out what some person who was fond of dabbling blobs of paint and committed suicide 50 years ago was trying to convey. Even Georgia O'Keefe gave her paintings some kind of titles!

I hate pictures of boats. Especially sail boats. They remind of of early 1980's tshirts. Anyway, mostly the reason why I hate pictures of boats is because they tend to involve water. Paintings of water never look like water. Photographs of water never look like water, especially BIG water, like oceans. I think these things do not look like water because water is more than just a visual cue. It is an experience; the wind whipping at your skin and the smell of wet and salt and the sound of the waves crashing up on the sand or the rocks and the endless and minute variations of shifting light and consequent colour. And these things can not be captured or even righteously suggested with paint.

Digital Paintings. What I hate aobut digital paintings is that some people who can not draw and have no sense of colour or composition apply a Photoshop filter to a photo of thier dog taken on their hiking trip through the American Rockies and then think they are a great and world famous artists whose efforts ought to be hailed around the globe and have big galas thrown in their honour.