Scum Choir

New Summer Sweetie

I want to do like 9 of these guys.

oh also, here's a cinnabon flavored lip balm I found.

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happy June 22nd

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prepping the canvas

In this video I'll show you how I've been preparing my canvases with molding paste and gesso. It's important to add a primer or ground, even if your surface is pre primed, because it will add a base layer of something that is unique to your hand.

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happy June 20th

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Album art sale for patrons only

just added all the pieces I did for the Disfiguring the Goddess album into my secret choir only shop.

I put in the finished painting, framed. and three studies I did for it.

www.scumchoir.com/holyholy

2024-06-20 00:46:37 +0000 UTC View Post

New Idea

I want to make a series of small portraits of these types of guys in Hawwaiian shirts.

Booze Cruise boys. or something.

Drawing sale for patrons only!

Added all these toned sweeties to the secret choir shop

www.scumchoir.com/holyholy

2024-06-19 05:12:14 +0000 UTC View Post

Study Sale for Patrons only

I'm going to be putting some studies in the secret choir only shop on my website this week. Starting with these two.

Scumchoir.com/holyholy

I've been working a lot on pieces for galleries, which is ultimately go...

Oh my hell

I haven’t posted any updates of this piece.

I showed the original study.

This little guy.

Then I did some drawings of it, sculpted the maquette thing and got to work. Here’s some of the references I used.

2024-06-17 03:50:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Vlog thing 6!

Painting, Working, Painting, Working 06/12-06/14/2024

Coverage of the event that I did this week, working on a painting on a deadline.

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This week’s Grotesques!

I’ve been busy the last 2 days! I was doing this event in Long Beach called “taste of downtown.” I also have this deadline for a painting tomorrow (which really means today because I have to get a picture of it.) and in between I just had work and life stuff to take care of too.

But here’s some of the grotesques I did, I did the first ever family portrait! I was proud of that.

The Choir has spoken

Submissions due July 10th!

Submit your art through here https://forms.gle/ir33qSxz1zoHd5LV6

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Mythos Submissions

Featured piece by Lulu @biblicallyaccurateboygirl

"requiem collectors: creatures that lives in memories. they don’t harm you, they help keep things neat up there. you can see them sometimes but their form is effected by whatever emotions are connected to the memory. some like to eat nostalgia, loneliness, anticipation, or passion. i found this one snacking on some excess hop...

2024-06-11 22:22:10 +0000 UTC View Post

Curating Trxtr Wxrld

Vlog Thing 5. Finishing up my paintings for the show, setting up the show, going to art walk night, show opening.

Check my show and the other featured artists here https://hivegallery.com/art-for-sale/galleries/past-art-for-sale/june-2024

Let's Vote!

Summer is here! Let's choose a nice happy summer prompt to have some fun with! 🏖️☀️🩳⛱️

Grotesques from the opening last night

Bacon is Nathan's dog. Kind of the mascot of the hive.

Here's some of the portraits I did.

&nbs...

Grotesques from Thursday night

Kind of a slow night. About to head to the gallery for the opening. Hopefully I get some more customers.

Trxtr Wxrld sneak preview

My show "Trxtr Wxrld" opens tomorrow. I hung most of it on Wednesday, a little yesterday. there's a few pieces still missing from this but this is the gist.

I'm not familiar with all the titles of these so I'll just tag the artists. Go to the Hive's website for ...

New painting in the works

I liked the still life-ness of the “oldest trick” piece I did. I’m trying to get a new 12x12” piece done for this group show at a gallery I really want to be in.

I did this study all from imagination using the Zorn pallet (black, red, yellow ochre, white) and added a little ultramarine blue to the mix and transparent red iron oxide as a “cheat color” between red and yellow oc...

Hangin

Went to hang the show today. Didn’t get the best pictures. I don’t really like hanging shows. I’m not good at it. I’ll just put everything wherever it fits and whatever. So I had my friends Nathan and Frankie help me a lot.

The above picture is a sign my friend Tamir is making for the show. It’s amazing.

I’ll take better pictures of the individual pieces tomorrow probabl...

Study of Reynard and a urinal

I started this as a study before I did the other two pieces for the trickster show. So I did another pass on it while I was waiting for varnish to dry.

All 3 pieces are ready and tomorrow I’m going over to the gallery to hang the show

New Vlog Thing

Vlog thing of my recent trek over to Copro to see the Shawn Barber/ Carl Dobsky Show. Early access for the Choir

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Oldest Trick in the Book

Finally got some useable photos after like 12 hours of shooting.

Here's some stuff about the things.

So in the bottom right, we have a scattering of trash. The trickster is a god of t...

Framer's Brain

Today was a framing day.

I varnished "oldest trick" and it's drying outside in a box.

I accidentally killed a spider. I prefer to catch and release spiders. Especially with all this trickster stuff on my mind lately. I think of spiders as little Anansi's running around. But this one just got too close to this little crevice and if he got in there he'd just be living in my room and I...

Just when I think I'm out, they pull me back in

So I finished all that photography stuff yesterday, started varnishing "oldest trick," then I went to start editing the photos of the "cave shenanigans" piece.

I scanned this one about a week ago and when I opened it to start editing it I noticed that awful line on the right hand side.

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Getting ready for the show

Trying to get a good picture of this one. I hate taking pictures. I had to watch YouTube tutorials about aperature, shutter speed, iso and all that.

Then I just spent all day adjusting all that stuff, changing the lighting, moving the camera.

All day except for a little detour I took attempting to put the other one into a floater frame. Which I also couldn’t seem to figure out. S...

That feeling when you know you’re about to stay up to finish a painting

Just about done. Really just needs a signature. I like to save that part though.

“The oldest trick in the book” 16x20 on panel. Awaiting a very fine frame I picked out for it.

Despite writing “happy (whatever the date is)” on every single post, I had no idea it was this late in May.

In the words of Zach Galifianakis while being reprimanded for spending all their mon...

Pancake day

It’s hard to photograph this piece because it’s dark and glossy. I don’t know how I’m actually going to photograph it for prints and stuff. But I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it.

I had to use a 3D modeling program to see how an actual plate would look in this position. I put a simple cylinder on it to see the lighting. Then I put some magpies and leaves on the plate. That...

Flesh and such

Working on those fleshy areas today. Just working my way over. Trying to finish before the weekend.

Happy May 28th everybody

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Getting in there

I’m trying to paint this in three sections basically. From right to left.

Here’s what I spent most of today looking at.

The far right thing is a Napkin crumpled up. Looks like a poop. I like that. It also kind of looks like a pine cone. I’m indifferent to that.

Las...

Photoshop Color Study

Brought the gray scale under painting into photoshop to paint on. Playing around with some colors and details and deciding if I should change anything else before I keep chugging along.

Happy May 26th

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Coming to life

Yesterday I got my school and there was a miscommunication between the parents of the students and the school and none of my students showed up.

So I got to leave with full pay and immediately drove home and started working on this.

So I got to work on this on borrowed time and that was nice.

Happy May 25th

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