When I was working on my psychological stretchy face portraits, I had a friend who would come over and make art with me sometimes. He asked what I was using for the black lines, I told him sharpie. he told me I should try it with pit pens. I ordered some. and they became my favorite medium. Small, portable, powerful. The pen became a magic want to me. It felt like scratching a portal into anoth...
2023-09-09 19:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I can't think or talk. Had to put a pause on some of the videos I've been writing.
In the meantime here's some old Art
These ones are from early 2015. I had been going through a break up and struggling with health issues. I had become disillusioned with trying to work in the film industry....
2023-09-08 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's where you can buy Crossroads Joe at a choir exclusive discount.
2023-09-08 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the full process with commentary of my painting "Crossroads Joe." In this video I talk about the origin of the idea for the beast, I wanted to take a medieval dragon and make it American.
I talk about creating a "Frankenstein" version in Photoshop and coming up with a value scheme.
Making a small study of the painting to experiment with colors and get a feel for the st...
2023-09-07 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the song!
You can still get the piece in the Choir only Shop!
2023-09-06 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I put up all these recent studies as well as my fantastic beast pieces.
The Studies are all un
Exclusively available to the choir for right now and at a special choir price! click the link below.
Welcome to another (sort of) Sketchbook Saturday! In this video I'm painting a study of Edvard Munch's the scream.
I ramble about Oppenheimer, going to the movie theater as a teenager to get into mischief, Christopher Nolan's style as a director, how I went down a rabbit hole about nuclear weapons, Edvard Munch and the scream, Munch and Vincent Van Gogh's similarities and differences, suf...
2023-09-03 19:48:27 +0000 UTC View Post
This canvas was sitting on a shelf like this for a month or two.
I felt like I needed to figure the painting out before I could paint it. But that was preventing me from painting it. Perfectionism or something like that was telling me I couldn't paint it yet. What is it? I was thinking too much....
2023-09-02 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a time-lapse I did of the full nightly routine process from setting up to finishing the automatic drawing at the end. I filmed it in one shot on my phone which made the whole video about 30 seconds. The process was about 2 and half hours. Just for context, The very beginning where I'm putting out my paints, before I started painting anything took over 10 minutes and it's 2 seconds on the...
2023-09-02 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the sketch I'm basing this painting session on. You might Remember this sketch from the most recent Sketchbook Saturday video where I rambled about one thing or another.
This painting session took a little bit longer because of al...
2023-09-01 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I went back to an older watercolor sketch from my sketchbook. I think I did this last year. Even though I based the painting on this sketch, I like how distinct both pieces are from each other. It means that I could do another painting based on this one and it will still be something new and different.
2023-08-31 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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The votes are in. Submissions are due Sept. 30th! As always you can submit them through this link or you can email them in.
Sept. 30th seems really far away so I'm sure I'll post some reminders before then.
A...
2023-08-31 00:05:58 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm working on putting some new videos together this week. I have a lot of stuff planned for the coming month! A lot of footage and new ideas floating around. Really excited for where the choir is at. Thank you everyone for being here. I am truly grateful.
I'll be sharing some of these little Alla Prima studies I've been doing.
I've been keeping up w...
2023-08-30 01:06:08 +0000 UTC View PostI'll announce the winner on Wednesday.
That's the 30th, so the next prompt will be due on Sept. 30th.
If you know someone who would be interested in doing the prompt, encourage them to join the Choir (if you have that kind of power) or at least the sort of choir
Sort of choir members can participate in ...
2023-08-29 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
You guys killed this one. So many different styles and mediums! I love that.
I call mine "Crossroads Joe." I'll be doing a process video about the piece. But the basic idea was to do a medieval/early renaissance style dragon but make it American. The way that they would come up with dragons and fantastic beasts was by combining different animal features. A lion mixed with a snake mi...
2023-08-28 20:40:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the Secret Choir link to stream this song!
***I'm going to be sharing the Fantastic Beast Prompts tomorrow and I'll create a new poll ...
2023-08-27 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video I walk you through the process of a recent commission piece I got. From the origin story of drawing weird blobs for the intro to drawing bad art course, to doing a painting of said blobs, to this commission, and some ideas I have about this type of subject matter in the future...and the past.
This is the video version of 2023-08-26 19:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's your Secret Choir Link to the song I made for this video
I've been finding 15-20 chunks throughout the day to do little automatic dra...
2023-08-25 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the (Sort of) demo portion for Automatic Drawing. It kind of defeats the purpose of automatic drawing if I'm talking about what I'm doing while I'm doing it. So I recorded a 20 minute automatic drawing session then put a little music over it, and recorded an intro about the technique and how I've been using it.
Since I made the Automatic Drawing less...
2023-08-25 02:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Automatic Drawing is basically drawing without thinking about it. It was popular with the early Surrealists of the 1920's and 30's as a way to express the subconscious mind. To "Free yourself for rational control."
Although it was made popular by the surrealists, it was first written about by Austin Osman Spare, a fascinating artist who was very ahead of his time on this a...
2023-08-24 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The song from this video is in the playlist
I also added the official 2023-08-23 01:32:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This is probably the most subjective and personal Art Life and Lives that I've done. Usually I try to alternate between an artist's biography and a book about the creative process, or art itself.
This book, Ego is the Enemy, isn't really either one of those things, but it's had such an influence on my personal life and art life that I felt like I had to do an Art Life and Lives on i...
2023-08-22 02:09:25 +0000 UTC View Post
I Hope everyone had a great weekend. Apparently there's a hurricane where I am. So far nothing but rain. But still.
Here's some progress shots and some pieces I've made recently that I haven't shared.
Here's my prompt submission! Its funny lo...
2023-08-21 00:40:09 +0000 UTC View PostMore playing around with this toned blue paper. Just kind of a quick sketch while winding down.
working on a few longer videos I'm trying to finish and post next week.
Also, I just threw this song together last minute so I didn't put it on the soundcloud playlist.
2023-08-20 02:39:56 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video I'm going to add texture to a simple drawing of a house in one point perspective. My goal is to show some experimental ways to create texture, but also to show how you can use texture to fundamentally change the meaning of an image.
First, I do a quick 15 minute recap and real time walk through of the pattern to form to value process I do in the demo. <...
2023-08-18 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The world is full of beautiful, diverse, interesting textures. Variety is the spice of life, and texture is all about creating variety. We've talked about value and form, and thank God that's not all there is. The world would look so boring if it were just made of solid forms and values and everything was the same surface. You could even add color to that and I still wouldn't want to live in th...
2023-08-17 00:58:06 +0000 UTC View Post
This one has been a real back and forth between planning/sketching/designing and just winging it/improvising/saying "f*** it."
I designed the silhouette in photoshop first. Painted it. Then I said "f*** it" and just went in and started winging it.
The winging it was kind of an automatic painting proces...
2023-08-16 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I've honestly been getting frustrated with my painting process lately.
It's so slow. I've been doing all this preliminary work in photoshop, which makes the paintings stronger and more efficient in the end, but I spend more and more time drawing in photoshop. Which, honestly, I don't like.
So I was designing my piece for this month's prompt in photoshop. Getting bored wi...
2023-08-15 01:48:22 +0000 UTC View Post
