Scum Choir

Nearly finished, social media sucks

Scroll to see the steps. I'm almost done. Still looking for a title.

I just posted this on my subscriber Instagram and it was removed. Demontized until May 21st. Fuck Instagram. I think I can safely say that on this platform. and I need to say it somewhere because its been happening a lot and its really annoying. Fuck Instagram. Sorry for this rant, but:

I hate soci...

I had to

I promise it won't happen again

Fixation watercolor and gouache Sketch

mini sketchbook. Oh yeah! I've also created a page linking to supplies I use! 

Pareidolia Drawing by Brandon

Great work! I love a good sea of swirling ambiguous faces. 

"Snail" is the drawing prompt for this month. Draw/paint/sculpt/make a song/ do a conceptual interactive theater art piece and submit it to me! Sharing to subscribers first but I’ll share publicly too.

Submit by May 10th! I better get more submissions this time or I'll make you do push ups!

2023-04-18 22:20:42 +0000 UTC View Post

New painting and some house keeping!

Like the text says. I'm really grateful to have you all in this choir. And if there's anything specific you'd like to see me post about I'm always open to suggestions. Here's a Choir Member only form for you to message me anything you want! 

Again, I'm so grateful to all of you for being here. I just want to make th...

Beethoven-Art Life & Lives

Today I'm trying out a new idea. I listen to a lot of audio books while I paint and commute to work. a lot of biographies of artists, books about creativity, and other stuff that I think is useful for artists to pay attention to. I feel like I am getting a lot of insight and wisdom from listening to these books, but after I'm done listening to an audio book I feel like the information just leav...

Snail painting

I’ve been thinking about snails recently. there’s been a lot more moisture in the air recently so there’s more snails around. I spent the better part of Easter looking at Jan van Huysum paintings and I love the way he painted little snails in his flower still-lifes. It’s like an elegant suggestion that these arrangements of flowers are beautiful obejcts in our eyes but nature has other ...

New beginning

Just about done

4x6 inches. Acrylic over colored pencil Frottage

Making progress on this little darling

I’ll share more about the process in a future video.

Goodnight

Working on this one tonight

Don’t be precious

Reminder to myself: Don’t be precious with your art

I’ve been working on this painting for months.

Getting all the little details right

But it was driving me crazy.

Couldn’t figure out why.

It was because of all the details. Distracting from the bigger shapes.

I needed to go back to the bigger shapes.

that meant destroying details

Being prec...

Added the finishing touches

study to painting

Doing that perspective lesson really opened something in my mind. I did 3 of those blobby drawings from boxes and decided to do a painting from them. This is 8x10 inches on a gesso panel. I might do more paintings this way.

Surrealist perspective study 3

Red black and white prismacolor pencils on toned paper

I think I’m done with this one

A lovely gal

Perspective Demo Drawing

Pareidolia painting I did

Pareidolia drawing prompt submissions were due yesterday. no one submitted any artwork. Here's the link to submit. what should the drawing prompt for this month be?

Perspective Drawing Demo

Hello sweeties. in this demo I talk about the difficulties I've had with learning perspective, how I went about getting better at it, some tricks about seeing in perspective and then I work on one of these surreal blobby drawings constructed from simple boxes. These perspective lessons have been great for my art. I feel like I'm not merely showing how perspective works to a class but its actual...

Sketchbook Saturday 4/1/23

In this sketchbook saturday I talk about what goes through my head when I imagine going on that TV show Shark Tank. This painting was going to be a demo. but the audio was horrible and my camera kept dying. so I used the footage for this instead.

Here's the Form to submit your pareidolia drawings 

Please leave...

Perspective: how I struggled with it, how I learned it, how I use it

In this demo I talk about my struggle with learning perspective. Why I think artists are turned off by studying perspective. And how perspective has become a go to of mine when facing creative block. I also do a drawing of organic surrealist shapes from boxes to demonstrate how a little perspective can help with drawing surreal or abstract art.

Perspective drawing timelapse

turning the boxes into organic dripping shapes. With a little beat I made.

Perspective: Lesson -intro to drawing bad art

This one took a little longer for me. But I'm really happy with it. 

Check out the links in the description of the YouTube video for further resources on perspective.

I highly recommend getting Perspective Made Easy by Ernest Norling  

Enjoy! have fun.

Reminder/process shot

Pareidolia drawings are due in a week! Just email them to me for now. Make sure to include your ig if you want to be tagged.

Scumchoir@gmail.com

All that Matters

is the next step in the process

Will probably do one more session

NightCrawler 2019 collab. with Atom St. George

Finished in 2019 but started way back in 2017. I was taking a painting class at Otis College in Los Angeles. I was inspired to find interesting surfaces to paint on other than the standard sizes and materials at the art stores. I came across this craigslist listing that said "free shipping pallets. just take them. don't ask questions" so I pulled up to this pile of shipping crates outside of a ...

Almost there

Started adding color, went back in with the black and white, Reworked all the clouds, changed the light source, then went back in with the color. Should be done in another session or two. Still collecting ideas for names.

Been listening to a biography about Caravaggio. I don’t think he would like my work. And I think he’d hate my process for sure.

One of my new little mini paintings