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Pen and Ink Drawings 2015

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....

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I got covid. Here's some paintings from 2015.

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

2023-09-08 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Timelapse of process with Music-Crossroads Joe

Secret Link to the Music 

Here's where you c...

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Painting Process-Crossroads Joe (Fantastic Beast)

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.&n...

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Timelapse and Music-Study of Munch's Scream

Here's the song!

You can still get the piece in the Choir only Shop! 

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New Paintings in the Choir Shop!

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...

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Playlist what I enjoyed in July and August

Enjoy!


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Sketchbook Saturday-'the Infinite Scream' Oppenheimer, Edvard Munch and Vincent Van Gogh (09/2/23)

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 ...

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Timelapse 2- August 2023 Nightly Routine: Alla Prima and Automatic Drawing

This canvas was sitting on a shelf like this for a month or two.

I felt like I needed to figure ...

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Timelapse- August 2023 Nightly Routine: Alla Prima and Automatic Drawing

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 ...

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Nightly Routine III: Developing a watercolor sketch and the type of pens I use for Automatic Drawings

The sketch 

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 anot...

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Nightly Routine II: Watercolor Sketch, Alla Prima, Automatic Drawing

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 ...

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Prompt Announcement!

The votes are in. Submissions are due Sept. 30th! As always you can View Post

Active Listening-4x5 inch Alla Prima Study

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 ...

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Vote for the Next Prompt

I'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 th...

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Fantastic Beasts-Prompt submissions

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 ...

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Timelapse and Music - "Lust and Remorse"

2023-08-27 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Painting Process Walkthrough-"Lust and Remorse"

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 bl...

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Timelapse and music-20 Minute Automatic Drawing session

Here's your  2023-08-25 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Automatic Drawing Demo (Sort of)-Intro to Drawing Bad Art

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 autom...

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Automatic Drawing-Intro to Drawing Bad Art

History

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 "Fre...

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Timelapse with Music- "Cha Cha Cha" Alla Prima painting

2023-08-23 01:32:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Ego is the Enemy-Art Life and Lives

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.&n...

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Art Dump-What I'm working on and a reminder

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'...

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Watercolor and gouache sketch

More 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 thre...

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Watercolor and Gouache study on The Blue Stuff

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Texture Demo -Intro to Drawing Bad Art

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...

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Texture-Intro to Drawing Bad Art

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 a...

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WIP- Absurdly Sad

Progress Shots, Planning vs. Winging it, the story behind the piece

This one has been a real back and forth between planning/sketching/designing and just winging it/improvising/saying "f***...

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Quick Little Monster Study-Just Paint something

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 ...

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