Scum Choir

Pavement Darling

4x6 little baby inches. Acrylic on frottage drawing on birch panel. Here'...

Full: Art is more than an image. Painting over Frottage Drawing

I call this piece Pavement Darling, because she's my darling and she came from the pavement. 

I made a rubbing of a cement texture on paper (A technique called  “Frottage.”) the...

Structural Delusion-Varnished, Framed, and hanging on its wall

There's a glare from the varnish so here's the scanned version of the painting too. I'm trying to decide which pieces from this new body of work I should make prints of. if you have any favorites p...

Structural Delusion-Painting Process Timelapse

Timelapse process of my painting "Structural Delusion" with a little song that I made.

At the show the other night one guy was looking at my work and said "It's like Dali meets Cronenberg." a...

🚨This month’s Art Prompt 🚨

Submit here or email them if you don’t have a Google account.

Also, anyone have a cooler name than “art prompt” for t...

Snail art for the prompt!

1. Tia 

2. Brandon

Really solid work!

ITDBA Form-Quick Sketch Figure Drawing using the Mannequin

In this Intro to Drawing Bad Art demo, I'm going to do some quick sketch figure drawings. We're talking more about form. Specifically how I think about building with geometric forms to create a hum...

Full:Using the Rules to Create a New Game

The idea for this came out of doing perspective demonstrations for the Intro to Drawing Bad Art Course. I was trying to show that you can start with a box and then use the structure of a box to kee...

Snail Study.

Here's my snail piece for the prompt. Working on this piece actually inspired the prompt. 

Please please please give me some suggestions for future prompts. Even, and especially, if it's...

On snails

I Get asked why I paint such weird stuff. Which implies that there is normal stuff to paint. I think what most people mean is "why don't you paint stuff I like." That question is easier to answer, ...

Chimera in the Rock

I named it Chimera in the Rock. I finished painting and varnished it. I did take a video of that, but it didn't turn out. I found this frame at a thrift store and I think it works great for the pie...

Reminder deadline for the art prompt is tomorrow!

Please use this link to submit your work!&nbs...

Full-Blurring Boundaries: A Classical Approach on top of an Abstract Approach (Acrylic Gel Transfer, Pareidolia Painting)

I started this painting with an acrylic transfer of a printed image, then used pareidolia to let images suggest themselves to me, painted what I saw, then started refining the piece. The gel transf...

Timelapse-Mind Body Problem

Full Timelapse of "Mind Body Problem" with some music that I made.

the Mind Body Problem is the name for an old issue in philosophy regarding the relationship between our thoughts, subjective...

When Experimenting Becomes Routine-Don't be Precious with your art

In this video I walk through my steps and thought process of painting "Mind Body Problem." This might be the longest I've ever spent on a painting. I started in November 2022. I walk through the pr...

Choir only shop (used mattress salesman pitch)

Choir only shop with all the new art I just set up. 

I usually price my pieces a little lower fo...

Watercolor sketch over acrylic texture

I got this acrylic texture from doing the decalcomania technique then painted over it with watercolor. even though the texture didn't end up being a huge part of the painting I think it adds a litt...

All set up and ready for action

I left the most torturous part of the framing process for this morning: wiring. You put wire on a picture frame or stretched canvas because it's the best way to hang a piece of art on the wall. It'...

Day 2: varnishing/naming/framing

Spent half the day running errands. Getting supplies and stuff to get my space ready for this opening at the Hive Gallery on saturday. It’s one of their bigger events so I want to show new work a...

Scanning, varnishing, framing, naming day

To be read in the voice of Ray Liota toward the end of Goodfellas. This is how it always goes. it’s time to show my new work, but first I have to put them in frames, or install wires on them. But...

march-aril playlist

Selections from albums I've been listening to since march

ITDBA: Basics of Form-geometric forms, manipulation, the mannequin

In this Intro to Drawing Bad Art lesson we go over the basics of form. starting with the geometric forms, drawing them from different angles, manipulating them and constructing them using the manne...

My little snail painting

Coming along at a snails pace

The final version of this one

I went with "reflections by the sea" for the title. It's Acrylic on a12x12 inch birch wood panel. I have video of the whole process which I will be editing eventually. This is my submission for a g...

About done with this one

I started listening to a book about the godfather.

Update

Went deep into a “I don’t know wtf I’m doing here” spiral in this session.

Finished listening to my Caravaggio biography and just kept lookin and leapin. And I’m very happy.

Messing it up

I try to keep my painting process somewhat organized: underpainting, color layers, details. But sometimes I get to a point where it just doesn’t feel right and I bring a little chaos in. Now it l...

Books

Here’s some of my book collection. Reorganized it so my art books are mostly all in one place.

intention and sketchbooking

meditation on sketch booking. 

coming along