Scum Choir

Adding Color

Started adding the color to this one. The second picture is what the final grayscale looked like.

I worked on this until about 3 am last night and I really could have kept going. But nights l...

Time Management for Mortals

Pretty much done with this one. It will just be tiny little tiny details at this point if I want to change him. Just one more to finish.

Happy March 22nd Everybody

Today is my cousin ...

I should have been an insurance salesman

Started working on the final Choir painting last night. Just one more pass on each one should do the trick.

Happy March 21st Everybody

It's my cousin Carissa's Birthday.

I feel ...

Daily progress

Still workin that grayscale and trying to find that balance between light and warm shadows

Happy March 20th Everybody

I’m just stretching outside taking a break from the painting. 2024-03-21 00:44:50 +0000 UTC View Post

Brown underpainting to Gray scale

The second picture is what it looked like after I finished painting the brown under painting. For that brown underpainting I basically just paint it as much as I can using burnt Sienna.

Now I...

Album Cover Underpainting//Friends who are good at stuff you aren't

Starting the underpainting of the album cover today. I had all these fake flowers laying around from a photoshoot I did and I decided to decorate my whole work space with them. I gotta say it kind ...

Choir 3 in progress

This one still has at least another session left to go. 

Happy March 17th Everybody

Happy St. Patrick's day.

The Leprechaun's shut down the wi-fi today so I spent an annoyi...

Easel Shot Choir Painting 2//Eat Lips

Here's a pic of how my easel looks right now.  A lot of little projects going. I'm going to go back to the album cover for the rest of the day. Here's a close up of the second choir painting. ...

Choir Painting

Here's the first choir painting. I might add some more butterflies.

Basically I finished the whole painting and it seemed just plain grotesque. Which I like. But it needed some beauty and lig...

Observing Weirdness//Loss Prevention Hero

Doing some observational sketches of some weirdness. Prismacolor on toned paper. 

For the paintings I'm doing for the choir tier artwork.

Happy March 14th Everybody

Writing...

Color studies and issues

After I built the maquette I took a ton of pictures of it and did a sketch of it from life.

I qu...

Choir Progress and a Couple of things

Progress on the Choir tier paintings I've been chipping away on. The underpinnings are done.

To give myself a little experiment with this project, I'm testing out how much of the toned ground...

Making a Maquette for Reference

After I had the initial idea, did some sketches from imagination and took some reference photos, I started slopping together some clay into a maquette. 

2024-03-12 01:36:49 +0000 UTC View Post

March Prompt Announcement!

This was tied with something else and I used my executive tie breaking power to choose this one. 

Go as literal or as expressive as you want. 

Album Cover Commission

My friend Cameron makes music under the name Disfiguring the Goddess. He called me a few weeks ago and asked me artwork for his new album. It was a "here's the idea I was going for when I made the ...

Grotesque portraits// Working at Michael's

I did four portraits last night. I think it was a success. I'm going to try it out at the show opening tomorrow night. Here's another one from last night. I forgot to take pictures of the other 2.<...

Practicing Grotesque Portraits for a New Venture

In this video I'm trying out a new watercolor painting idea and hanging out and chatting. I give some watercolor tips, portrait tips, drawing tips. I also talk about a haunted clown painting from c...

Let's vote on the March Prompt

I'll decide the winner as early as Friday, but probably Sunday or Monday. The prompt will be due probably April 6th-8th. somewhere in there. May the best candidate win!

2024-03-07 00:40:04 +0000 UTC View Post

"Revisit" Prompt Submissions!

The prompt was to revisit an old piece. great work all around.

DA

DA is the featured artist. Debra wrote: " My friends helped me decide to revisit this piece, which first took shape i...

Another Choir Boy Underpainting

Another underpainting for the tier icons in the choir. I had the idea to progressively distort the faces more and more for each tier.  So this will be the Tenor icon, then the Alto tier will b...

You Need a Map-Antler Boy Walkthrough

Drawing/ Painting Process, Thoughts about color mixing and revisiting old pieces, there's even a little ASMR in here. This video has it all I think. 

This video is about revisiting some ...

Choir process

I set up and lit my maquette.

I did the drawing pictured above.

I traced it and transferre...

Revisit Pieces/ Ass Trap Art

Here's my submissions for the Prompt.

Revisit 

5x7 inches. As you can see I had another cool frame that worked for this painting.

2024-03-01 21:07:46 +0000 UTC View Post

Comfort in Uncertainty

Ordinary Problems

So far Art and Fear has all been about the fears and uncertainties related to making art. Once the art is made, however, artists run into what the authors call “Ordinary...

Antler Boy Painting Process Timelapse

Couldn't finish the walkthrough version of this painting but I put together a little timelapse.

I tried to put the music from the video in the secret choir playlist but I couldn't upload it f...

Fears about yourself, Fears about Others

The next two chapters are about Fears about yourself and Fears about how others receive your work. Internal fears and external fears.

They say, 

"fears about yourself prev...

2024-02-29 01:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

The Cave- Whole Process Overview

Instead of doing an Intro to Drawing Bad Art lesson, this month I made a walkthrough video about my painting "the Cave."

The whole process behind this painting was kind of an experiment for m...

Uncertainty and the Art Making Process- Art and Fear pt. II

To make art today you have to be making work that nourishes you. Because the odds are that your work will not be valued by anyone else. 

Because of this fact, making art (in the modern w...

Art and Fear

This month I re-read a book about making art called Art and Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland.

It’s a book on "the perils and rewards of artmaking," as the subtitle of the book puts it.&n...

Art and Fear - Art Life and Lives

In this installment of Art Life and Lives,  I’ll be talking about Art and Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland. 

It’s a book on "the perils and rewards of artmaking," as the subt...