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Let's vote on the next art prompt!

Let's vote for the new prompt!

I'll announce the new prompt sometime after the 1st so you have plenty of time to vote.

Reminder: Inner Landscapes are due Sunday the 31st!

Big Painting Back to the Future Shower Thoughts

Painting Process first.

I put started putting paint on this one last night. 

I'm going to keep working the background area with the single color.

Then I'm going to do an auto...

Golden Sunshine and the Monomyth

Almost done with my inner landscape piece. I think I'm going to call it "Golden Sunshine." I like that name because it reminds me of when David Lynch used to do the weather report here in LA. He wo...

The Hero with a Thousand Faces-Art Life and Lives

This is a little bit of a weird one. Today I’ll be talking about the Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell.

Published in 1949, the book explores the common patterns and themes found...

Post Christmas Hangover Perspective Studies

Here's some perspective studies that I did for the cave painting. I think I'm going to start on the actual actual painting tonight. Actually I might wait until tomorrow. I need to finish the Inner ...

Decalco-santa-mania 2

Decided to make another one of these decalcomania Santas for the choir only.

I'm using colored pencil on top of the acrylic which has a very satisfying feeling.

2023-12-25 19:57:47 +0000 UTC View Post

Decalco-Santa-Mania

Feeling very festive this year for some reason.

Here's the 2023-12-24 22:01:46 +0000 UTC View Post

Tonal Doodlings

These are two tonal studies for the big painting. I'm not really trying to plan out the exact thing the painting is going to be. I'm just looking for for of a gesture. A shape. Then I will do more ...

Exploring the cave symbols

These are some little thumbnail sketches of a Thing that will inhabit the cave.

This is for that larger cave painting that I'm doing for a show in February. 

The cave symbolizes im...

A rest in hills where monsters live

Another Decalcomania piece I did for the Intro to Drawing Bad Art Lesson. I think this piece was subconsciously influenced by the Led Zeppelin biography I've been listening to. They go off to the c...

Decalcomania-Intro to Drawing Bad Art Course

Today we’re doing another Forgetting the fundamentals session where we focus on a technique or method of making art that is less about technical skills and more about play.

We’re going to...

Speaking of Bad Art

You all win! Here's the special prize for participating in my Bad Art Contest. An original song "Champions of Imperfection."

No one voted for anyone on the bad art contest post. Katrin commen...

Braindead Volcano Potluck

Another Decalcomania piece from my sketchbook. Made for an upcoming Intro to Drawing Bad Art Lesson.

Acrylic, micron pens, gel pen and colored pencil

Now that I think about it this coul...

Don't Stop Starting

I really made some progress on this one. Should be completely finished in one more session.

I noticed last night that Most of the time when I sit down to paint I’m not excited about it. Sta...

Approaching the Inmost Cave/ What's your dream job?

These are little 2x3 inch studies that I did to help figure out the shape and size of the cave and look at different color schemes. 

Each of these took between 10 and 20 minutes and then...

I put gesso on my hand thinking it was soap

Here's a drawing for the upcoming Intro to Drawing Bad Art Course lesson I'm doing about decalcomania. 

I did this with acrylic paint, using plastic wrap for the organic texture looking ...

Cave Dwelling

This is my WIP for the Inner Landscape prompt this month. 

I am participating in a group show in February. The theme has to do with the symbolism of the cave. So I've been drawing a lot ...

Dreaming of the Language of the Muses

I had a great conversation about my recent sculpture adventures with Chet Zar. He was a sculptor in the make up FX industry for 20 years. He attributes that experience to his painting skills. It to...

Priming the Behemoth, Ghosts and Scary Dreams

This will be the biggest painting I've started in about five years.

I'm excited and also a little intimidated. but the intimidation factor is going down more and more as I prep the canvas and...

Developing references for the Cardinal

After I did the first drawing for of the crude maquette, I took some photos of it in different lighting conditions and made a Frankenstein version in photoshop.

2023-12-13 01:56:39 +0000 UTC View Post

Scattering Brain Seeds

Earliest stages of a new painting.

These are some thumbnail sketches for a new painting. Scattering little seeds and looking for one that will grow.

The painting is for a show I've be...

Drawing What Doesn't Exist: the Maquette Video

This video is about my early experience of making maquettes and drawing them, the thought process behind why I started doing this, Facing uncomfortable truths about your art, and making it fun for ...

New video tomorrow

I'll be posting a video tomorrow about these new clay experiments I've been doing. A little bit about the physical process of making these things, a little about the thought process and why I start...

Maquette Study + Dimebag Darrell

A weird little clay drawing session and reflecting on the death of Dimebag Darrell 19 years later.

I'm getting in to this process. I like mushing the clay around, creating distorted, messed u...

Harnessing the Cardinal and the Butthole Snowman

Bringing the Cardinal into Being

This idea has been with me for almost 2 years. Starting with a watercolor sketch I did in February 2022 I think. I did a pretty decent acrylic study of it a...

Could I interest you in my leathery shampoo?

New Scum Choir Luxury Leather Shampoo. Lather yourself in Luxury with my new premium shampoo that comes in a leather bottle. 

In my quest for methods of creating reference material to pa...

Christmas Music Sucks, Here's Some Christmas Music

I'm on record saying that "If Christmas music were good, they'd play it year round." 

I think the reason why so many of us hate Christmas music is because it's extremely formulaic to mak...

Skull Study 3- Timelapse and music, New Skull Studies Available

Happy December 4th everybody.

This skull and the other two are now available only for Choir members in the secret Choir only...

2023-12-05 01:38:47 +0000 UTC View Post

This feels insane

And I love it.

One thing I've noticed about drawing from life references like this is how I tend to over look the cast shadows on things. And then that makes me notice how important a cast sh...

Creating what doesn’t exist

I know I mentioned this a little in a previous post so sorry if I repeat myself. But I’ve been coming to the realization-with the help of a mentor-that the key to taking my art to the next level ...