A little match. A little sugar.
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"A Pensive Moment in a Cloud"
acrylic on canvas
17" x 21" 2024
"A little match. A little sugar"
acrylic on canvas
17" x 21"2024
I've been having a little fun lately working small scale. These are two of them that I recently finished up. The themes of cigar smoking and hot coffee is going strong. I never quite know when the next thing will come that I want to paint. Sometimes, I have to push myself to try something new. Other times, like now I have to force myself to stay on the same thing and new discoveries are born.
There comes a little bit of discipline, I just want to (at times) completely go in a different direction and go all the way abstract. I want to cause chaos on the canvas, and I push myself back because going that path is not always necessary or the best way to say exactly what I what to express in the work. There's a time for it tho, now is not one of those times. There's always an obscure line between pulling in the viewer in or overlooking them where the work becomes uninteresting. It's a push and pull and staying on a theme and what comes from it to know where to go next.
Can you deliver?
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This question has dogged me. The difference between me practicing vs when I actually freaking do it. I tend to crack under pressure so it's very annoying. So, the right answer to that question is NO.
If you can't do it under pressure, can you really even do it?
Same but not
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Fireworks on Cinestill 800T
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Fireworks on
Cinestill 800T
This is a rescan from the 4th of July 2022 on Cinestill 800t, Love the film halation.
Rescan from 4th of July - 2022
Purple lines
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FLOWERS ON FILM
Kodak Vision3 250D
CLOUDS
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CLOUDS
Spider Skylight
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PIT BAR-B-Q
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Hard Eight
TEXAS PIT BAR-B-Q
We went here right after seeing the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse. Awesome food on an awesome day.
Everything is bigger in Texas.
Retro baby!
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Retro Pinball Machine
classic arcade games
Random assortment
Do we live in a perfect nation?
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"Perfect Nation"
acrylic on canvas
14" x 11" 2024
I started this tiny painting thinking of corruption and cover up, thought of Jack Ruby then my mind went to fast food and our nations over stimulation of sugar/and fake sugar in food. Draw your own conclusions. Our country seems to be in disarray. Hope you all enjoyed the debate last night.
On another note, after I finished the painting, it reminded me of Robert Colescott. I was kind of suprised how the piece reminded me so much of his work. He was a genius of openly showing the deepest paranoias that lives inside of all of us.
Beginning stage of "Perfect Nation"
maketh himself ...
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There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.
-Proverbs 13:7
Show Room
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Yellow Lily Flower
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LILY FLOWER ON FILM
Kodak VISION3 5207
The view down
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Corridor alley or the view from the 7th floor?
fluorescent
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Point Diptych
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Point Diptych
Point Diptych
The flesh profiteth nothing
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It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
-John 6:63
Spidey web
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Orb Spider web
Man of Acres
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"Man of Acres"
acrylic on canvas
43" x 34" (2024)
Plans begin with a Drawing
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One of the many things I've learned about being a painter is that the more I can make my paintings look like my drawings the better. For me personally, there's something raw about drawing in pencil, pen, ink or colored pencils. Often times it can be a bit diffcult to translate that into a truly successful painting. It comes down to drawing more, painting more and observing more. It even comes down to the sort of brushes to use.
It's all one continual art project. It never ends. The truest form of art is what you put down on paper because often times it's not the final plan. At times we can divert from those tall stacks of used paper; it's often very raw we think, too real. A gallery owner once told me "I like your drawings, why don't your paintings look like your drawings?" It made me think, for one that maybe I'm not doing good enough of a job translating my sketches into paintings. Am I catching that true enegry? He was not giving advice per se, but it reaffirmed my belief in what I was working toward. Art projects are a lifetime, it continues and continues.
