This week I thought I’d do that thing where I pull an old painting out of storage, take a look at it, and write a little something about it. This painting is one of my small 8×10 inch acrylic on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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It’s time for the post-party blues again. Every year I throw a backyard barbecue for a bunch of friends. Usually somewhere from around 30 to 40 people show up and we all have a good time. I don’t have much[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I struggle making art sometimes. Especially art that’s outside my usual area of interest. I like to try new things, especially new tools, but sometimes it’s the approach to art, the conceptual side of things, that makes me struggle. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I recently made seventeen ASMR live marker drawing videos. That may mean nothing to anyone else but to me it was completing a pretty amazing task. Each video is of me spontaneously drawing with a marker on a five by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Usually when I make one of my big collage photos I work with a lot of different photos and organize them into, if not one big image, a series of images designed to work together. It’s all about using the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My movie watching habits aren’t what they used to be. I was just sitting here watching a movie and I lasted about five minutes before I turned it off and decided to do some writing. It’s not that I wasn’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Have I wanted my time?” That’s a serious question that I sometimes ask myself while working on, or after working on, a piece of art. Of course it’s a question one can ask one’s self in many different parts of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m coming off two weeks of being sick with a cold, sinus infection, or whatever the heck it was that I had. I couldn’t get any kind of artwork done for ten days in a row. Nothing. Well, I did[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was thinking of things to make videos about earlier this week and I decided to pull an old Overstreet comic book price guide out of the closet. It came out in 1980 and it’s the tenth edition of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Composition is my strongest natural artistic talent. I know how to arrange things on an instinctive level. Of course talent has to be worked on or it doesn’t fully develop but it’s easier to work on a natural talent. There[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…