TODAY'S FEATURED POST
a Thanksgiving story
Don’t have much art that I can show at the moment, so I thought I’d treat you to a fun thanksgiving story. This one time, years ago back when I was just starting out, a friend of mine reached out to me with a prospective illustration job. It was 1996, I was living in El Paso Texas, before I’d moved to San Francisco and gone to art school. Art jobs were scarce and you took…
YESTERDAY’S POST
We are all gonna die!
September 16, 2024 - Statistically I got 26 years left. After I go I guess there is about 10 years more that my artwork might live on and will be enjoyed...and then its all gone. great! now we got that out of the way, what are we gonna do about it? Over the last years I have been focusing much more on the process of painting rather than the actual painting. Its easy to get stressed out about what other people will think, what the client needs, how this specific image will either help or break your art career and so on. Non of those thoughts has ever helped me in any way. Not that they haven't pushed me or made me strive for perfection and all that, but they did put an extremely big load of performance anxiety…
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Crit-Submit #2
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“Art on a Grand Scale”
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McQueen Retrospective
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