I keep getting over being older and yet my demons stay the same age.
Panic attack on The Moon
Category: Art videos
Some times you just have to make.
I love making art that feels like an Indy band. I have been getting better again about just making and not sharing. It is just for me and sometimes my Patreon secret tumblr page. It just feels good to make and not worry about likes or comments or anything. I is my love letter to myself.
deep in
Know that I make in these moments and wash myself of mistakes by always moving forward.
May the 4th
I played around with mu inks on May the 4th. So I made all this Star Wars art. I don’t normally make other people’s creative works but it felt special after the last two Star Wars movies. I felt connectde again as I did as a child.
Painter
So much of all I do is mixed in with the culture of my surroundings. My neighborhood on the right day is so flavorful. The food smells are almost sexy. There is this food truck across the street from my studio and a Bodega next door. The languages dance across the streets at stop lights. I love how kind everyone is. It has this 8 fit feel to it from my big bay window. 
I am but a man with a brush.
I am but a man with a brush. I dream and sleep. I’m good at both if I may brag? A lot of that art comes from dreaming. The lucidity of waking up and running to a pen and paper is my shining achievement.
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I love all the making.
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Painter Files
really went deep in my mix media mind this week.
I never learned anything the first time.
In my life, I have ignored a lot of life lessons people had given to me at first. As I have gotten older I have to know now to open my mind and ears. Not all voices are good advice from other people. Most advice is less about me than it is about people taking to themselves. Also, sadly lots of the advice people have given me would only work if I was a white dude. People don’t like to admit that what works for white dudes doesn’t work to strive in life for people of color. I’m pointing this out as Afro -Carribean-Latino man in Black history month who is 35. So I have lived for a bit and tried this advice many times and mostly failed. Not to say I have not had little victories. I’m here …doing all these paintings with all my fans worldwide but as look at Jean-Michael Basquiat and see his struggles as a man of color being a maker and I see parallels. I don’t want that life but I wonder how does a man of color makes it big in the art world other than to meet an icon and then climb to equality? Is that even equality? I say, Andy Warhol and people, nod their heads ad I say Basquiat and I get back blank faces. It is disheartening. I think of Baldwin who made it on his own and how much waring he had to do and all I think to do is prep myself for a fight to be heard and seen as an equal.
Bloody fists can be paintbrushes too.
It will be sad to see you go but staying and not seeing is worse.
Ocean of Min
I love comics. I always have. I love how they take your mind on trips and how the art makes you transform as you take it in. It has a perfect quality to it. I hope my art has that effect. My lines change your reality a tiny bit. That textures are now important to you. That you see somehting new and amzing and it makes you think of one of my paintings. I know that is silly but that is how I feel from reading comics after all these years.
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