Hola mi gente,
Hope you are doing well. I’m back to painting/ inking my tile projects. They are fun and keep me sharpening my imagination.
I stopped a bit back and felt a little empty.
Art shorts
Category: artwork
Hola Galeras
I’m trying to figure out the best ways to reach you, and at this point here and IG are the easiest but I would love it to also be YouTube.
Lots of live shows and art videos coming soon for 2024. Hope to see you there.
Painter vlog
We saw Dune 2 and I loved it. To be fair I loved the books as a kid. It was a fun world to fall into. I remember loving the later books the most.
In a lot of ways the new one works for me because of Zendaya. I like that this movie series has so many brown people playing brown people. The originals were mostly all white casts. It’s hard being told stories of the future and no one who looks like you exists. You just feel more connected when you can relate to the characters at first sight. Plus I always enjoyed the story.
Alec’s birthday was nice. We ate Korean food with our family. There is the restaurant called Urban Hotpot we like a lot.
I’m drinking large amount of green tea to keep my blood sugar lowered. It’s nice to have a flavor to my water these days. I gave up so much last year when I found out about my diabetes. It’s coming a long better. Green tea 🍵 could be my new hobby. I like that they make it in some many ways.
I hope your day goes well.
Painter out,
Jãws
A peak
I’m some where in this painting around 8%. I normally only show these to my Patreons
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I have so much to do with this one.
Someone asked me what I was “afraid of “ once and after a decade of contemplating I can say “losing my memory”. It has things it that are just for me; the powerful stuff, the silly and the sad. Each pull me up from my grave and pull me to painting all night long.
I really hope for a ceasefire soon by the by.
Later Galeras,
Jãws
I painted an album
It was a big honor to be asked to make this cover. Please find this album and give it a listen.
We are all around us
I finally named this one.
My art often gets made, shown off and then put away with a few hundred other paintings. I’m trying to rediscover my old paintings and tell little stories about them.
This painting is about my Abuelos. They were both car lovers. One worked on cars a it and the other loved driving them. I was thinking about them a lot last year. They both pasted away a long time ago. Their memories lived in my thoughts a lot.
It might be one of my favorite paintings I have done in a while.
Doing the wash
Tools, get it?
So as a painter, my big tools are not those but these.
I say over and over again “clean your tools” to myself at myself. I work with ink and paint and to be honest the ink destroys a lot of my brushes but I still love it.
They are my little babies and I should treat them to a pleasant wash from time to time. It’s a charming moment of the looking glass.
Honestly save your good brushes by washing them less but when I do wash them, do it well.
I have an issue of using half a soap each time I wash all my brushes. They seem to enjoy it.
The main point of all of this is that the big step in being a professional painter is wash your brushes but not to much.
Painter out,
Jaws
Working on some new ideas
I miss making art GIFs. They were a big part of my art twenty years ago. Roots
I learn more each time.
I have this way about me that I feed off of my inner voice trying to talk me out of things. It mostly is a passive thing but some times I’m enraged by the self doubt. I cut bits of it away to see the problem and try to find solutions either on paper with paint and ink or writing it out. This painting was fighting me and then I spoke with Alec and it came to me.
The engine is parts, so paint it in parts.
I like how it is going now. I was tempted to destroy it and start something else but I’m stubborn.
Sometimes painting in the dark helps me see ways the light can’t show me.
More to come mi Gente.
Day 2 of the zine videos
I love these days, when I just make with my full heart.
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