Category: artwork

We are all around us

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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

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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

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I miss making art GIFs. They were a big part of my art twenty years ago. Roots

I learn more each time.

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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

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I love these days, when I just make with my full heart.

Murder by the dozen explained

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I’ve been getting a lot of messages about this book, so I’m going to break it all down. Little by little in six videos.

If you would like a copy contact me via email painterfilespodcast@gmail.com

Sick as a dog

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So I don’t know it I told you, but I am full of COVIDs again. Been bed ridden most of the week but drawing to keep my mind flowing.

I love little studies when I’m away from my studio.

Tom is keeping me company mostly.

Alec has thankfully been taking care of me. This round of COVID is hard but easier because we were prepared. My diet was changed because of my diabetes. Mostly no rice this time.

I think / hope I’ll be better soon. I’m not going to push it too fast this time. After the last time it took months to feel fully recovered. My breathing was harder and my strength came back later.

I’m walking around the room for a few minutes everyday to rebuild my strength and stretching. Lots of water.

A few good books have kept me company and movies.

  • the grand budapest hotel
  • Akira
  • Mastering Diabtes by Cyrus Khambatta and Robby Barbaro
  • Birdking vol 1
  • Raizes do Amanha

I like the ideas they bring to me in dreams.

Hope to see you soon.

Paintings and sketches from the show

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I sketch in the show so I’m sharing some stuff.