Little adventures
Artist shorts
Little adventures
Category: life
Studio short
First of all, Happy New Year! I watched the ball drop on tv with the family. Did not care for the music , so I popped on some. Calypso music. Found an old record of Black Stallion from Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹.
Ate some Tamoles, black eyed peas and greens with a little cornbread. I almost had champagne but my feet started to hurt so I calmed it down. (Blood sugar spike sign)
I hope this year is beautiful for us.
Painter out,
Jaws
Q and a
You get to build your perfect space for reading and writing. What’s it like?
Hola Galeras,
So this question is an easy one for me. My studio exists. But, if I could make it perfect? I would buy a huge shipping container and deck it out. Lights, grid walls and lots of running long tables with bar stools as stations.
A spot in a bit of land near our home. Heated with a toilet inside as well as a dump sink.
So a few ideas I guess.
Galeras
I can not express to you that I feel. Packing up the studio yard salon actually. It’s a movie don’t want. It’s a movie. We don’t have a choice about. And I don’t know that I’m ever going to have a studio that feels so at home even in a new home down the road. We’re being forced to sell our place because we can no longer afford the huge increase that they recently put on us of a extra thousand dollars a month. Nothing about this feels good. It feels hard and fearful and awful. I generally don’t have any hope.
I just feel very deflated and incomplete. I just stuffed my entire life‘s work and into a Bike box. At least it’s really heavy.
Eat the rich.
My mind is like my desk. Full of ink.
Che Guerrilla shirt
Hola Galeras,
This year has been a lot and I promised myself I would make a new shirt.
https://jayisapainter.storenvy.com/products/36858772-che-guerrilla-classic-tee
Pick up one today.
You are not alone
This country is crazy but we are in this together. I will be here for you. We are in this moment together.
Feliz DÃa de los muertes
I hope you enjoyed today. For me it’s a special time of year. It’s the Day of the Dead. We celebrate our pasted loved ones on today.
I miss all of them but I know they are in good places.
Clean your brushes
Every few years, I always say clean your brushes. I spent years without cleaning my brushes sometimes, and some my favorite brushes are no more. It broke my heart, but I did it to myself and so get some brush soap clean your brushes you’ll be happier.
I have a few I need to clean always.
Painter’s vlog
A new tattoo of my childhood hero.
Coco Beware was a pro wrestler in the 80’s when I was a little boy. He was one of the first Black wrestlers I ever saw. he was very charismatic and extremely skilled at story telling.
He used to come to the ring with a bird from the Caribbean.
My friends are made up of the cool people you see in the streets with tattoos. One of my cool friends is a tattoo artist at a tattoo shop. He designed a bunch of old wrestling tattoos. I am his first wrestling tattoo this year. It’s simple and a foot note of my childhood.
