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Ela e’ poderosa (she is strong)

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It’s hard to not be effected by the news. I’m a 34 year old black man. I am deeply effected by the effects of my people dying everyday via police. You may have your feelings about it and you are welcome to have a calm chat with me in the comments if you want. I painted this for all the mother’s out there who are trying to be strong in the face of a very wild and unsure world.

Art is about giving so many fucks you have to make it into a new thing just to get it out of you and the world sees it raw like a nerve.

Painter out

Always making

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Grinding

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So much of me is making at a  nonstop pace. I find peace in the making. It is the silence that grabs me and pulls me to the need for the ink. The ink is my favorite song. Alec is my favorite and only dance partner.

I remember before she met me I was this art refugee in training. I had like a brown belt in being a mess. I would paint until 4 in the morning only to get up at 8 for the day job hated. It was not a life. I don’t think I could keep moving at that pace. She says I was “gray”. I felt gray. The honesty was in the paint and I feel it still is. In the colors and the textures are the marks of life and love.

“intense” was what they called me……

Deep in the inks

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The best couple under the Universe

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Hi guys,

Just me checking in and letting you see what I made yesterday.

Also, please go check out my Patreon.  I’m Jaws Blake on there. Every little bit helps and I would love to paint you some thing nice if you would like. My rates are honest.

Love

Jaws

 

Deep in the ink video

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I love this series right now. Just fun and crazy and fun.1606917_10201088834934578_823803023_n

Sometimes we travel around and the trees give us amazing ideas.

I never remember the best ones off hand so I care around a notebook these days to just brainstorm. It is now covered in stickers.

Painter files

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Geez, it’s been, hot man. The temperature has finally broken again so I’m not feeling like I should crawl out of my skin and put it in the freezer anymore.  My studio boils in the middle of the day and the light blindness is the worst. Alec and I finally got me these curtains that Goose the demon climbs randomly. So I had these beautiful plants next to all my figures (toys) on my window seal but I had to move them because Goose (the cat) flipped them to the ground. Alec had them reset and moved outside. Sometimes I sit around them and wait to feel inspired.

The feelings are from my point of view anyways, is that their calm is a channel. Like a river mouth to my mind’s eye. IMG_8720.JPG

A creative Summer of 2016 to paint

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I made so much this Summer and I hope you have enjoyed watching me deep in my muchness. Here is a collection of my art videos for the Season. Enjoy!

Being the painter I always wanted to be

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Ink fields and Juice Boxes

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Making has this power that gives strength to the voiceless. I never knew how much I would have made in such a short amount of time. It feels like a nursery rhyme I was told as a kid that ended up being made into films. I see the words late at night and then they become more.

I love how the ink wash shines in this one. So much more to come.