Always making
I love this series right now. Just fun and crazy and fun.
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.
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. 
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!
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.
I’m paint and heart and love.
It all happens in days but feels like moments. The sun sees me and leaves me in the half step of dreaming while awake.
Something awful happened this week. A block from my home an explosion happened and a few people lost their lives. The country reported on it and the community cried together. This will be a wound on my heart for a long time but the love we have shown is amazing. There were so many donations that they had to give some to other causes. So many people wanted to help it over flowed. I gave so clothing but I just didn’t feel that was enough so I painted as I do what is in my heart. I paint this to celebrate the lives of the people we lost because they are the children and parents of love and amazement.
I’m a painter, a film making , a photographer and illustrator. I never thought I would be all those things at once. I keep trying to find a perfect mix for all at once and to be honest there isn’t one. Jaws Blake is a ball of Plato rolled together. Blues and yellows and reds and purples all mixed up in the best way. My heart lets me know what to focus on at the time. The passion lets me know when I’m done. Love is my compass.
My hero.
That is how I feel. I tried to be this painter that I read about most of my life and in that I against my brain found happiness.They tell us artist are sad moody people and in some ways we are but we are so much more. The inspiration is about passion and heart.
My coffee mug is full to the rim with ice, coffee and my fears of failure but when i drink it away it’s just a mug and in me is the chance to make a new beautiful thing. My children are in the thousands and they are of paint and ink. 
Also I may have forgotten and dipped a paint brush in there. 🙂
I love making these but I would be lying if I said I’m putting off working on my comic. It is my big fear that it will be awful. Not to you but to me. I have played this out so many times in my head that I’m not sure I can live up to it but I’m going to try because you have to least try and rework it until you love your work. Always work to be better.
My teacher taught me to keep working at it and never give up ….so I will even with my fears…..cus…..Fuck Fear!
I think in this time of men and women or women and men….depends on how you feel I guess, we are alive on two plains. One of bone and one of digital wires. I am no real difference. I crave the likes and shares like the the rest of you but I don’t want that to change why or how I paint and make short films. I want to learn a lot this year in my craft from other masters and so I have started studying again in classes. It is a huge step in my life to restart but I feel I’m up for it. I never knew there where so many ways to say “I love you” with a brush to a canvas. It feels like I learned a new sex trick. I can’t wait to surprise my wife with this just to see her smile.
With this one I have learned how to better curve my brushes and make the best points for my lines. I love my brushes so this feels so natural to take care of them in the best way.
I hope you enjoy. Also how are you? Are you taking any classes this year or taking on any new projects? I would love to hear about them in the comments.
jaws_blake 