A week in the ink

I found myself sick all week. Thus no posts. Thank you for waiting for me to pop up again.  My mind had these ideas of making more colors dance in this one. I was just going to put it away but then I remembered how much I used to paint in acrylics. I want to find that energy in watercolors and ink.

 

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The red really dances.

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The natural space of the paper rolls the red in little lakes.

I want to feel healthy but I also want to be out of control creative. I don’t know if I can be both at once, but I’ll try for fuck’s sake.

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also, my art book is now on Itunes.

My PAinter Files art book

 

 

Painter Files book

I am excited and fearful but all great things come from being a little bit of both.

http://www.blurb.com/b/8829360-painter-files

Come and check out my new art book. It is one of the hardest and most beautiful projects I have made in 10 years.

PainterFilesPlease check it out, pick one up and tell everyone you know. It will mean the world to me.

Painter out,

Jaws

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Making in Police states is hard, to be honest. Everything wants to pull you out of focus. We have so many great artists farmed from poverty but the rich are celebrated. You have to believe that your work will reach the world via none wealthy pathways.

To all my little painters out there, just know the world is waiting for you beautiful, imaginative artworks. I see you.

Thanks,
Jaws

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Painter Files Podcast ep 36

This is known as the Inception episode because I’m 36 and it’s 36.

The artist I spoke of is Kerry James Marshall.

He is amazing. kerryjamesmarshallyoutubescreenshot.jpg

The 10ft beast is coming along nicely.

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I have been playing around with a real design for my ink.IMG_6181

I have to redraw it flat to scan it but I think it will work.

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Big congrats again to Jordan and Earl.

love you Galeras,

Jaws Blake

 

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Painter Files Podcast ep 35

The names in my podcast where :

James Victore

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Nicole Dennett

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Hannah Cherry

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Augusten Burroughs

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Kelly King

Unknown

My works I’m in the mind of.

Special thanks to James Baldwin

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always making

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PPFthis should be my book cover.

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The artists in random order.

Dali

Frida Kahlo

Toyin Odutola

Basquait

Music by Japanese Breakfast -Road Head

 

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The places we go

 

A week of making,

Deep and true and fearful. The honest parts of me know the outcome is no bigger than a grain of sand to the world but I am a grain of sand so it is my world. In search of my next masterpiece and I do not know anything to begin and build a new universe with.

Wishing wells of all the parts that made me grow into the creative heartbeat. Cocoa butter for the tips and tops of feet and elbows to pull me back to the first time I ever lifted a brush as a youth. Whine and beer to remind my self that I can be limitless as I slow and speed up time; traveling on and bending space with colors.

Where ever I go the art is playing in the background; in the corners of my eyes. Forever a trickster to steal me from all other tasks. Making and making and making.

Next stop Painter Files Podcast.

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a million dots. I want to get a tattoo gun so I can make one million dots on a face in every painting. I want universes around eyes. To work huge is the occupation of the galaxy of details. No one hand makes without deep lacunas of agony in your bones. The silly bits are that the pain is a trophy of all the beauty you give to the art. To be a doner of such bloom is an honor and a gift of pure love.