Stubbing My Toe on Wyeth

I was feeling uptight tonight.

Watched a video on Andrew Wyeth, who is my absolute favorite painter. Ever. Sweet leaping Jesus, if that man didn't paint in exactly the palette of my soul...

But the thing is, for some reason I get SUPER uptight when I watch/read/view the work of my idols. I go to my canvas and all I'm thinking about is them. Their work. How THEY did things. As inspiring as I find Wyeth, David Mack, Dave McKean and many others, something about my love for their work stands in my way.

Perhaps this is the lesson. Adore the work of others, let it work its magic on you. But fight it out of your heart and mind with everything you've got as soon as you pick up a brush. That canvas is yours.

Loss Cycle

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Resolution here isn't so great. You can see up close and read the newsprint on my deviantArt page. Click here for page 2.

What the Angel Saw - Preview

Playing around with gouache on pink-toned paper. I'm thinking I'm going to go with dark lines in india ink next...

HOT BUTTERED TOAST!!! FOLKS ARE READING MY BLOG!!!!

You like me! You really like me!!!

(In point of fact, I think Sally Field, to whom I attribute the above quote, should be smeared with honey and fed to ants. Ask me why in the comments below and I'll tell you).

400+ views after only a month on the Interwebs! You readers and your awesomeness!


Seriously, thank you very much for looking at this blog. It is, to this point, one of the only avenues I have for getting my art looked at by the rest of the world.

Thanks a million. You sexy beast, you.

Nursing. Pencil on paper.

I need a better scanner. My current one washes the crap out of my drawings. LOTS of tones missing. Oh well.

I have a beautiful wife and daughter, by the way.

Another life drawing. I found that the less time I had to draw, the better things turned out. No time to overthink and overwork, I suppose.

Life Drawing at the Harwood Art Center, 9/11/12

Life drawing session at the Harwood Art Center