Back when I was in high school, I made this painting of Lewisburg. Borderline surreal, it incorporates national geographic photos next to simplified Lewisburg landmarks. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been making an upgraded version of this picture for my neighborhood in Garfield, a painting I’m going to call “I don’t know what I…
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Coffee with Strangers number 5 and 6
I am really loving making these portraits. Over the last two months, I’ve been thinking a lot about gestures and the way they animate the person in question. For both of these models, I have static just sitting pictures as well as shifting, conversational ones. I’ve noticed that once people start talking, their posture and…
Coffee with Strangers #s 3 and 4
I’ve been working on these two for the last few months. Reaons that have kept me from completing them: 1. Developing new mediums is a time sink. The watercolor crayons are really cool, but I’m not able to leverage them as well yet. 2. I’ve been working on an enormous tree in my basement with…
More Watercolor Sketches
Watercolor sketches. I’ve been trying both dense crayon-ing and light crayon-ing. Some of these are working better than others. Enjoy!
Watercolor Crayons!
Hey! This is a new kind of thing I’m doing! My Dad has been using watercolor crayons, so I have too. I did five of these on my way to Chicago on the train. The only problem with doing art while traveling is that random people want to talk to you for a long time…
Coffee with Strangers 3 (Preview): Where are we right now?
Some things I realized today: 1. I don’t post enough 2. I only painted like, six paintings this year. 3. Both might be because I spend 1/3 of my time painting and 2/3 of my time second guessing myself. So! Here is a new post. This…
No Man’s Land
I’ve been talking about my caulk a while now. Here, finally, is the result of my first paint using the caulk gun as a primary means of implementation. I’m calling this “No Man’s Land” because I think about parking lots as one of the only places where I’m likely to see a representative demographic of…
Southside from Duquesne Overlook
Happy Saturday morning! I was at my friend’s house and thought I would get a picture of this for my website. This is the longest distance shot I’ve painted. I think it highlights the tone of the city more clearly than many of my other paintings. There’s a quote from the “Crying of lot 49”…
Preview: No Man’s Land
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Coffee with Strangers #2
Hey everybody, I know it’s been a really long time since I posted. I have three projects brewing, this is the first. What we have is a sort of sequence. I’ve been trying recently to isolate some of the themes of my art and move them forward. I think one of the themes that I’m…
Coffee with Strangers 2 (in progress)
Saturday morning. I think these drafts are going pretty well. Interestingly, I found myself more interested by the initial cobbling of weird shapes more interesting visually than where I might be going with the painting now. I’ve included pictures of both where I am now and where I was early on down below.