Summer Plein Air: Chasing The Light
Summer in Texas, where I live and work, is never the best outdoor painting time. Extreme heat and incredibly harsh, searing daylight add...
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Thoughts and writings about art, painting, and tattooing, as well as my experiments and explorations in other media such as film photography, digital photography and design, video, and more.
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nickbaxtertattoos
- Aug 2
- 2 min
Run Script: gaiatheory/upload.exe
I. Upload And Transcend Since Vernor Vinge’s work in the 1980s there has been a belief by some that, through an event called the...
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nickbaxtertattoos
- Jun 22
- 3 min
Cybernetic Karma Algorithm
The DNA of any two people on Earth is supposedly 99.6 percent identical. If such biological uniformity flies in the face of all of our...
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nickbaxtertattoos
- Mar 15
- 3 min
The Three Hands Of God
A triptych spanning 12 years and a few different eras of my painting and stylistic evolution, this trio of paintings addresses the tense...
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nickbaxtertattoos
- Feb 3, 2022
- 2 min
Perception Of Being: NFT Redux
The Origin Story and The Epilogue Sometime around 2013, during a tattooing trip to South America, I was led into the Amazon rainforest...
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nickbaxtertattoos
- Jul 12, 2021
- 2 min
Art & Life 3: Self Love/Self Harm
Although May every year is mental health awareness month, like many others I believe that every month, week, or day of the year needs to...
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nickbaxtertattoos
- Apr 5, 2020
- 1 min
Notes & Advice 12: What To Consider When Setting Up A Still Life
Discussing some of the subtler points of still life setup with Jake Meeks of Fireside Tattoo Network and Podcast. Part of my alla prima...
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nickbaxtertattoos
- Mar 12, 2020
- 6 min
My 20-Step Program for Perfect Art Reproductions
If you’re a painter or visual artist working in any traditional media, capturing digital images of your work is practically a requirement...
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nickbaxtertattoos
- Mar 12, 2020
- 1 min
Recent Painting Progressions
I love process in art–seeing it, knowing how things are made, reverse engineering them, speculatively forward-engineering them,...
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nickbaxtertattoos
- Nov 1, 2019
- 2 min
On The Benefits of Drawing
About 10 years ago I leveled up my artistic practice in all areas after discovering the classical atelier system of art education. Before...
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