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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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Mar 12, 20206 min read
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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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Mar 12, 20201 min read
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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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Nov 1, 20192 min read
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On The Mechanics of Seeing
A long time ago on this blog I touched upon the brain’s instinctive practice of limiting the amount of visual information we tend to...
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Oct 4, 20193 min read
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Pest
Here’s a silly random painting I made recently. “Pest” Oil on insect shaped panel For @christian1perez ‘s “Metamorphosis” art show at...
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Sep 2, 20191 min read
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The End of Websites
I’ve slowly let this blog turn to seed and die out, as the attention of the whole world turns to social media. I’ve noticed website...
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Aug 7, 20191 min read
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Blood Rituals: Volume One Coming Soon!
A pair of teaser trailers documenting some behind the scenes production of my forthcoming limited edition handmade monograph documenting...
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Mar 23, 20181 min read
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Blood Rituals: Redux
Photoshoots for last year’s Blood Rituals series of still life paintings yielded several interesting macros which did not fit the...
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May 7, 20171 min read
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In The Studio 5: Reworking Plein Air Landscapes
Something I’ve never been a fan of doing is revisiting older paintings after some time has passed. The process of reconstructing or even...
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Jan 27, 20172 min read
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Blood Rituals in Skin Deep (UK)
I’ve had the good fortune of my recent exhibition of new paintings being featured in the latest issue of Britain’s most popular tattoo...
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Jan 22, 20171 min read
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