I’m very fond of my moleskine notebook. I keep one in my office, one in the living room, and there is a third I drag around with me wherever I may roam. I may use Evernote a LOT but I still like the touch of pen to paper for some things.
These fantastic books wandered into [...]
I’ve made about 11 of these so far and they are destined to be worked into 4 pieces. I’ve not added colors yet but they will be muted when I do add them. I’ve trying to come up with something which looks impartial but not emotionless. I think of them as “Mediators”.
Simplicity. I’m tired of objects owning me. I want to own 100 or fewer objects by the end of the year.
I hesitated to upload pictures of work in progress because I take so darn long to actually finish my work sometimes. For example:
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The above picture is not a bad example of a piece I’ve started and will likely not touch again for 1-3 months at the soonest. It’s an underpainting constructed of hand [...]
Jamie Ribisi was tweeting the other day about about a strange method of using wax paste to beef up acrylic painting. Ok - so it was weeks ago. I’ve been busy.
I can’t be positive but I believe he was talking about wax emulsion. It’s not exactly encaustic but it does look a lot like it.
Beeswax [...]
… and picking up almost exactly where I left off before my little “get lots of rest, change your diet, and at least think about exercise if you don’t want to die” sabbatical. The break has done well by me though. Plenty of time to think, sketch, and plot my course can hardly be called [...]
