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https://youtu.be/1XxyFVsWLR0 Featured modelLuna Moonz https://www.instagram.com/lunamoonz1111/ Welcome to Block Party 1 where a whole bunch of paintings get started at the same time and somehow I convince myself this is more efficient. This week, we’re blocking in pirates for Upon Dark Waters. I like to work on one larger piece alongside several smaller canvas boards. The…

https://youtu.be/LoPLMWQAOos It started with something simple: a photograph of my own eye. A self-portrait. From there, I began digging into the image, searching the colors, shadows, shapes, and textures to see what might be hiding underneath. This was my first real journey into pareidolia finding pictures within pictures and allowing the flow state to take…

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https://youtu.be/XYDmPbBXpzoWe all call it AI slop and laugh.But then people hand their kids tablets with Ads that condition them to like the slop. Like imprinting on baby birds. Adults can see the uncanny valley. But if a youngster is looking at a device all day it will not be uncanny to them. The strange speaking…

https://youtu.be/z6kpqTnBpXU Burning the Midnight Oil Today started exactly how it should. We had an awesome dinner at Arts & Eats Café. It was one of those meals that hits just right. The kind where you lean back afterward and think, “Yep I could take a nap right here.” For a brief moment, life slowed down….

https://youtu.be/qjrsAsMdrDs When a Rhino Spaceship Becomes an Eskimo Riding a Dinosaur Some paintings have a plan. This wasn’t one of them. I was absolutely exhausted while working on this piece, and honestly, I think that might have been the best thing that could have happened. The original idea was to paint some kind of rhino…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gDc7zlR6YM What happens when you try to paint six canvases in seven days? This short film captures the entire journey—from the first brush stroke to the final painting—and everything in between. There were moments of excitement, frustration, self-doubt, and eventually… burnout. But sometimes that’s the price of pushing yourself creatively. Featured in this challenge:🐓 The…

https://youtu.be/1bcJ7XX3lAQ Verse 1Golden lights on a velvet street,Everybody dancing to a reckless beat.Promises wrapped in diamonds and gold,Selling forever but it’s all been sold.Every mirror told us we were queens,Living in a million perfect dreams.But underneath the glitter and the glow,There was a truth nobody wanted to know. Pre-ChorusI heard a voice cut through the…

https://youtu.be/mFX3iqYtgtA When I paint, I like to use a small canvas board as my palette. It gives me a place to test color mixes, experiment, and just play around in a creative sandbox. I’ve always felt a little bad when I see artists with perfectly clean palettes. To me, that’s where some of the real…