August 2026

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…