22 notes on starting.
Starting before you are ready is scary. Starting before you are ready is the best way to get better. You cannot know …
notebook.
beginning the ‘coloring pages.’
I have been working on a new artistic style for well over a year now and I’m finally getting it to the …
layering flavors.
When I started painting, I felt like I picked up the skill quicker than I should have. This is probably related to …
i have nothing to say about the meta paintings.
I am working on a new style called meta painting (which I’m doing in parallel with my coloring pages), but a full description …
chasing down the propylene glycol.
Have you ever woke up in the middle of the night and wondered why kitchen sponges stay moist in the bags, but …
training your madness.
“I myself have trained everyday in an effort to get close to this madness”
now vs forever.
I tend to see these two things as mutually exclusive. Last month, an artist had someone duct tape a banana onto a …
101 ways to ditch art school and still become a successful creative genius.
My free 12,500-word guide featuring 101 ways to succeed as a creative professional & achieve your artistic dreams without going to art school.
my favorite tools: 2020 edition
Being an INTJ, the only things I truly love in this world are my tools. These are the 20 things that make …
life as a series of inputs and outputs.
I tend to think of life as a magic box that takes inputs, does stuff, and delivers the output on the other …
just keep getting better.
A look at Lichtenstein’s early work… how much his process evolved over the 1960s… and why this inspires me to keep progressing and getting better.
pretend you’re in jail.
Last year I read the book Creativity by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and overall I thought it was kind of dry and 400 pages …
art is a mirror.
If you ever find yourself struggling to understand what a piece of art is supposed to “mean,” you can try out my …
the toastlapse.
A 60-second time-lapse of me painting the “plain ezekiel” toast from my loaf of 16 toasts.
how i made the decorative [toast] plates.
My process for producing these realistic toast sponges on melamine paper plates. They’re as weird as they sound.
success & toast & failure.
An essay about success, failure, my work as a vegan food blogger, listening to your intuition, and how all of that resulted in a whole bunch of toast art.