A Reflection
An artist friend of mine sent me a reel showing the work of her professor from SCAD, a professional comic artist Robert Atkins
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DN6zGnLDuLq/?igsh=MXMwanN5NW9mejdmNQ==
I had told her that was my original inspiration for getting into art, the dynamic figures and superhuman anatomy drew me in. Comics as a kid was a good 1/4th of my childhood. It's fair to say it shaped my artistic path 🙃
Fast forward, 30 years, and I am where I am now. It would have been incredible to attend an accredited art school and learn from working professionals. But if I had the chance to go back and do it differently, I wouldn't.
I met my wife in college.
That little sentence doesn't mean much to anyone else. But to me, it's everything.
Even though my degree in Graphic Design didn't bring me much. The life I have built with her far out weighs the value of a career that could have been.
The Journey Beginues..
Hello everyone!
I thought I would like to document my day - day / week - week happenings.
And this week has been pretty wild!
On Monday I resigned from a position of an upstart company. There was some not great things I found out about, and decided it was best to leave.
The first couple days were really hard. I had been apart of that company since nearly the beginning.
But since then, I decided to renew focus on the shop! You will start seeing some new things products pop-up and keep an eye out for items on sale 👀
Had a nice break from the summer heat as we’ve been drowning in blissful rain. The cucumber plants we've been growing are all but dead, but amongst the browning vines I discovered new life! A nest of baby bunnies 🐰! (I carefully covered them back after a quick picture, double careful not to touch them)
Life is beautiful y'all
On the art side, I finally began a painting I had the idea for, like, 3 months ago? I'm imagining a cooly-lit skull with its jaws agape and an eerie green glow emitting from within. I've lost a bit of the skull to the background, but I'll continue layering until it comes back out, and I’ll add in some darker colors to increase the contrast.We’ll see how it goes; I am still relatively new with traditional painting, I've only done a handful in my life. But I take a lot from what I've learned doing things digitally.
I suppose it's all cumulative experience, a life of experimenting with so many different mediums.
I cannot imagine a life without art
Work in progress…
