um from the past couple days

Paintings from the last few days...


dorky me
dorky me
kinda looks like the mask

your uncle sam
i dunno why but i like this
I think i called this a tumultuous peace -however its just bs
this is me trying to get rid of old paint that doesnt work any more.

This is a moose meditating. But everyone and their mom thinks I need to make the face part more clear... I don't have the time.. I'm sooooo busy with all my youtube watching, and other procrastination.

I think Im starting to like messing around with my art on the computer a little too much. This is a watercolor and pen drawing I did today... My mom said something like... "do you just make this stuff up as you go or do you see it in your head first?" I said "a little of both."

The photo was taken on my webcam thing so its a little blue, the messed around version is actually closer to the real thing... but I dont think any of these have the right color.

So I was just looking at my art work and I think I have a real problem with A) realism B) depth in my work. I think the "depth" if there is any comes from foreground and background only... nothing that sort of ranges...
I'm trying to figure out if this is
A) because I don't have any interest in painting the way other people paint.
B) because I lack the formal training to do good work.
C) because I don't use the right paints to create the effect... like oils for instance seem to be able to do things that acrylics cant... and I don't use oils (because I don't know how).
D) It might just be because I still see the paintings as works in progress, where as when I look at other people's work I see it as a picture of something... my work is "me trying to paint" and so I see it in the 2d format that I painted it on....
E) probably all of the above.

This makes me think I should take classes again. But my mind wanders so much I have a hard time painting real things, or drawing real things, I get bored... I move on, I mix images that fit or don't sometimes just because thats what I was thinking about. Anyway, it makes me pretty self conscious thinking of myself as an artist... I mean I am an artist, but I just looked at like 30 other artists and some of them were really amazing... I don't know how to do that. I would like to include more realistic things in my paintings and keep my weird anything goes style.

finishing up old ones... yep.

watercolors are so light... I need to learn how to make really deep colored ones. this is watercolor and marker by the way. and I think the background (which is mostly new) is supposed to be like a weird mix of mountains turn into sky... but it doesnt necessarily make sense which is why it took me so long to finish this one... it was just sitting around and i couldnt think of shit to do with it so i just did something.

some other arts... the last 4 were all in the sketch pad i was drawing stupid shit in today... im guessing they are all from within the last 3 years. some i know for sure were like last summer at the latest.

Part of thank you letter (St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow)




The outline (a copy) in pencil


In watercolor, sort of screwed up a little... but this is the final copy.


The scanner allowed me to put it in black and white, and I like this a lot better... sad.


When I got home I messed around trying to bring out the colors a little. This is the computerized version.