Yesterday when I went to go painting at the portrait group. I brought my french easel and the wing nut was missing! From one of the legs! Without the wing nut one of the supporting legs would not hold up the easel. I almost thought I wouldn't be able to paint and would have to go home. Where I live at it takes a bit of time and navigating traffic to get to the drawing group.


Fixing things hardware wise is a weakness of mine. I joke I can't even fix the tape dispenser at my work. Usually I wait until someone fixes it for me. I'm useful for electronics but not hardware. For once I came up with a viable solution! Prop my french easel unassembled and use the provided art horses in the owner's art studio. Only thing I had to borrow was paper towels to place so I wouldn't get my oil paints and medium all over the art horse.

It was quite comfortable and I will do this more often. A few of the members of the group kept eyeing me to see if it would actually work and if I was comfortable. I am used to standing when painting but it is nice to change it up here and there. Only other thing that it would help was if I brought a taboret or something so I wouldn't have the paint and materials right under my nose. It so happened I brought paint from my storage box and didn't use my wooden palette and make such a mess like I usually do.





When I got home I found my missing wing nut. It's baffling how it fell off in the first place. Least it saved me a trip to the hardware store. Somehow like the art store I end up buying a lot of stuff that I can actually use. Taking in consideration I'm helpless in fixing any type of hardware.

By the way this will be the start of my #1/100 100 heads. Draw a portrait every day for a hundred days challenge on instagram. I'll probably post my progress every 10 days or so. There is more work needed to be done to finish this painting but it's more close to being done than unfinished.   

One of the awesome and amazing aspects of the creative process is practically every painting has an ugly phase. There is the struggle and the abysmal but it becomes something beautiful and recognizable? Something I see in my head becomes real after I am able to bring it to life with my hands and the medium I'm using. That feeling is hard to explain.























Previous drawing group paintings done in this last month. It takes time but I feel and see improvement!

Maybe I unadvertaly got my wish to draw people of different age groups!

Art Dump. For the lack of art in the updates. Working on a new theme that I hope to share soon.

Figure Drawings 

I'm a fan of over-the top style assassin movies like the Bounty Killer. Overload in cheesyness but nethertheless wanted to run with my theme of lame action movies. Pt. 1 was a guy based
off of a phrase of a mix of bad Spanish, Italian, and English, "Mucho Gusto nice to killz yous. Requiscant sin Pace Bastardo." Which is "Nice to meet you. Nice to killz yous. Rest without peace bastard."

Pt. 2 Unknown female character.

Titled "Does Your Soul Cry?"

Haven't done anime style in awhile. Sketch for a marker piece in progress.

It is based off of the song "Retrograde" by James Blake. 

When I first heard it I cried. Recently heard it again the other day 

and involuntarily the same effect happened. So I sketched that feeling out. 

I hope to convey that same feeling well.  

At my New Year's party my friends and I attempted to watch many movies. Watched part of movies and didn't pay much attention what was going on before moving on to the next movie. Nothing was accomplished except singing karoke to 90's hit music and Back Street Boys. With a side track mission in doing the Gangnam style while drunken style. Which I won second place in not messing up by default.

 Back to the main point finally had time to watch one of my favorite movies that evening. That movie was Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog. It is about an aspiring villain trying to be accepted in the Evil League of Evil. While singing blog posts about his life. A short 45 minute movie on Netflix.  Its an awesome movie and I recommend it.