Sometimes People Just Want You To Paint Some Flowers

Over the holidays I painted a few paintings for people. This was one of them. The only instruction I got was that he wanted flowers. He was a horticulture major in college, so he wanted a painting of something he knows a lot about.

My favorite paintings I do for people are always when they give me the freedom to do whatever I want to do. I think I get my best results when I don't feel too much restraint when painting.

I decided to paint a surreal painting involving flowers. I looked at a lot of different pictures of flowers, and sort of came up with a story.

I don't really want to get into the story. I don't generally like explaining what things mean or represent in my paintings. Most of the time other people's own interpretations interests me more than my own....well sometimes.

In A Galaxy...

Hope everyone had nice holidays!
This is how I ended mine.
Good times.

The Boy And His Guitar

So I have been pretty busy painting and drawing these past few weeks. Mostly because I've gotten a few commission jobs. One of the most interesting ones was a multi layered stencil. They saw some stencils I sprayed on vinyl records, and wanted something similar. However instead of one, they wanted four records stack together. It's something I've been wanting to do for a while now, so I was glad to try it.


This was the picture they wanted me to make a stencil out of. The stencil wasn't too hard to create. The stencil I created was pretty big, and I only made a single layered stencil of the picture. Through past experiences I decided to hand paint the other layers.


Altogether I hand painted about 7 layers. After I was done, I decided to do something with the guy's shirt. I taped most of the stencil up and sprayed some color to make his Rolling Stones shirt pop a little.


After everything was done I sprayed the whole thing with a gloss finish to make everything look bright and shiny. Overall I was really pleased with how it came out. It was my first stencil with this many layers. First time spraying a stencil that big. What ya think?

Tiny Dancer

Haven't been posting much, but its not because I'm lazy or have lost interest. I have been really busy painting and drawing...pretty much none stop. I have a couple new pieces I shall post later.

This Is What Happens When You Watch The Lion King Part I

I feel like lately I have been really unfocused and only moderately busy. So this past week I decided to put some more energy into painting and drawing again. I have been trying to get back into water color again, but have only been doing so with black and white paintings. This time I gave color a shot. I started with small post card size paintings of animals. It was easy to get the hang of it. Each one took me about half an hour. I think I'm probably going to do more... and maybe eventually go bigger...