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Ink Slinger / Word Wrangler // /

A sunny place for shady people
Joined October 2012
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6 years
Details / Inspiration c/o @jesserutherford // 11x14, ink & gouache on paper
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@SpiritofPines How mad is she at her father.
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Work from THE STACKS™️
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2 years
“Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.” - Constantin Brancusi
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2 years
“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” Gustav Flaubert
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Something from THE STACKS™️
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2 years
A little timelapse with reference c/o: @HooaFury . HOOA.
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3 months
Monica Belluci - 📸 Helmut Newton
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2 months
@vikare06 Give it a few years and this will be 1000% possible
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2 years
Matisse was old, sick & bedridden. Still managed to create. Total obsession! What’s your excuse?
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3 months
Ink evolution over a piece from last year
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26 days
Old CK & Armani in THE STACKS™️
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2 years
Painting while smoking a cigar. Churchill understood the power of… Multitasking.
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2 years
Observational drawing is the cornerstone of any successful artistic practice. Even Picasso kept at it long after things ‘got weird’ in his work.
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Three of the images currently available as limited edition prints in my shop. 🎨 All prints are 15% off through 12/4. 💰 Link in comments. 👇🏼
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3 months
FLOWERS FOR THE LADY, 18x24
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2 years
I think about this Gerome often.
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Siouxsie in THE STACKS™️
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EMMANUELLE IN BANGKOK - 18x24, ink & digital color
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2 years
Understand what your obsessions are and explore them until you die.
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@SolBrah Awful lie.
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VALENTINE IN HAND, 18x24 Ink & digital color
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2 years
Details from the week…
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DON’T STOP THE DANCE, 18x24
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30 days
Pieces in THE STACKS™️
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1 year
When I was young I aspired to be a bohemian layabout, dedicated to painting and pleasure. Now I aspire to be a RICH bohemian layabout, dedicated to painting and pleasure. Key distinction!
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2 years
Something from my new print series, The Education of Juliette…
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From Giorgio Armani, FW '92
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2 years
Quote on drawing by Hokusai, acclaimed Japanese master... (1.) "I have drawn things since I was 6. All that I made before the age of 65 is not worth counting. At 73 I began to understand the true construction of animals, plants, trees, birds, fishes, and insects...
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All skill in art is been built by a combination of obsession and neurosis. It's like any craft... You get sucked in by early praise, then stick around because of how good it makes you feel. This creates a virtuous cycle. It feels good to get good.
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Work from THE STACKS™️
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9 months
“All it comes down to is this: I feel like shit but l look great.”
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An old digital entry to THE STACKS™️ Conan v. The Serpents
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8 months
Doing the tango into THE STACKS™️
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Volume offers drama. Big coats, a generous silhouette, fabric to move with you and not against you.
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1 year
There is nothing on earth that replaces the energetic experience that comes from being around real art in the real world. Technology was the furthest thing from my mind when I recently spent time with an old friend of mine in his studio. AI? Show me PAINT!
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2 years
HUNGRY GHOSTS, c. 2016 They’re everywhere… Eager to distract you, eager to steal your time, desperate for your energy. They may be people, they may be habits, they may be substances, places, or things. They are HUNGRY GHOSTS and you must cut through them. VIGILANCE.
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2 years
My work is intuitive. This is partly nature, partly nurture. I feel that over analysis & timid execution is antithetical to effective art-making. The best stuff FLOWS. Yes, do your prep work and your thumbnails and your studies, but once you’re in it… COMMIT!
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4 months
Yeah, cryptocurrencies are cool but have you ever tried drawing
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23 days
Icons from THE STACKS™️
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6 years
More @jesserutherford inspiration // 11x14, ink & gouache on paper
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To Live & Die in LA (1985)
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2 months
Are there 'kept' artists anymore? I think of shady Renaissance arrangements where some petty prince would put Messieur DiWhateverthefuck on payroll to crank out portraits & decorate a chapel or two Does this exist in the modern world? Patronage! A lost art...
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The point of drawing is to have an emotional response to a model or a scene on paper. It's not to create a perfect replica of life. That's what a camera is for.
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DON’T STOP THE DANCE, 18x24 This time in technicolor
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2 months
I used to enjoy conversations like this, but I realized a few years ago that there was nothing about creativity that any of these talking heads could tell me that I either a.) didn’t already know from experience, or b.) could find out by turning off the damn podcast and MAKING
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Autism Capital 🧩
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POV: You just died and woke up in Hell and have to listen to these three talk about what it means to be creative for all of eternity.
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L'Uomo Vogue, 4/82, Giorgio Armani - 📸 Bruce Weber
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7 years
Washes.
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2 years
You don’t ‘think’ your way into making art. You FEEL it. You engage with it. It’s not a mental exercise. I’ve never understood work that requires an essay to explain how good it is. There’s an inverse relationship between the amount of words needed to justify art & quality.
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From a series of old boxing drawings, c/o: THE STACKS™️
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Karl Alexander Wilke
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7 years
BLADE RUNNER 2049 / GHOSTS // digital
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Boys & Girls
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Process for a small study that turned into a larger piece.
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4 months
Giorgio Armani, FW ‘88 - L’uomo Vogue
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6 months
Putzing around. This little easel has been with me for about 15 years.
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1 month
The only thing this ad did successfully was attract controversy and disdain What vision am I supposed to be buying into? Paint me a picture of a life lived with spirit and play Don't crush everything that brings me joy and present me with a soulless black screen
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Meet the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product we’ve ever created, the most advanced display we’ve ever produced, with the incredible power of the M4 chip. Just imagine all the things it’ll be used to create.
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TÊTE-À-TÊTE - 18x24, ink & digital color
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Process for a portrait of Pier Paolo Pasolini
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1 year
I will never clown on someone for having 'poor' skills as a draftsman or painter. If they are showing up each day, then they only deserve praise. They're creating something, they're building their skills, they're choosing positive proactive production. Few will ever do this.
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Work in THE STACKS™️
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Did you grab the latest issue of AMERICAN VULGARIA yet? Thanks for having me, @ryandsimon
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1 year
Ancient additions to THE STACKS™️.
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3 months
Into THE STACKS™️
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SEE YOU IN HELL - 14x17, mixed media // Featuring @annakhachiyan & @dash_eats
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Pushups
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DON’T STOP THE DANCE process
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4 months
Another one out of the archives…
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@SpiritofPines When I was a humble shirt slinger, all of my bosses were either gay guys or women. The only straight man in management was carted off the premises for fraudelent activities shortly after I started working.
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LE BAL DU LIBERTINE - 18x24, ink & digital color
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5 months
People hate on the last quarter of Miami Vice, but it gave us episodes about alien abduction, communist bull semen & Crockett’s impeccable amnesiac run as Burnett, where he wore power suits with absurd lapels and amazing ties.
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Details
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5 months
Old master copies - Ingres, Pogany, Flagg I didn’t do many of these as a student, but each of these artists had a strong position in my development
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2 years
Cultivate your snobbery and pretensions. Turn your nose up at the hoi-pilloi. Insist on Pellegrino over tap water. Assume an air of decadent sensuality. Wear a beret.
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Fun commission from a few years ago.
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Dusting off my watercolors.
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More @off____white c/o @virgilabloh . 12x18, mixed media. Might offer up a double sized pr…
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4 months
It’s not too much to ask for sitting rooms like this.
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3 months
All of my art is an extension of my interests and obsessions. It’s an outlet, an avenue of research and the thing that fills my days & nights with purpose.
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7 years
Almost.
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9 months
Sunday girls in THE STACKS™️
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1 year
The STACKS™️ must grow.
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Eva Green
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1 year
Don't stop the dance. Happy Friday. 🥂
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Whenever you accept a low fee, you're accepting a problem client I've found this to be true without exception - in illustration, individual commissions and in copywriting JUST SAY NO
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Harrison Ford
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