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Law

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This sketch is actually plain old printer paper. I wanted to get this idea down before it got away and didn’t have any sketch paper handy.

It’s the process of creating that validates who I am, not the outcome. Every single sketch has purpose in my evolution as an artist. However, I am not always thrilled with the outcome. In fact, I don’t like some of my drawings.

All to often, I hear people say, “I couldn’t draw a straight line with a ruler”. Well, neither could Jackson Pollock, but that didn’t stop him. Unless your objective requires a series of straight lines, it’s not a big deal…just create.

Art is expression, it evokes emotion.

Appreciate

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I understand that my art will not appreciate significantly until I’m gone.

I can live with that.

I am really digging the bowler hat thing. I think I will use it more.

 

EliPhant

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This will be the last sketch I will sign in 2011.

For all you people thinking this will be the last year on this planet, I hope you live your life like it is. As far as the Mayan calendar countdown, read this, please. Oh, and stop it, you’re frightening the kids.

Here’s a good website from NASA.

I shot a forty four magnum Desert Eagle today. One round shattered a frozen milk jug (filled with ice, not milk) into a million pieces. Pretty cool if I do say so myself. I have taught my children that a gun is meant for one thing and one thing only, and that is to destroy. They both have a deep respect for firearms and know how to handle them. Shooting this hand cannon renewed my respect fairly quickly.

It’s been a while since I’ve written much about my technique, so I will now. I love shiny objects and materials, and I have been really wanting to develop textures that I can reuse. This is an experiment in textures as well.

Possum

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What is the strangest meat you’ve ever eaten?

I’ve eaten gator tail before. In some cultures, they eat cat…

I knew a guy once who stuffed skinned and gutted squirrels in potatoes and threw them on the grill.

My son, Stephen and I ate worms from the back yard. He fried them in a pan over an open flame.

Before the Take II

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This is my gift to myself.

Not this specific sketch, but all of them combined. Every day, I give myself the time and resources to interpret my deepest creative thoughts onto paper. I do this every day because that is when I’m truly at my best, when I am alive, when I am at peace.

This is also my gift to the world.

This specific sketch and everyone before it. I do it because I am able, by the grace of God. This vision I possess is a great gift given to me to borrow for a short time. I truly believe it is my calling and my purpose in life to share it with the world. I believe it is an obligation that all artists share.

In this sketch, I have discovered a new technique, blending highlight direction (I have GOT to come up with a better name for it). By accident, I forgot to blend the features at the bottom of the sketch. Instead, I get an entirely new type of texture to explore. Thank God for mistakes.

Happy almost-birthday, Jesus.