Es ist ja selten, dass ich ein Tier überlebensgroß male, aber bei den winzigen Zaunkönigen habe ich gar keine andere Wahl, wenn sie zum 9x9cm Bildformat meiner Vogelserie passen sollen.
#workinprogress, freie Arbeiten, kommen später in den #wandklex Shop.
#birds #watercolor #watercolour #aquarell #art #mastoart #creativeToots #fediart
A new painting in progress 10” sq.
I like where it’s going and what’s happening.
I have to admit I thought long and hard about including the 1st photo in this post as I look and felt so vulnerable but then I realised that I should because that’s the whole point.
Vulnerable is exactly how I’m feeling and have been feeling for a good week and that feeling will be high up there until after my birthday on the 23rd of this month. Now that I’m exploring my feelings instead of ignoring them, I’m aware that I feel this way every year. My birthday has always been tied up with feelings of rejection, pain and loss. I can honestly say I haven’t had many birthdays at all that have been joyful but those years that were I hold very dear because they are so rare.
I have decided to pick through all of the pain so that I can finally find peace, hopefully. As birthdays are supposed to be celebrations (so I’m told) I would like for this one to be the last painful one.
This morning I found a bubble blower and I sat feeling extremely vulnerable and I blew bubbles. I connected with my always sad and confused inner child and let her feel peace. The chirping of the birds, the sun on her skin, the beauty of the bubbles in the sunshine and that magical popping sound. No pressure, no anything, just being exactly in the moment of beauty and wonder. I think allowing my inner child out is key to healing, she went through so much and deserves to feel joy, laughter and freedom to be her without judgement. I say without judgement because it’s something I’ve always done since I was a child and it’s stifled me as an adult.
I have a week or so to figure out how but I’m going to try and let this birthday be one for my inner child, to see if I can help us to heal. #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthjourney #healing #healingfromtrauma #healingisaprocess #innerchild #innerchildtherapy #therapy #findingjoy #findingpeace #workinprogress
Getting started on a couple new paintings. Dragon and Sunflower. Not finished. I will add more colors and details
#wip #workinprogress #paintingprogress #painting #acrylicpainting #dragon #dragonpainting #humanart #humanartist #noai #noAIart #mastoart #blackandwhite
#workinprogress photo of a #painting being made by my friend Kem at his studio & gallery downtown; msg me if you're interested in this one once its finished ---
#workinprogress photo of a #portrait of my friend Tony's wife & his daughters. Msg me if you're interested in having some #artwork made based on your special photographs ~
Here is a #workinprogress photo of a #painting I am making for my friend Tony. He has been my best friend since we were 11, this is his wife & his daughters. He asked me to make it for him, he is going to give it to his wife for a Mother's Day gift.
#art #artist #artists #handmade #wip #suppportthearts #suportlivingartists
#commissions #commissionsopen #artforsale #artfinder #artmarket #illustration #artgallery #artgalleries #drawing #artcommissions #portrait #portraits #portraitartists
#Buntfug als Buntflug - Eisvögel haben es nämlich drauf.
#workinprogress, freie Arbeiten, kommen später in den #wandklex Shop.
Below's a #workinprogress pic of an #abstract #painting I am doing. I'm really enjoying doing this one, it is a lot of fun to not paint little details and use large strokes & not have to be all careful. If anyone is interested, please let me now ---
A column of ghosts trudges across the moor, down in the hollow road, hauling heavy timber wagons laden with crates of dust and dishonour. All are men, a hundred or more, no women among them, all bleak of expression. Some are shackled with iron to the wagons they haul, beasts of burden whose existence is grim. Their guards look every bit as dour, but with added anger and hatred in their treatment of the captive hauliers.
This is quite a complex painting/scene and hence has a complicated drawing. Everything hinges on the drawing being right in this one. Hence it is taking a long time. #wip #painting #watercolour #WorkInProgress
50x70 Cobra oil on 
Drie dames op de bus
Misschien haalt deze de eindtentoonstelling in juni. Bezig met selectie (letterlijk in kelder), omdat we maar met drie zijn om definitief af te studeren, kunnen we pp heel wat werken aanleveren. (Ook twee locaties)
Alvast welkom vanaf 19/6 in Pelt en Lommel. 
Bin aber natürlich nun doch brav an den Arbeitsplatz gerobbt, weil wenn ich euch nix Neues zeig, dann vergesst ihr mich ja.
#workinprogress, freie Arbeiten, kommen später in den #wandklex Shop.
Wrapped up all my commercial projects and final mirror world class, along with working on a new hanging chandelier sculpture with @alifeeney . The stick sculpture runs a #webcam server with GPIO controls so that anyone can view and interact with the sculpture from anywhere in the world.
It's website is down currently, as it's the sculpture is my minivan with me as I drive cross country. I visited some old friends in Corning last night, and am staying with an exceptional neon bender who bent a lot of work for Bruce Nauman in Chicago tonight.
My show, "Embracing Fallibility" opens along with my "Mind Benders" class at FOCI, in Minneapolis in a few days. Until then, I will be driving a bunch listening to radio drama's and chatting with students as a visiting artist at UW Madison.
Oh it's hectic, but it's nice to be on the road again - the voice an stories of Joe Frank keeping me company
Work in progress on a 5 x 7 #portrait of Chef & Humanitarian José Andrés. It’s coming along. A likeness is showing up. A few small finishing touches to do.
#portrait #humanitarian #chef #food #painting #art #artwork #mastoart #workinprogress #noAI #handmade #oilpainting #fineart #joseandres #gallery
