Its increadibly difficult

as a visual artist to descripe my experiences, my art, my creativity, my thoughts in words or text. I will be attempting each week or twice a week to update this page as a sort of insight into my art/creative experinces for the week in a longer form content.

Arpil 8th 2024

Been awhile, everythings progressing. Looks like within 2 years Juliette and I will be able to leave to America and beyond. The idea is either buy land or live outta a car (not in the im destitute kinda way) moreso that its an extreamily cheap way to live if your into overlanding lifestyle which we both are. We would like to focus on exploring the united states, I think washington would be a great place to try and have a home, but there are many areas to see and take part of…after staying this long in Baja we both are consumed with wonderlust, me especially as it relates to my art. The nature here in Baja isnt really doing it for me, I really crave the evirornment of the pnw and the colros vibes, water and trees. It is my “job” as an artist to find that creativity wherever I may be, but I honestly find this area suffocating, its rare, but I know exactly where id like us to be and what id like to be doing and how id like to do it. I have extreame clarity in my artistic endevour, but I feel far away. Knowing things will come togeather in the next 2 years is refreshing and gives us a deadline.

May 16th

Still dont really have art supplise, Id really like to go out and paint soon but theres other stuff to be doing. In about a month ill be traveling up to washington and retreieving a car which ill be driving back down to baja, this cars going to allow me allot of freedom, especially getting to do some light overlanding and pleinair painting on the trip south with the car through Washington Oregon, Nevada and Arizona. I am exteamily excited for that change, and new opportunities it will provide my creativity and lifestyle change.

April 14th

There seems to be a pattern here with my posting… lotta little things happened over the last month, more art, more opportunities, bit of travel. Dont think ill post a photo and I am only typing this becuase I am not going to post a photo, its very difficult to remain consistant on things you arent passionate about, and blogging being one of those.

March 15th

Yet again time has escaped me…had a nasty illness for around a week, finally over it and back to work.

March is halfway..I intend to do atleast 2 more larger pieces like this. I was able to strap everything to a quad and venture decently far into the offroad desert of Baja. Getting back is the tickly part, I ended up strapping a whole sheet of wood to the top of the finished painting with spacers so that dust wasent an issue. Making sure I had a clear understanding of where I was driving back is also a big issue, its increadibly easy to get lost in the desert at night. Especially when your vehicle is kicking up dust that your headlights pickup on, I even had to do some decent offroad climbing, which while easy in a quad would present a bit of a challege in a car.

I feel again my style changing and evolving with almost every new painting I create, I am still searching for a better balance between making art and everything else…I also need to sell a lil art here soon so I can keep buying art supplies…with summer around the corner ill be swiching to doing studio pieces which would be nice to have materials ready for.

Febuary 28th

Wow shit time goes by quick, there is much to share, unfortunatly not a new painting. Ive been looking for a new spot which is a unique challenge living here without having my own capable offroad car. I have access to a quad, but that puts me at a painting size restriction, and im not too interested in navigating the desert pathways back home when its pitch black. It has happened once before with my girlfriend, once its dark all the dust that is kicked up is very disorienting especially becuase its all picked up by the lights on your vehicle. I think I found a place close enough to get to, and easy enough to get back once its nightfall, but I have to say I am getting bored of this landscape, which is in partly my responsibility to push and try and find things that inspire and excite me. Honestly id love to do many more studies on dead animals I find offroading, you dont run across it too often, but it conbines my love of nature and my interest in grotesque and aggresive imagery

I wanted to focus more on my studio art that is created durring summertime here. I recently got the last two pieces framed and up in the gallery, it feels great to have them out of the apartment. The meaning and psychology behind these pieces of art is very exciting and unique to me, as im delving into an entierely new technique and style of abstraction. However its not accidental abstraction which I feel many pieces fall under, just like with my version of impresionism I am very interested and invested in having my hand shown in every detail, leaving very little to chance. With a sort of impresionistic twist, I was trying to adapt the feelings, through shapes, color, movement and pattern to show a new side of nature that I would strugle talking about or describing when i first started the series half a year ago.

This body of work really took forum when i realized it was in stark resembalance to the flooding and chaos we experienced this summer in Baja mexico, crazy rainfall, ripping and tearing through bone dry nature leaving a jumbled mess in its wake. The Elements of branches, tree texture and rocks with a strong focus on lighting steadily revelied itself to me, even tho I had no idea what I was creating when I first started. I think there is allot more to explore in those regaurds as I continue push my ideas and style…

Febuary 14th

Continue to try pushing my style, approach, ideology and feelings durring each of these paintings. Rocks are a very familiar subject matter for myself, there is arguably more feelings/emotions occuring within a single rock as opposed to most people. The irony of never focusing on humans as a subject matter is that reguardless it always steers back in that direction. I feel as I get more abstracted im perhaps approaching something non human…or atleast in a way that allows the viewer space to think of themselfs seperate from the world.

I went allot more thick with paint application for this piece, many of my favorite artists and styles incoperate contrasting techniques, thick on thin, detailed vs simple, abstract vs representational. I think somehwere between those two extreams creates the formentioned space, if not for anyone else but myself.

The other irony being as soon as the arts made, I have to start showcasing it to the world.. How does one maintain their own vision and ideology when they need to change and adapt to what others do what others value? For the most part you cant, or atleast youll get burnt out. Ive been creating art from the age of 3/4, I still have my original schetchbooks…I feel a seperation from my skills as an artist, where id like to be financially and how the world currently values a white straight man who makes landscape art…All this from painting rocks, becuase they arent just rocks, its the building blocks of undertstanding, technology, war, culture, life as we know it comes partly from the earth and turned into whatever the hell society deems important. Its pretty primal to be playing with the earths pigments, smearing it on cloth to represent the natural world around me from which the colors came from.

This rant does if anything, showcase the relation between my art and how I think, chaotic, random, slightly structured with a focus on details and how everything relates to everything else. Remember, a rock does not exist on its own.

Febuary 9th

I just completed my second art class yesturday and it was stressfull, rewarding, chaotic and creative all at once. Its wonderful getting to interact with so many people from different backgrounds and careers especially trying to get them to see and paint in the way I do:)

By verbally communicating what I think in my head while I paint, these classes have been very rewarding to myself, giving some foundation to very abstract ideas, moods, emotions. Ive found it very interesting the ideas people create and hurdles they put infront of themself when begining a creative journey.

Febuary 7th

Holly shit we are in February… Time continues to pass way to fast here with an unending amout of work an opportunities presenting themselfs, I am trying my best to retain a schedule, while also pushing forward towroards larger goals.

Ive been increadibly interested in doing a painting such as this for awhile. Almost purley texture, with little sense of direction or composition its combining the confusing nature of abstraction with the reality of shapes, lighting textures and movement. It was strangly scary to choose a spot to paint…after carful consideration of shadows, the water and how it may look later in the day I choose a good spot. I find it easier to visualize a composition where space and distance is involved, this is almost a top down study making it difficult to visualize.

The water created such a dynamic challenge to this work, having a receeding tide revealing new textures and shapes, in addition to the giant crashing waves nearly getting myself and the painting wet which would ruin the work almost instantly.

An interesting idea a thought about is chasing shadows as a pleinair artist. Shadows are almost always considered when painting, but the idea of basing the entire piece around a major shadow is an interesting idea I could play around with more, letting the shadows dictate the composition and focus instead of trying to decern for myself ahead of time what I view as important. Ill be returning here soon as its easy to access, somewhat private location (so I can sing and dance while I paint) I have a 4x4 footer that id be wanting to start soon and I think this location would be great for that…I need to start buying more oil paints soon also!

January 28th

Life and Death Vida Y Muerte.

I took a buncha video of this painting process, ill try to post that soon…This painting really captures the more edgy side of nature that I am wanting to exhibit. Nature is cruel and beatiful, water is the bringer of life in a desert setting so to find death amogst it creates powerful symbolism and even more interested counterbalance between the skull and detailed rocks.

I decided not to

upload the video I did of this, there is far to much going on which is great, but id rather focus time on creating more art then video editing. I will need a new computer/tablet soon to work on, my PC i built is around 6 years old and constantly shows its age when video editing especially. The goal going forward is certainly to streamline my process and equipment so that taking the video, editing and posting it isnt such a chore.

January 20 th

It was very exciting returning to the palm forest, knowing exactly what I was going to paint. I decided to arrive earlier and film the walk out to the location. While simple in idea, running back and forth multiple times along with bringing my 30lb backpack and cooler leaving me a little tiered by the time I was ready to paint. Usually I am in a mad rush to settup and start painting, filming this process feels intrusive and annoying to say the least.

January 6th

One of my favoite areas where I live is a palm forest miles into the desert. Seemingly the last place youd expect water, this area is rich in plants animals and visually striking scenery. Recently I did my first larger painting here a 4x2 foot (which I admiditly worked an aditional 5 hours on at home)

This is quickly becoming a favorite spot to paint, its remote enough to where you wont see people, but still easily accessable on a quad and safe to drive back from at night. While it can be enjoyable to paint around people, Ive found the best times are spent alone. I have materials being preped to start prodcuing allot of larger paintings from this area and im very excited! I also should be recieving more materials such as spray paints, pen markers and more acrylics to try multimedia pleianir artwork which im increadibly excited to try.

Decmeber 30th

The beaches here in the Baja are something special, especially after living in the PNW having miles of uninhibited sandy beach will never not amaze me. While presenting many unique challenges, working around nature that expresses so much movement from water, wind, sand, rocks and plants is very magical.

**30x40 in Oil on canvas**

Returning to a spot that youve painted prior is such an amazing experience of knowing what will happen and how to react. Working this larger scale in a shorter timespan furthers the feeling of capturing movement and colors in larger brush strokes.

Here I go into the emotions and feelings im experiencing and trying to communicate through this larger painting.