Paint Diary 9/12/2025
My unintentional mural tryptic on the East Side of Downtown Houston was finally finished today. These murals were painted over the course of probably about 18 months between 2024-2025. The…
Paint Diary 9/10/2025
I have been reading more than painting for the past ten days. This is immensely important for the practice as we zoom out and recognize it as a multi-decade practice…
Paint Diary 9/1/2025
Before I riff on realism (for class). I will riff extremely briefly on a repeated point made by Robert Motherwell on the nature of abstraction, or rather what abstraction is.…
Paint Diary 8/30/2025
I’m not even sure what thumbnail to choose for this entry on account of how long it's been since I last wrote anything here and how productive I've been in…
Paint Diary 8/18/2025
I have pushed hard in the last three days through the Rosemary Mahoney painting. I am about 60% through the initial block-in. Fortunately this block-in process is atypical in that…
Paint Diary 8/12/2025
I finally started the Rosemary Mahoney project that the gallery tasked me with almost one full year ago. I was told no rush so I took my time and I’m…
Paint Dairy 8/11/2025
The paint diary is a project I have been working on for about a month on my other website www.shopoilpaintings.com. It serves two distinct and valuable purposes: its a ritual…
Perceptive Impulses Clash in AA. Murakami’s Floating World
Coming up for air from AA. Murakami’s Floating World show at the MFAH leaves me with a fleeting sense that perhaps I would be better off as a cave dweller…
Painting from Life versus Painting from a Photograph
Is painting from life harder than painting from a photographic reference? Many people will say yes, I am here as a contrarian to say… Not necessarily, it depends. You may…
Painting a Self-Portrait
When painting a self-portrait in oil, is 3rd time the charm? It was for me. This fall will mark my six year anniversary of learning how to paint with oil. …