Scum Choir

Backstage with a Maquette: new lessons this weekend

I got some new camera equipment. Tested it out for the value demo video. I just finished editing the lesson video. That will be uploaded tomorrow. And I’m editing the demo video tomorrow. That should be up on Sunday. I’m pretty excited for these videos. I think they turned out good!

I ...

Almost Finished/ Framing options

Almost done. Just a few details left on the painting part. Then I'm going to put a little varnish on it. 

Since this is such an odd size I can't frame it like I normally would. And there's no way I'm doing custom framing that would be against the rules and I can't afford it!

So I...

Making Progress on the 6

Or is this 9? I'm almost positive it's 6.

If 6 was 9 by Jimi Hendrix rips.

I started the actual painting stage. started with the background, moving on to the underpainting...

Prompt Progress

I'll say more about finding this object when I do a video about it.

I was really disappointed in my submission for the texture prompt last month. So this month I decided "never again."

I'm experimenting with designing my paintings in photoshop before painting. So the last image is my ...

Porcelain Membrane

Process video and music.

I started this piece while I was watching the show "Barry" on HBO. Have any of you seen that? 

My favorite character/ story line is NoHo Hank.

I really wanted to make some new music and a process video is always a good excuse for that non sense.

La Luz de Jesus and a super scary surprise ending

Unguided video tour of La Luz de Jesus. Stay tuned for the very special Surprise ending! 

La Luz de Jesus is an art gallery in Los Angeles. It was founded b...

Mixing Media on the Blue

This colored pencil on top of acrylic paint on blue toned paper. I took a lot of video of this one. Hopefully I'll have it edited tomorrow.

I did the decalcomania technique with White acrylic paint and Saran Wrap. then started adding color and definition with colored pencils.

 Ki...

I just uploaded Scum Choir Beats vol. I to Bandcamp

It's a 30 track beat tape. It's mostly beats I made for videos from 2020-2022. I've made a lot of different sounding beats over the years. this one is more on the horror/spooky side of things. 

The album is currently set to private so the Choir can get the first listen. I'm also includ...

Prismacolor Timelapse

Short timelapse of part of the drawing process. Prismacolor on texture rubbing on Blue Paper. I have some more WIP experiments on the blue paper that I'm filming more of the process on. But hers one to whet your beak. 

Any title suggestions? 

Colored Pencil on Blue Toned Paper

I made a rubbing on some textured glass. I used a white colored pencil for the rubbing. Usually when I do this, the rubbing texture becomes the darker values because I use a black pencil. so the texture recedes when I start rendering. This is the opposite, the texture becomes the the lighter valu...

Suggestion time! Random Drawings, The Hard Drive Saga is Over!

Coming soon in the Choir

I got a bunch of stuff in the works right now. New paintings emerging. Videos will follow that. Bad Art lessons being prepared including the next topic in the fundamentals: Value.

I just finished a biography that will be the subject of the next Art Life and ...

The Scribble Scrabble Method

One of the creative doodling methods I mentioned was the scribble scrabble method, where you just scribble wildly and then add shading, patterns, textures, and thicker lines to add depth.

I didn't get very far in the scribble scrabble piece I did in the Creative Doodling lesson. So I made a...

Creative Doodling-Intro to Drawing Bad Art

Part of the struggle of learning the technical fundamentals is that it can start feeling like work and less like art. So I think it's important to have little methods and techniques like this where you can forget about all the concepts and just let your mind run wild.

I'm going to start bra...

Painting WIPs, Bad Luck, and Hard Drive Update

I've had a string of bad luck this past week or so. There was the spider hard drive incident. 

I started working off of a different hard drive and I accidentally unplugged it while using it. And that drive got corrupted too!

Two hard drives in one week. 

I cut my finge...

Live Painting from Goth Night

I did two paintings at the Goth Night event that I did. The overhead camera I use has a timelapse feature that I've never really used. So for the second painting I decided to try it out.

Part of the silver lining of this hard drive disaster is that it's really forcing me to consider other o...

Scum Garden

My may-June playlist

Leviathan Goth Night Set Up

I participated in an art show in LA called Leviathan Goth Night. I painted live at the show. Here's the only video I took of the event. It's of my set up, my friend Jeremy's art, and some guy in a mask.This was the d...

Painting From a Motel Room-Living as a Question on Staycation

Every year around this time I get burnt out. Then I get depressed. So last year I decided I'd take a little staycation around this time. 

I threw a dart at a map (sort of) I typed in "motels," clicked randomly and made a reservation. 

I love motels, but they are very lonely ...

Art Life & Lives Rick Rubin-The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Rick Rubin's book "The Creative Act: A way of Being" is the subject of this installment of Art Life & Lives (Still open to a better name.) 

Rick Rubin is a legendary record producer who started his his career producing...

I lost a years worth of work in a second+No Country for Old Men+Buddhism: Sketch Book Saturday June 2023

It's time for another sketchbook saturday. I checked into a motel recently. Just to get into a new environment and do some simple watercolor sketching. I was planning to post a video about that experience today. 

But while I was editing the video, a huge spider ran across the floor and...

WIPs and chains

Here's all of the current work in progress pieces I have in the rotation right now. About 13 of them are definitely going places. Some of them I started as long ago as last year. some are just a few days. 

I haven't been posting as many real time progress shots lately because I know th...

The sketch that started it all

This string thing was the catalyst for the new paintings I've been posting. I made this video a while ago. It was interesting for me to watch.

I did the string thing part of it maybe in January or February. Then it sat in my book for a month or two because of reasons I lay out in the video....

All the tiny paintings

Here's all the tiny pieces

All the gouache ones are in those frames with little stands so you can look at them on your bedside before you go to sleep or keep them on your desk at work like where most people put a picture of their family.

The acrylic ones all come with a tooth so you c...

Process: "Oopsly" Tiny Gouache 4

I definitely named this "oopsly" because there's a girl I teach that says "oopsly" instead of "oopsies." Sometimes I find out that funny stuff kids say like that is from a movie or something. Which always makes me disappointed in the world, naturally. So maybe that's what this is. But don't tell ...

Process: Pee Pee Face Tiny Gouache 3

This is another one where I more or less abandoned the string thing. I was trying to do some Rembrandt style lighting and the combination of the two things was just getting too complex. so I simplified it. 

I gave it a silly name. I think I heard one kid call another kid that one time....

and the New Prompt is...

• Make sure you read the rules on the image!
• Submissions are due July 19th
• Please include "before" pics with your submission (so we can see what you did)
• Don't worry about making a masterpiece. In fact, no masterpieces allowed.
• Have fun! 2023-06-19 22:17:59 +0000 UTC View Post

Unguided tour of the Hive Gallery

I actually didn't end up recording that much, towards the end of the night there was a guy who had some kind of psychotic breakdown and started throwing art off the walls.

The Hive Gallery is the gallery that I have a residency space at. I'll probably do another tour sometime because it's a...

Dark Art Emporium Unguided Tour-Tiny Terrors 2023

Here's a little unguided tour of the Dark Art Emporium in Long Beach, CA. I took this video at the opening of the Tiny Terrors show. They've been doing this show for 6 years now. That's why the 666. This is their 3rd location and the best in my opinion. They now have a pizza place and bar in the ...

Process: "Bacchus" Tiny Acrylic 3

This piece was the most straight forward of the series. I hate to say it but I think it's because I just started painting and didn't really go after the texture.

I was definitely influenced by Caravaggio's Bacchus paintings. Especially after I had painted the head and there was this nice li...

Vote for the next prompt!

If no one votes I'll pick one. If there is a tie I'll pick one lol. If only person votes, that person has chosen. I’ll pick a winner and post the prompt on Monday!