they all think he's a righteous dude...

Every once and awhile you've got to get some cotton and clean the creativity out of your ears...Who knows why it gets stuck there..

Here: we have a few late night sketches, thoughts, and watercolors.

There: we have some studies and caricatures

Enjoy!

ventures through art

I gotta say, my life is pretty awesome.
drawing and traveling are just about as good as it gets in my mind, especially in the company of a lovely lady.
I recently went on a great cruise to the southern Caribbean with my girlfriend, who works for the cruise line and was so wonderful to take me on an awesome trip.
here are some recent drawings, and photos from the last few days of that adventure.
Airbrush head abstraction study, Coworker/friend Casey, and some naked ladies to sooth the soul.
I am trying to get a good Inception caricature of Leo and Joseph, but this one is still off by a bit, and for some reason I seem to love masochistic self sabotage when it comes to finished pieces, in this one trying some unfamiliar technique with the airbrushing.
There is a interesting aspect in be a artist that is hungry for progression. In order progress/evolve in life at any one task there needs to be the chaos of change. Nature shows that any task can be perfected through repetition, but there certainly comes a point where the brain starts to drift in a state of monotony, and completely loses the amazing efficiency at which humans have the ability to adapt/learn. To clarify, I don't mean if you practice one thing for twenty years you won't progress, but there are plenty of people who do...and they don't. Sooner or later it is just going to become (forgive me for basically making up numbers with a theoretical guess) 60% muscle memory 30% memory recall of previously acquired knowledge, and finally 10% of your creative mind is learning something new from something you have done a million times. I feel like this is part of the great divide in contemporary and modern art, and the view of fine Art. I have always liked to see it as the relationship similar to ballet and free form dance, one reveals the beauty of our species, and the other the beauty of the universe. we create with the known, but the only thing fantastical enough to inspire a species thus brilliant is the contradicting Ying to this Yang

To digress and and bring this juxtaposed to my point, in any discipline there is the known and the unknown, an artist should never confuse which one is the blessing.

There are many more things in my life that I feel deserve a push into the "unknown" which I take quite seriously, but art is one thing always know is worth "failure" in order to evolve.

I don't write with my posts often, never been a professor..just a raconteur inspired by nonsense.

Travel

I would say I have about as many passions as life has to offer, but one of my biggest excitements is traveling...or just simply put, "adventure!!" Like a small boy, my adventures don't need to be all the way around the world, just a long bike ride, or a new place in my home town, and sometimes I even dream travel.
But as for this last month, I was on a tangible journey of epic proportion. Not to mention the emotional and psychological evolution. I started in beautiful San Diego (where I visit often) and headed north in my mobile(New York size) apartment.
I hit the spots along the way, stopping in LA where a parked and biked for two days seeing the city by the streets. Next came the beautiful trek up highway 1 through Big Sur where I hiked and camped for a few days. needing some rest, I visited Monterey Which is a great town, beautiful place and cool people. Rested i drove into SF for a extended stay of about a week. What a great city for inspiration observation of life. After picking up two old friends unexpectedly, the three of us then took off toward Yellowstone NP where I was planning on some rugged backpacking. When we arrived in Montana I parked for the night, and upon waking I was shocked to see the van was covered in three inches of snow and it was coming down hard...I thought and questioned it for a moment and then I said "It's a good day to die" (except in a nerdy Wis accent and with no conviction). So I did, and I don't mean die. I Was fortunate enough to be one of the first to hike YellowStone a few days before it's spring opening, which was beautiful to say the least. all and all I did 16 miles, and it wasn't so bad as far as snow. after reconnecting with my roadmates we had a celebratory soak in the "boiling river" hot spring and headed east....upon smelling cheap beer and incredibly fatty cookouts I new we were doming into Minnesota, so we stopped to get some!! Anyway, 6 hours later we were back in the land of cheese, and let me say, it's a beautiful time in my ol' WisCO! Even without all the details it was Epic, I hope to always incorporate adventures in my life, it helps me keep growing as a human.

Kitchen drama!!

I don't wanna brag...but I will

Yeah, I can flip

SIM Atm

A friend came over last night and let my roommates (Matt and Taylor) create ourselves in her SIMS computer game....how cool is that!!
Me on the left.