One more easel late night painting. Possibly the first painting I’ve done with a brush instead of a palette knife. Angrily painted a grey background, and then two quick wet shapes. A friend told me to paint with feeling so I tried to paint as directly from my feelings as possible.

There’s something sweet about having canvasses in my basement. And neon paint and the pinkest pink. Every time I paint on a wet canvas I feel like I’m seriously channeling Bob Ross. It actually causes me a lot more joy than I would have expected, painting. I had these two paints as leftovers. I guess…

I got this easel as a present and wanted to figure out a way to paint with it. I’ve been mostly laying my paintings down flat so I can stack up fat layers of paint without gravity, so I figured I’d work with gravity. I wanted to have the colors worked out beforehand so I…

This time I wanted to REALLY use bright colors, and I wanted big super bold impasto shapes. I bought a set of day-glo colors and had the last of a big jar of extra heavy gloss gel medium and wanted to do something bold and simple. Got the idea to use my new big palette…

I wanted to do another painting like “Carpal Splash” but instead of something white, I wanted to do something dramatically colored. I decided to use a combination of a very bright “pinkest pink” paint and black. I also had the idea to put masking tape along this sides to create a kind of “impromptu” mold…

At this point I wanted to be able to make actual paintings whenever I was in the mood to, so I bought a big pack of 8″ x 10″ canvasses and a pack of 10″ x 14″ canvasses. I liked all the preparation of the molded impasto but wanted to try something looser this time.…

Picked out colors to match the living room rug, and bought a 2′ x 3′ pre-prepped canvas ($50!) that would fit perfectly “Over the Fireplace”. I wanted the first painting I made to have a home. For the canvas I used some heavy matte gel medium for some texture, a whole bottle of “parchment” colored…