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I’m in S Florida now starting a new gig as a tat

I’m in S Florida now starting a new gig as a tattoo apprentice, gunning for my tattoo license. Me and my wonderful partner Ava are designing water dragons, apropos of the necessity for fluidity amidst change and upheaval. Gonna be designing more flash coming up as I learn the ropes of the shop. @infamous_ink_tattoo_studios
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#waterdragon #dragontattoo #tattoodesign #apprentice #tattooapprentice #drawingdragons #tattooshop #tattooflash

My first oil painting of a life model in over 20 y

My first oil painting of a life model in over 20 years, I make moves back into the world of color, thanks to my friends, prolific model @melaniejadefig and gracious host and colleague @gagedelprete
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#oilpainting #oils #lifemodel #painting #canvas #watersolubleoils #allaprima #modeling #colorfulart #fleshtones #studiopractice #fineart #traditional #tattoos #americana #americanartist #traditionaltattoo #paintsketch #sketchy #colormixing #unexpected #recliningnude #odalisque #fineartist #postpost #paintingwithfriends #romanticism

Mother Lizard. Ink on Arches Watercolor Paper 15”x22”
The impetus of creativity is with me through a life of constant revolution, she sows the seeds of her traumatic quest into vescicles of life, which hatch darkly the mirror eyed offspring of time. Deep in the brain an acorn of consciousness splits open, whence grows the branches and roots of static electricity that scrape the roof of heaven and delve into the wet earth where we writhe, as circular our agony and pleasure meet.
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#lizard #mother #inkdrawing #inks #arches #drawing #scales #detailed #artwork #character #mythology #birth #birthing #hatch #eggs #lifecycle #motherhood #visceral #creature #fineart #contemporaryart #poetry #depth #writing #criticalthinking #lizardbrain #amygdala #reproduction #prochoice

The Homunculus (incubating), the forehead root hor

The Homunculus (incubating), the forehead root horn is a “calyptra” the part of the plant that detects gravity. Eyes of chlorophyll green, skin of yellow mustard, sprouts growing on the body for self mastication upon emergence. A seed pod for self reproduction. The pride of the Alchemists of Hobo City. Often referred to as Mustard Man.
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#worldbuilding #characterdesign #charactersketch #alterego #plantoid #alchemist #homunculus #creation #mythology #inked #drawing #creaturedesign #attributes #oc #fantasycharacter #magnumopus #lifeswork #charactersheet #roleplaying #performanceartist #stats #conceptart #illustration #penandink #chlorophyll #incubation #itsalive #frankenstein #monster

Back in the saddle tattooing my buddy @thomasgleis

Back in the saddle tattooing my buddy @thomasgleisner with a design based on a character that I created in my youth, an adventurer, innkeeper, apothecary type of guy by the name of Stipkin. Tom larp-embodied the character en surrogate, over the years blending the similarities of his own real world persona with the Stipkin of another dimension. They are one. This tattoo was drawn in the morning and after trucking around grabbing a few supplies was executed in the evening with Total Recall playing on the projection. Merry times were had by all.
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#tattooartist #hometattoo #tarottattoo #adventurer #characterdesign #medieval #tattooideas #inked #ink #tatted #apothecary #d&d #herbalism #potion #fantasyart #innkeeper #artists #tattooart #multitalented #drawing #tattooflash #tattoodesign #traditionaltattoos #tattoogun #bodyart #bodymodification #worldbuilding #roleplaying

FR. TIME. Completed large 4.5’ x 11” ink scrol

FR. TIME. Completed large 4.5’ x 11” ink scroll with fluid acrylic gold on the pendulum. In need of a gallery to display this, or a patron to buy it directly. Please support my art habit. I know you’re asking why the big balls? Time is probably the deepest thread in my worldbuilding process and I am continuously characterizing it, believing that there is no more powerfully succinct deities than time and space. In my latest concept here I am thinking of time as a father of reality, with spermatozoa in an infinite bag of holding yokai like ballsack being a symbol for moments of time that will be ubiquitously spreading into the womb of space, bits of potentiality becoming extant, birthed by a mother of reality. Consciousnesses are the children within this minimalist pantheon. I started mulling about time like a resentful son, conscious of the time that is bestowed into the self embodiment. It just ravages the vehicle with winds and I force the constant grind of confidence and maintenance. Time manufactures anxiety and cycles, the pendulum swinging back and forth, never at peace, always teasing out the spectral extremes of life. The opposite is death birth and empty space, peace, womb and grave, the space in between the moments that consciousness is here to witness and embody. I have been wondering a lot where my life is going and fretting over what I do or fail to do with my time, is this the fatherly judgement ringing in my ears, opportunity costs, where I place experience points, where I place love, and build skills for the adventuring. I’m at a loss for clear decisions that make sense, so I continue to work the lines across my scrolls and worldbuild through writing. I struggle under the weight of separateness and doubt that free will even exists. That’s why I drew this, a meditation, a reckoning, a thing to shake my fist at??
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#fathertime #scroll #ink #inkscroll #quill #carbonink #worksonpaper #paternal #deity #characterdesign #worldbuilding #parents #time #conceptart #mythology #cosmos #lineart #inked #chronos #oldman #fable #journaling #meditation #artwork #penandink #storytelling #characterart #mystical #journey #inkdrawing

Gradually I switch out my implements now, as speed

Gradually I switch out my implements now, as speed and accuracy becomes ingrained, from using one pencil or marker to more adventurous, unpredictable wet media. I watch for an outcome rather than try to attain something. Recently I’m working on a new imaginative piece (coming soon) without using reference and I question, do I activate the image with these lines or do I place the lines using the integrity of a trained memory, and only when viewed are they activated as an image? Hopefully you can appreciate the achievement of a shift lately in the life drawings to something I can’t erase, with some gusto expressed through improvisation and the multipronged attack on light and shade.
@drink_n_draw
@ahafineart
@fuchsprojects
@thamesartcenter
@eveposes
@umep3
@speckstheallmighty1
@stephanie.says._
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#indelible #ink #lifedrawings #models #drinkndraw #socialanimals #conte #chinamarker #shading #inkwash #sketchbook #sketchnight #brooklynart #galleryartist #figuredrawing #nycart #waterbrush #brushpen #lifemodel #lightandshadow #tonedpaper

A gallery of recent life drawings using my new ton

A gallery of recent life drawings using my new toned paper sketchbook. Chasing tonality in this intermediate stage of drawing that I’m at where I feel like I plateaued on rendering likeness with just a single pencil on drawing paper, so I am going to different media, using washes and inks, and finding new grooves to push into. Im just never satisfied. Three models are represented from three studios
@melaniejadefig @renna_mae @michellesinvitation
@minervasdrawingstudio
@drink_n_draw
@ahafineart
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#forgingahead #shading #highlights #figuredrawing #lifedrawing #models #figurativeart #drawing #media #plasticarts #studioart #minervasdrawingstudio #whitepencil #contecrayon #ink #graphite #nycartcollector #nycartists #academicart #traditionalart #drawingclass

“If immortality gets introduced then they will h

“If immortality gets introduced then they will have to cure insanity quickly” “50 years ago they were finding the answer in squid brains and going ‘the first immortal has already been born… there was a short story written about [this guy who recieved it], and he gives a lecture and after a few minutes it’s apparent that he’s completely out of his mind, everyone realizes that yeah you could get immortality but you go insane within a hundred years…”Tibetan monks claimed death was imposed on the living to force us to ascribe meaning to life, with a finite amount you go well did I do something worthwhile?” “What if the only way to add meaning is to endure, and endure and endure? Is endurance meaningful?”
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