So this is a random post in the “creative process” category. I was thinking about some old artwork that I’ve created and going through old versions of my website, going through images folders, and all that of stuff when I found an image of the very first painting I did in what is now know as my “style”.

A style all of you who read this are use to/have known me forever as well as what kind of artwork I create. When I first started painting I actually hated it because I hated using color. I was a pen and ink or pen and pencil kind of guy. Once I started playing around with acrylics, pastels, and other mediums I got more and more comfortable with color, but I when I first started painting it still drove me nuts because my mind was saying “Damn. Why can’t I paint like I draw?” Well kids, what’s the best way to paint like you draw? Screw it, just draw right on top of the painting! And so that’s how the idea/style started and then I played around with it a little and did some tests. One day I was doing this drawing and thought “This would be perfect but how am I suppose to get this onto the paint? How do replicate what I’ve drawn?” Duh, project it on the board/canvas!

So I bought a crappy projector (one of those shitty little artograph projectors, piece of crap) and put the drawing on there, projected it, and darkened out the whole room because when you’re projecting a small copy of a drawing onto a piece of tile board with dark values in terms of paint, well, it’s kinda hard to see the lines being projected. Once I got there I took a very thin brush and painted the lines back onto the painting…and that was the beginning. It was a revelation. I remember thinking “WOW, I can do this! I can put the drawings in my head onto an acrylic painting.”

It wasn’t until much later(in recent years) that I realized I had something unique and what finally represents the images in my head and all of my artistic influences: comic books, anime, Cezanne, graphic design elements, illustration, and various other mediums/artist ranging from Liquid Television to Arthur Boyd. For years and years and years I would paint the lines by hand, so in the future when I have severe arthritis there will be reason. Iz is smartz. One day I was at an art supply store and saw these oil based paint markers, hmmmm. Another big revelation “hey, paint maker is better than painting lines by hand”.

I use the Sharpie brand and they stick on the acrylic, look great, and are way better for your hands than using a hair thin brush to paint these line which is a nightmare. And that kids is how I created my painting style, really just a trial and error, natural organic type of process. It’s the beauty of one idea/thought going into another and well, here I am today creating acrylic paintings on tile board.Thrilling isn’t it?

As far as how I starting paitning with acrylics on tile board…well kids, let’s just say there are too many years and too many dead braincells for me to remember why:)

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