Dennis Johnson’s characters are like if Hemingway characters were stripped of any honor or sense of heroism, and just got on with the business of being assholes. Not different, just more aware of the stink of their rectal nature.

High Falls, Philmont, NY

I was working at a party in a SoHo loft, and I saw Billy Crudup across the hall, and I invited him to the party. He declined with a smile.

Snow day in the park. A lot of work today to clear the paths, but it’s rewarding on a day like this.

The Snowblower is a fun machine.

Six-footer winter paintings, tis the season for winter posting. I never got good photographs of these, maybe I’ll unroll them and bring them outside on a cloudy day to do capture. Location is High Falls in Philmont, NY. #oilpainting #winterscene

Living my life with another artist is the best choice I ever made. We both got each other the art books we’ve been coveting. (cc: @mlobelart.bsky.social)

Digging out a Christmas goose. Working holidays sucks.

Getting back to this whaling painting, I think I’ll call it something like ‘shared risk’ or ‘venture capital’

This book has so many factual errors about materials I’m gonna lose my fucking mind.

Takis taste like having the flu.

Progress from a painting taking way too long.

The mute swan that visits gets me every time. I hope this individual finds a mate and they come visit together.

Night Fishing at Antibes https://botfrens.com/collections/111/contents/1134573

I think this is one of the better paintings I’ve made in the last few years. It’s a little corner of my life, showing how I cultivate plants in my apartment and admire the beauty of the larger flora outdoors. It’s got Coyote, a little bit of drugs, and good light. #oilpainting #windowpainting #cat

Reading Braiding Sweetgrass, and the conflict is not between science and indigenous ways of knowing, which flow in and out of one another, but between actually knowing something vs gauzy poetry and motivated metaphor. The past is always poetic while the present is about knowing.

There’s a subset of dog owners who are the most entitled and delusional part of the citizenry. They’re stunned they aren’t allowed to deposit urine and feces in a public space. I cannot fathom what their side of the argument even is, just shit everywhere?

This is dick-shape changing weather in NYC today.

Every winter I can’t believe it’s ever summer.

It’s always so refreshing when a big time artist isn’t brimming with bullshit. It’s wild how market success will detach someone from the need to touch down in reality when talking about themselves.

My landscapes from this year are rooted in backcountry camping and working in an urban park. #oilpainting #landscapepainting

Renoir is a deeply overrated talent. He’s basically a guy going “damn look at that ass”, and isn’t wrong.

Originality has no set path

These two look good together, same building different day. #oilpainting #artstudio

Doing 16 hours at the park today. I’ll earn today the cost of Propagation class in the spring.

Yesterday the park had so many sparrows, juncos and others, today three hawks have visited. This is a Cooper’s Hawk.

Progress shot on this triplet of @maggmack.bsky.social. Slow going on this one.

Sunrise in Brooklyn had some magic today

moving this project into paint

Smooth Sumac looking good on Halloween.

Three Graces study, charcoal and colored pencil. Model is @maggmack.bsky.social

Three Graces study in charcoal and colored pencil

I finally made the pilgrimage to Storm King, and it was good. Di Suvero, Lin, Goldsworthy, Grosvenor works in these photos. 10/10 wet autumn day.

People don’t quit jobs they quit bad mangers - finally understand that maxim, my goodness, it’s intolerable to have one’s life controlled by someone who lacks critical thinking skills.

Red Maple leaf in front of an Andy Goldsworthy wall.

Hello from the other side. Juniper has to be kept separate from our other cats because she is so territorial.

New drawings of @maggmack.bsky.social #figuredrawing

A Red Tailed Hawk in the morning, a rat at the end, and a mockingbird commenting. #oilpainting #natureismetal

Spinal landscape I think about my vertebrae on hiking trips and always wanted to fit a spine in a big space.

Old Rag and Nicholson Hollow in Shenandoah. #oilpainting

An evening walk on the beach gave some good weather. Incredible 360 clouds, sun, storms, and what looked like the gates to heaven.

I have a idea for a series of figurative paintings, and I started working through it. I commissioned @maggmack.bsky.social for a set of poses, and the first study is here, a figure at dawn. #figurepainting #figurativeart #painter

I’ve started a new series of figure work. This is the first in progress.

A Blue Heron has been visiting my park in the morning, an enormous span of grace.

Best spam text yet

Tidied up the what-can-survive-indoors ongoing experiment.

I haven’t done figure work in over a year. Looks like I can still draw.

Big Crow wants you to think it’s caw-caw everywhere.

Source of mirth: ID’ing my painting of a Red-tailed Hawk.