First painting of 2026. I haven't really done any abstract oil painting before, but I wanted to practice these colors without so practicing drawing. Oil on linen panel, 5"x7".

My friend ordered some off hand-painted reproductions of 19th century art with absurd modern elements added - like a blockbuster video in the background of a hunting scene. I think they're made in a Chinese workshop in some bulk. I painted this duck floating in the ocean. Oil on panel, 8"x10".

I painted this goat. Oil on panel, 8"x10".

This is my friend's pig. I'm trying to learn to paint the light. Oil on panel, 9"x12".

I haven't done an oil painting in a while, so it's time to get started again. I took some photos in the woods at Arabia Mountain a few weeks ago for the reference. I do most of my paintings ala prima, but I started this before Thanksgiving, and it dried while I was away. Oil on panel, 9"x12".

These guys didn't make the mess, but they'll have to clean it up. Watercolor and ink on 5"x7" hot press paper

I'm probably wearing this motif out. It's becoming a lazy check-the-box exercise. But I do like it! The masking pen is awesome. Watercolor and ink on 5"x7" hot press paper

My friend told me my work was looking very "southwest". As a dedicated East-Coaster, I felt like I needed to change the colors up. Watercolor and ink on 5"x7" hot press paper

I really like this motif. I did this one with a masking fluid pen instead of tape. Watercolor and ink on 5"x7" hot press paper

It's not October! I finished my "at least one painting a day in October" project. I did a bunch of abstracts this year. I still consider myself a landscape painter first, then a general representational painter second, but abstracts really are genuine fun. Watercolor on 5"x7" hot press paper

It's October! I'm still doodling on these guys. They're getting more desperate. Watercolor and ink pen on 5"x7" hot press paper

It's October! I was doodling with a carpenter's pencil in my sketchbook and discovered this kind of dude. This was a pen and watercolor rendetion of a bunch of these guys hanging out in the junk piles. Watercolor and ink pen on 5"x7" hot press paper

It's October! I'm still playing with the transparent red oxide, which today I realized smells like blood from all the iron. I borrowed some of this motif from @fiendfables.bsky.social whose work I found today and greatly admired. Watercolor and ink on 5"x7" hot press paper

It's October! I wanted to experiment with the transparent red oxide. Watercolor on 5"x7" hot press paper

It's October! I'm still messing with this motif. Watercolor and Ink on 5"x7" hot press paper

It's October! I was doodling in my sketchbook and decided to extend a couple motifs as a little watercolor painting. I penciled in the drawing, and I think that was a mistake. The ink-only figures in the sketchbook were more spontaneous and animated. Watercolor and Ink on 5"x7" hot press paper

It's October! I really dig the better-quality hot press paper. It just doesn't tear, and I can go a lot further messing with different kinds of masking. Watercolor on 5"x7" hot press paper

I usually use relatively cheap paper, but I've been trying to do some masking with artist tape, and it always rips. Even when I tape the edges, it rips. I cut some higher quality arches paper, and I'm happy with the result. No tearing. Watercolor and ink on 5"x7" hot press paper.

It's October! I've been working more with abstract watercolors. I liked this one so much, I did a much larger version, but it's too big for my scanner, so this will have to do. Watercolor on 6"x9" hot press paper

The people demanded the return of the show, and the people's demands have been heard! What a treat!

This is larger than my normal painting. Another on a panel I cut. I consider myself a landscape painter at heart - even through most of my work isn't. Oil on panel, 11"x14".

I focused on speed and value, and attempted to go aittle nuts with hue. Phylogenetically, all apes, including humans, are old world monkeys. Oil on panel, 8"x10".

Another odd pig. Oil on panel, 8"x10".

Not a pig - but a boar. I don't often paint fur, so this was a little outside of my comfort zone. Oil on panel, 9"x12".

I wish all seasons could be fall and all holidays could be Halloween. Oil on panel, 8x10".

I based this on an interesting sketch I did, but whoa, it came out weird. Oil on panel, 8x10".

I painted a couple of pigs this week that I wasn't happy with, so I'm playing with a new subject. Oil on panel, 8x10".

Every artist needs a series they can fall back to when they don't have a subject calling out to them. Backup pigs. This pig is the first painting on my new batch of panels. The panel held up great. Oil on panel, 8x10".

I'm not sure where the pig paintings are headed. I cut and primed panels today, so I'm flush with materials. The old panels (including this painting) are 1/8" thick. The new panels are 3/16", which doesn't seem like a lot, but it's 50% thicker - much sturdier. Oil on panel, 9x12".

I painted this from a photo I took after a heavy rain. The light was weird. I initially had the lit window on the other side but moved it to its present location for compositional reasons. Oil on panel, 8"x10".

I still like to paint this creek. I should have worked more on the composition and not divided the painting nearly in half. Watercolor on hot press paper, 6"x9"

I still like to paint this creek. Watercolor on hot press paper, 6"x9"

I've painted this creek more than any other subject. There's always more to see. Watercolor, 6"x9" on hot pressed paper.

Reposting this to test the oil painting feed. This was a study of making big swooshy brush strokes to create these dramatic clouds. My friend thought they were rocks in a river and suggested I lighten the dark values. Next time. I cut and primed the panel. Oil on panel, 8"x10".

It was a big day for painting. Finished two, started on a third. This was a study of making big swooshy brush strokes to create these dramatic clouds. My friend thought they were rocks in a river and suggested I lighten the dark values. Next time. I cut and primed the panel. Oil on 8"x10" panel.

Fresh painting of a kudzu farm. Based on a photo I took a couple years ago from the parking lot behind the Bigfoot museum in North Georgia (featuring an alleged plaster cast of Bigfoot's buttprint). Oil on 9"x12" canvas panel. Just paint and a little solvent for the underlayer, no medium used.

@jacksonwheat1.bsky.social in your video on the Sun Eaters, around the 55 minute mark, you discuss the endosymbiosis of chloroplasts and mitochondria. Some of this science was from the early 20th century. How did scientists study the interior of organelles back then? How do we do it now?

I did this painting from a flower arrangement I got after a work event. The marketing people had a ton of flowers that were going into the trash, so they let me have a handful. Oil on panel, 14"x18". I framed this one and it hangs in my bedroom wall.

This is one episode in this great series where I really didn't know anything about the subject going into it. Fascinating. Well done @jacksonwheat1.bsky.social !

This is Pigboy, a subject I've painted a few times. He's from an old carnival freak show flier - the pig with the human face. Titled, "Under the withering white skies of humiliation" from a lyric of The National. Oil on panel, 14"x18". I cut and gessoed the panel from a home depot masonite sheet.

I haven't painted enough recently, so I pushed through and did this painting tonight. It's a weird one. Oil on linen panel 5"x7"

I redid this painting larger than the note-card sized version. After I put my brushes away and looked at it for a white, I think I need to do another session to add details and interest. I did this in about an hour and a half, so no shame in another 45 minutes. 8"x10" oil on linen panel

I haven't painted in a couple weeks, so I did this little oil painting of this hazy, smokey LA scene. It's really difficult to paint on a panel smaller than a cell phone. Going this small doesn't seem to save time either. I could do a 5"x7" in the same amount of time. Oil on 3"x5"panel

My friend is taking a color theory class and I'm often talking to her about it while looking at my old work through the lense of her class. This was one of my early oil paintings, done in March, 2021. It's not how I'd draw that face now, but it's a neat painting. Oil on linen panel, 8"x10"

@neonflag.bsky.social I know you're discussing a serious subject, but this line made me laugh. theatlantaobjective.substack.com/p/surviving-...

I made a second linocut of the pig x-ray. I made a new carving from the original drawing. I had to buy a new, cheap hand tool. I previously bought a kit, but it was just not sharp or small enough. I need to work on my printing technique, but the carving wasn't bad, and the bones look more defined.

I was in a waiting area that had some magazines on a table, and one of them was a bass fishing magazine with a bunch of photos of people holding the fish they caught. I drew the fish, then doodled around them. I don't love how glaze handles black and white images. Ink on sketchbook paper, 9"x12"

I did some doodling in ink tonight. I mostly used a .5 fineliner, but I filled in some larger areas with a brush pen. Ink on 9"x11" sketch paper.

Linocuts! I did a linocut of a pig and its bones. I have no idea what I'm doing, but I did manage to not cut myself! The ink is water soluble, as is appropriate until I figure out how to deal with this medium. I have a long way to go to figure out how to carve the panels and press the prints.