Hello again! I hope your week is going well! A couple weeks back I let you in on the secret that I don’t use black paint in my paintings. Well I’m here this week to give you a short story on how I don’t use black paint: The palette is lined with various piles of colors. The time has come …
rough: a. Having a surface marked by irregularities, protuberances, or ridges; not smooth. b. Unpleasant or difficult. No city was too hot. No canyon too deep. But the coyote was alone. Roaming the darkest alleyway to the driest mesa. Trekking across the land, the coyote accepted each obstacle as a new challenge, adapting to the surroundings. The lone coyote’s paws were blistered by hot asphalt and earth. Marked and bruised from the …
surface: a. the exterior or upper boundary of an object or body.b. an external part or layer. Clearly the idea of surface comes up many times in my life. In art we talk in great depth about the surface of a painting or sculpture. Is it rough or smooth? Is it hard or soft? The paradoxical nature …
wood: the hard fibrous substance consisting basically of xylem that makes up the greater part of the stems, branches, and roots of trees or shrubs beneath the bark and is found to a limited extent in herbaceous plants. Could you imagine a world without wood? Wood has been one of our most important materials from early …
Bizarre: strikingly out of the ordinary. Ever since I can remember, I have been called weird. It never bothered me and in fact I sort of took pride in going against the grain and being the black sheep. It’s not that I was weird for the sake of being weird, I think oddballness just spoke to me. (although …
Finally, dawn. The birth of the new day. Ashes from the last fire had been stamped out. Change was inevitable, but it was a long, long night. Now was the time for something new. Something that had been simmering under the surface for eons. Like a moth from a caterpillar. New life.
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You have been wanting a Will Eskridge original for some time now. That drab wall is begging for a new piece of original art to amplify your space. Make a statement with a thought-provoking piece that celebrates the animal kingdom. Discover the possibilities with my Paint-O-Matic customizer. You get to decide which animal. You get …
Last week I posted about some new artwork that I have been creating in the background for the last 8 months, “Vanishing Silhouettes”. Sometimes it is hard for me to know when to stop a painting or other piece of art. I tend to get so microscopic and “in the zone” that I forget what …
