freedom!

hey guys. i said HEY GUYS!

last night i entered my new painting studio to paint for the first time! well, its my new garage, but im working towards turning it into a sweet painting studio...and i did really paint in it for the first time tonite!

for whatever reason, ive always wanted to do some art on cutting boards. i love wood, first of all. but secondly, ive always been a beet fascinated with the amount of experience a used cutting board has. they take a lot of abuse, theyve been chopped on, scrubbed, stained, thrown around, dropped, moldy...theyve been through a lot, and have always been worked on very intimately by peoples' hands.

so, i pulled out a cutting board ive had in my closet for a year or so, and started sketching...

then i moved into some color and lighting study work to make painting a bit easier...

and got into paints tonite.  this first one is run through an instagram filter

and this is just regular camera-style

anyway, im close to being done. another hour or 2 of touch-ups and re-painting and i'll call it a finished piece. im liking my recent experiences of painting on wood surfaces.

EDIT: I just noticed that this painting has very similar colors and imagery as "spoons", the octopus in my blog title banner. hmmm

droppin bombs on yo moms
PAUL