Are You Ever Going To Make A Follow-up To The Therapy Comic? I'd Really Like To See How The Clients Are

Foggy Notion

original collage portrait available for $35

7.25 x 9in Ink, marker, water color, stickers, product packaging, and metallic paint on found cardboard, coated with matte varnish for increased durability

The scan doesn’t really do the metallic paint justice, so here’s a gif

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redangusart replied to your photo: One of my grad classes on Thursday requires a...

THREE HOURS HOLY SHIT. Good job!! What was it in response to?

thanks! I don’t usually work that fast so I was pleased. It’s in response to “Like Water for Chocolate.”

SPOILER: Tita should have married John, Pedro wasn’t worth it.

But the book had this recurring imagery about fire as passion and how your bone marrow actually contains the ingredients to create match heads so that’s why passion burns you up.

Christina the Astonishing

13x14

acrylic

A gift for a therapist.

Christina the Astonishing was a woman in the 13th century who, around the age of 20, had a seizure so severe that friends and family thought she had died. During her funeral service, Christina levitated out of her grave, and up to the roof of the cathedral. When Christina came to land upon the church altar, she told the congregation that she had seen Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. In Heaven she asked for angels to return her to Earth so she might lead others to salvation.

Christina claimed she could sense the sins of others, and they pained her. To escape this, she levitated into the tops of high trees.

She is sometimes considered the patron saint of therapists, mental health workers, and the mentally ill.

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Reaching that point in working on a piece where I lose any sense of reality and my brain just chants "I AM A GENIUS I AM A GOD" over and over. Well, working in customer service until 11:30 pm will certainly beat down that overblown sense of confidence. Off to work!

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If you’re ever wondering why I’m slow to post art, it’s because I have a full time job and a repetitive stress injury that is triggered by my job and basically every form of art that I make.

These are two in-progress paintings I’ve been working on for awhile now, “Ecce Homo” and “St. Agatha (left).”

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Your comic about how you used to love to draw.. I sympathize so much. It must be so difficult to process those feelings during times like these. If it is any consolation, the space your art takes up is a joyful, meaningful one in a lot of people's hearts. It's like a language guidebook that creates the foundation of a second language in the mind of the reader. I know how poisonous it can be to think of your art as needing a function, to be small and disposable yet widely used, I hope you are feeling better these days with your art and that you are able to heal. Your art has helped heal a lot of us, but more meaningful is if it is able to heal you

Thank you for sending me this.

Honestly, I think disenchantment with, and then falling back in love with, art-making has been (and probably will always be) a cyclical part of my life. It’s my own little myth of Sisyphus wherein I laboriously roll my absurd art boulder up the hill, convinced that this task matters, only to watch in despair as it rolls back down the hill. I accept that I must do this task again, that my labor doesn’t matter, but pushing the art rock up the hill was fun so I might as well do it again.

details from "Amateur Psychoanalysis."

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Hello, it’s been a long time since I posted here, but I’m still alive!

A scarf made for a cousin, #1.

I'd really like to tell you I'm happy I found your art blog. I guess I want to say that I find your self reflections to be really interesting and your approach as well. I just really happy to be following you! Thank you!

Thank you for taking the time to message me! It really does mean a lot.

roycevomit said: this looks finished to me, it’s really beautiful regardless.

Awh! Thank you.

That's one of the things that I really like about your art -- you seem to know exactly when to stop. Your pieces aren't overworked or fussy, they feel straightforward.

I have a hard time stopping on my pieces. I keep working them until I look at them and go "Shit, I should have stopped, like, 8 changes ago." I've been trying to work on that, giving myself "assignments" or guidelines designed to limit my obsessiveness.

For instance, in the painting that I'm working on right now, I'm not allowing myself to use brown or black. That means I can only get a certain level of shadows and depth in the image, so that's one thing that I'm not stressing about.