Being an artist in 2016 by Jaws Blake

at my best I am a dreamer who recreates what I see behind my eyes without noticing what a gift that is.

darla

I feel is such a good place with my painting but I feel I need to become a better painter. The struggle is real I guess.

King crow's journey

I am trying to always find a way to bridge the gap between old and new styles of mine. I love the freedom of my old style and the details of my new work. It feels like going back to another country.

working

I keep playing with ideas. I feel like I have this fleshed out plan to make a graphic novel but I keep thinking of things to add. It is insanity.

Mia, Sophia and Gia

One day my arms will leave me Dear John letters. I keep making these deep crack of space to draw and paint details. The ache is real and overwhelming and in that I know I have refound my focus. I hope you can see the million lines my hands and arms are giving you.

art for April

I'm making a lot of work for my up and coming show. One of lots to come.

making

I'm making art for my next show in April. I have to make a lot of work on a bigger scale. I'm excited and tired by the idea but I know it will come out beautiful.

Ladies inkwash

This giant piece is working out better than I ever thought it would.

I am excited to see how it dries tomorrow morning. It takes a while to dry on this scale.

Also Goose and I have plans for this one after I finish the ladies.

my arm is going to explode if I don't slow down

I always wanted to do this painting. It is a mixture of ideas I have had for a year. 

Eye M drugs

She feels like that gaze is so much more then what you except it to tell of her self and I love that. The eyes are so important in how they communicate. I feel like art that doesn't make you make eye contact with it is not powerful enough to move you. It doesn't really need eyes but to have a spirit of it's own is so important.

Ink washing ~Jaws Blake

this just flows perfectly.

I can't let everything stop ......I work to hard to let a bad feeling slow me down.

I forget sometimes in the wake of France being attacked that Facebook is full of racists. It is a huge distraction these days. I should and am back to making art again. I don't know when I stopped doing the masks. I think I started enjoy my faces with ink washes so much I stopped painting over them.

I think she looks a little French. Which is not honestly on purpose. She was painted a few days before. I feel like she needs a background to make her whole. 

I sold  some work this weekend. It feels empty, which is a new feeling. I think I may still have a cold. Just a little bit. Alec and I took a bike ride on Sunday and I think I may have pushed myself to hard to fast. So I'm drinking my green tea and pondering what my painting needs. Jeremy Fish said once "I always thought sketches was just what you did before painting but then I found out people looked at them as art all on their own." It's not a direct quote but that was the jist.   

recent check in

I've been making a lot of work recently. So many different styles of paintings. Acrylic and watercolors are jumping in and out my projects as I'm going back to working on larger paintings slowly. It just feels better. 

Paulette vs the sweater

I love her face. Reminds me of a PAul POpe comic.

Sufa Surfer comic painting ~ Jaws Blake

Art is what matters

The little King

Jay is a painter 1982

always making

fin