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the subs are stacked.
the stacks are subbed.
I’m enjoying substack’s writing/image interlay.
Sharing some words over there.
Finding my cadence.
More on the way 🤍
👉 mccoolbeing.substack.com

#acrylic #selfportraitpainting #artthoughts

{i am
the huntress
and i am the prey]

playing with timed containers
using charcoal and gesso
on paper.

{the necessity of detachment}

experimenting with acrylic on paper.
(it worked!)
and isn’t all art an experiment?

calling it such might offer the projecting/predicting/tensed-up conscious mind some placating reassurance, that this isn’t

{some recent mind]

{gesso charcoal ink}

listening. finding things out.
bumping into walls.
climbing said walls.
repeating to myself- there are no mistakes. only insights.

fascinating to see the paths not taken in the timelapse.
some he saw. some he didn’t.
invi

last night, I started listening to “there is no antimemetics division”.

“Annihilation” vibes, affecting my hand’s movements

[Art is coming. But life is coming with it]

The path of the artist is learning how to listen not only to the needs of the physical medium, but to the inner whisper of the soul.

The truth that awaits the artist is in recognizing that there is no di

Today is my dad’s 64th (or a long 41st in measured timelessness..)

I turned 38 last week- I’m catching up! I don’t “feel” very 38. I think I got stuck climbing through my 20’s 🍻, but I may have finally found an

charcoal & life

@ritualxgenesis
@lifedrawingbellingham

The desire to know
and not know at the same time

lives in the listening

in the letting go- recognizing your every movement is part of a dance

The more the mind tries to control every element, the more stuck it gets

The moment one softens their

charcoal mind

🖤🖤

losing my head
@lifedrawingbellingham

1-8(?)

I haven’t touched ‘pan pastel’ in almost 10 years,
so it was interesting to invite an old friend back in
to see how new pathways would respond
to a forgotten medium

>I’ll make a demo on this one soon- it hits like

I don’t know what I’m meant to do
[which is precisely where I’m meant to be🤍]

a small piece
of a work-in-progress
of a man o war

whose body breathes fire
and he can’t make it stop

#tobecontinued #acryliconwood

Waves upon waves upon waves (upon waves)
today’s movement /journal /sketch

It really does feel like the inner child gets to come up to the surface and paint with the bits I’ve learned and practiced. I’m curious what the twitch wil

This week’s life drawings
in the backyard

charcoal
& more charcoal on paper

@lifedrawingbellingham
@katytiernan

{a portrait from reflection }

[ I have a complicated past with this person : ]

In the mirror is both one’s own greatest adversary and closest supporter
The one who trips us up is the same one who catches onto the pattern.
The source of all r

{daily imagination resuscitation}

it’s usually this kid that I draw
with the homemade haircut
whenever I draw a child from imagination

he comes up to the surface
and plays in the toolbox of shapes
that an older me has since collected
makin

A foggy mind
in a glowing setting

Drawing 2 models from life
with the timer running

A brain that doesn’t want to soften
so we have to go wide
skirt along the edges
stay until the end

Two drawings I was happy with
out of all the fumbling

(Bu

If weather and schedule permits,
I go paint at the Saturday morning market.
(inverting my studio outside as I call it.)

I 100% have no clue what I’m going to paint before I get there.
I have a coffee and take notes for ~15 minutes with a sket

the subs are stacked.
the stacks are subbed.
I’m enjoying substack’s writing/image interlay.
Sharing some words over there.
Finding my cadence.
More on the way 🤍
👉 mccoolbeing.substack.com

#acrylic #selfportraitpainting #artthoughts

{i am
the huntress
and i am the prey]

playing with timed containers
using charcoal and gesso
on paper.

{the necessity of detachment}

experimenting with acrylic on paper.
(it worked!)
and isn’t all art an experiment?

calling it such might offer the projecting/predicting/tensed-up conscious mind some placating reassurance, that this isn’t

{some recent mind]

{gesso charcoal ink}

listening. finding things out.
bumping into walls.
climbing said walls.
repeating to myself- there are no mistakes. only insights.

fascinating to see the paths not taken in the timelapse.
some he saw. some he didn’t.
invi

last night, I started listening to “there is no antimemetics division”.

“Annihilation” vibes, affecting my hand’s movements

[Art is coming. But life is coming with it]

The path of the artist is learning how to listen not only to the needs of the physical medium, but to the inner whisper of the soul.

The truth that awaits the artist is in recognizing that there is no di

Today is my dad’s 64th (or a long 41st in measured timelessness..)

I turned 38 last week- I’m catching up! I don’t “feel” very 38. I think I got stuck climbing through my 20’s 🍻, but I may have finally found an

charcoal & life

@ritualxgenesis
@lifedrawingbellingham

The desire to know
and not know at the same time

lives in the listening

in the letting go- recognizing your every movement is part of a dance

The more the mind tries to control every element, the more stuck it gets

The moment one softens their

charcoal mind

🖤🖤

losing my head
@lifedrawingbellingham

1-8(?)

I haven’t touched ‘pan pastel’ in almost 10 years,
so it was interesting to invite an old friend back in
to see how new pathways would respond
to a forgotten medium

>I’ll make a demo on this one soon- it hits like

I don’t know what I’m meant to do
[which is precisely where I’m meant to be🤍]

a small piece
of a work-in-progress
of a man o war

whose body breathes fire
and he can’t make it stop

#tobecontinued #acryliconwood

Waves upon waves upon waves (upon waves)
today’s movement /journal /sketch

It really does feel like the inner child gets to come up to the surface and paint with the bits I’ve learned and practiced. I’m curious what the twitch wil

This week’s life drawings
in the backyard

charcoal
& more charcoal on paper

@lifedrawingbellingham
@katytiernan

{a portrait from reflection }

[ I have a complicated past with this person : ]

In the mirror is both one’s own greatest adversary and closest supporter
The one who trips us up is the same one who catches onto the pattern.
The source of all r

{daily imagination resuscitation}

it’s usually this kid that I draw
with the homemade haircut
whenever I draw a child from imagination

he comes up to the surface
and plays in the toolbox of shapes
that an older me has since collected
makin

A foggy mind
in a glowing setting

Drawing 2 models from life
with the timer running

A brain that doesn’t want to soften
so we have to go wide
skirt along the edges
stay until the end

Two drawings I was happy with
out of all the fumbling

(Bu

If weather and schedule permits,
I go paint at the Saturday morning market.
(inverting my studio outside as I call it.)

I 100% have no clue what I’m going to paint before I get there.
I have a coffee and take notes for ~15 minutes with a sket

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