Hi friends, this week I’ll be archiving The Society. I'm simplifying my life and fully focusing on my Coaching Program community. Right now they are thriving and deserve my full attention. My vision for this group was always bigger than image sharing. I wanted to build a collaborative community with me, other Pros, and members who wanted to break out of the social media paradigm of vanity, likes and follows. I wanted to create a community built on conversations and relationships, online and offline. To keep that vision alive would require many hours of teaching, support, and collaboration, and right now, I simply don’t have the time (or resources) to sustain it. I plan to have an oil painting focused community soon. That is the next stage in my evolution so I will dedicate my hours and labor to this new chapter in my life. If you are interested in that, please follow me on my new website (I will start writing beautiful articles there again) and join my free email list. That is where I will do my teaching and guiding for now. Thank you for being part of this. Skool is still in it's infancy, but I know it will become as mainstream as Facebook. As censorship of nude figurative art and beautiful realism as a whole continues to rise, the mass of artists like me will eventually migrate here. So thank you for being a pioneer with me. To those who resonate with me and align with my mission to build a sanctuary for beauty online I hope to meet you again. Much love and peace be with you until we meet again.❤️🤝

Too much information is making us numb. I called this "sensory overload". I always liked scifi and cyberpunk. The new bladerunner totally blew me away for example. Amazing artwork to me that movie. From design to color to music. I also love the aestethics of circuits and i integrate them very subtle into my work sometimes. Less subtle here. Pretty expressive drawing actually. I am working on my gouache and watercolor now. Next will be oil again. Mediums are just the tools to get down the artwork. I will give up on pastel for now tho. Too much dust for my liking. And do you know what that feel that gives you nasty shivers with crayon dust ? Yeah no thanks :D will post more again ! Much more. 🩵 Strathmore 300 and I also used white here.

Skol Vikings! Fun expression to work through, but holy cow… I discovered how bad I need to work on hands 😬

This Friday, I had the chance to visit The Met in NYC with @Tim Dosé , and we spent time exploring the breathtaking John Singer Sargent exhibition. While Sargent’s finished paintings are always a showstopper, what truly moved me this time were his sketches — the raw, intimate studies done in pencil and charcoal that rarely get the spotlight. Some of these sketches struck me immediately — especially those that echoed the figure of Madame X. Though the exhibition doesn’t explicitly connect each one to the final painting, I noticed what seemed to be recurring studies of her across different works. It’s a reminder of how much groundwork Sargent put in before arriving at his iconic compositions. He didn’t just dive into the masterpiece — he explored, iterated, and refined through thumbnail after thumbnail. But here’s the other thing that really inspired me: not all of the sketches were tied to a final painting. Some were simply exercises. Practice figures. Random musings in line and form. And honestly? They were just as powerful. They showed a master staying loose, curious, and committed to the process — even when the goal wasn’t a gallery wall. @Chris Legaspi has always emphasized this: thumbnail, explore, stay connected to the work. Whether you're planning a masterpiece or simply studying for the sake of growth, those reps matter. So I’m sharing some of the sketches I found — both the deliberate studies and the spontaneous ones — because they remind me (and hopefully you too) that every drawing counts. Whether it’s a warm-up, a throwaway, or a deep dive into a final piece — it all builds your eye, your hand, your connection to the work. Let me know what you see in these. What do they make you feel about your own process? Let’s keep drawing. Let’s keep learning. Let’s keep growing.

Aka evil, the devil charcoal on manila paper with slight digital enhancement 11" x 6"