Impressionistic oil painting of a man pulling a cart covered with a tarp towards an intersection of a highway overpass with a modern totem pole marker before the interstate overpass for IH 40
"Intersection of I-40 and Route 66" oil on canvas, 16 x 20 inches 2025. I finally varnished this and it looks tighter. Now it's done. #art #painting #contemporaryart #infrastructureproject #socialrealism
Impressionistic Oil painting of pumpjack with hints of mesas and grey dust between it and background under orange sky.
"Haboob, Permian Basin" oil on canvas 2025, 11 by 14 in. This was dry enough to varnish this week and it looks better, greasier, oiled, appropriate. Matches my memory of that orange dust storm, dust and desert, oil and soil, sand and blood. #painting #art #socialrealism #contemporaryart #mythology
Oil painting on canvas depicting an arrangement of carts and tarps over belongings beside an angular overpass support with a honeycomb tile pattern and an outline of Texas in one of the stones. To the left is a one way sign and the right a streetsign, in the background is a red sign that says Dan. The painting is diagonally bisected by the support with a horizontal overpass road with a car and truck on it passing over everything. The background to the right has a series of loosely sketched apartments and there is a grey street in front of the scene. A blue sky is above it all.
"Antebellum. One Way, Dan" oil on canvas, 18 by 30 in, 2026. First completed oil for 2026. Working with abstract compositional aspects in my social realism vein and contrasts between loose and tight, painterly and descriptive #infrastructureproject #art #painting #contemporaryart #socialrealism
I was just scrolling along and this popped upand halted me. this is a good painting.
non-rivalro.us/infrastructu... I made a webpage component for my ongoing Infrastructure Project art series. I think BlueSky is the only social media I can actually share a link on since Insta sucks and I don't use Facebook, so ...here. It was inspired from an artist talk I was in. #art #artwork
Loose ink drawing of figure in dark tent interior against grey embankment
Loose ink drawing of figure sitting on barrier in front of chain link fences near covered shopping carts filled with belongings.
Sumi ink and white sketches, loose minimal and a little figurative. #infrastructureproject #drawing #sketch #art
Loose sketche of figure walking near cart with belongings
Loose sketche of person sleeping in storm drain access area with fire hydrant in background
Loose sketch of person pushing shopping cart full of pallets with yield signs nearby
Loose sketch of men taking phone photos in front of Franklin Barbecue
Figure sketches around Austin Texas, walnut ink and bamboo pen on rough Japanese rice paper, 2025 #art #drawing #sketching #figurativeart
Gouache on paper painting of 4 large satellite dishes under a white and blue partially cloudy sky with two shipping containers in the foreground, one red the other purple blue, and a large grey billboard with the word naloxone on it. The ground is a yellow brown and there is a greenish square building in a fenced in middle ground area with a white door.
"183 Northbound Near the Shooting Range" 7 ×10 inches gouache on paper 2026 #infrastructureproject #painting #contemporaryart #gouache #art
Pen and ink with wash drawing in black and white on yellow paper of a person sitting on a storm drain cover under an overpass with a shopping cart with belongings tied to it and a stop sign. The background has hints of a pole and hedges.
"Underpass Downtown Dallas" ink on paper 2026 #infrastructureproject #drawing #art #sketching #socialrealism
Promotional poster for AFT Gallery's Artistist Circle event on Saturday, January 17, 6-7 PM, featuring artists from "The Edge of Everything": Manny Chapa, Jordan Alyse Hamilton, Sara Kate Hannon, Paul Moncus, Emily Ward, with facilitator Andrea Muñoz Martinez; magenta design with horses and butterfly graphics, @aftgallery.
Starting the year off with a chat about art at Art For the People Gallery here in Austin TX on Jan 17th at 6pm I've been thinking, reading, and writing down thoughts in prep since it's been a bit since I've done an artist talk or Q&A #art #contemporaryart #austinart #atxart #infrastructureproject
Work in progress horizontal painting of an overpass with a blue sky above and a yellow honeycomb like support wall to the left and hints of houses or apartments in the background
First painting of 2026, Building up layers, working with this honeycomb thing, keep thinking of Diebenkorn, being a little loose and painterly while I lay in the shapes and composition. Gotta let this sit a little so I can build and glaze on top of it. #wip #painting #art #austinart
Gouache painting of a street and empty bus stop in front of an orange abandoned building under a blue sky
Grisaille Grey tone on orange paper underpainging depicting a bus stop abandoned building and street
Graphite drawing on orange paper of a bus stop in front of an abandoned building
"Bus Stop On Oltorf Near Where The Pancho's Used To Be" 2025 gouache on paper 9 x 6 in with shots of a few stages. #painting #sketching #gouache #socialrealsm #lonesomehighways #austinart #atxart #art #contemporaryart #watercolor #landscape
I got a lot out of this, and a lot to think about. I've been thinking and writing notes a lot lately in prep for a QA about art and why I make it, and your piece popped up in my feed like it was meant for me to find and I'm glad I clicked through and read. Great photos and thoughts.
Gouache on paper painting sketch of a billboard near a stoplight over a rainy road in front of a gas station. Beneath a Grey sky and blurry light
"Rainy Day, Gas Station Near the Smoke Shop on 7th" gouache on paper sketch 2025 #sketch #sketching #painting #art #socialrealsm #impressionism #landscape #austin
simple ink and conte crayin on yellow orange toned paper drawing of a red and white semi truck with a trailer with a red carnival ride boat on it and a tollway sign construct in the background
"Carnival Boat upon SH-71 Tollway" ink and conte on paper. A simple sketch of a scene on the morning commute, but the more I look the more my world feels like magic realism. #sketch #sketchbook #drawing #realism #magicrealism #austinart #conte #art #ink
Had students tell me "Sir, I can't draw like you" and I'd say "good thing we are going to let you find out how to draw like YOU" and we would do gesture studies, contours etc and go from there. love to see the hand of the human in art and imagine its passage through time as the work was created.
Gouache on paper of abandoned boat with graffiti in grassy field, surrounded by trees under bright sky. It seems to be some sort of a speed boat with a cabin portion.
"Abandoned Boat Near Garfield Texas”, gouache on paper, 6 by 9 inches, 2025 #art #painting #gouache #gouachepainting #socialrealism #landscapeart #watercolor #sketchbook #painting #contemporaryart
Gouache painting of grounded fishing boat near Conoco sign, dry grass, semi truck, and power lines under blue sky.
"Port, Buda Tex near Flea-market" 6 by 9 inch gouache on paper 2025 #art #austin #contemporaryart #painting #texasart #gouache #socialrealism #landscape
flyer for an art show called "The Edge of Everything", a group art exhibition at Art for the People Gallery in Austin Texas, Sat, Nov 15 through Sat, Feb 21. artforthepeoplegallery.com. The image depicts a gouache painting of a white gazebo with red accents in front of trees with high rise buildings in the background.
Image of an oil painting in a blonde wood frame depicting a red food trailer with a hand painted sign that says Desayunas... and advertises tacos and other breakfast foods with green trees in the background and to the right orange traffic cones in the background is a grey mobile home or other type of fabricated building and in the foreground is a dirt parking lot. There is a picket fence from left to right from foreground to middle-background and above it all is an orange morning sky with fluffy blue grey clouds.
Blonde framed gouache painting of a night scene an arrangement of carts and belongings covered with a tarp along the side of the road in front of a highway overpass with green lighting underneath and a black sky above. The foreground is lit by the dim headlights of an old truck.
Blonde wood framed gouache painting of converging highway overpasses under a blue sky. The overpass comes in from the upper right supported by large pillars and curves to the center. Another comes in from the left. The road and shadows converge in the center point.
In Austin TX next week, you can come check some pieces at Art for the People Gallery for "The Edge of Everything" show. I have a big oil (66" by 40", and check my custom frame) & 6 gouache (& some drawings). If you are in town and doing Studio Tour hit it up. #art #painting #contemporaryart #austin
Photo of a tan Roman sculpture of a woman with a missing nose and an elaborate headpiece. The title says "Priestess of the Imperial Cult"
Dang they had Press Secretaries in olden times too. #art #sculpture #ancientart #artmuseum
Oil painting of impressionistic pumpjack. Subject is a lone pumpjack on the right and the rest is shades of tan and grey horizon with a large tan sky implying sand haze
Impressionistic oil painting of a man pulling a cart covered with a tarp towards an intersection of a highway overpass with a modern totem pole marker before the interstate overpass for IH 40
A large oil painting of an overpass with debris assembled around the base of a pillar. The midground has a discarded jeep and TV to the right and boxes and a shopping cart to the left there is a distant overpass in the background and suggestions of two white birds in the upper left corner. There is a red sign with a white arrow facing right in the front center of the image.
Used more oil than my old 93 Dodge truck as I worked these pieces first two are new and just done, and the 3rd is just a different photo of the big oil I have been finishing up since July #austinart #painting #art #studioart #oilpainting #traditionalart #realism #contemporartyrealism #socialrealism
Pencil sketches of two Velasquez paintings, Portrait of a Little Girl from 1638, and Portrait of Camillo Astalli, known as Cardinal Pamphila from 1650. The little girl is facing 3/4 to the viewers left and has almost shoulder length dark hair. The Cardinal has a little bowl shaped hat and hair down to around his chin with a van dyke style beard.
Pencil sketch of painting by El Greco named Saint Luke from 1590 depicting a bearded St Luke with eyes pointing in slightly different directions and the hint of a big Bible in front of him
Fresh off a new show submission rejection, I went to the museum to look at some Velazquez and El Greco paintings and sketched them on site to study and think. I went quickly to not be too in the way. El Greco's Luke had an odd eye too. #sketch #drawing #study #art #oldmasters
Would like an edit button to correct the misspelling of "Arches" paper instead of "archea" but it is what it is.
Gouache painting with telephone lines and cell tower, a yellow school bus in the center, a quonset hut and blue semi-truck cab on the right and a tree on the left with an orange box camp underneath. The sky is Grey and abstracted with light and dark Grey within the polygons in the skyline. There is green in the mid ground and the foreground is a brown and grey street.
"SH71 Between the Airport and the Car Factory" gouache on archea paper sketch 2025. A bit of a Hockney collage mixed with Charles Demuth via central Texas. #sketch #painting #gouache #art
Photo of small yellow toned sketchbook page with a walnut brown pen and ink sketch of a roadside camp and warehouses, school bus, and cell tower and power lines with a tree. A nib pen holder, ceramic inkwell, blue collapsible water container, bottle of ink, and paper towel are visible and the spine of a book that says "Francis Bacon Man and Beast" on it are vivible
Me: "ok I'm gonna settle down and work on a trompe L'oeil painting of a bread loaf and work on technique."
Also me: "... Dr Who ooh, Dr Who!"... (Singing while drawing Pen and ink sketch of roadside camp and warehouses) #sketching #composition #art #studioart #penandink
A black and white photo of a discarded fortune from a fortune cookie that is laying in a street gutter full of leaves and twigs. It says "Your efforts will be worthwhile."
"Sweet Nothings" Pentax K-1000, 2005 #pentax #film #blackandwhite #photography
Black and white photo of a young woman with dark hair looking down while buttoning her jacket.
Slightly out of focus black and white photo of a young woman with dark hair and eyes with face in mostly shadow looking directly at viewer, her jacket unbuttoned over a shirt with pleats.
"Getting Ready" 2003 Pentax K1000 35mm. I don't recall but I think it was slide film, found this on a backup DVD. My wife prepping for my cousin's wedding. I used to take photos of slices of life every chance I could. #Pentax #35mm #film #photography #photo #portrait
Black and white acrylic portrait of the artist with long sideburns and otherwise clean shaven face at age 25, staring directly at the viewer. The eyes and sides of face and neck are in deep shadow and the planes of the cheeks, forehead, and bridge of nose in stark white
Gouache color painting of the artist at age 50, looking up to the right of the frame with light blue green hazel eyes. The figure has a full beard shot through with Grey especially around the chin. It is wearing a light tan thin striped shirt
Self Portrait at Age 25 and now at age 50. Guy on the left was just out of college and just married and in near constant pain, particularly intestinal and extremities from untreated Hereditary Angioedema & guy on the right has been married for 25 years and has healthcare #art #painting #portrait
Painting sketch of a lone mid 20th century house on a hill to the right with grafittie on the wall in front and a tent on a wall near it. To the left is a makeshift camp and a stair from the streets. Far in the back are mobile homes. In the front is a dirty street. A dormant winter tree dominates the middle of the painting and two electric poles are in the middle ground. The background sky is pale blue.
"7th Street Tent and House Before they Built the Apartments" gouache on paper 2025 #painting #drawing #art #sketch #socialrealism #landscape #infrastructureproject #austin #austinart #realism
Pen and ink and wash black and Grey on white drawing of a Formula Mazda race car going down and to the right from a 3/4 overhead view from the right side with a number 21 on the spoiler and a helmeted driver in a loose style.
In middle school when my family would yell and fight before they eventually split up I'd find solace in drawing race cars. I got pretty good at it. I still do find solace in it and there is little pressure for it to be "good" or "art". Just relaxing. #drawing #art #sketch #ink #sketching #sketchbook
