Painting at a distance of 6 feet

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Painting at a distance of 6 feet

Pandemics are a bummer. But the nice thing about being an artist is that I generally don’t get near other people while I paint anyway. Here are a few highlights from the pandemic:

-Baby #2 was delivered right as the SHITT* hit the fan (March 2020)
-Built a studio in my backyard and been pumping out some goodies.

‘The Egg’ 2010 - 2020. I started and concluded this in 2010, or at least it seemed to be finished at the time. It had sat untouched for a decade, but something about the early days of the pandemic made a reasonable distraction. So, I broke out the paints, and went to town. Originally, this artwork consisted of 7 stretched canvas panels, but in its final iteration it is only 4 panels wide. I’ve penciled in 2030 to do something with the remaining 3 panels.

‘Next Leap Home’ 2021 48 x 36 acrylic on panel

‘Fry Box’ 2021 48 x 36

Created a couple pieces for a group show with my fellow Widowmaker friends, Michael Porten and Will Penny.

And lastly, some of my favorite political illustrations from the last couple of years.

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A mural with good taste

Another big boy, but not of the Frisch’s variety. This one was created for the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in the HIVE cafeteria. Once the design was established it took a little over a month to paint on site. How did I make all those dots??? Welp, you’re in luck! I posted a time-lapse recording the process of removing the vinyl stencils below.

Vinyl stencils are being removed from the wall leaving the positive dot pattern on the wall

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White Paper

I've had a lot of life milestones that were both amazing and time consuming-- thus no blog entries. So, what better way to reboot this blog than doing a year-in-review? Well, about this time last year I was getting hitched to this woman. Lucky me. If you've been following me for awhile you may recall that I made a post including the animation below that details the lurid history of SHITT (Shannon + Britt = SHITT). Originally posted on the now hidden Sweet Nothings blog I figured it was too sweet to completely bury as an easter egg, so here it is again. 

After tying the knot, we did what many young lovers do; we bought a house. It just so happened that our closing day was also the eve of Hurricane Matthew's arrival. The storm came and went with minimal impact on our new home. Shortly thereafter we started working on our own little artistic collaboration, i.e. a baby! But not just any baby, the SHITT baby. Unfortunately, #SHITTbaby isn't here yet... expect her in October. In the meantime we've been having fun with some other less consequential art collabs; a live-painting charity event, SCAD's Sidewalk Arts Festival and having a babymoon to some really cool inspirational places. Have you ever been to Meow Wolf?!?! That places is great. 

My square for the Sidewalk Arts Festival 2017, #SCADCHALK

My square for the Sidewalk Arts Festival 2017, #SCADCHALK

Both our squares. Shannon is adding the last coat of white chalk. 

Both our squares. Shannon is adding the last coat of white chalk. 

Meow Wolf, Santa Fe, NM

Meow Wolf, Santa Fe, NM


In addition to all the personal hubbub I've been cranking out a whole bunch of commissions and work for shows. Some of the bigger highlights are as follows:

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A big ol' mural in Murray Hill, Jacksonville, FL. 

This bad boy titled 'Lasso' consumed me for a full month in the late summer of 2016. At times I felt that I was going to die in the blistering heat of a Jacksonville summer with a massive 120 foot wall reflecting light onto me. Thanks to Jason Tetlak of the Murray Hill Preservation Association for securing funding for such a big project. If you're ever in Jacksonville make sure to give it a look-see on Edgewood Drive. You can't miss it!

The sketch was pretty unwieldy but a great subject for a time-lapse video. 

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New paintings for a group show in the Mid-West

Had the honor of being invited to a group show with some pretty awesome artists. The show was/is hosted by the Carnegie Center for the Arts in New Albany, IN. It's still up for a few more days, check it out if you're in the area. Below are a few process shots as well some from the space itself. In recent history I've been dabbling with the illusion of peripheral drift- the image with the lady wearing a fur coat is an experiment with the principles of that illusion. I'm looking forward to playing around with some more optical illusions in future works.

... and lastly, staying busy with editorial

This year has been full of fun editorial jobs, here are a few: 

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Vanilla; the color of business success

Hello, I've decided to start this blog over again rather than attempt a clean up, sans my 'Sweet Nothing' series. You'll note that both my 'NSFW BLOG' and 'SMUT' section of my site have been removed from the main navigation bar. If you look around, you can still find both of those pages, but you'll have to look for them. Why? You may ask. Well, I got a few remarks over the years, seems like that sort of content makes people uneasy. Why then, keep them at all? You may then ask. Well, I still think there's some good content there; nice drawings, detail shots, process shots, news, updates, etc. But also, I have a problem with just outright throwing things away that I've worked on... there goes that sunk-cost fallacy again. So, for posterity and the preservation of a couple years of my life, the old blog and smut work remains. Albeit, buried in secondary navigation. 

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