Gun control isn't exactly a subject that can be talked about openly without inciting heated arguments. People care deeply about their right to own guns and the opposition sees a massive, gun toting population as a danger to public safety. Look, I'm just an artist, I painted the image above and this blog post exists to explain the meaning behind it. (The bubble gum represents naivety, there, enough about that.) I've shot many different types of guns, been in a family household

Scott Listfield's work is seriously good. I know it's good because it pisses me off and if I find another artists' work upsetting it can be for only one of two reasons; it is either truly terrible, or really, really good. I don't know anything about him, all I know is I stumbled across his paintings of astronauts online one day and couldn't stop looking through them. The clever use of the astronaut is very effective, no matter what environment he is painted in it now seems fr

I may lose all hope. I'm in the middle of a commission. An oil painting. 3'x4'. Vaguely representing Madrid with a particular building as the focal point. I have started and restarted this thing at least a dozen times, sketches of running bulls liter my studio, paint in various degrees of congealment are to be found in the most unlikely of places while several brushes languish, un-attended, in a glass jar of mineral spirits. I love this painting, I hated it before, but it's c