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Direct Reflection of 365 Days.

Officially it has been a little over a year since Hurricane Harvey impacted my family. It has honestly been a long year with insurance, schools, growing up, growing older, staying […]

A little purple acrylic pouring piece.

This was a little piece I am working on for a friend of mine. It will be the background but the creation of this part is always exciting! Hope you […]

How You Can Help – Harvey Recovery – Houston

Hello friends, I have been asked by a lot of you what you can do to help. As some of you know Denise and I flooded during Allison and learned […]

Houston – My Family – And What You Can Do To Help

Hello all, First let me say that my family is safe, dry and comfortable in a hotel in Houston. We have flooded before, and I want nothing Unfortunately our home […]

One Minute Fluid Acrylic Painting

This piece just reminds me of cotton candy. If you want to learn more about the process please check out my other videos. Also, there is a lot of additional […]

Fluid Acrylic Pouring Insta-Demo

So over the last few months, I have steadily been uploading art videos and demonstrations to YouTube. While this has been a lot of fun, it has also come with […]

Using Molotow Masking Fluid in a Rapidograph Technical Pen – Geometric Mountain Watercolor Painting

Zoe Playing with Funnel’s in a Fluid Acrylic Pour.

Both my younger kids James and Zoe love to make videos and love to watch YouTube. After much deliberation we decided to go ahead and create a channel dedicate to […]

Kid Safe and fun Almost Acrylic Tempera Fluid Painting

Playing with Jane Davenport Bright Watercolor and Molotow Masking Liquid

Trying New Things with Acrylic Pouring and isolating colors.

Creating Resin Lacing with Folk Art Paints

Butterfly Eyes

Is using silicone really better? Do we really have to torch? Comparing two low cost acrylic pour techniques using Folk Art Brand Paint with and without silicone and no dangerous torching!

I often get asked if I can show how I would create a painting using less expensive craft paints. Last week I did a demonstration using Anita’s All Purpose Acrylic […]

Low Cost Fluid Acrylic Pouring with Anita’s Craft Paint

Recently I was asked to try out Anita’s All Purpose craft paint in a pouring demo to see what kind of results I get. Surprisingly the paint was very responsive […]

Fluid Acrylic Pouring with Liquitex Soft Body Acrylics

In this video, I use Liquitex Soft Body Acrylics. These acrylics are smooth but not as fluid as Golden Fluid Acrylics. In each of the colors, I also added some […]

8 Year Old Artist Zoe, Painting and Teaching Kindness

Recently I have been asked to give my opinion on what is considered art and what is not. This conversation was specifically geared to those that enjoy acrylic pouring. Hopefully […]

Painting a Skateboard Deck with Fluid Acrylics & Resin Coating

This last week I was asked to come up with a few skateboard decks for a skate shop. Before I dove head first, I wanted to see how everything would […]

How to make your own Fluid Acrylic Paint

While I love the rich pigment of a Golden Fluid Acrylic, I have been asked numerous times about making fluid acrylic paints. So I started looking into it more and […]

Acrylic Pouring Cells Without Torching or Silicone. Recipe Included

I love to keep things pretty simple, and in this video, I show how to make a painting using only three ingredients and some nice shiny results. For this type […]

Artistic creative block – Taking advantage of the quantum mind

Sometimes I get into a little rut and have just to step back and let the universe tell me what it wants me to do. It is always amazing how […]

How to transfer an image on an acrylic pouring painting.

I have been asked a number of times in my YouTube comments to explain how I transfer an image to a painting. In this short video I go through all […]

Acrylic Pouring Painting A Letter J for my boy James – Triple Cup Dirty Pour

Tonight my son James and I hung out and worked on his letter J. The kids are all really excited about hanging their own artwork on their walls and I […]

Acrylic Pour Painting A Letter W For WHITNEY! Three Cup Dirty Pour Technique.

After my girl Zoe and I painted her letter my oldest Whitney was ready to work on her letter. Just like the last pour with Zoe we did a three […]

Acrylic Pour Painting A Letter Z For ZOE! Three Cup Dirty Pour Technique.

Tonight my youngest Zoe and I found these cools panel letters and decided we would do one for her room. Because of the shape of the letter we decided to […]

Time lapse video of a 14X18 Canvas Acrylic Painting

How To Add Golden Acrylic Color to Resin – Dirty Pour Technique

I have been asked a few times if I would show a step by step of a resin pour. In this demonstration I did a more subtle example more to […]

Creating Cells and Memories – Acrylic Pouring Using Cookie Cutters

I don’t get to spend a lot of time with my oldest but when I do we generally do a lot of laughing. Whitney is one of my greatest accomplishments […]

The Effect of a No Flip – Flip Cup Acrylic Pouring Technique

Lately, I have been working on the way to get a lot of paint on a large panel without actually pouring the paint. Mainly I wanted to do a flip […]

Creating Cells with Color Shift Paints in an Acrylic Pour.

This weekend Zoe and I have been playing with some new paint. Last night we made a piece using Color Shift Paints and we rather liked the results. So today […]

Time lapse resin painting using interference paints over a dried cure.

Sometimes when I create a piece I have every intention of it coming out right. Unfortunately this is not reality. In this video I take a piece I previously painted […]

Without using silicone, alcohol or water we created plenty of cells in an acrylic pour.

I have really enjoyed using Floetrol as a pouring medium. It seems to do a pretty good job and stands up well under resin. One thing I have noticed is […]

Triple Pour with Lots of Cells – Latest Video.

This weekend I tried something a little different with my test canvases. I did a dirty pour with three flip cups, and I think it turned out OK. Below is […]

Testing out the Pebeo Discovery Sets and not making a terrible mess!

Over the weekend my lovely wife gave me three sets of Pebeo paints to play with. There were three kits, each with their own specific purpose. The tree […]

Demonstration of a resin dirty pour and what to do when you get those ugly bubbles in the epoxy.

Yesterday I was working on a piece that used quite a few colors in the pour. Seven colors in fact! The colors were an inspiration from colors used by another […]

Discovering acrylic pouring cells by spraying silicone on the surface of a painting

Teaching my 8 year old to paint using acrylic pouring medium and mixing colors is probably one of the most fun things I do each week. She just loves to […]

How to fix a ugly acrylic pour painting with color tinted resin using Golden Interference Paint.

Recently I started playing with some of Golden Paints Interference paints with my resin pieces. This type of paint surprisingly brought an entirely new level to the look I […]

Acrylic Pouring with A Final Resin Coat.

Most of the pieces I do with acrylic pouring mediums I also coat in resin. Personally, I think it looks better for the work and adds a level of quality […]

Resin painting with my 8 year old.

This Sunday afternoon my youngest and I made a little artwork. She has been begging for me to make a YouTube video on my channel of her and I making […]

Another alternative to pouring medium

I was asked about using Floetrol as a pouring medium and was interested in doing some tests. After the testing and a great conversation with the guys at Flood regarding […]

Acrylic pouring on a budget

I was asked recently about the way in which I use pouring medium. Apparently, certain pouring mediums are hard to find, out of stock or just plain expensive. After doing […]

More water than anything

This blog has been a holding site for the last couple of years as I found out more about myself and where I want to be going forward. After […]

Fluid Pouring Cell Magic & Video

One of my biggest problems with art is that I seem to delve into the technical side of the medium until I am exhausted. I do this with photography, music, […]

Teaching an 8 Year old.

I love being a dad. My kids are my greatest accomplishment. With that said, I have a responsibility to teach them as much as possible. Last week my youngest […]

Starting over

One of the reasons I like panels better than canvas is the starting over factor. It is much easier to sand down a panel than to just add more […]

Fluid Acrylic Pouring Test

I have been trying new pouring techniques and have documented it with youtube.

Meister Eckhart

Over the last few years, I have done a lot of reading around historic mystics and philosophers. I know this may seem rather boring to some, but for me […]

Namaste – Mixed Media Panel

On Monday the weather was perfect for quietly painting. Houston had massive storms rolling through, and the atmosphere was ideal for quiet creative thought. In addition to making the piece, […]

Fluid Topography

I have recently been playing with the Golden High Flow Acrylic paints in conjunction with Art Resin, and I seem to be having lots of fun. The best part […]

Making Galaxies

Me and the circle

I have a weird love affair with circles. They just seem to roll around better in my head.

Goodbye Corpus

I never lived in Corpus Christi but it is a place I have always called home. My entire family is from there so by proxy I am essentially from Corpus. […]

The love of simple.

As a professional I get to photograph a lot of interesting people. A lot of times I am directed in complex theatrical means to create the WOW image. My favorite […]

Body Awareness – Stark Naked Theatre Company – Houston

Come to this. It will be good to see you. Six of my images from the Origin series will be dropping there.

Padre Island Tx

Rio Grand TX

Pecos river with my dad and uncle

Uvalde TX

Persall TX

Gussetville cemetery TX

Murica – TX

Big Bend – TX

Printers Ball – Black Swan – Houston

Tonight at Black Swan I will have a series of prints I created available to trade for money. Stop by Spring Street Studios and check em out. This show will […]

Art postcards

This is a postcard I did on the plane back from Chicago. If your following me on instagram and want me to send it to you, let me know on […]

Chicago in the summer

Summer IS AWESOME!

Meditation

ink on paper.

Murica, let’s ride

It would be nice to find a representative.

The beautiful Miranda in my Origins series. Reps take notice please.

Bike Trail Expansion

Texas Medical Center

Riding with my #grlwhitney

Houston

The beautiful Silvene – Cabinet Cards

3200 on Holga in studio with my buddy S.

Plastic Camera

Feed The Hungry

An ad piece I did a while back for the Humane Society

Hydrate

Back to the darkroom

New works dropping soon

Greasy kulture Sunday

See the light

Bout to get wet

Tis the season of heat, humidity and holding my breath.