brianleahyart

Swamp of dead trees…brutal

Beginning of my newest painting. Spoiler alert…it has mountains and trees in it

This is a vague idea of what the new painting will look like, the bottom being the foreground and the top being the…anti-foreground

The foliage is made of card symbols. These colors make it look like sugary cereal

Sketch for a commission I’m working on. It’s a diptych inspired by that feeling I get when I drive through suburbia, surrounded by malls, chain restaurants and selfish, useless over-maintained lawns. Uneasy. Displaced. Worried about the future. Sad and lost. I want it to make the viewer feel like vomiting, yet still be like, ‘that’s a cool painting’. Tricky

Making paper mache dinosaurs with a person really teaches you about the core of their character

I made a stegosaurus with a sun on its side. f$#%ing hippies

The ol’ stood has been pretty full lately

The painting on the bottom right is called “I’d Rather…”

This symbol is how I sign my work. It goes back to some of my oldest doodles, when I used to draw nothing but stacks of cubes. I think I learned how to draw them from the show ‘Imagination Station’, that awesome show on PBS that taught kids how to draw all kinds of cool stuff, along with basic concepts like utilizing 3 dimensions. Thanks Mark

It’s been done. Joe.

Mini tree discussion

‘No Good Oxygen User’ progress

My bamboo bush thing is the only plant I’ve ever managed to not kill

“Headless Ghost Gives The Thumbs Up”

Me at the beach