country fried alex @clowncarpool - Tumblr Blog

hey, y’all!!

i’m alex

i’m a painter/printmaker/sculptor/video artist

i instruct college studio art courses in TX, and teach an afterschool art program for kids

sometimes i sell stuff here

i post stuff on my insta here

#needed to make a pinned post so yall know who i am.#some of my students follow me here too lol hi y’all!#i wanna be more active here. just been busy this whole semester.#i thiiiiink ive secured a visiting artist professor position at a new college for fall?? maybe?? as a life update lol #did y’all know i’m gonna be 30 this september #im really fucking old!!!! who woulda thought!!!!#also yes the link for my shop is broken bc i need to update my credit card info lmao #ignore it it’s a placeholder

Plsplsplspls offer prints of your 'cheese watching you shower' painting or a paid digital download to print at home? <3

i’m planning on it! i may open preorders first! I’ll have some free time next week, I’ll get it scanned and touched up for prints hehehe

leezrd pen and ink drawings from me and my gf’s road trip.

i never learned much abt dinosaurs growing up (creationist school) so they’ve always been mysterious and fascinating. none of these are actual dinosaurs (duh), but i like to make up anatomy for things that are dinosaur-ish??

#i tried to challenge myself. NO REFERENCE hehehehe. i feel very proud of these sketches #AND practiced line confidence. no pencil sketch!! all micron and fountain pen #i wanna do more like this tbh i learned a lot with patience and rendering!#this is me humble bragging just bc im proud of actually filling up a whole sketchbook page lmao

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#hi omg i didn’t expect that to blow up. thank y’all!!#i’ve been panting cheese a lot bc he follows me around like a lil shadow. he’s so sweet and funny #the other painting im almost done with is abt my childhood fears of the rapture and dinosaurs. i’m trying to finish it soon

I just feel like I want to come here to say your painting of Cheese has genuinely touched my heart in such a profound way. For the first time in years I feel inspired to pick up a paint brush again, just for the sake of capturing moments of love with my cats. It may be a silly quick painting, but it’s meant a lot to one internet stranger!! Re: your tags

i’m so glad that you want to start painting again!! i’m excited to see what you do!

I was laying on the ground watching TV with my cat whom I had to be parted from for a few days when I saw your cheese painting and I found it so evocative and familiar and tender. And even though I have my kitty back it made me ache again for having missed her. I adore your cheese painting and I just wanted to tell you that even if you're feeling down on it I think it's fabulous and it really made me smile :) Your work is lovely!

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that means so much!! thank you!

i’m glad you’re back with your kitty!

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#the number one critique i always got while getting my master’s was that i rely too heavily on representational work and the figure #and i didn’t see it then but i DO now and i always feel kinda silly when i paint something representational!!!#anyone feel that???#anyway i’m kinda pissed at the cheese painting but i’m glad to practice a new technique #i like it! but like. it’s readable representation. if i could do it again id blur WAY more and play more with the contrast of a warped #contour. i think. i didnt use a reference tho i just referred to his daily habit of DOING that lmao

cheese sits on the toilet while we take showers, and i like to stand on my tip toes and draw his silhouette in the steam from a high angle, then stand back to see how warped it is from his actual shape

oil and acrylic on masonite

#yes it’s a boring gimmicky cat painting and i know im better than that but it was quick and fun #oil on board