Ok ok ok, I keep disappearing from my faithful lovely blog  but I’m back again! God, it’s great to be back! I plan on being much more active from now on with this blog to document my growth as an artist. I think one reason why I stopped using this blog as much for actual blogging is because I switched to primarily posting on instagram. I did that because IG gets more foot traffic but then I have the issue of not being able to talk to you all ( all 3 of you maybe). Also for awhile I was somewhat experimental and wasn’t actually producing visual art. I instead switched to audio art and you know what they say about chasing two hares…..( You end up not catching either). After watching Prince of Egypt again some months ago my love of animation was rekindled and I was given the spark to be a great visual artist yet again! I feel had fallen into a pool of mediocrity assuming my work as good enough since I had gotten several jobs but low and behold I was slapped in the face when I looked at how damn good other artist in animation were. I was astounded, dumbfounded, found founded. Anywho, after being laid off of my recent Broadway job I went to the lab and started training. My ability to draw and sketch was miraculously very good from daily sketching but my sense of color, light, composition, story telling and every other fundamental of constructing a scene with purpose had  dropped even further than were I was at back in 2013. At that time I was spear heading my entrance into animation but I had the fatal flaw of poor drawing. I was able to land work in LA to fix the drawing but I lost a lot of my other skills. At this time after months of training I’m back on both fronts and pushing to be the best. I feel that life wants me to be great or else it wouldn’t keep giving me these amazing opportunities to improve my skills.  Artistically, I’ve always been ok but I feel idea wise I’ve been a breath of fresh air which has allowed me get somewhere. Now I must surpass all others in both my visual communication and what I have to say. You know visual art is very similar to writing except we use pictures to tell stories instead of words. Being an amazing fundamental artist means nothing if you have no personality/ or anything captivating to say. It’s like a writer who knows perfect sentence structure but  doesn’t have any good stories. You’ll never be a star. I however feel like I have the personality and interest and have struggled putting it to the ground clearly. Sadly but luckily most people are boring so the world needs me to get good and inspire others with my imagination! I swear to you three people that might be reading that I will become great for both me and you! ( I use exclamation marks for extra emphasize!!!!).

Recently I’ve had the opportunity to take an online class with one of my all time favorite artists, Nathan Fowkes. His sense of color and light has dazzled me for years and has been a bench mark for my growth. I just recently completed last weeks first assignment which I’d like to share here. We had to do color studies from paintings that we liked. My studies are the ones on the right.  I struggled with having distracting values and an unclear sense of purpose. I only got a 3 out of 5…womp womp but I’m excited to learn and improve! I look forward to stepping up my game in this class so that I’m not a joke. Those other students are actually pretty damn good low key- high key.

Greg Mitchell, the journey resumes!!!!!