This piece was inspired by a still from a short film Antonina Vasylchenko was in for Bella Belle. The styling, the atmosphere, the sense of graceful elegance —it all felt like something I had to try and capture.

I first painted Antonina years ago. Since then, I’ve been grateful to get to know her—and to learn how deeply she loves music. She’s studied piano for nearly a decade, so seeing her step into the role of conductor felt like perfect casting.

At first, I struggled to catch the atmosphere—the softness, the glow, the hush. But slowly, the piece began to feel alive. There’s something timeless about it now—something Casablanca, something Ingrid Bergman. Quietly radiant.

I hope it brings a little calm to your day.

P.S. I’ve been carving daily and writing a short novella tied to the series. It’s good to be making again—and good to share it here, with you.

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I know for a lot of you, my previous post did not make a lot of sense. For me, when I first heard terms like NFT, Minting, ETH or Ethereum, my eyes glazed over and I stopped listening, thinking I was never going to understand those concepts. That is why I’m writing this post. I want to try to break things down so they are easy to understand and help you on your collecting journey. Everything will be explained (Below) in the context of my “15 Years Later…” project.

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I have been looking forward to this day for almost a year. I finally get to tell you what I’ve been working on since last October. My Genesis NFT Collection! Last year I had multiple close friends reach out to me and tell me I should do a NFT collection. They thought it was a perfect fit because of my art and web development background. I am so glad they did, because I had more fun working on this collection than I’ve ever had making anything else. I also fell in love with Web 3 in the process. It made me so excited for all the future Web 3 projects I’m going to be a part of. My brother and I are wanting to launch our storybook on the metaverse, but that will be a little farther down the line. My skills aren’t strong enough for that undertaking yet. Scroll below to read about the collection.

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There is no sugar coating this… Water Gilding Gold Leaf was extremely difficult for me to learn. There are so many variables and stages.This project was the first time I’ve used traditional water gilding techniques. The learning curve was very steep. I learned so much through the process, and I’m looking forward to my next water gilding project. This Time-lapse was shot over March and April 2021. The Music was written by my good friend, the talented Tim Frost (links below).

The next video will be coming out soon. It will be on the oil painting process.
Thanks for following along with this piece over the last few years. It has been nice taking the time to get it right. I hope you enjoy it.

Tim Frost
Site: https://allthingsfrost.com
Also get out his Tony Hawk & odin Collaboration on youtube: -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjV05AVfIW4

This Video is the second in a series. view the first video here.

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In February 2020, as the world shut down, due to the pandemic, I decided to learn how to carve. I purposed to go out side each day and spend a few ours carving. This video was filmed from February 2020 – July 2020. This piece made me fall in love with carving. It was hard exhausting work. I was lucky if i could get in anymore than 3 hours a day. Most days I felt like the carving would never turnout right, Little by little the relief came together.

The music is “L’abandon” by Alexandre Desplat from the movie, “Coco avant Chanel”. I highly recommend this album.

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This year so far has been a pretty strange one (under statement I know ).  When Quarantine started, I took a massive break from all social media. I’m currently still on that break. Not sure when or if I will go back.  It’s been a super refreshing time, which made me realize life has been whole lot better without it. I’ve mainly been spending my days painting and carving. Yes carving… haha over the last few 5-6 months I’ve been carving a little bit a day. I’ve really enjoyed it. Two weeks ago I finished carving the relief of the, “The Day Boy and Night Girl“.  I’m currently preparing the wood for gilding and to be oil painted. I filmed a timelapse of the carving that I will post when the video is done. My computer is painfully slow (I’m trying to save up for a new one) so I can’t promise the video will be up anytime soon. And though I’m taking a social media break I’m not taking a break from people So, please comment or dm me below. I love hearing from you. I hope you are doing well and thank you for your support.

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I started this piece 2018 with a really raw thumbnail sketch (see below). A few months later I tried to develop the concept more for a few weeks and felt like I didn’t have the skills to pull the drawing off. Fast forward to the start of this month, I finally felt up to the task. This piece is inspired by the 1882 fairy tale novel “The Day Boy & Night Girl” by George MacDonald. If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend it. It is one the most magical stories. I loved the idea of depicting moment of when day crosses over into the night. I had such a clear picture of what i wanted, so I kept redrawing this piece till it felt right. I’m planning on carving a relief/oil painting of this piece. I really hope you like it.

I created a limited edition print of the piece. If You’re interested click here to check it out.

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Good Afternoon! Shoot, i think all the late nights caught up to me today! Ended up over-sleeping by a few hours today, so i’m playing catch up right now so i have to make it short, because i’m trying to finish up a painting for you all… Hopefully, have it up tonight! :) Today’s post is the first mixed media drawing out of Volume 3 of my Character Sketchbook. I really like how volume 3 was turning out… i need to start back working on it again. The photo was from one of my all time favorite fashion photographers, Steven Meisel, and it was from his “Amish” editorial for Italian Vogue which is one of my favorite photoshoots. I hope you like it, and hope you’re having a great day.

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Happy 2020! I’m happy to start this New Year post with an inspiration Friday post. If you are new to the blog, the way Inspiration Friday works is I pick a song that inspires me, then as I’m listening to the song, I find images that I feel fit the vibe of song. It works as a visual essay inspired by a song. This month’s song is Ammon’s Horn by the Honey Trees. I hope it inspires you.

Images Sources: 1. Hedi Slimane Diary, 2. Lillian Bassman & unknown Source, 3. unknown Source, 4. Alain Delon& Romy Shneider, 5.unknown Source, 6.unknown Source

p.s. if you are viewing this post on bloglovin make sure to click through to be able to see all the images ;)

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For the last few months I’ve been working trying to finish all the character design for “Lost in the Crowd“. It’s taken me a lot longer than I thought it would, but I’m starting to make a lot of progress on it. I thought I would post my progress. I was working on the background the for the last few days. I only have 5 out of 23 characters done. I was trying to get all the characters done before January. My plan was to submit this project for Adobe Creative Residency Program. I wanted to live in Tokyo, Japan, for the next year to write and begin drawing “Lost in the Crowd”. That is still my goal. After reading the adobe application, I was pretty bummed that I couldn’t submit the application cause I don’t qualify on two of the pre-requisites. So right now, I’m kinda scrambling looking for a different artist residency program. If you know of any I would love to hear ;). The sad thing is, I feel like this project is perfect for the Adobe program. Thanks to Katie Rodgers for telling me about the program.

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