Spread Out

"Spread Out" - (Three Stooges) or else was gonna title this post. "Stretch Tite" which is my favorite syran/plastic wrap. (that I wrap my palates in)

Top 2 pics are early in the development of this 5ft. piece. The Bottom Two are where I've taken the painting to right now. I'm kinda feeling the earlier one now. I stretched the hell outta this one.
Acrylic on Canvas "Bring the Beat Back"

Back From Samoa

This is when I learned why alot of artists wear a set pair of Painting Pants (or an apren or whatever).

I go pretty hard sometimes. :)

Saw this Angry Samoans"Back From Samoa" Punk Record around and thought that's a decent backdrop. Old photo from 2008. (noteworthy & going to put it into zine)

Commitment to Style

Was trying to be the first person to bob and weave in and out of inverted wet on wet drips. 2008 Experiment came out pretty noice. Gotta commit and take it to Large Canvases.

I gotta do a series of these so everybody can know who's style this is. Want to creates new ones that are the difference between the white and atmospheric background. Those stray color chuncks(where paint slid under the blue tape) are so hard to iscolate and keep in the composition while trying to create soft blends for the background. But I manage to save a few in the final piece. Called AfterGlow About 40" Acrylic on Canvas DMWRIGHT 2008.

In 2004 I did A Buncha these on various wood pannels (Big waste of paint but the end result is sometimes pretty sick) Oil Paint on 1 Inch Thick Wood Panel.

So KR (Krink) Drips Downward. Nick Walker Drips Downward. I saw a Futura Piece where he dripped Horizontally. I was doing these washy marblish color blend wood panel wave illustrations at school. So I was all F-That I'm bout to invigorate the drip and bust that wet on wet diagonally. And freshen that up with clean pinstripe liquid crystal lines weaving in and out of that. This is what I came up with.

"Untitiled" Acrylic/ Oil Paint/Prisma Pencil/ Gold and Black Paint Pen on MDF Board. DMWRIGHT 2008

Lightning Bottled

Didn't have a pen or pencil but had a box cutter at hand(was packaging packages).

Somebody said that "Art Doesn't Lie" in a music doc I was listening to while painting.

and it fell in line with an idea I was working on for a zine page.

1st NBA Player Ruben Patterson ("the Kobe stopper") said after committing a foul on defense, and sending a player to shoot free throws - Well the player shooting the foul shot on the opposing team missed the free throw foul shot, and Ruben Patterson says "Ball Don't Lie"

At the time I was looking to only associate myself with things real, genuine, & truthful in my life.

And the only place I could find that was in "Art" and "Music".
Cuz you can't fake your way through art and music & have it come off correct.

You're either on it or not.
Your either creating thought provoking imagery with emotional content that can be felt, or not.

It's obvious, And you can't lie or fake your way through it like you can in most other business based fields.

So I was keeping my ears peeled to find other things that don't lie that relate to "art" and "the ball".... And...

1.) "The Ball" Don't Lie
2.) "Art" Don't Lie

3.) The Scale" Don't Lie (biggest loser scale time)
4.) "Replay" Don't Lie (football anouncer)
& 5.) "Forensic Evidence" Don't Lie. (some true/court tv analist)

Zine page will be called "Don't Lie" in the Table of Contents.

If you hear of anything else that doesn't lie. Let me know.

I'd love to add something to the list. But I'm amazed I found 5 things that don't lie as is. Anyways just some random art zine concept that I've been kicking around.


















Making a special mix 5-6 years in the making, where it's all very rare funk/surf rock style breaks (many tracks literally nobody has.) A special mixture. Going to do silk screen or multiple colored stenciled cover art for the mix.
And call it "Music Keeps me Here" a dope Dash Snow quote I heard him say on online video "more than anything Music Keeps Me Here".

Just said alot about the power of music. And I obtain 99.99% of my music from the swapmeet.
So for me (I sometimes think to myself "wut am I doing here" at the swapmeet, when it's ocassionally slow or boring.) And it's "the music that keeps me here".
Cuz I'm finding music I never knew I wanted -due to the obscurity - quality independently produced garage band(soul/and garage rock) stuff you couldn't find at any record store worldwide. Due to the limited nature.

Will Start w/ the word Music. Then allign "Keeps Me Here".

Total Paint application time less than 40 seconds.

Wet on Wet - then Flipped to catch and connect w/opposing wet on wet drips.

(timing and rhythm was the key)

Came off like a lightning storm, and I'm going to weave something(either character or text) in-and-out between these colorful lightning bolt shapes.

Match Grains - Fuse Styles - Flow Like...

Colidescape 24 x 36" Oil On Canvas (2004-2005 Styles)

"Press Off Style" + above "Colidescape" style results in the style below.

Call this style below "Marbleagescape".

This realistic style is fun, but I had to figure out how to incorporate my marble blends and in the process of making those double sided artist promo cards I developed the style at the bottom.

Oil On Wood Panel called "Left, Right, Left" DMWRIGHT 06 -07'

(3 Realistic Wave Paintings Above are all oil on canvas, Two are 30x40" other 24 x 16" - One is In Canada , The limey green one is in LA, and the last one is in Texas,)

So I had to Figure Out How to better use these fishlike marble blends over a color treated background.

And the solution is below.

Call This Style "Psychadelic Mosaic" DMWRIGHT 2010

(I've never seen a mosaic made of stones who's color range (in one individual stone piece) was so vivid/intense, and contained whole color spectrums - with both hot cold colors in one piece,

(The only stone I know that contains such a wide variety of colors is opal).

Using my marble blends is like having a toolbox/tool kit full of perfect rich (color-blended) brush strokes that contain every color I want in one pull.

(I could never get such fine color blends w/out using this technique) It's everything I wanted and more. Gotta go all out and make this a series on canvas and wood panel.

Probably the best idea I had since that Andy Warhol Velvet Underground Banana response piece I came up with a few weeks back.

NEWEST STYLE I'm Most Proud Of.

I call this

"Scared of a Buncha Water, Then Get Out The Rain"

(cuz I'm taking the form of water in this piece, via marble blended raindrops)

Acrylic + Collage on Illustration Board.

DMWRIGHT 2010 Psychadelic Mosaic Style.

Was supposed to be 4-6 inches. Ended Up about 14 inches. And I'm sending it to a friend for being super encouraging.

She was stoked on the marble blend style. So I said I'd send a little bonus for being cool.

That "little bonus" became this here.

It resulted in me forming a new "style" through random experimentation, somehow it all came together.

Super Stoked - It Hits hard - It Moves alot -but it locks up too, in an elegant but hardcore fashion.

Can't wait to go big with this.

Created the piece during a period of two days last Monday and Tuesday where it was raining pretty hard for socal.

& kept playing a song from a Dangerdoom called Sofa King -song starts

"scared of a buncha water - then get out the rain"

So I'm driving runing errands in the rain listening to this song,.... then developed this style at the same time w/marble raindrops.

Had to force/mash in the hiphop conection in there with the hip hop/rap related title.

Favorite Part is the Swordfish shape trying to jump up and eat the dolphin shape (at top left. w/the firey offshore breeze in background)

Another area that lends itself to interest is top left where it looks like a dolphin is trying to get at a beachball by jumping up the falls of the cresting wave.

Or the Bird trying to eat humming bird like shape where the lip is touching down in the middle of the piece.

Each shape's grains are matched to the surface of the waveface, and each shape/color plays off the other - creating a loose/free/earthy/organic network of shapes that lock up to create structure, but also flow through like water due to the freedom the marble color blends provide.

Marble Blends are probably the best idea I've ever come up with to date.

(My crafts-people/ hippie parents used to let me as a kid 8-10 years old drip different colored candle waxes together to create this big chunk of color blended wax like a 10-12 inch wide psychadelic colored snowflake - it was alot of fun -and certainly too dangerous to let me do by myself)

But I probably wouldn't care about color balance as much as I do now, without them encouraging such random activities, allowing me to explore with colors and various materials at an early age.

Elmers when I was a kid (for a while debuted multiple colored glues),

& I used to make that colored glue squeeze out of the sides of pieces I collaged onto paper.

Liquid color always excited me & still does at age 28.