For those of you who don’t know I love to paint to soul music. I feel it stimulates all my emotions and inspires me to paint with my heart. Soul music also seems to conjure up this energy within me that shines through in my paintings. One artist in particular I find truly inspiring is [...]
On the cover of Complex magazine’s latest issue Jeremy Scott fashion’s pop artist and A$AP Rocky the avant-garde-ish rapper (who is exploding right now) channel Andy Warhol and Jean Michel Basquiat’s 1985 exhibition poster. Stylistically in regards to both sound and look A$AP Rocky is on the cutting edge with his southern inspired Harlem groove and vibrant videos, in which he sports a plethora of Jeremy [...]
Paint Music is all about sharing music that I feel inspires creativity. I am not a music critic and much like painting, I feel the music should speak for itself. For this edition of Paint Music I wanted to highlight two extremely innovative female musicians, Alison Carney and McKenzie Eddy. Alison Carney is a DMV [...]
For this week’s Paint Music it is only right to have some up beat albums to jam out to for Memorial Day weekend. The first pick is the mixtape Figure 8 by Outasight. Outasight is an artist from Yonkers, NY and could be categorized as soulful Hip Hop. This mixtape has a pop feel and [...]
This week’s Paint Music selections can not be easily defined but I guess they fall under the genres indie electronic and mash-ups. The first selection is Robot Science which is solely comprised of one man, Charlie Yin. Robot science operates out of Berkeley, CA and as of right now three albums can be found in [...]
Vibe to it, Rock to It, Create to it Music and the visual arts go hand in hand. They inspire one another, nurture each other. Sound and color are like brothers each starting where the other has left off. While painting I am always listening to music. It helps set a tone and gets the [...]