Almost the Fall Equinox

Happy almost first day of Fall. In celebration, here are some Habeneros from a few years ago when I was using a 4x5 view camera. My roommate at the time left them on the windowsill to slowly get hotter over time. Seeing the opportunity to pay homage to Weston and Imogen Cunningham I made this …

The Still Lives

The still lives (or a small quantity of them). My old friends because I am often by myself and without a subject. They were also the basis for most of the work I made in college apart from night photographs. Part of me is bored of the idea of still lives since so many are …

Photographs of the slightly old

Lately I've been going through my past photographs and organizing them into a more coherent and easy to access portfolio. I'm happy to have a truckload of old photographs and many of them I'm happy to put out into the world despite them being from before I started seriously pursuing photography. However, I'm looking forward …

Scribbly Sketches

A misty and lovely morning over Fort Loudoun this past weekend. Very humid though. My biggest projects currently are woodworking ideas to try so not too many paintings or crazy finished drawings. I've also got new photographs on jgsapp.weebly.com if you're interested in checking those out. More will be uploaded soon. The above was a …

Always have a project.

Fake flowers! And now to the writing... It's been a while since my last post after the move but now I'm back and ideas are flowing once more for new work and projects. After removing extraneous items from my apartment and life things feel simpler and less cluttered; therefor I felt it was a good …

Song Drawings Pt. 5

Yes friends it has happened. I made a logo. It looks like it was made in Paint but was actually hand drawn, took a photo on my phone and added color in photoshop. More can be found on my Patreon account by going to https://www.patreon.com/jgsappart. I also uploaded drawings from a short project I did about …

Song Drawings Pt. 4

4th of July Cookies, tea, and Sharpe's Waterloo because yes. After a splendidly busy weekend and Iaido training at Cumberland Mountain State Park. I realize now the majority of my blogs and posts are either art or food. Despite this I shall continue to shower my readers with a never ending barrage of the things …

Song Drawings Pt. 3

I've had a very interesting and busy and interesting two weeks with odd jobs and volunteering at a junior ranger camp at Fort Loudoun. For example... the above photo is a fire pit my mom wanted me to make using the rocks from the pre-existing fire pit nearby. Also there was a turtle. The ever …

Song Drawings Pt. 2

Continuing off from last week's post and the above picture; the next folk song I looked at was O Waly Waly. In answer to the question of what the dude is doing, he is closer to emoting about an unfaithful and false love, leaning against an Oak tree which ends up breaking under him. This …

Song Drawings Pt.1

Behold! Overly aesthetic supplies. Now onward to the art. The piece I worked on this past week is based on the study drawing I made in the previous post. The image on the right is a detail of the under-drawing on Arches paper 24x36". Decided against using text since it would make a swirly, busy …