Portrait of ThatAwkwardStuff
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ThatAwkwardStuff

Painting, Visual / Media

About the Artist

I’ve always been inclined to the arts, appreciating strange works of art, doodling, sketching, and visiting art museums where I looked up to 40ft paintings thinking how it would be to create something of such beauty. Doodling little figures, comics, and the like was the only “art” I was making at them time. I didn’t see it as a part of my life but just something I did. Beginning with the Pandemic of 2020, I found my roommate had a small box of cheap acrylic paints and gave it a try one afternoon when I was numb to the news of more deaths, failings of our government, and tv seemed to be all too little to quiet these thoughts. I went to the garage and focused. From then on my mind wasn’t drowning in these thoughts but with things I could put on the canvas. Sharing them with friends and family my art was received and loved so I began selling and spreading my art so more eyes could see the work I’ve made. My passion is the mixture of landscapes and surreal thoughts to show a world where the beauty of life and imagination can mix and be just as valid of a reality as any other. 

Featured Work

Photos

A sunny evenings light shines in through the pulled aside curtains and into a curated gallery’s space that blends the inside and out. The hardwood floors, the purple curtains, and the appearance of my previous paints adorn the room. The center is a pleasant green space that’s illuminated by the setting sun that reflects and sparkles off the cool water outside.
A warm, summers day on a hiking trail in Colorado the scratchy grass, cactus’, and woody plants surround the trail and those who would walk it. Delicate bubbles drift through the sky, falling closer and teasing the danger that lies below that could end their existence In a blink of an eye.