James Maria

Hoping to finish this beast by the 17th to submit in AWS. Trying to employ some more expressive use of color in the underpainting passages before I introduce local color and texture.

Excited to have finished this commission last week for two of my amazing clients from Cross Keys Tattoo Studio who chose to support my painting business too!

Super thankful for this amazing local business. I’ve always had difficulties shipping paintings from FedEx and UPS retail locations-they’re either exorbitantly expensive, overly reliant on digital systems and inevitably always give me guff about shipping and insuring artwork...or literally about anything. I have really simple needs, but those big box companies can’t seem to meet those needs. The folks at Mail N Ship 4U in Wyomissing have my back every time and are always able to work with me to find the perfect intersection of safe, inexpensive and timely shipping options for my paintings that travel all over the country. Happy to have this painting back from a juried show in Fort Worth, TX, safely.

Over here knocking out paintings left and right from the home studio! Excited to put each of these paintings down for a couple days before finishing touches and titles. I’m gonna have to get out exploring asap to get some new reference material!

Putting this piece down for a bit. It’s always good to put a nearly finished piece aside and come back to look with fresh eyes down the line. In the meantime, I’m excited to start a new (but admittedly, less ambitiously composed) quarter sheet that I’m excited to share with you all this evening. Stay tuned for details!