Chris Simonite's Cubo-Weirdism Blog! A Blog about Chris Simonite's Art by Chris Simonite. Who the Hell else?

Last week I talked about how I’ve become a painter who does studies. I’ve also written in the past that around one out of every ten of my paintings just doesn’t work out and how I think that’s actually pretty damned good ratio, if I say so myself. But when I think about it those paintings that didn’t work out were, in fact, de-facto studies. To re-cap, a study is as drawing, or painting that allows an artist to work out things like colour and composition and just to kind of know whether the finished product will work out they way [...]

There is one subject that I've been hesitant to write about, and that is my participation in Comic Cons, partly because I'm not sure if I want to continue to do them. A few years ago I ran into an old friend with whom I lamented that I felt like I was spinning my wheels in the art world. I had fairly recently re-invented myself as a painter after having earned my BFA and MFA in drawing, animation and live performance. Being a painter in the art world is a hard slog. There are still many people who think that painting [...]

I gotta admit sales have been a little slow these days. So last week when someone messaged me to do a painting of their three year old son, I was happy to do it. Spoiler alert: this person (these people?) were trying to scam me. I'll explain that part later. I have to say, they did a really good job of making it look legit. The person claimed to be in Ontario, where you'd expect a person’s first language to be English (there are other possibilities, but it's by far the most likely scenario). And I have to say, I did [...]

Last week in this blog I shared my new painting of Morty from Rick and Morty. While I was writing the post, it occurred to me that I had not tackled a rather obvious subject for my Cuboweirdist work, and that is Calvin and Hobbes. Those two rapscallions are an obvious subject because they are cultural icons and also because I’m personally a big fan of the strip and their creator Bill Watterson.   Another plan that I’ve had, going back to the beginning of the year, is to do some more complicated compositions. And as you know as regular reader(s) of this blog [...]

So this is my fifth and probably not final blog post about "sorta master copies". The painting I'm going to talk about this week is actually one that I completed before I tackled the Peter Griffin painting I wrote about last week. It is this painting of Morty from Rick and Morty. As I've done in the past, I used the same initial sketch that I used for the version of Morty that I painted last year. Full disclosure: I wasn't thrilled with my first painting of Morty. I wanted to give him some three dimensionality and make him look sorta, [...]