Artwork

Art is something I like do to relax, get a little me time and make some money. I seem to have 3 styles of paintings. The first is realistic. The second is illustrative. and the third is… my crazy creative style. Click here to see all paintings for sale.

Paintings

Mr. Music at Churchill High School taught me to love painting. Now I do it to relax and get my mind off of the pressures of the world and just express myself. I remember as a junor in high school my dad had me working on a painting for a car commercial. It was a painting to go on the floor of a boxing ring. It was artwork from the ad agency of two boxing gloves coming together and exploding to reveal automotive logos and text, so it was quite large. One day, after school, when I showed up for work, He said ”Bryan, the art director from the agency in NY just left and love what you are doing. He asked where you were. I told him you were in school, he asked “What college does he go to?” I told him you are a Joiner in High school.”

I still and will always paint. I have a bunch of paintings for sale- Click here to see then

Below is my highschool work i did at Churchill and Interlochen.

Sets

My parents owned a company Artistic Studios building sets for tv commercials and movies. So I grew up using my hands making and painting things. In highschool I remember every day after school going to the shop to work. It was cool because I would see my work on tv all the time. That’s probably where i got the bug to make films.

One is the saddest things about working on sets, sculptures and even my paintings is we would work on it for weeks and it would be set up at the shop. Wed tear it down, re build it, in the film studio, they’d film it, we come back tear it down, load it in the truck and start over. And 90% of the time wed never take photos of it. So you're only seeing 10% of what ive worked on.

Sculpture

I Started REALLY sculpting when I went to Interlochen High School. I had a sculpting class that was 3 hours a day for the year. Mrs. Parsons really explained to us how to sculpt and see things in 3D. I did do a bunch of sculpting at Artistic, but after Interlochen I believe im a better sculpture. How could you not sculpting every day?

Graphic Design

I put the entire Adobe Suite to work. Photoshop, illustrator, in design, premiere Pro and aftereffects. I nasally start with hand drawings then finalize them and put them to scale in the computer.

I like to use frame forge to do storyboards.

This was a fun one. It was around Christmas time and the family was at Frakenmooth for dinner aan after we went shopping in the village. I was with my dad (ED- dad#2) at an art gallery and he was looking at this Japanese wind chime that was maybe a foot high and it was something like $8,000. he was really contemplating getting it. and i said to him “If you really like it i can make you one for less than that to put in your back yard.” He dide’t buy it. A year later my mom said “it’s Ed’s birthday and do you remember that wind chime?” Of course! i said. “What would it cost for you to make it?” I Built it at my shop in Grand Rapids and set it up in North Branch.

Wind Chime

Built a loft

In Grand Rapids I bought a whearhouse and turned it into my house/ office/ shop. It took 1.5 years just to gut the entire building before I started to make it livable. But I did live there durning the demolition, in a 7,000 sqft building lived in a tent inside inside the building because the dust was so bad. Just so you know how rough it was, all the windows but the front window, and 4 small windows in the carriage house, that were there since 1928 were covered with doors. I did everything but the electrical and the heating and cooling. When I moved in it was around Christmas’s so I had a new years eve party. Instead of decorating I went around and was putting plywood down so people woulde’t fall through wholes in the floors. When spring came around I used a power washer in the entire inside to get rid of the dust. A while back I sold the building and the part i fixed up they tore down. Go figure. I sold it and moved to Atlanta in 2019.

I started doing them with a friend Paul OcOnner in LA and then I got hooked. The only bummer is mixing the mud! Thank God for Clyde he mixed the mud for the pool house and I poured, sculpted and got rid of the bubbles. I believe it was 36 100lb bags.