A fear of painting....

 Not necessarily a fear.. or a how-to,.. But the journey of painting itself...(for me),. Obviously you should read these pictures from left to right as if you're reading a book. Commitment.I start with no commitment. I'm using a pre-primed gray canvas, white paint lets me configure my shapes.violet paint lets me determine them. Orange, turquoise, and dark green allow me to find my shadows... just like a happy tree ( any Bob Ross fans???)

Next I start defining lines,this is the time to be bold, as you can see I've outlined the penis.... 

at this point I have a pretty good idea of where I'm going... it's all about clean lines and expression, also I felt that the canvas was empty.. to me this is a dark painting, a sensual place... alone but not wanting to be.So adding red to his background to seem like the perfect accent. 

Wait no!... I hate it!!!!!! white out everything! Don't be afraid to start over (in paintings and in life) if you did it once... you can do it again, probably better. However I was too close to this painting, what I didn't realize at the time was I connected his belly to his elbow ( making him fat)

I go back in with deep purple some blacks... but I've lost interest so I white out again. But, by this time I lost interest... I have never finished this painting it's rolled up in my pile of used canveas...

Another recycled cover code article.

I think this is about three years old, and I did it long before craigslist got "sketchy" and by sketchy I mean people dying.

Nothing

is going on here....

Yes, I'm disappointed!!

But if I had a nickel for every person who wanted a pillow of them, and a nickel for the people I have done pillows of..... long story short. ( OWN all your images) I used an outside source.... (even though I'm a little mad, I know this source is good.) Anyway... I used his images, to make a pillow. NOW the model... who did not sign a release.... no longer wishes to be associated with me. (.........) you know???.... I'm okay with that! If I had a nickel for every time I made a BAD decision... I would owe him forgiveness. Being gay is personal. (period) my job is not to interrupt the flow of day-to-day, but to... make gay okay.

"However" I have three (3) ..... personally signed "rejected" ... (never to be printed again) and I mean never!!...... If I never see this pillow again. I'll be okay with that!! ......(3) pillows left in stock. Only eight made... three left, of the three.... signed with the title "rejected"...... ( I'm a little excited) e-mail me if interested..... info@ethanmaxx.com

Texas has a whorehouse in it!!!!!!

My friends give me all kinds of shit because I wear makeup out.....( sometimes) Lord have mercy on our souls. I would like to defend or spark a conversation about men in makeup, so here's my pro and con list (mostly regarding the picture above) mind you it's a Tuesday afternoon, I'm pretty drunk and taking pictures of myself.... in makeup.


Pro list...

my nose and cheeks turn red when I drink, but you can't see that if I've got makeup on.

I look like a vampire and I might suck your....

it brings out the color in my eyes.

I do real good makeup. So I should show it off?

My con list....

• well I just don't see nothing wrong with it, my friends think it makes me look like a woman (that's fair) however I have peroxide in my hair ( I need to get my roots done) and I draw pictures of penises for a living (that's pretty Fu@ken gay!) Also (and this has nothing to do the makeup) but I think my upper lip looks like the Grinch who stole Christmas..iss  lip.

She is my best friend

I want to be cheesy and write some beautiful poem about how much I love this woman. But I know she would mock me for it. And for that I respect her. She is my best friend, as fifth-grade as it sounds it is true. If I were straight I would marry her in a heartbeat, and I guarantee we would have countless alcoholic children! (Thank God I'm gay) she knows every ugly thing I've done, partly because she's been there with me. She constantly judges me, but she does it to my face. Lying to her would be like lying to myself... we know when it's bullshit, and if it's to much to handle the lie will work for now.


Fuck your enemies, keep your best friends close.