SINCLAIR

The Art of SINC - New for 2025!

Letter from the Editor - All of the work below will be for sale when the series is complete. You can email or DM me to put your name on a reservation list for specific paintings as I post them. You can also message me with “any” and I will put your name next to all of them. I will reach out to folks, in order of message received, to see if you are still interested when the time comes. Cheers! - S

I am hoping to have an opening night show for this work in a physical location somewhere, somewhen, TBD.

Artist Statement

On my Sleeve - I am heavily influenced by; Americana; the crudeness and honesty of folk art; old carnival signs; Joe Coleman; Natas Kaupas; Ed Templeton, Robert Williams; Don Ed Hardy, Melinda Beck, Jordin Isip, Matt Mahurin, Barry McGee; Art Chantry; 90’s New York City hardcore, street art… the list goes on. These are some of the highlights ^

Peak Emo - The themes I choose trend towards personal struggles, life lessons learned, and the well documented outbursts of our youth. All things sung about in these records.

The art is sarcastic, a bit silly as well as decorative and not simply dark. I’m trying to finish the thought with color and comedy to create something weirdly beautiful and hopefully a little radical.

This series is me reliving the salad days through a colorful lens and a newfound pride for the love and craft of it. Creating each of these paintings traditionally and leveling up my preferred medium of acrylic has been educational, invigorating, and daunting. Switching from dry brush/solid body paint to fluids has been awesome. The comfort of remaking something old has been helpful in alleviating artist anxiety and writers block. Planning this series has enabled me to spend renewed focus on the paint and the brush. My hands are slightly dusty but improve with each panel. Time away from the computer screen and this AI bullshit has been necessary.

Personal Growth -

Old habits dying hard no.1; The composition of supporting details, the background so to speak, is weaker in my old work. In the past I would pay little attention to the panel outside of the hero characters. With this new series I have awakened a love for the entire canvas. Every detail of this new work is intentional and the proof is in the rendering. Striking a balance between exposing the underpainting or making spontaneous marks and a desire for more technical polish has been engaging. Mark making was more directed this time around. Intentional rather than all encompassing or hasty. I hate how dirty, and quite frankly lazy, my old work is. Some folks may think I’m talking about elements of my style that they love and consider my fingerprint. Selfish as it may be, I am giving the paintings the attention they always deserved but never received.
Color first; all of the old work is brown. I can’t help but see the original covers as colorless through mature eyes. It makes me sad because this band and their history is anything but colorless. A major goal of mine for this series has been to develop a fresh palette, a strong identity of color. One that would draw out my favorite colors from Golden paints and create a selection for SINC art. Something sour, like a jolly rancher, albeit slightly dusty. The color is a necessary part of the comedy in these tragedies. Each painting is a study of color contrasts and compliments. Each painting also tethers to the other paintings color wise.
Conquering Self Doubt; For me the process of starting a new painting has been very difficult. Sometimes it takes a second to remember how to go and that it is OK to just do something, anything. I have been working on defining a process, one that gives me the opportunity to properly organize a plan of attack, get to work with confidence, and enjoy finding the rhythm again. Pun intended.