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• Added “Galleries” Page

  I’ve aded some galleries to actually show my work. I really want to add more images to each of the galleries but this is just a beginning. I guess the first step would be to find the pictures of my work and then proceed from there. This is going to be a very long road…

  jerpir

  September 9, 2026

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• 2026 Goals Six Month Update

  It’s about half way through the year. I’ve been looking at my goals for the year more and more lately and coming to see that I really need to put in more effort to accomplish them. Not that I’ve put in no effort, just not enough. To say that I’m nowhere is a bit extreme,…

  jerpir

  June 29, 2026

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• Getting organized 

  It’s been a very long time but I finally finished the little five by eight blackbook I’ve been working on for a sketchbook. It ended up being about a 2 year engagement with the thing. I don’t know why it took me so long to fill the damn thing up, but it took the time…

  jerpir

  May 27, 2026

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  Analog, art, art generation, art kid, art making, artist, balance, Blackbook, Borrow, Borrowed, Borrowed idea, change, collection, consumption, control, convenience, creating, creation, creative, creative health, creative-writing, creativity, data, deadline, deadlines, drawing, Duration, Durational, enthusiasm, experience, experimental, experimentation, exploration, Floor, Forever, freedom, goal, goals, Gridded, Gridded index cards, Improve, Improvement, Index, Index cards, Learn, Learned, Learning, Lessons, life, Lined, Lined index cards, mental health, mental labor, Next, Next, notes, organization, organize, PAinting, paper, pen, pen and paper, pencil, pencil and paper, physical, Self improvement, sketch, sketchbook, sketchbooks, sketching, solution, solutions, Someday, stickers, system, system sunday, systems, Today, todo, Ugmonk, weird art kid, work, writing

• Obligatory

  A month has gone by since I’ve been here for a post. What do I have to show for it? Nothing. Yeah, I’ve done some drawing and some watercolor but really nothing to be post-worthy. This is an obligatory update to nobody. I’m hopeful that since summer has arrived I’ll be able to get out…

  jerpir

  April 13, 2026

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• Important / Interesting vs. Boring / Bullshit

  Explanation of Above and Below 2026 edition I don’t remember exactly when or why it was brought to my attention but it was. I do know I was still in school at MICA and I also remember who brought it up to me. Eva Wyle, a professor at MCIA, is the individual who first told…

  jerpir

  March 10, 2026

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  abstraction, AI, anti-AI, art, art generation, art making, articles, artist, autobiography, biography, bonsai, bonsai drawing, bonsai painting, bonsai watercolor, boring, bullshit, change, chaos, color, composition, context, copying, creating, creation, creativity, deadline, deadlines, digital overload, documentation, draw, drawing, endurance, figure, fine art, form, freedom, goals, gray, growth, guideline, guidelines, health, historical context, history, important, ink, interesting, journal, journaling, labor, landscape, limitation, line, list, lists, love, mental health, mixed, mixed media, naturalism, nature, opinions, order, originality, overplanning, paint, PAinting, perfection, performance, plants, play, portraits, process, productivity, pure, pure abstraction, quiet, realism, recent, reward, rules, series, shape, sketch, sketching, social media, space, spontaniety, stasis, step-by-step, structure, super-productivity, texture, theme, time, unimportant, uninteresting, volume, wabi-sabi, watercolor, writing

• Finding Balance (or something like that)

  This is for me, personally. There is a need for balance in life. There are many different aspects to be balanced, and while certain ones are balanced others are simultaneously thrown into imbalance. There is no way I have found for everything in my life to be in accord with everything else. There is a…

  jerpir

  January 22, 2026

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  accountability, anxiety, art, art generation, artist, balance, consumption, control, convenience, creating, creation, creative, creative health, creativity, depression, draw, drawing, drawings, experience, fine art, finite space, generation, generative, goals, health, journal, journaling, junk tv, life, media, mental health, mental labor, mental-health, notes, nothing, physical art, physical labor, sketchbook, sketchbooks, sketching, social media, television, tv, writing

• 2026 Goals

  Two years ago I set out on a completely unreasonable journey for my new years resolutions. They were so far overreaching that it was hilarious. It demanded a level of productivity from me that I haven’t had since I was in school, and probably not even then. Completely unobtainable. Then last year I just didn’t…

  jerpir

  January 4, 2026

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  accountability, art, art for sale, art generation, art making, articles, artist, avoidance, blog, collection, confrontation, confronting, consumption, control, creating, creative, creativity, deadline, deadlines, ecperiences, endless, experience, exploration, fine art, goals, health, impossible, journal, journaling, labor, life, mental health, mental labor, mental-health, metadata, mgsoa, MICA, mount gretna, mount gretna school, mount gretna school of art, news, notes, obtainable, oil, oil painting, page, page fright, pain, paint, physical art, play, possible, resolutions, sketchbooks, sketching, unobtainable, watercolor, watercolor art, work, writing

• Avoidance

  I have been avoiding making anything serious for a while now. Hiding from the need to be creative because… why? I have been asking myself this question for months, years, and still have no real or even half way decent answer. I have been hiding in media consumption. Books, games, audiobooks, news articles, social media,…

  jerpir

  December 20, 2025

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  art, articles, audiobook, avoidance, book, books, confrontation, confronting, consumption, creative, creative health, creativity, drawing, enthusiasm, game, games, health, hiding, junk tv, media, mental health, music, news, nike, nothing, pain, PAinting, serious, sketching, social media, solution, solutions, stare, television, tv, vacant, void, work, writing

• Prompt

  This weeks blog prompt is “What have you been working on?” and it’s really the only one I’ve found relevant to my life. So it’s the first one i’m going to use for an entry. For the past few weeks or so I’ve been working on more bonsai watercolors. There you have it, the shortest…

  jerpir

  October 19, 2025

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• Creativity vs Generativity

  Creativity and Generativity are wildly different concepts and practices. To make something just for the sake of making something without any real thought or passion and / or just to make a quick buck is generativity. One generates a thing for a specific and artless purpose. As they say “trained rats could do that” or…

  jerpir

  October 5, 2025

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  accountability, art, art generation, art kid, art-making, artist, artmaking, books, collection, creating, creation, creative health, creative-writing, creativity, critic, criticism, data, digital art, drawing, experiences, experimental, experimentation, exploration, generation, generative, healing, health, internet, journal, journaling, labor, life, love, mediated experiences, mental labor, mental-health, metadata, mixed media, notes, novels, pen, pen and paper, pencil, pencil and paper, physical art, physical labor, play, printmaking, reading, social media, technology, thank you, time, travel, typing, vacuum, weird, weird art kid, work, work in progress, writing