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Mathew

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About Me

Im just a guy who likes to draw and paint. Im a really laid back and mellow kind of guy, but I tend to come off as shy. Random things amuze me, and more often then not you'll find me laughing and goofing off. I spend the majority of my time at Watts Atlier learning how to draw and paint. I want to become an easel painter, painting protraits and doing figure work for a living. I want to spend my life creating art. Besides all of that im usually hanging with friends.a

My Interests

art, drawing, painting, hanging with friends, animation, movies, video games, etc.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone and everyone who has an open mind and is down to earth. Anyone who has a creative side and is just an all around fun and good person.Art that inspires me:

Music:

The Beatles, Delirium, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Coldplay, Thirteen Senses, Death Cab for Cutie, Motion Picture Soundtrack, Future Sound of London, Nujabes, Coconut Records, Teagan and Sara, Erik Satie,

Movies:

Donnie Darko, Ping Pong, Old Boy, lady Vengence, Sympathy for Mr Vengence, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Hero, The Last Samurai, Garden State, City of God, Stand by Me, The Lord of the Ring trilogy, Azumi, Adaptation, Children of Men, Babel, Seven Samurai

Television:

Battlestar Galactica, Lost, Heroes, The Office, Full Metal Alchemist, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champoo, Family Guy, Futurama, Arrested Development, anything on the Discovery and History channel

Books:

Wheel of Time series, Lord of the Rings, Dune

Heroes:

All my family and friends

My Blog

Nintendo Wii

No i dont have it, but i did play it at a friends house, and let me tell ya, its freaking incredible. the controllers are very intuitive. no more "learning" which button does what. need to hit a tenni...
Posted by Mathew on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 12:18:00 PST

little update

so my car does work now, but i still want to take it into a shop to make sure all is well. im hoping its just something small like needs a new battery or the starter may be going. i dunno, im not a ca...
Posted by Mathew on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:04:00 PST

FUCKING WHY??

Damnit. The past fricking couple of weeks i've been stressed out a lot due to work, my car, money and my living arrangements, but that was starting to calm down. Just recently i had to get some work d...
Posted by Mathew on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:23:00 PST

How to scare your roomies 101

materials: 1 adjustable assarow head 1 sweatshirt 1 pair of pants, 2 shoes 1 pair of glasses 2 hangers 2 gloves first set up the assorow head the right height. then using one of the hangers, put the p...
Posted by Mathew on Fri, 31 Mar 2006 03:31:00 PST

ow

my teeth hurt. but the past 2 days were awesome! but still holy hell my teeth hurt
Posted by Mathew on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:28:00 PST

more stuff. 2-5-06

and my new pallete (its so awesome!!!!!!!!) ...
Posted by Mathew on Sun, 05 Feb 2006 01:57:00 PST

more art

some detail shots of the long figure painting im starting ...
Posted by Mathew on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 08:29:00 PST

random nonsensical thoughts

so im sitting here eating hard boiled eggs and listening to Death Cab for Cutie. must say im enjoying myself, my sketch book is a few feet form me and im in the mood for some drawing. have a neat idea...
Posted by Mathew on Fri, 06 Jan 2006 11:44:00 PST

Progress of an illustration

This was done for a girl named Lauren who I've known since high school. It was a gift for her for christmas. I just went with a theme she likes, which obviously is the sea. Hope she likes it as much a...
Posted by Mathew on Tue, 03 Jan 2006 01:03:00 PST

damn this sucks

well anyways ive been getting some crazy ass headaches. like to the point of just laying in bed with the lights of and an ice pack on my head a couple days a week. i dunno whats causing them either. i...
Posted by Mathew on Wed, 12 Oct 2005 12:32:00 PST