This week I'm taking a little time off from my usual stuff and working on some artwork for Gavin Castleton's next album. Gavin is a fantastic musician and is making some of the best and most honest music around today, and it's criminal that he's still relatively under the radar.

Fantastic artist, Jeremy Lipking, posted this on his Facebook profile today. It's a sort of video essay that aired on the BBC by philosopher Roger Scruton. It was immediately re-posted by a slew of excellent figurative painters...so It peaked my interest. The first 2 segments, which i'll embed here, really struck a chord with me (but if you have some time, check 'em all out).

I have a folder I keep on my computer called "inspirado", where I keep images of anything that may inspire me...from good graphic design to my favorite paintings. If i'm not particularly feeling a piece i'm working on or I just need some motivation, I'll take a look through hundreds of images i've saved and it almost always gets me back on track. I figured that in light of any new work of my own to post (i'm still working away), I'd add some of these here.