Oh I suppose...

...that it's time to come clean.

I have been cheating on this blog. But like most cheaters I feel as though I am justified and my reasons are inspired by good intentions (do cheaters actually feel this way?). When I first started this blog my intentions were a bit unclear. Was this a place to share personal thoughts and insights? Or a place to display my work and talents? Maybe both? Well, after a wishy-washy start that encompassed both facets of my life-documenting ambitions, I decided that I did not want the two sides to mix. I did not want the people searching out my work to have to wade through tedious entries written about god-knows-what.

This led me to start another blog, yes a second blog, knowing that I did not posses the energy to maintain the first one. This second blog has since taken all of my typing and image posting attention and left Sound it out to stand as a glimpse of what might have been, but never was. A brilliant endeavor cut short! Yeah right.

My only defense is that the other blog actually has a purpose, and that is to post work that will get me more work, which I will then post, and so on, and so on. The other good reason for this transition was, I don't think about much else other than my work, so all my postings naturally fell into my other blog. I'm sure I could continue to rationalize my decision until even you, the reader, would agree that we must abort Sound it out, but what would be the point. This is just about a stupid journal that no one reads anyways.

Maybe one day I will return. One day when I have more time to think about useless crap that I will make even crappier by writing poorly constructed blog entries about said crap. Crap!

In the mean time please feel free to come visit me at my "other" blog, http://mattwilsoncolors.blogspot.com/

MW

D-Day...

What Matt is going to call the Underbelly!
Originally uploaded by Matt & Nayoung

...stands for deck day. And it's actually more like deck weekend. We've completed our first day of construction on our new deck. We started at 8AM and ended at 8PM.

Click the picture to go and see more at the old Flickr.

MW

Old-timey

DAD
Originally uploaded by PurpleTober

What a cool old picture of my Mom's father. My Grandpa just scanned all of these slides that he had made from photos over the years. My mom put most of them up on her Flickr and some of them are really cool, especially if you like old photos.

Like always, you can click on the pic to get to Flickr.

MW

Back on the easel again

Session 3
Originally uploaded by Matt & Nayoung

I haven't done any life drawing in 7 years (since college) and it was probably my favorite part of my art school education. Why have I not done something I was so fond of for so many years? I don't know.

On our way back form New York last month I met Tony Shasteen and his wife in the Atlanta airport. At the time he belonged to a comic studio called Gaijin Studios and that they did life drawing sessions every week, so I jumped at the chance to get back in to drawing.

I've been to three sessions and I've gotten better each time. With some guidance from some great comic artists and a chance to get out of the house and socialize the sessions have been really enjoyable.

I put up more drawings at our flickr page, so go check them out.

MW

Snow'd

The wood I was supposed to cover. Whoops!
Originally uploaded by Matt & Nayoung

This is three weeks late at this point, but I guess I don't care. We actually got snow that didn't melt when it hit the ground. The kids in the neighborhood stayed home from school and played in the snow. I, however, sat inside and worked. Boo!

All the snow made it feel like we lived in a different part of the country. It was kind of nice.

A winter wonderland... in March?

M

Not perfect, but pretty damn good.

So close!
Originally uploaded by Matt & Nayoung

Yeah, I realize I'm a bit behind the times as far as the whole Wii craze goes. However, that doesn't diminish my recent accomplishment in the world of professional digital bowling.

Found it.

I found an image of the other print we bought. It's by this guy.



That is all.

M