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makeshift ‘ninja’ / video field recorder – combining camera monitor and capture box Check out the new video on YouTube

I have new website for my youtube channel


Messy Studio Making art & Making Stuff to Make Art. Come check it out it will be fun. Hacks, tips and video tricks check it out.

I have a new youtube channel


I have a new youtube channel were I talk about art stuffs. Drawing, video photography and more check it out.

back to it


After years of neglect I’m addressing some of the problems with this site. It will always be a work in progress but I’m doing my best. I’m a full time Frontend Developer | UI architect so coming home to work on my own site… well I almost never want to do that. Many things are […]

I’ve been stealing for a decade


For a while now, I’d say, almost a decade, I’ve been stealing. Of course I don’t call it stealing, I call it “appropriation.” And appropriation in art is easy to defend, “ blah blah Duchamp”  But i think it maybe time to remind people why I “appropriate” In the early work it was about ‘deja […]

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  The studio actually started to go over my vacation part 1.  vacation part 2 starts on Friday. I need to insulate more and eventually do some dry-walling.    

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I know I keep saying I’m going to build put my studio. Well it just might happen next week!

Patrick Dew’s art space


Professional Art Space I’m a fan of Lifehacker’s ‘This is how i work’ They are generally brief articles describing a person work environment. Well, I am Patrick Dew and this is how I work. Other than being an ‘emerging, contemporary, artist – from Cleveland’ I am a Senior Graphic Designer/Art Director. My work environment, in […]

30 days of Social Art Pandering


Well its been a month since I really ramped up this endeavor.  Is this social media promoting working? Accounting for overlaps, 80+ people have made a connection back to me. I think its conservative to speculate that less than 1/16th of those people are art professionals. Of those, probably none with enough clout to make […]

drawing 101 : students are lazy


The fact you cannot draw well is not your fault, its your art teachers’.  Okay that might be crossing the line put its partially true.  The other reason you cannot draw is… coloring books. I love blanketed statements of this nature, AMBIGUITY can be a wonderful thing. After all I work used to be centered […]

Appropriation, the first of many


Here is a few comments to start.  This /should/ be the first of many entries on the subject: I steal. Well I do and I don’t. What I do is necessary for the art to work. I take things to back things but the original meaning is necessary to make them work. Without the possibility […]

This is grounds for…. drawing


I found a strange thing. It’s a craft thing but it is an interesting thing. Most of my money /for art/ is spent on substrate and ground.  I’m currently off paper, although i love it, for the simple fact of mounting and framing after the fact is difficult and or costly, So instead i have […]

The art of Instagram


Instagram Art I am by no stretch of the imagination what I would call a successful artist. Until then I do live and work in the world of professional art, sigh, a Graphic Designer. Primarily in the web part of that world. On any given day I’m making site updates designing sites, recommending approaches on […]

Sketching, the agony! Idea books better.


This is a quick response to the follow article. Its from Nov. 12 – Artist Daily  ‏@ArtistDaily tweeted a link to the article. Oddly enough when I was thinking of writing my own piece on sketchbooks. Sketch I Will!!!!!!! First sentence ” I find that being an artist or art student is a bit like being a […]

my youtube challenge


I going to try a few edits and display them on youtube. It will be a non-destructive means of playing with the ink drawings with out actually killing them.  Here is the first prototype. Linear / Non-Linear narratives.. I”ll have more explanation later.

the ‘art’ of social media / seo


Honestly, I feel like I’m beating a dead horse. Perhaps i should rephrase; I feel like I’m asking a race horse to be an ox. Sure a horse can pull but it wasn’t made to. A screwdriver isn’t a hammer. A sports car is not a truck. A swan isn’t a duck , blah blah […]

back fill


Rather than back filling posts from the old site I’m going to make a small gallery right here. The images are nothing special just images I grab on occatsion. LOTS of wide angle distortion in this group. A couple throw back too.

battle against the cold


The cold is proving to be may largest obstacle. Its preventing the build out of my studio space and now the production of art work it self.  I bought the bare minimum of what i need for ‘the serial’ Every time i start to make the framing for the panels my brad nailer stops working. […]