Certain Rules
Aaron Nagela newsletter about art, being an artist, and certain rules to live by. by aaron nagel and friends.
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Gaps
At the end of last year, I found myself working on a still life painting for a dear friend’s birthday. [If you happened upon this substack indirectly, you may know this then-birthday boy.] By way of ephemera and trinkets, the painting was t...
A New Painting
“Command and Control” - 22”x30”, oil on acm. 2025
There’s a part of me that hates to explain paintings. I find it near impossible to describe why a particular piece connects with me – and this includes art that is not my own – beyond what...
A Swing and a Miss
In many ways, being an artist — both the occupation and the inescapable state of being — is hard. For the uninitiated, and with respect to the occupation specifically, imagine yourself to be a salesperson of a product that is both immensely...
Color Blind, Lyric Deaf
Now to be clear, I am not color blind. But I am lyric deaf. Let me explain:
I am a music enthusiast. For the first [ambulatory] 20 years of my life I played several instruments and spent a decade traveling the world with a band of miscrean...
Two New Paintings
Hello friends. I come to you after a long absence with two new paintings. Both completed in the last 6 months and, somewhat unintentionally, excellent examples of my biggest problem with painting. Which isn’t to say I have some sort of beef...
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Figurative Oil painter based out of PDX
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