Paintings, works in progress, and honest reflections on the creative process, shared to encourage curiosity, experimentation, and confidence in your own art practice.
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Studio Journal | 10.12.26
Welcome back to the studio!
It’s been a busy few weeks around here, but the good kind of busy! Between getting together with art friends, wrapping up a monthlong painting challenge, and spending what feels like every waking moment in the s...
Building My Holiday Art Collection
I’m currently working on my 3rd Annual Holiday Art Collection, and I thought it might be fun to share a little more about it here.
I started posting about the collection on my Substack feed a couple of weeks ago, and there’s been a little...
Finding My Way of Painting
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about artistic style and how we find our own way of painting.
While this is something I’ve been thinking about for what feels like forever, it’s been on my mind a great deal lately. Over the years of finding...
Studio Journal | 9.9.26
August kind of feels like a blur. It’s all of a sudden September, and I’m like, how did we get here? Anyone else? Lol.
I also feel like I didn’t accomplish much in August. Which, I’m sure I did, just maybe nothing that feels overly notable...
What I Learned Making Artist Trading Cards (ATCs)
What worked, what didn’t, and the simple shift that made making tiny art much more enjoyable.
About a month or so ago, an art group I’m part of started talking about making ATCs and swapping them within our group. I sort of knew what they...
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I’m Michael Wurm Jr., a painter sharing my art practice as it unfolds. Here you’ll find painting experiments, sketchbooks, color studies, and reflections from the studio, all with the hope of inspiring you to create something of your own.
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