Greg "Craola" Simkins - "Where Am I?"
Trekell Pro Team Artist, "Greg "Craola" Simkins, documents his journey for his latest exhibit "Where Am I?" from the start of panel making at the Trekell factory all the way up to the opening of his show.
"I have been blessed and lucky enough to work with Trekell for many years now and I am always blown away at how obsessed they are with making the best quality product for artists. They truly do care about what goes into the tools they design and deliver to us and I have the utmost respect for them. When the topic of painting surfaces came up, I gave them my criteria to what I like to work on and they immediately went to work to replicate the panels that my Dad, George, has been making for me for many years. They even sat down with him to hear his outlook on what does and doesn’t work when making panels to paint on. That’s where the G.H.Simkins Panels came from. They are light weight and sturdy and look nice enough to hang directly on a wall even without a frame.
When I told Trekell that I had a solo show coming up, the idea arose to film the entire life cycle of the largest painting for the show which became “Where Am I”. We wanted to document the piece starting with the stretching of the Linen over the panel which would become the enormous 8 foot by 6 foot beast in my show. Our field trip took us to the Trekell warehouses which felt a little bit like Willy Wonkas’ Chocolate factory to me. Watching the brushes get made and seeing the stacks of panels just ready to be painted filled my head with ideas. With the helpful eye of my dad we got about it and stretched the largest of the canvas wrapped panels for the show. Once all the canvases had been delivered, it was my turn to turn it into what you see in this video.
The Trekell portrait linen wrapped panels are by far the best surfaces I have ever painted on. They are sturdy and can take a beating, they have a great surface for precision painting and they clean up with a nice side and look great on a wall, even unframed. We hope you enjoy this process video of the creation of “Where Am I” and look forward to your feedback on your experience with this great surface."
-Greg “Craola” Simkins
www.trekell.com/Linen-Wrapped-...
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Beautiful work
It’s like putting Allison Wonderland Walt Disney and psycho into a blender and just Pouring it out on To a canvas. Absolutely breathtaking my eyes don’t know where to look and feel like I’m going to miss something there so much to look at.
@thomasrainbow
5 жыл бұрын
Great metaphor and comment
Geez Craola is a beast...paint skills on point
❤ Bravo 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
"Where Am I?" you ask. You're in my head that's where. I'm hooked on your work. Imagination and mad skills... what a combination.
LOVE EVERY SECOND....absolutely the lego on his head ....haha...a sons love ...
It like he the artist we been waiting for.😊
LOVE YOUR WORK, DISNEYISH BUT MORE WOW. THANKS.
Great Job!!! Thank you Jordan, Greg, Mr. G. H. Simkins and the Trekell team for putting this awesome video and show together. This years trip into "The Outside" was excellent!!! Stay scared my friends.
Your mind is fantastic!!!
Amazing work.
Spectacular adventure ❣️ thanks for sharing!
Absolutely love this. I was absorbed into it like a dry sponge in water. Nightmarish, whimsical, your use of colors and placement are beautiful in and of themselves. Your themes are dreamlike, and your subject matter are a shade of psychotic Dr. Seuss. Amazing.
how can he really be that good !? Im so amazed by his works, real talent right there !
@thomasrainbow
5 жыл бұрын
He has said.. Practice, practice, practice... :)
@Lilly12
Жыл бұрын
It's not talent, it's shear hard work, it's time consumed isolation, it's persistence, it's dedication, it's practice, it's LOVE.....
I dream with a world like that, greetings from Argentina. You are the best
Лайк за кузнечика :)
Love it when I bite down on a brush and it does that wood crunch thing
Simkins is one of my favorite artist... what he can do with acrylic paint is like what great renown artist have been doing with oil paint... brilliant painter
I'm just in awwww, transported to another land far, far away... Ahhhh I relax.
hey man I like that musick makes me travel some where else
Incredible art pieces❣️wish I was closer to your showings💖love them all💖💖💖💖💖
Wow it’s 7 years old Happy birthday painting Wow amazing Super late over here but hey it’s never to late 5:46
as Always till now,,i am mezmerize with your works man,,thanks for inspiring us artists..
So good!!!
Amazing process from start to finish
Good looking man 😍
Modern day surrealist master
Beautiful masterpiece!
Amazing !!! I'm a big fan your work, congratulations . From Brasil
I like your painting keeps working
Outstanding stuff
Es impresionante su trabajo maestro! Es un verdadero artista! Seria todo un honor para mi, aprender a pintar guiado por un magnifico artista, como lo es usted! Fuerte abrazo y mis mas sinceras felicitaciones por su excelente trabajo!
Amazing work¡
Fantastic!!! I like your artwork alot and it realy inspires me. Congrats👏🏼! Big compliments!
Love this
Wonderful
Good stuff, great skills.
Caaarraaaaa que lindo!!!!
he paints in a style that reminds me of collating with unlikely combinations but paints them instead of cutting out.
Bravo !!!!!!
YOOOO I caught that fantastic mr fox song at the beginning :----) best movie ever
I love your guys products!! I use Trekell in my pieces
Bring them to Dallas Texas !!
Неожиданное музыкальное сопровождение! песня про кузнечика и лягушку!😀😀😀😀
🤩Ооочень интересная работа 👏👏👏👌
💜💜💜
Wow me encanto q chevere
greaaaaaaaat¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡ master piece¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
3:20 Music killed me ))) Grate works Congrats !!!
Mindblowing :O
🥇
Hello from Russia😊
genius!!!
simplemente una bestia de artista
Dope.
12 dislike ? Wow . Much love to this talented guy ❤️
Yup as soon as greg start tagging i knew right away hes Californian ....its dat tag banging style lol 👍 your da best bro
Hepatitis yellow. Kinda diggin that warmth
Hi, I have question. Are you using black color or mix of brown and blue? or other colors. I like your technique.
waw...
not really the skills, but the imagination is what gets me most about his work...any idea how he gets his ideas? the thoughts process would be interesting to see into
@NiPok86
7 жыл бұрын
personally i think its an adults interpretation of children's stories, simple but given a more mature "edgey" look. It really transports the view to a fantasy land.
@bernardtapie1092
6 жыл бұрын
pop culture , cartoons ,graffitis , his skills are amazing too .
@dannyfuller1
6 жыл бұрын
Check out Patrick Woodruff and Josh Kirby, they are quite similar in style so maybe he gets ideas from them as they’ve been around since the 90’s
@moodist1er
5 жыл бұрын
Ady it's a mixture of imagination and overlapping ancient mythology from the view point of freemason overlords.
@meganzagurskas3527
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah his ideas are so strange they remind me a bit of a film called Alice in wonderland. What it mainly looks like he has done is he has added animals and object together, it's very surreal I love his art.
Super Pro
it's very beautiful! héhéhé!!! mon niveau d'anglais est vraiment pitoyable. When exposition in France?
I’m hooked ! I feel like stopping my painting , because I can’t do anything like this or be so clever . I’m slow and stilted 😥
@charliepokaski9550
3 жыл бұрын
Nah just keep practicing
parabéns , todas as obras são lindas! , por favor alguém pode me dizer o nome a musica que as crianças cantam?
Lol lol the music is perfect with video lol now where can i get those tattoos ? tattooooooos?
В траве сидел кузнечик, совсем как огуречик , зелененький он был, и с мухами дружил...
@arthurmorgan2688
3 жыл бұрын
Ето ты про Зеленского ?🤣
Can you tell me how Long this painting took to paint, please.
What kind of paints do You use?
Id like Slow motion more 🤙😎
Is that the Soundtrack of Coraline?
@batcat1212
5 жыл бұрын
Oh Yeah FANTASTIC MR FOX!!!!!
Were you planning that trip for a while? Trekell factory? Looks like a bland building maybe new. Shrug. Vet u brightened their day.
Where does he get his ideas for this stuff??
Bogus, Bunce, and Beans; one fat, one small, one lean
Lol, hope you know this song translation😂
Freakn greg is that good that i loose insperation 😑
Too much. Greg, you're making us all look bad. Keep it coming though, we skunks are drinking this up. ,South bay.
I hope you sold out that show!!
Tumorrow backup graffiti chess pushing
За музыку дизлайк !
Enough with this music already
@thomasrainbow
5 жыл бұрын
No
@aliciahernandez5733
5 жыл бұрын
absoutly beautiful
@africo9104
4 жыл бұрын
The music really goes well with this video. Truly inspiring.
Love it when I bite down on a brush and it does that wood crunch thing
What kind of paint do you use?
the best between every painters that I ever seen...