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the joe rogan experience train by day joe rogan podcast by night all day Mike Maxwell. What's happening, Joe Rogan? My man. Good to see you. It's good to be here. For anybody who doesn't know, Mike Maxwell is an amazing artist and did not just that painting with Quentin Tarantino in front of it, which is pretty fucking cool, but also the JRE logo. Yeah, a minute ago. The infamous logo.
Yeah, so funny. How many years ago was that? Like 15 fucking years ago? Yeah, it has to be. I think you were like on episode 10, maybe. Wow.
yeah that's crazy yeah and super fucking random too like I get the question all the time like how the fuck did you do that you know and for me like my whole like art experience has just been like make the work and whatever the fuck happens afterwards is just all bonus you know well if the work is great that works you know it's like yeah you have to be discovered someone has to find you but yeah ultimately it's about talent
Yeah, and, you know, hard work, too. Yes. Yeah. Yes, yeah. I mean, because that talent really doesn't... Like, artists so often are, like, people are like, ah, I wish I could draw. Like, you're so lucky, like, God-given talent. I'm like, bitch, I had to fucking... I work every day and have been grinding at this for...
25 26 years there's no god-given talent with art there's some people have an openness or maybe an ability to see things differently than others but when it comes to the actual technique yeah and developing that fine hand-eye coordination and the ability to draw exact or paint exactly what you're looking for yeah that's work that's work yeah and it nothing came easy
Like, I feel like there's some artists and like some creative people who they have some like inert talent that's in there somewhere. Or it's like we have the right brain chemistry to like get started. But like. I'm still improving. 25, 26 years in, I'm still recognizing improvements. Yeah, I thought that particular one that we just posted a picture of, that was like one of your best ones.
That is fucking amazing. I probably put more time and effort into that piece than anything I'd made previously. Look at that thing. That is so sick. That is so sick. And it's like, that is this show. Yeah, right? And what's funny, like, that piece was really, like, all the components were just separate drawings that I had been, like, compiling. Oh, wow.
And then it, like, eventually just kind of formed itself. Like, sometimes I just let the work do what it needs to do. Sometimes it's almost like I feel disconnected from it. Yeah. And I have, like, there gets to a point after, like, all the, like, prep work where it's like the painting starts to paint itself.
Yeah.
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