TheGeekCanPaint

I post ALL of my art here, but this DeviantArt account is mainly a place to feature the rest of the stuff I can't sell on my main website. That said - on to the actual Bio...

Hello, I'm Keith James. I'm a bear* loving, geeky, artist/author, living in Glen Lake MN with my husband & dog. I was raised, and still live, in Minnesota, only leaving for 4 1/2 years to attend The Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio, where I graduated with a BFA majoring in Illustration.

I have a love for superhero comic books and science fiction/fantasy stories, which is how I earn the title of "geek". I even spent a better portion of the years after college doing illustrations based on those loves. Unfortunately, most of it is based on copyrighted material, so I'm not able to sell any of it... but I'm working on changing that. So my main focus these days has been Bears. *Please note, when I say "bear", I'm not talking about an animal. No, for me it means robust &/or tubby, furry, and (almost always) gay men. My bear art can be quite different from the rest of my work. While there is some nudity, I don't think any of it is pornographic. Frankly, if that's what you want, you're better off going somewhere else. But it is definitely created with an adult audience in mind, and some of the images can be suggestive. I have a handful of different series all based around the Bears and that’s what you’ll see dominating my main website thegeekcanpaint.com for now.

I've been involved with art as long as I can remember and knew I'd be working in it since I was a child. My primary medium is gouache paint, followed closely by its better known "cousin", watercolour. I commonly work on hot press watercolour paper, and almost always use coloured pencils to help enhance the paintings. Though my ultimate passion is for painting, I also I do plenty of pencil drawing (especially when I'm creating a completely original image) but I also enjoy scratchboard, and have even been dabbling with sculpture.