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Paul Moncus
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"Bus Stop On Oltorf Near Where The Pancho's Used To Be" 2025 gouache on paper 9 x 6 in with shots of a few stages. #painting #sketching #gouache #socialrealsm #lonesomehighways #austinart #atxart #art #contemporaryart #watercolor #landscape
December 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
"Rainy Day, Gas Station Near the Smoke Shop on 7th" gouache on paper sketch 2025 #sketch #sketching #painting #art #socialrealsm #impressionism #landscape #austin
December 7, 2025 at 5:36 AM
"Carnival Boat upon SH-71 Tollway" ink and conte on paper. A simple sketch of a scene on the morning commute, but the more I look the more my world feels like magic realism. #sketch #sketchbook #drawing #realism #magicrealism #austinart #conte #art #ink
November 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
"Abandoned Boat Near Garfield Texas”, gouache on paper, 6 by 9 inches, 2025 #art #painting #gouache #gouachepainting #socialrealism #landscapeart #watercolor #sketchbook #painting #contemporaryart
November 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
"Port, Buda Tex near Flea-market" 6 by 9 inch gouache on paper 2025 #art #austin #contemporaryart #painting #texasart #gouache #socialrealism #landscape
November 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
In Austin TX next week, you can come check some pieces at Art for the People Gallery for "The Edge of Everything" show. I have a big oil (66" by 40", and check my custom frame) & 6 gouache (& some drawings). If you are in town and doing Studio Tour hit it up. #art #painting #contemporaryart #austin
November 7, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Dang they had Press Secretaries in olden times too. #art #sculpture #ancientart #artmuseum
October 24, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Used more oil than my old 93 Dodge truck as I worked these pieces first two are new and just done, and the 3rd is just a different photo of the big oil I have been finishing up since July #austinart #painting #art #studioart #oilpainting #traditionalart #realism #contemporartyrealism #socialrealism
October 14, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Fresh off a new show submission rejection, I went to the museum to look at some Velazquez and El Greco paintings and sketched them on site to study and think. I went quickly to not be too in the way. El Greco's Luke had an odd eye too. #sketch #drawing #study #art #oldmasters
October 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM
"SH71 Between the Airport and the Car Factory" gouache on archea paper sketch 2025. A bit of a Hockney collage mixed with Charles Demuth via central Texas. #sketch #painting #gouache #art
October 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Me: "ok I'm gonna settle down and work on a trompe L'oeil painting of a bread loaf and work on technique."
Also me: "... Dr Who ooh, Dr Who!"... (Singing while drawing Pen and ink sketch of roadside camp and warehouses) #sketching #composition #art #studioart #penandink
October 3, 2025 at 1:11 AM
"Sweet Nothings" Pentax K-1000, 2005 #pentax #film #blackandwhite #photography
October 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
"Getting Ready" 2003 Pentax K1000 35mm. I don't recall but I think it was slide film, found this on a backup DVD. My wife prepping for my cousin's wedding. I used to take photos of slices of life every chance I could. #Pentax #35mm #film #photography #photo #portrait
September 18, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Self Portrait at Age 25 and now at age 50. Guy on the left was just out of college and just married and in near constant pain, particularly intestinal and extremities from untreated Hereditary Angioedema & guy on the right has been married for 25 years and has healthcare #art #painting #portrait
September 18, 2025 at 3:26 AM
"7th Street Tent and House Before they Built the Apartments" gouache on paper 2025 #painting #drawing #art #sketch #socialrealism #landscape #infrastructureproject #austin #austinart #realism
September 14, 2025 at 4:19 AM
In middle school when my family would yell and fight before they eventually split up I'd find solace in drawing race cars. I got pretty good at it. I still do find solace in it and there is little pressure for it to be "good" or "art". Just relaxing. #drawing #art #sketch #ink #sketching #sketchbook
September 12, 2025 at 12:35 AM
"RV Park Open, Somewhere East of Roswell" gouache on paper 2025 #art #painting #gouache #watercolor #landscapeart #traditionalart #austinartist #travelart
September 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Was working fast & loose on this WIP painting to have it ready for a solo show proposal & just realized it is similar to but wouldn't fit in the 10 piece theme I have for the show. Oh well still like where it's going #wip #studiotime #austinart #painting #art #oilpainting #studioart #traditionalart
September 1, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I was doing a quick underdrawing for a painting and thought to myself, "this looks a bit like something Giovanni Dominico Tiepolo might sketch except with run down motel instead of a clowns and dunces and saints" and then it hit me what an art nerd I can be. #wip #art #painting #drawing
August 30, 2025 at 3:32 AM
"Derelict Church or Schoolhouse and Out-buildings Around Park County, Colorado", gouache on Arches paper, 2025. I like to do some painterly sketches and paintings of things I've seen that struck me when traveling. I need to travel more. #gouache #painting #paint #art #landscape #colorado
August 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
View of Redistricting Center from Courtyard of Art Museum, conte sketch #sketch #sketchbook #drawing #austinart #blantonmuseum #art #austin
August 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I am a bad artist, or CoPilot (w/ GPT-5) is an asshole or both. I thought I'd give a shot at letting the new gods write an Alt-text, because I have hundreds, if not thousands of images that could use it online. Let's just say it doesn't capture how I want to describe my work. #art #alttext #aifail
August 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"Overpass at Ben White and IH35" oil on canvas 64 by 64 inches 2025. Still thinking on the name as the paint dries. Gonna let it sit a few days. #infrastructureproject #contemporarypainting #austinart #atxart #contemporaryart #painting #traditionalart #art #socialrealism #landscape #austinartist
August 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
"Yearly Self Portrait Near My Birthday, Caravaggio Inspiration" gouache on paper 2025. I had a rough day, the AC failed and it was 101 here, so I turned on some fans and painted. It sucked but I could have been less fortunate. #painting #drawing #selfportrait #art #figurativeart #realism #portrait
August 9, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Coming up on a "major" birthday, I am doing my yearly self-portraits. This little graphite sketch captures my boundless optimism & eternal youthful essence. With the underlight the claw-hammer scars in my forehead from youthful adds some character. #drawing #sketch #sketchbook #entropy #art
August 7, 2025 at 12:53 AM