Color Chording
Evolution of Bouck Studios
Spaces I've Called My Studio
With framing showing, no budget — just passion. Late-night sessions after the kids were asleep. When paint fumes meant progress, finally something over time began to build and great things were created. Blood, sweat and tears, sacrifice, frustration and fear, hard work, determination, focus, and more hard work.
"My studio is a sanctuary, a place I feel free, without restraint and no judgement except from myself?"
Millie's Chair
I adore all my grandparents, but one relic allows me a representation of their influence in my life. After my grandma Millie passed I kept her green chair from her basement. That chair has been around my entire life. I use it to critique my work. I paint, then I sit, then I paint again and I sit. Sometimes I sleep and then paint and sit again. The green chair symbolizes improvement leading to perfection, new ideas, stepping back to see the world in a macro view. It also represents relationships, reverence, and respect for the past.
"We get too close to the world, too caught up in the details. Step back often and look at things in a way you never have, I assure you, you'll surprise yourself with all kinds of relative and useful insights."
My color palette
Paint blobs and other questionable shapes. Not just colors — it’s a battlefield of choices. Each hue a memory, each mix a risk. The palette tells the truth before the canvas does — chaos first, clarity later. It’s not clean because it’s alive. This is where the painting begins — in the mess, in the mud, in the magic.
I was at the first illustration conference in Santa Fe with my mentor Perry Stewart. We were discussing the frequency of light and all the other senses. Since then I have wondered if there's a correlation between the wavelengths of light, color, sound and everything around us. I still don't know for sure but that's where the concept for Color Chording originated.
"I think we complicate color like we complicate life. We can't have everything we want, that's for sure. Narrow it down to what matters most and see, just as a palette sings on the canvas, you'll find harmony in life as well"
My war weapons
Check out the tools I work with everyday
"Blades dulled by brilliance, palette knives worn thin like armor after battle.
Brushes cracked at the handle, but still loyal — forged by repetition and resolve.
Every smear of paint a scar, every pigment a memory, every stroke a defiance.
The tools didn’t come from a catalog — they earned their place by surviving the grind."
Palettes, brushes, easels, paint globs, palette knives, and just about anything else that is necessary to make great art.
"We get too close to the world, too caught up in the details. Step back often and look at things in a way you never have, I assure you, you'll surprise yourself with all kinds of relative and useful insights."
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