This is one of my favorite paintings. This is an idea for a composition I had long ago, but needed a model to “flesh out.” You can’t see from the photo, but I put an extra glaze of pinkish paint on in the last step that makes the whole thing have a kind of glow […]
to paint 5
When in Seattle I showed Byron these photos and he told me that it looked like she’d been beaten about the legs. I never realized the stylized flesh could be seen that way. I assure you that this is not meant to depict any sort of abuse. I also struggled with how to represent carpeting […]
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This was the one that I started off with yellow sheets and quickly saw how terrible that would look, so I changed it to a washed out green color. This is the first one where I really liked what happened with the hair and the skin tone. It looks rough in the photo, but in […]
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to paint 2
I began forging ahead with this one.
to paint
I’m going to unleash my work upon the internets for fun making (of) over the next week. I’m going to stagger these, so there will be one posting per day. So, when school starts on Tuesday my real production will slow way down, but you all will be entertained. We’ll start off with this piece, […]
The difficulty in painting poorly – an illustrated process
I’ve been trying my luck at painting over the past few months. Although I’ve been very reluctant to publish any of those attempts online I’ll share what I’ve completed today. I’m going to show step by step the struggles I had with this painting. As I so often do with creative endeavors I’ve “bitten off […]
chatsworth North park
Over the past three weeks I’ve been trying to organize a trip to Chatwworth South Park for myself and two coworkers. Both expressed earlier interest in going there to hike. Both had been there previously but their interest was bolstered by my “getting lost” story. Every time we set a time to go it falls […]
the lloyd works in mysterious ways
Remember how I lost part of my gorillapod in Seattle? Well, back in March when we returned from our Vegas show when our equipment was stolen, along with our camera was the corresponding piece from our own company tripod. So, one of my coworkers went to the camera store to see if we could get […]
full disclaimer
I’ve written a lot lately about politics and religion. I should state my actual position on both, lest anyone jump to conclusions. In politics I think we need tempered social support infrastructure, but maximum personal freedom. i.e. government programs that tax to provide services that we all need and can’t provide for ourselves (like defense, […]