I’d been painting these portraits with nondescript backgrounds. When I started to paint Cindy I didn’t want to have just a flat blur of color back there. I started off with the original background (this was from our day in the park doing kettle bells), but it was too plain, so I sort of went […]
to paint 9
I tried to paint my father again, but this time as a young man. Something isn’t quite right about those eyes….
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to paint 8
I started off the portrait project with my father. This was turning out to be very difficult and so I abandoned it and tried to start over with another one that would require much thinner layers of paint… Her right eye is too low, I think….
to paint 7
After doing five “large” paintings (I’m not posting everything) I decided I wanted to try smaller paintings. I had an idea to do a series of portraits of certain people who’d figured heavily into my life. I intended to do enough to cover an entire wall (with 9″x9″s). I only ended up finishing eight before […]
to paint 6
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 […]
to paint 4
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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I began forging ahead with this one.