looking very strange at this stage. Although not all the problems were worked out by the finish, the left eye had to be completely repainted. Although this is one of the best of the series, I still managed to give this girl a bigger nose than in real life. The chin in this photo looks […]
Art Walk September 2009
Finance class was cancelled Thursday, so I took the opportunity to join Sam downtown for the Art Walk. This art walk felt a little lackluster. There was still a lot of street bands and DJ’s, street artists, etc, but not as many as we’ve seen in the past. The “upstairs” gallery had a lot of […]
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The face on this one seemed really easy. The hair doesn’t quite look right, and the background is apparently in a hurricane….
to paint 10
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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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 […]
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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 […]