Long Pose

Last week we dropped in on another live drawing class. This was a two hour pose and it became an opportunity to work on soft lighting and heavy volume. Everyone took a different approach with a different medium for this model - charcoals, painting, tablets. One artist in particular used a variety of hot-color pastels in combination with a strong charcoal outline. I want to look further into this technique...

Spring Paintings

Spring (2010)

With a new season fast approaching ...in a town that doesn't have seasons :), this painting is the first of many new Spring paintings. I'll have to reshoot this since the lighting was too hot on the flowers and it's a longer painting that needs to be shot with a tripod, but in the interest of sharing new works....18x36" Acrylic on canvas.

Tents

The Tent Series

Blueberry Lake (2009)

This was a piece I did, much like my Baja tribute, after camping with the Lains in Alaska.

"Chugach and Wrangell-Saint Elias ranges converge in what is referred to as the "mountain kingdom of North America." This spectacular wilderness includes the continent's largest assemblage of glaciers, and the greatest collection of peaks above 16,000 feet." 20x20" Acrylic

Here's a link to the video from that week :)

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=238798460516

Jackson, Mongolia - Typographic Portrait attempt

Dabbling in photoshop tutorials again - hoping to refine what skill was once already there, and take advantage of all the latest in new shortcuts and software. When I eventually redo this one, I think I'll take more time to separate out key words, and create more depth by layering text- a head shot with varying contrast may help mold the words as well.

Cold Weather Paintings

First Tracks (2009)
It's hardly cold here, but in the spirit of the new season, the latest focus has been towards more robust landscapes. This painting was done as an engagement/housewarming for my longest and dearest friends Nick and Erin who are getting married next July in Utah. 20x20" Acrylic






Fashion Armageddon (2009)

This is as done as it ever will be . It started as a large, painted sketch that was added to a little at a time, depending on the leftover paint from another painting I was working on simultaneously. Only now seeing it on a monitor, I can really pick out it's flaws, but working that big and that loose without using a reference, model or picture was definitely a liberating experience. 24x48" Acrylic

40 min pose (November 2009)

Jackson and I found a live-model drawing class we could drop in on at one of the local schools. It's been a long time since I've had the opportunity to have someone sit for me, or since I've done a live-model drawing class. Either way, it was an amazing chance to tap into the community art scene and to rediscover the act of drawing people. -This class in particular, had an emphasis on costumes. Charcoal on newsprint (aka, good luck smudging this, it might has well have been in Sharpie).

Practice Practice Practice

I have just reintroduced myself to charcoal and forgot how fun it is. It's awesome (and humbling) to break out of graphic-mode long enough to smuddddge my way through shapes and volumes. I could stand to be a little more fluid, use the *whole* grey scale and explore composition... that being said, more to come.

Here's the Bear Grylls study next to the MATADORA...all dressed up in her pink grip tape.

This is Sundays in the Garage