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Lopsided
When there is no room to move your easel, sometimes your entire painting has to shift. I thought my easel might tip over while I worked on the edge of my new painting. Maybe I should have stuck to small canvases?
Cliffhangers Drawing
I thought I should follow up the last post with the preliminary drawing. The warm toned paper helped with visualizing the colors of the final painting.
Progression Shots – Cliffhangers
Here is another set of progression shots for my painting “Cliffhangers.”
Progression Shots – Bones Will Crumble
I have become addicted to taking progress shots for my work. The ability to go back and see how I […]
Bones Will Crumble
30″ x 30″
oil on linen
This is the new painting I was trying not to “lick.” When I first moved to Philadelphia, I was fascinated with radiators because I had never really seen them before. We don’t have them in Texas. Ours was in good condition but you could tell […]
Scale Conversion Diagram
18″ x 24″
pen and watercolor
I thought it would be fun (and useful) to create a scale reference for myself to figure out how my tiny figures compare to other objects. I had in mind those dinosaur guides that always show up in natural history museums. It might […]
Sir Mix-a-Lot
Here is my palette and the end of the day. It’s quite a mess, for me at least. The photo also includes my color “palette” for this particular painting, which is mostly a monochromatic blue with a few areas of sienna. The colors I used were cobalt blue, ivory black, burnt sienna, olive green, and […]
Don’t Lick the Painting Ricky
I’ve started a new painting after a few months hiatus. It’s been tough to start new pieces lately because I seem to keep moving. It takes time to get settled in to a new studio and feel comfortable. This painting, I hope, will finally take me back to a place I reached back at the […]
New Painting: Cliffhangers
20″ x 16″
oil on linen
Gallery Artist
I’m happy to report that the Wally Workman Galleryin Austin, Texas has welcomed me as one of their artists!
They currently have up the drawing of Andre and the Toaster.