Pilgrim's Progress

11/18/10 - Hm, yes. I feel like I'm on a pilgrimage, journeying closer and closer to a style I can call my own. Two sessions, today. Good progress--for me!
4/11/11 - I just realized, I never posted the final. So I've now swapped out the earlier for the latest image; I finished the painting sometime in November last year.

L'il Artistes

This is one of the times I'm tempted to stop at the underpainting stage! Well, at least I have a record of it, and will forge ahead shortly. These little artists were spotted on Monhegan Island, an artist colony off the coast of Maine, in the summer of 2001. I liked their intensity of focus as they were sketching their little hearts out.

The Tubes...

...were one of my favorite bands, waaaay back when. When? A lonnnng time ago and far, far away! (In Phoenix... I went to school with one of them.) But I digress. These simple paint tubes and little bottle of Gamblin medium don't look like much. It's a painting only a mother could love, but it's a big step in the right direction towards a looser style. Each facet: one stroke. No "licking it to death" as one of my teachers, Alexander Rokoff, used to say!

(Hm, speaking of The Tubes makes me want to paint some Su-su-sushi!! haha, inside joke. Maybe one of my Camelback classmates will get it!)

Joyful, joyful, joyful!

Another day, another David! What is so gosh darn compelling about this guy? Aside from being gorgeous, inside and out, and singing beauuuuuuuuu-ti-fully... he is just soooo joyful. Om mani padma davey! haha (Another one that's not finished. Think I'll ever get back to these incompletes?)

Tecalia

This one is much further along--just a few tweaks to go. (That nose just isn't right.) I'm hoping my cousins don't stop by and see this, because I think it will be a Christmas present to 'em!

I will not diss my camera any more!

I will not diss my camera any more!
I will not diss my camera any more!

I'll cut to the chase, and just say I've had a very challenging few weeks, trying to get my camera functioning again. I'll spare you the long boring saga of my camera woes, though, and just pop some things up--finally!!--that I've been working on.

This poppy is part of a panel that is slated to be part of a dyptich, which has (how like me!) gotten put aside for the next, more compelling canvas that I preferred to work on.