Morning Papers

Breakfast reading (Sunday NYTs).  Big cheap paint brushes, charcoal, $1/jar Ace hardware paint pod (latex), and some acrylic. 

Fashionista

Today's 20-min. pntg. is from a photograph taken a few years ago at Hipbone... don't remember model's name... e me if you know!

The basement files!

It was another fun evening in Janet's basement with ten painters and our model, Jeff.  This is acrylic on paper; I'm pondering whether to work on top in oils.  Hmm.... maybe just finish it in acrylic.  This is sort of a 20-min. painting.... that took 2.5 hrs.!  (In other words, I wanted to bring the speed & spontaneity of a 20- min. exercise to this.)

Mantecon Workshop

This is some of the work I did last week in Lauren Mantecon's workshop at Sitka. They are all multi-media, including joint compound, handmade rabbit skin gesso, acrylic, wallpaper, magazine images, encaustic, oil paint, and probably some other stuff.  It was an awesome, productive three days... loved it!  The poem written in pencil around the second one down reads:

Bliss built this house on a hill,
painted in flesh tones.
It did not cost a pound or a euro or a schilling.
It stands forever in my mind
as the dream
drawn in free paint from the hardware store.

Getting Grandma's Attention

20-minute painting update:
This little precocious one was in the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum's cafe, acting very rambunctious and seeming to have a good time, although grandma was having more fun reading her museum guide than paying attention to her granddaughter!  [Regretably, I must note that I subsequently ruined the little girl's face by trying to "fix" it.  Haven't I learned yet??!!! Just leave it alone f'pete's sake.]
Creation date:  8/30/12

Still Life

This is out of order... it's from the Color Theory class that ended a month ago.  A huge pile of props and stuff was pulled out of PCC storage and heaped up in the cafeteria public courtyard area.  I guess it was an exercise in mixing paint to match what you see.  The "Still Life" was a chaotic mess, so that's what you see here!  I'm surprised I was able to make anything out of it at all.