Block party!

haha - this is of Mike Block. I went to a house concert last week--he was solo and made that cello do stuff I'd not heard before!--and was allowed to take photos. This is done on a crummy Blick canvas board, and the texture is very distracting (can't tell it in the photo tho'.)  I would really have to pile the paint on, it was absorbing like crazy. But I'll probably leave it alone.
8" x 10"

Feb. 2016

Head Study #2

Oh, whoops!  I did this one first, should be Head Study #1.  But I'll have to call it 2 now.  This is from a second photo from Za, which she used in a workshop a few years ago and I hung on to them. I painted him the first time in that workshop (did I post it then?), and this present-day effort is an improvement.

I am taking a class at the MAC with Eduardo Fernandez, and these are done in between Mondays, for practice. Working with "Zorn palette" only (Yellow Ochre, Cad Red Light, Black & White)

end of Jan. 2016

Sean the Younger

Except it's not Sean, it's Tony! At Joanne's on a Saturday. (Will I ever get her boys' names straight?!)
Painting to be continued.........
I didn't get very far with this, but it is large(ish) so I'll cut myself some slack!
16" x 20" (I think; fact check.)

early Feb. 2016

Rockin' the beret

Live model at the MAC. One of a 4-quadrant sheet of block-in studies--the only one I completed (at home later).

early Feb., 2016

Head study #1

From a photo of Za's student, used with permission.
6" x 8" on gessoed board

January 2016

Road to Renoir

This is the road up to Renoir's House, from photo taken in 2012 or so (fact check).
Work in progress. Debating whether the tree canopy should be like the light one or the dark one? Local color favors the left-hand one... the painting favors the dark. I think. And that's the problem--my brain goes off into equivocation mode, and the painting remains unfinished. (Shadows on the path are barely begun.)

paused, end of Dec. 2016

Four more for the Big 500

"It's Always Something"

"Laguna Sunset"

"Lake Nocturne"

"Puddle in Bangor"

These are the final 8x8s for the Big 500 show which opens Dec. 12, 2015 from 2-9pm in People's Art, Mark Woolley, and the galleries on the 4th floor of Pioneer Mall. I now have a total of 14 paintings to submit... almost twice as many as last year. I would have liked to do more, but two weeks of being sick didn't help my production out at all!

These are so fun to do because I try different approaches, and have a different surface underneath the paintings this time. It's got pumice in it or something--makes the surface scratchy so the brush drags across it nicely.

Delivering at the last minute (Thursday), so they'll be as dry as possible.

11/20-27/15