[Sec­ond Stage] The sec­ond stage of the paint­ing with a cou­ple of obvi­ous changes. The addi­tion of the red line sep­a­rat­ing the glob­ules from the fig­ure and the dele­tion of the thumb from the angled hand. I’ve also warmed the flesh over­all and tight­ened the face. The left eye­brow is giv­ing me some cause for con­cern but…

Fourth Ses­sion Layer four of Thread was added this past Tues­day in a very ener­getic frenzy, My model was in top form, the energy run­ning from her to me and into the paint­ing was unprece­dented in our col­lab­o­ra­tion, it lit­er­ally painted itself. The more lay­ers I add to this piece, the more I learn.

Sec­ond Ses­sion The sec­ond week of Thread, in progress, explor­ing the work and my inter­ac­tion with my model. This ses­sion was more relaxed and easy, allow­ing me to delve into the paint­ing, dis­cov­er­ing col­ors, edges and sur­faces. I use a very lim­ited palette when I am paint­ing fig­ures. I use pri­maries and neu­trals that don’t dis­tract me from the…

Oil on Hard­board Part of the Con­nec­tive Tissue/​Visceralia Series, this nude study of Erika was cre­ated at Hip­bone Stu­dio. It’s from a 30 minute pose at the end of a three hour ses­sion. I do sev­eral ges­tures to warm up and hit my stride in the 30 minut­ers. Painters talk about the muse and not being aware of what’s…

Oil on Hard­board Rachel was a model who was going to school in Port­land in 2007. I met her at a drop-​in ses­sion at Hip­bone Stu­dio and ask her to sit for me. We worked together over the course of sev­eral weeks, talk­ing about Bal­ti­more, Fell’s Point and Bertha’s Mus­cles and cre­at­ing many paint­ings. This is my favorite…