Acrylic, Oil and Colored Pencil on Hardboard These are two sessions at the Stables featuring Kai and Melissa. This complete with no editing, from the 30 second gestures to the 20 – 40 minute studies. I use a micro pens for these, looping around the model’s joints, looking for the form. Click on the thumbnail to view the larger image.
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Acrylic, Oil and Colored Pencil on Hardboard I worked with Lilith Marie on my first mandala, she did a beautiful job and it was a breakthrough piece for me. When it came time to make something for her, she asked for a dress along the lines of Kali’s Raiment. We made two prints, one warm and defined (featured…
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Ink on Paper These are from my sketchbook, made last evening at PNCA. Angela is a wonderful model, check out her Tumblr. Click on the thumbnail to view the larger image.
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Ink on Paper I keep a sketchbook and a handful of Micron pens with me. I draw at a few places in Portland on a semi regular basis. These are from March and April and include a couple from my buddy Stan Townsend’s place in Chattanooga, TN. Click on the thumbnail to view the larger image.
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Acrylic, Oil and Colored Pencil on Hardboard It’s my curse, as an observer, to take things apart and see how they work. This is a monoprint of my former lover, Samantha, a woman I will never forget. She and I were lucky enough to walk a path together. After our relationshop’s end, I spent too much to analyzing everything, turning it…
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Acrylic, Oil and Colored Pencil on Hardboard UPDATE: I had reached a stopping point resolving the shapes in the third layer of Dana’s Mandala. I asked her to share with me her love of fruits, flowers, rabbit fur and some of her other favorites. She told me that she liked blood oranges and artichokes. I applied those colors and shapes to…
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Acrylic, Oil and Colored Pencil on Hardboard From a session with Treasure exploring waves and refractions. It’s one of those pieces that practically painted itself. The print of Treasure was so strong, the work didn’t need much embellishment. Click on the thumbnail to view the larger image.
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Ink on Paper I took a long hiatus from drawing, I’d gotten burned out on the figure and the studio scene. It can get mind numbing if I don’t take a break. I’ve been teaching figure drawing at the Brush and Palette once a week which let’s me talk about drawing and painting for three hours. It’s a wonderful session with…
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Monoprint, Acrylic, Oil and Colored Pencil on Wood The final version of a mandala created in colaboration with elaria, a ballet dancer with a pure, white light. I’ve struggled mightily with piece over weeks since it’s inception, having moments of insight and fits of frustration, battling the color scheme and working in harmony with the roses I found in the torso…
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Acrylic, Oil and Colored Pencil on Wood The 4th session with elaria’s monoprint. I was enamored with the prints of elaria’s torso from the previous session but the chaos of the impressions was just to much for me, I had to calm the piece and give the eye a place to rest. I found a photo of a dogwood blossom trapped in…
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