*sigh*-*update* added a link to my new blog.

I feel so good. I really do. This week was nice and next week promises to be better.

I discovered Dr. Heinrich Wolfflin's 5 sets of opposing traits this semester and it really struck me how useful they could be this week. The Apollonian versus the Dionysian.

1. Linear vs. Painterly
2. PLanar vs. Recessional
3. Closed vs. Open
4. Clarity vs. Relative Clarity
5. Multiplicity vs. Unity

and here's a drawing from this week that has nothing to do with that whatsoever...




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Still Sketchin"

Dammit. This place is getting too quiet. Well, I am still drawing all the time and sketching and making crap. I figure I must be getting closer to that 10,000 bad drawings mark. Here's some pages from my sketchbook.

Oh yeah it's ME!

Here's a charcoal drawing from Bruce Samuelson's class. I'm tentatively calling it "Crucified".

"Beautiful Dreamer"

Well, my first book titled "Testimony" is finally fully realized. The softcover turned out amazing, and I'm awaiting the hardcover proof. It's one thing to have all of the completed images and print them as a mockup, but it is such a surreal experience to hold the final, professionally printed book. I'm giddy with anticipation for the hardcover. There will be copies of the book, softcover and hardcover, available at PAFA's 2010 Annual Student Exhibition.

The image that I'm posting is a preliminary drawing for my second book, tentatively titled "Beautiful Dreamer". The images will be portrayed in black & white with very little color. Isolation and loneliness and the effects of leading a loveless life are the themes of this book. Originally titled "Good Morning, Goodbye", the idea focuses on a young woman who longs to love and her mental stability from lack of love. While the book is still in it's preliminary stages, it is proceeding very nicely. Once I've finished some more drawings and get my hands on a better camera, I'll post some more images. Enjoy.

Testimony Is Coming In 2010

End of the Semester

Well, I'm half way through my first year of studio already--time is just flying by! I've been working really hard and hopefully getting something done...here are some of the projects I've been working on...some of these are just quick studies, and the rest are longer projects most of which are in progress...

Time to post I suppose

So I've basically gone a semester and a summer without updating ... but I'll make this a short one. Basically in my studio I've been focusing a lot on drawing, with a couple small paintings on the side. My main subject has been the figure, sometimes going into a more abstract area that I would like to explore more..

Graphite:

Charcoal:

And two very lonely paintings ...

It Has Been a Long Time

It has been too long since I posted anything for the blog. Here are a few quick paintings that I have been working on over my winter break. The two paintings of oranges are both one session paintings. (approx 3 hours) The kitchen painting was done in approx. 9 hours and is a lot larger than the other two.

I was trying something a little different with these paintings. I used a limited palette composed mainly of earth pigments and one or two prismatic pigments. Unfortunately, the picture quality is really poor.

Still Life, Winter Landscape

Its been awhile since I have posted anything. But Once again I bring some recent work
of mine. The hardest part of the winter break is over, Christmas. I will now be producing more work and posting it all to my viewers. I hope you enjoy.


This is my most recent study, done as of tonight. I spent on average 3 hours on this piece.
I am happy with its current level of progress and will be finishing it up within the next few days.

(9x12 oil on canvas)



This is a landscape painting done a week ago at my friend Jane Winter's house. I have never painting in the snow before. I will say this, its quite a challenge. One that I would like to attempt again.

(9x12 oil on panel)

Merry Christmas!

I apologize for the horrible picture quality, but Merry Christmas to my fellow bloggers and visitors! May you all have a blessed and peaceful Christmas. See you all in January!

"Testimony"

A small preview of the book, entitled "Testimony", that I'm currently finishing up. These are images four, five, and twenty-two from a total of twenty-two images painted in watercolor. Each image is 7 and 7/16" by 10 and 3/16".

Sculpture Session II

Here is a four foot sculpture that I am working on in one of my classes. This is my progress after two sessions with the model.

Charcoal Figure Drawings

More Studio Work and More Studies

This is an assortment of a bunch of stuff I'm working on in my studio as well as some class work.

These are just some studies I've been working on in the cast hall while sitting in on Peter Van Dyck's interior painting class...


This is a still life painting that I'm working on in my studio...


Quick 2 hour still life study...I've been trying to work on capturing the color of the light...

This is the final stage of my first painting from Scott Noel's class...it was a four week pose.

This is my second painting from Scott Noel's class...this is just after one 3 hour block-in.

This is an interior with still life that I'm doing on the 4th floor as a homework project for Scott Noel's class. It's actually pretty large--28'' x 40''. It's the largest painting I've done since last year and the biggest project that I'm working on this semester. This is just after one 3 hour block-in session.

This is a small graphite study that I'm doing in my drawing studio class...it's actually just a preporatory drawing...hopefully I'll be starting to work in silverpoint soon on the final drawing.

This is a very small study of a crumpled up paper towel still life that I'm doing in front of the windows on the 10th floor...I'm going to be starting a larger painting of the same subject soon.

Study of the same subject by night...

Trompe l'oeil painting that I started in the cast hall...it took me several tries to get an arrangment that I was happy with.


This is the final set-up...it's not finished yet, but at least it's getting there...