Six by Six

I'm working on a large 6' x 6' commission - its going to be an abstracted double portrait, but with the faces very subtle in the texture.  Here's a shot from a few weeks ago when I was first starting - using acrylic mediums and scraping, dripping, pouring, etc. to get a variety of textures.  This is a big challenge, I'm working on the faces now (and have been for awhile) but nothing to post on those yet ; )

Craven Arts Fest

Had a great time at the Craven Arts Fest in New Bern last week-end.  It was indoors at the Civic Center so it was an easier set-up, and the booth looked great.   Sales were good and nice energy in the crowd... People seemed to enjoy the painting demo's I did of volunteers with the festival.

Workshop....

Earlier this week I took a workshop in Greenville with Kate Worm.  I had a great time and have lots of new ideas swirling around... I'm busy today packing up for the show at the Craven County Civic Center, so I'll post more next week about the workshop.  In the meantime, here's a little sketchy painting I liked from one of the models who posed for us...

Durham CenterFest

Just got home from the Durham CenterFest show.  Had a great time - good turnout and lots of interest in my work.  Will do this show again!

Today's figure drawing session...

I've been enjoying the weekly figure drawing sessions at the Beaufort Art Center with several other artists, working from a live model.  I think I'm starting to improve!  Today the model didn't show up... luckily I had brought Theo with me, so he agreed to pose.  Here's the painting I did of him:

After the session, Theo checked out the painting...    Think I'll title it "Model No Show."

Figure Drawing

After a long relaxing trip to the mountains (to escape some of the August heat!), I'm back home and back to work in the studio.  I've joined a group of local artists coming together once a week to draw the figure from a live model.   Its been good practice for me - sometimes very frustrating, but I can see progress.  In the last session I worked on a canvas with just black, white and grey paint and overlapped the figure.  Each pose was 20 minutes or less, so they are sketchy.  Good practice to work fast and try to capture the gesture...

Show at the Library in Beaufort

Dodging sprinkles this morning, I installed my show as featured artist for the month of August at the library in Beaufort (NC).  Stop in and take a look!