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!

Slice of Life

This painting was originally all cool colors (blues/greens etc)... I felt something was missing.  So I decided to add some warm tones and when I got this far I really liked the effect it created - like she's coming to life...

Bohemian Night was fun!

Last Friday night was Bohemian Night in New Bern, a collection of artists demonstrating their arts during the art walk.  I joined in.  At the last minute the threat of rain caused me to ask the organizers if I could bring my camper van Max so that I could put up the awning in case of rain.  They agreed and it worked out great (...and it also didn't end up raining!  yay!).  Here's a shot that Michael took from inside the van of me painting outside...

Another WIP! (work in progress)

The heat wave has kept me inside and painting!  I only go out in the early am and late afternoon... as a consequence its been a productive few weeks... here's another work in progress, I like where this seems to be heading.  She seems to have a happy secret...

4x5 foot Work in Progress...

I've been working on this large painting, and its starting to get interesting... I've posted a shot with me in it to show you the scale, and then a detail to show you the texture... (you can click on the image to see a larger version).

I also just read about this online color hue test.  Its fun to see how well you see color...try it!

Come have fun on Friday in New Bern!

I'll be participating in the Bohemian Night at New Bern's Art Walk next Friday, July 13.  Stop by and say "Hi" - it'll be a great time...Click on the poster below to see details.  There's also a fun YouTube video about an earlier one at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC5b3qtjs6M