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!

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...