Christy

Another portrait from the weekly live session.

Oil, 16 x 20 inches

Special thanks to Lines and Colors for the recent feature!

House Mouse

Another still life for my upcoming group show in Bristol, Rhode Island, April 2-18th.

Oil, 11 x 14 inches

More Cafe Sketches

Girls in Scarves

Recent sketches: two from life, one carved in stone from imagination.

Portrait

I forgot this girl's name after I left the painting session, so this one will have to go unnamed until I can figure it out.

Oil, 16 x 20 inches
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Update: Her name is Amanda, making her the third Amanda that I've painted a portrait of.

Saba II

Oil, 16 x 20 inches
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Figure Drawing Session

Oh, yeah, and I drew the model too...

Travel Sketches

Here is entertainment industry sculptor, Jordu Schell, giving a monster sculpting demonstration at IlluXcon.


And this is the guy that modeled for Donato Giancola during his portrait painting demonstration, also at IlluXcon in Pennsylvania.

Two weeks later, I delightfully happened to run into Donato again in Montreal while visiting the John William Waterhouse exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art! It was a really excellent display of one of my favorite artists.
Also while in Montreal, it was cold waiting for the museum to open, so I got a cup of tea and sketched the back side of this sculpture of Norman Bethune from inside a Tim Horton's there.
I didn't know anything about him at the time, but Wikipedia tells me he was a medical innovator and Surgeon-in-Chief of Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital in the 1930's

Martin

Wearing a damaged straw hat, he makes a surprisingly convincing rancher.

Oil, 16 x 20 inches
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Coffee Shop Sketches

Ryan or Blond Streak

As usual, painted from a live sitting.

Oil, 16 x 20 inches

In other news, this weekend I will be taking a pilgrimage to Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to see the John William Waterhouse exhibit! (on display there until February 7th) Waterhouse is a major influence on me and I have yet to see any of his paintings in person, so I'm excited. Check out these videos of curator, Peter Trippi, speaking about some of the paintings on display.

Etsy Store

Back from Illuxcon and a very inspiring weekend! Thanks to everyone who made it great.

Now that I'm back I thought it might be a good time to announce that I've set up and Etsy store for prints! Take a look.
Here is a recent sketch and the digitally colored version that is available as a print in the store.

Grandfather's Brass Bowls

I will be participating in a five person gallery show April 3rd - 18th, 2010, with the Bristol Art Museum in Bristol, Rhode Island, for which I will be painting mostly still lives. More news on that as it develops, here is the first painting.

Oil, 16 x 20 inches
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My grandfather was a shop teacher and he made these shallow hammered brass bowls with his students. In this painting you can see hints of the star chart that is etched into the largest one.

In other news, I will be traveling to Altoona, Pennsylvania this week for Illuxcon 2009! It's a great fantasy art convention on an intimate scale with many, many big names from the field attending. There may still be tickets if you hurry!

Crissy

A Monday night portrait.

Oil, 16 x 20 inches
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Gray Paper Sketches

I've been back at it with the gray paper lately. I've been trying out a white colored pencil for the lights instead of the white conte that I had been using. I like that I don't have to worry about it smearing and that I can sharpen it to a nice point more easily, even though it's not quite a bright as the conte.




For anyone looking for gray paper sketchbooks, as far as I know no one is making them right now. Mine is a thick stack of gray cardstock from Staples that I got wire bound at the Staples print and copy center.