Aug 29, 2007
Aug 28, 2007
Value Scale Practice
I was recently glared at by a teacher when asked if I draw regularly. I never draw anymore. I was also told to do a 9 step value scale at least once a day. That's not going to happen, so I'm going with reproducing fashion magazine photos in pencil. Much more fun. I haven't done this in a while. Looking at it, I do have a lot to work on, my drawings are as bad as my photo printing! Gray, gray, gray. I have an amazingly talented 15 year old cousin who could school me in pencil drawing. I recently looked at one of his drawings he had thrown out and I wanted to cry. Ugh, why did I stop drawing? Fool!
Aug 24, 2007
Everybody Work
I really want an eye patch to perform right brain experiments. I've discussed this with some of you. My birthday is coming up! Doodling at work again..
Aug 22, 2007
Work in Progress - Protest Annie
Sorry for the blurry photo. You can't use a flash with wet paint, and generally I am just shooting these quickly in my studio. I'll get better, I promise!
Work in Progress - Fashionista-a-month?
In addition to compiling old things, I am painting new things, I swear. To prove it, here is a painting I started today. I am also working on a portrait of a friend at a protest that I may post later. The above painting has been quite a challenge. Sometimes when I start with a white canvas I feel as if I've forgotten everything I ever learned. Today was one of those days. My palette is a piece of glass covered in mud and I just had to walk away. I think it is an OK start.
A quick note about this young woman, she is always willing to pose for me, both in support of my art and well, her own self-proclaimed vanity! She is fantastic. Every artist should have shamelessly vain friends! She and my sister are my two main models and someday I will have to do compilation posts for each of them. (Yay! I love cataloguing.)
Thank you LK! You are absolutely lovely inside and out.
Aug 17, 2007
Aug 12, 2007
Self Portrait 2003
Like a lot of painters, I often feel the need to make self-portraits. Sometimes I'm bored and don't know what to paint, other times I know I'm in a state that needs to be recorded. At the time I made this I was very anxious. I was living in the east village and all sorts of things were going on in my mind, good and bad. I think this was one of the best-self portraits I ever made, also one I should have left alone. I (as I often do with self-portraits) manipulated it into an overworked grueling piece of crap. This is a blurry detail that a friend shot at its beginning. Thanks Annie! I've had the urge to compile all my self-portraits here, I will do it as soon as I find them. I am fascinated by self-portraits, and I love artists like Frida Kahlo who have the cajones to make them the bulk of their work. Speaking of Frida, her work is coming to the Philadelphia Museum of Art this February and I couldn't be more excited..
Self-portrait with Cloak (Picasso)
I opened myself up to becoming a Picasso fan, and it didn't take long after seeing this self-portrait. I always thought his Blue and Rose Period pieces were striking, I saw some at the Barnes Foundation when I was young. I am starting to understand cubism, still don't necessarily care for it. But who knows what can happen? Regardless, I wanted to share this painting, which you may have seen, but I am just now rediscovering. I had no idea he was so heavily trained in formal art. In fact, I didn't know anything about him. After reading about it and beginning some training myself, I am starting to appreciate his much proclaimed 'greatness'. (So, no more ignorant eye-rolling from me. At least not on this subject!)
Aug 8, 2007
Aug 6, 2007
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