Thesis show is in October, and I need at least two more pieces (hopefully three so that one can go to the Las Cruces Museum of Art for the Ghost Town group show at the same time)...but I feel pretty good about getting this one done in two months while working 40 hrs a week, and taking classes! Time to start crunching.


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I got invited plein-air painting this weekend. Someone gave me very precise directions to a very nebulous place, and after an hour of driving I was way in the East mountains, that peculiar area right on the edge of the trees where you can look back and see the Sandias, all blue-green and monumental, and look straight ahead and see twenty miles of ( Read more... )

How can I never have known about Guiseppe Arcimboldo? What were my art history teachers talking about that was so much more important than a high renaissance guy who was making portraits out of fish, animals, birds, and vegetables?

This thing doesn't have a name yet, and it needs one by tomorrow (when it gets documented for the juried show catalogue). Somehow naming a painting feels a little like grading students' portfolios ( Read more... )

This week I started doing some little studies to get me loosened up and keep me moving on the big painting (which is nearly, nearly, nearly finished). They've also been nice in that they help me use up the paint that's left on the palette after my day's work. It's fun to get to paint something without reference materials, and choose colors willy- ( Read more... )

I can't believe I haven't thought about this sooner. What the hell am I going to be for Hallowe'en?

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Okay, leaf stuck last night, mostly. The back looks fine, the ribs are not great because they were wetter, but I can live with that. Painting can begin, and breathing, too. We may just finish this thing some day ( Read more... )

Ugh, I have a worry that will be of no interest to anyone. I've got the weekend to finish painting the violin (heh); Oil paint goes on, and gold leaf goes on ( Read more... )

I'm sitting in the sunshine munching on a delicious food-thing. That thing is this ( Read more... )