Video panorama of studio

(Sorry, next time I'll put my phone in the other orientation!..)

Lemme revisited

After the first turn on this painting, I wasn't very happy with a number of things. In particular there is something off about the anatomy I could never fix completely. Annoyingly, it's incredibly easy to tell there's something wrong with the anatomy - anyone can tell - even if it can be incredibly hard to note exactly what is wrong, and even harder to do it right. I'm sure there is a big lesson about life in here that I am missing.

Because I'd been unhappy with it, I decided to work further on the piece. The bodies were glazed with a lighter color and the background was filled in. The result is really exciting, the bodies appear to jump out of the background, with a fleshiness and realness that wasn't there before.

 After taking some shots to put here on the blog, I realized that the painting was over-all a little too red, maybe because of the burnt siena background, maybe because of the contrast with the blue. I glazed the figures back down with siena and worked more on the background.

:) I'll leave it here for now...

(Yes, that hand is still a problem. It haunts me ...)

New Girls in progress

New piece!

 

No title yet, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 in.

 

This is the first face that really resembles my model. Sorry! :)

I like this face a lot but it's really symbolic.. very anonymous.

 

The hands are the face...

Sometimes my brain does not collaborate

Somedays, I think it should be ok to just not do all the things. You know, just really make the decision to do nothing productive and not beat yourself up about it. Neutralizing the imagination monster is the first step..

Bliss!

Sometimes my brain doesn't cooperate.

I wish I could give it five dollars and send it on its way.

A really, really vapid magazine or web site (I love you, Cracked.com!) will also do the trick. Bliss!

PS: It was a terrible idea to go get the Cracked URL, I lost at least half an hour to "Things that all superheroes forget" and similar brain foods..

Imagination at the beach

Good times :)

Days when I don't feel like it

This is a comic about what most of my days feel like (started here), in the company of my imagination monster. Some days, tho...

(There is a lie in this story..) 

"HEeeLLOOOoo"

I'm really sorry but sometimes, I just don't feel up to it. It can be really exhausting. I wish I could give it five bucks and that it would entertain itself just for a day.

It is possible to neutralize it with enough TV.

The lie is that my cat would never curl up that close and let me pet her just because I felt like cuddling.

What most days feel like

I love the "What my ... thinks I do" meme. The first and best that I saw was the one about being an artist, made by Garnet Hertz.

I originally ran into it in a blog post by Hyperallergic. 

While I do spend a ridiculous time on my computer, and it's mostly writing emails and making submissions and proposals, here's what most of my days feel like to me:

That's my imagination monster.

This is me working. Yay!

"Do all the things!" is a shout-out to Hyperboleandahalf, the funniest blog ever. I constantly refer to that sentiment..