Animals and Art

Daisy at the beach

2012-01-06T21:45:00.000-08:00

Newest pet portrait! A co-worker was kind enough to let me use her cell phone pic she snapped of her dog at the beach. Loved the pose, color, and composition too much not to paint it.

2011-06-09T23:36:00.001-07:00

A pic that a kind passerby took of me plein air painting. (Bodega Bay) Oh how I miss California, a painters dream! Can't wait for my next trip home...but in the meantime I'll be studio painting in my air conditioned apartment in Florida. Don't know how artists paint outdoors here in Florida with the heat, humidity, bugs, and plain 'ole lack of anything to paint (it's FLAT here).

2011-06-09T23:27:00.000-07:00

I'm resurrecting this blog after a long absence! Hopefully there will be more to come...I'm very rusty but I have to make a serious commitment before my skills completely vanish. I feel as though the knowledge is still there ( I can still hear my teachers voices in my head) but I need to work on the brain-to-hand connection. Here is a dog portrait I did out of curiosity, just to see if I can still do it. Which is kind of important since I have pet portrait business cards out on display at work!

Oh I can title these posts! (duh) More Still Life!

2008-12-22T19:32:00.000-08:00

More Japanese dolls...not quite finished. The shower scene sparked another idea for a body of work...drips! I love the way things look behind wet glass; the way the background gets fuzzy and the water drops become these little distorted reflections. Hopefully there is more to come....

2008-12-22T19:24:00.000-08:00

Some in-class paintings from Still Life 2. This class got me started on a body of work that I hope to develop using Japanese antique dolls and masks.

2008-12-22T19:09:00.000-08:00

Here are a few paintings from Kevin Moore's class: Surrealism, Expressionism & Stylization. (say that 5 times fast) A really interesting class, and I finally got to experiment with some expressive animal paintings. There might be more in the works if I ever have the time. The horse and dog were more like quick studies done in class. The pregnant lady was for a project which was supposed to bring together 2 images that created a dialog. As a more traditional painter I'm glad I have this class under my belt to get me really thinking about what I paint.

2008-12-05T22:36:00.000-08:00

From Studio Landscape this semester...I miss plein air!

2008-12-05T22:34:00.000-08:00

2008-12-05T22:19:00.000-08:00

Adventures in Landscape: By far one of the hardest subjects for me.

2008-12-05T22:07:00.000-08:00

From Advanced Figure Drawing

2008-12-05T22:01:00.000-08:00

From Quick Studies

2008-12-05T21:17:00.000-08:00

From my first semester at the Academy.

2008-12-05T21:11:00.000-08:00

Well here it is...I finally did it. Don't roll your eyes a blog is a big step for someone as anti-technology as me. But I finally caved (thanks Carmen & Kevin). Thanks for checking in and I will try to keep it updated with my current disasters...er....artwork.