Skelly in love (bloom where you are planted)
If I could get painting students to do one thing, it would be to draw every day. It’s cheap—$5 will buy you a sketchbook, graphite pencil and eraser—convenient, and portable, and the fastest way to see progress. But so few people take me up on that suggestion. This hasn’t been a productive year, art-wise. I’ve …
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Meme of the Day—Kim Jong Il Looking at Things
Abi’s stuffed opossum and green wine glasses, 8X6″, oil on canvas Kim Jong-Il Looking at Things is my current favorite blog. I suppose it amuses me because it reduces a frightening, insane tyrant to an object of ridicule. (I sure hope he doesn’t see it and melt half of Asia in response.) Much of the …
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Meme of the day–I’ll catch a grenade for you! (Right.)
Rag doll and GI Joe, 8X6″, oil on canvas Sometimes this business of painting catches you by surprise. I was all set for the GI Joe toy to give me fits, but it was the rag doll that was hard to paint—all shades of creamy browns, highlights both warm and cool.
Meme of the day–Back it up!
My new hard drive that just arrived in the mail, 6X8, oil on canvas A note about these still lives: they’re exercises before my “real work”, a sort of a meme-inside-a-meme, considering how popular the painting-a-day movement is. They take an hour, more or less. And I do them because I find the classic still …
Meme of the day–Statement Jewelry (OK, OK, it’s not a meme, it’s a trend.)
Jennifer Jones’ statement jewelry, 8X5″, oil on canvas Still life set up by my student, jewelry designer Jennifer Jones. If you’re interested in seeing her work (which really looks better than my still life) see it here.