New sketch

Sooooo....

It has been a rocky last 2 months, I'll tell ya all about it in another post. I'm still sketching with my drawing group and I love it. It's more adult but without the pretense.

Here's my last, enjoy, and as always, please comment and/or 'like'.

oil pastels on grey paper- 24 by 36

 

 

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My latest...

So I have to put up a painting tomorrow for our senior thesis. I just finished this one, since my 3 other pieces will be at Koken for the Renaissance show...

Voila!

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Damn it! my comments are gone!!! :((

Painting is hard...

So I whipped out my paints last night at a painting session and did this. It was a lot of fun but I think I'm still searching for my own way of making marks. A lot of my strokes were tentative. I just need to do more and more and more :))

By the way, this was done in oils...

work...no, fun.

What I did last night. I was doing some exploration. :))

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New work

So I just got back from Koken. We had a group drawing / painting session. I did some exploration with Sumi ink on Yupo paper. It's such a strange texture but does some really interesting things. I still had time to so a pastel painting of the model. I also gave her one of the drawings.

Let me know what you think, and please click a few starts if you like it.

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New Show coming up...fast

So I'm part of a show that's coming up fast. The submission deadline is this Friday. I have to submit 3 large paintings, 3 by 4 feet and I've just started today! hahaha.

Leave it to me to work under pressure.

Should I show the progress of the work or just show the final product?

Tuscany here we go

So a friend of mine commissioned me to do a painting of a Tuscan landscape sunset with red flowers.

It's done and will be delivered tomorrow, yay!

Here it is, what do you think? I did it for $200. Not bad heh? So, who's next??? lol

 

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The other four spirits...

These are my little boxes. They measure 8 by 8 by 3 inches. They are for sale ($60 each) and will be showed at AkaChique gallery in Crestwood mall for 1 month. The opening is Saturday 5th from 5pm 'till 9pm.

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The start of a new series

So this is my new stuff. Although this is a commissioned piece it gives you a hit of the direction I've taken.

Texture, texture, texture.

I'm planning on having at least 3 times as much texture as this one.

This is a close up of the middle pannel.

I had a blast!!!

I HAD A BLAST!!! I really had fun last night. I had 2 art openings with my stuff in it and I sold 2 paintings. Great, I can pay my mortgage now. yeah! The opening at "Chique Gallery" was a lot more fun than the one from ArtDimension. It also seemed like the people at Chique where there to buy whereas the people from ARtD seemed to be friends of the numerous artists that displayed there.Either way I had fun and then we went to 609 on Eastgate in the loop to have a hookah and some wine and then we went to a friends house that had a BBQ. We met this lovely Indian girl and talked all night at ArtD, she was fun.