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Alas. yarn ball.

I was on a roll with an enjoyable painting session. All too soon, another canvas was needed. Alas! nothing large enough could be found, and my cordless saw is pitiful against a sturdy 2x4. This must be rectified! Regardless the start of (or) something.

too many projects...

I've gotten myself under a pile of work. Started teaching myself to make clothes, this is my first shirt and my 3rd or 4th skirt. Working with stretch jersey for the shirt was challenging to say the least, but I'll work with it some more and figure it out. Skirts are no problem, and I'll probably start patterning out a dress for my sister's wedding.

I've also been learning adobe Flash to do 2-D animation and graphic design. So far I've done the graphics for the Internet Bike Database. Have more projects coming on that end. Plus drawing and painting when I can. I need a bigger easel, and have been caught up in so many other things that I haven't had time to build one, though I have the materials.

I have more paintings and drawings to post later. Hopefully not 6 months from now.

Summer Works

Dusk, Oil on Canvas, 30" W x 20"H

Headlights, Oil on Canvas, 36"W x 24"H

Having fun in my studio, inspired by my surroundings. I've also been working on learning to knit and sew. Its been a wonderfully productive summer. I'll hopefully be exhibiting one of these paintings at a gallery in Middletown in September, as I'm going to submit one for an open call.

Interior Gym

Oil on Canvass, 24"W x 20"H

Interior of a gym Adam and I used to workout in a few years ago.

Glass and Metal Reflection

Oil on Canvass, 30"W x 24"H

Still Lifes

Still Life Bikes and Beer: Oil on Canvass 48"W x 48"H

Still Life White Chair: Oil on Canvass 24"W x 36"H

Still Life Window Reflection: Oil on Canvass 24"W x 36"H

Once I have a minute to breathe...

I'll post new work within the next week, to satisfy my lovely friends who have been asking!

Me! or a likeness of...

Fun with oil paint and a limited palate. My face and my legs, approximately.

robot sample

Potential Album cover for Geomancer - Robots vs. Humans. I think a giant exploding volcano, a few robots destroying an army....maybe a flying saucer or two... possible Zelda Future world... these were the notes I took down from Danielle.

to be painted...

Clayton. It seems I'll start with friends from Texas, since I've already done Anna.

new projects

I've started working on a series of portraits to beef up on my face skills. Gouache and pencil on gessoed cardboard. I've amassed a small fortune in cardboard over the last year, and it seems to keep on accumulating in my studio, and so I'm putting it to use. I enjoy the throw away aesthetic, and I think it fits well with the portraits I am working on - mainly people that have been in my life that I no longer see. Both objects and people that have been disgarded over time, whether intentionally or circumstantially.

I'm going to keep these quick and simple - I have 5 gessoed right now, and when those are all filled up we will see what I have to say about it. I think this is going to be a very enjoyable exercise.

small work

This was just a fun little ditty. I'm hoping to get some pictures taken this weekend so I can start working on a landscape. I'll post the drawing as it comes. Hopefully school won't get in the way of me painting too much!

the last of winter break...

I'm kind of sad this one is done! I sped through it so I can try to start another painting quickly before winter break ends. I have only 4 days left till the grind of school begins again. All I ever want to do is paint.

Drawing Completed

This was a fun drawing, and now I get to paint. I think that Jen will be very surprised. I love working on people. I should get this painted within t he next day or two, so that I may move on to other things.

new work, some in progress

This is another drawing I am hoping to lure some new clients in with. George the Sphynx is from a breeder in NYC, and I will be mailing this out, along with my business cards, in hopes that the breeder will enjoy the image enough to give my business card to friends, neighbors, etc. I need to drum up some business for 2009, and who doesn't love a free cat portrait? If it were me, I'd be stoked to get this in the mail, and more than happy to pass out a few cards.

This will eventually be a painting of my nephew Cycle and niece Charlie. I hope to get the drawing finished early this week, but this is a good start. As Adam alwasy tells me "you better get the eyes right!" and I think this time I did - drawing people is a ton of fun.

RIP Yoda

My friend's cat died yesterday, so I made them a little painting for a memorial. Yoda was a really sweet cat, and will be missed.

more work

School's been getting me down - busy as hell. Got a few new works, and am working on a few more. I hope to get a painting done for myself over winter break - I have 3 weeks of freedom, and I want to do a landscape I'm been dreaming of. Hopefully building stuff for the house wont get in the way too much. Here's two new comissions, one finished, and one in the works.

in progress and finished recent comissions

long time no post

Wow I can't believe its been a few months since I've posted anything. Not that I haven't been working or keeping busy - moved across the country, got a house, put tons of effort into painting all the rooms nicely, and I only have to finish the bedroom before I can retire my wall paint. God I can't wait for that!

Started school again, got a job substitute teaching, started student-teaching middle-schoolers, I am mentoring a really awesome 8th grader named Nala, and tomorrow I will start volunteering at Epoch Arts, a youth-arts-center. Whew! Its been busy. On top of all that I've got a new commission I'm working on, and hopefully another one on the way. I have to start thinking about xmas presents too, and I think Eric will have to get a pic of Garbage for xmas to compliment the one of Dutchy he got last year. Oh yeah, we are hopefully getting another cornish rex in a month, which I'm pumped about.

So I'll try to update this more often with my own work - schoolwork is crazy time-consuming too, but I need to keep up with my commissions or I wont get paid!

Couldn't get a focused picture of this guy for the life of me, so the angle here is the best I could do.