Buffalo 66

Sometimes the pictures just make themselves.  Makes me want to start carrying my camera around again.

Portraits On Commission

Here's a sketch of a dog for a commissioned portrait I'm about to begin working on.  The studio building flooded this week, but my space escaped most of the water.

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Back At It

So I've been away from my studio for the past month, in fact 5 weeks spent rekindling my love affair with musical theatre.  It has been an amazing little time, but I'm pretty sure that I'm going to leave the acting to the actors (at least for the next little while).

And as a segue out of theatre and into the studio, I spent last night painting a portrait of the lead actor in his role as Buddy Holly.  This particular has a tradition of hanging a placard in the dressing room hallway for all cast members to sign, so this will be the one for The Buddy Holly Story.  Gouache and ink on panel.

In hindsight, I should have actually painted it on velvet (as opposed to just making it look like I did.) 

Are You Following Me, Camera Guy?

It's a work in progress, but here is a collaborative drawing that my Art215 class did with 2 other art 215 classes.  Each student was given a piece of the picture and had to render it in charcoal 10.5" x 18" .  The result is this drawing, 9' wide by 9' tall.  

Makes you saw "WOW" everytime!  Now if only we could track down the missing pieces...

Adventures in Hectography

So I'm trying to figure out this whole hectography thing.  It's a print made from a gelatin plate, the idea being that if you were going to publish plans on how to break out of prison so that you and your accomplices were on the same page (so-to-speak), you could do so using only materials from the commissary and no electricity.  Lo-fi printmaking.

I'm having a hard time and I suspect that I'll get it right just in time to get thrown out of my studio for the summer.  And that is all I'm going to say about that.

Shelving

Shelving.