LU

This was a commissioned piece for a friend of their daughter Lu. This is the first finished portrait I've done since I began painting portrait studies every week. This was done partially from live sketches and partially from reference photos. I wasn't sure how that would turn out but in the end I couldn't be more happy with it. And isn't she ADORABLE?? Look at those cheekies!!

HOWDY

OH HI!!

I always kind of thought toned paper was a little bit like cheating, but it looks SOOO gooooood. Also, I seem to do my best work when I wake up way too early to oogle naked people on my day off. WHO KNEW???

3 HOUR

I just realized I never actually posted this painting. This lady's skin was so rosy and beautiful!

January Sketches + Figure Drawings

WORTH IT, TOTALLY WORTH IT

3 hour pose, 10x13, oil

detail

3 hour pose, 9x11, oil

The first painting was done two weeks ago and the second painting was done last night. Since the first painting I bought some new (read: heinously expensive) brushes and you can pretty much consider my mind blown. They were worth every penny! It appears half the frustrations I have with oil painting were almost entirely the fault of the shitty, shitty hard bristle brushes I've been using. They were SO scratchy and kept me from imbuing any sort of nice painterly quality. They blended when I didn't want them too, sucked up paint but never spit it out, and because of them I needed to use a crazy amount of medium to make the paint workable.

My mind=blown.

A DAILY FOR YOU

Gettin' funkyyy!


I got a lot of positive feed back about the cards, so we'll see what I can cook up in time for Valentine's Day. Thank you for the kind words!

Anyway, Happy New Year! I spent mine in the bath tub reading George R. R. Martin. I am, in a word, OBSESSED.