Boskone is coming up here in a few weeks and you know what that means?  Yes, Boston will get WHALLOPED by a blizzard.  And my art will be down at the convention center.  Go take a look at the latest and greatest ... I'll have a decent collection of originals & prints hung but if you want to see something in particular, let me know.

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I know, this hasn't happened in a long, long time. The excuses are many. Work is intent on finding my breaking point. I took a graduate level OR class over at MIT while working full time. I decided, knee be damned, I WAS going to get back into shape ( Read more... )

What is it about my car that it wants to die in the middle of autumn? I went home for IlluxCon last week and when I came back, my car was dead. Oh, it starts and goes, just not very fast or very far. I rode my motorcycle into work on Monday (brrrrr), borrowed Josh's car on Tuesday and today I'm working from home while the mechanics rip'er apart ( Read more... )

I'm just pretending to be here for 10 minutes before I go to bed ( Read more... )

I don't normally do pet portraits ( Read more... )

So work has been kicking my ass of late. On Friday, I left at a little after 1:00 PM ... which gave me a little over 60 hours for the week. I can't remember the last weekend I had completely off.

When my schedule gets hectic like that, I just can't deal with nice structured painting. I'm too burnt to stay within the lines.
( Painting below )

Update on the grapes picture. Currently it is drying so I can work on the goblins and stems without smearing things.

( grapes )

Finally got around to photographing my little oil paintings.
( warning, lots of images below )

Next couple images. Everything is sort of flat right now as I'm waiting for the layers of white and beige to dry enough to put reflection & color on them. I'm also utterly failing to take any photos without glare problems but that's okay. My studio lighting isn't set up for photographing things.

( more WIPs )

I've been reading up on the various methods of achieving depth and lighting with oils. One of the things I read involved doing the underpainting in the opposite spectrum of the finished painting ... if you want a warm finish, do the underpainting in cool colors and vice versa ( Read more... )