I enjoyed camping with my son for the weekend, striking camp early this morning and returning to the studio after running a mile and an abbreviated yoga practice. My colleague Terry Spehar-Fahey showed up and began work on a new painting, which was wonderful, first because she works very quickly and beautifully, particularly inspiring at [...]
I’m been camping with my son for the weekend, but taking a break this afternoon to head over to the opening reception at the Hillcrest Center for the Arts in Thousand Oaks, CA. My As the Crow Flies installation is in one of the rooms there for the current exhibit. I’ll post photos of how [...]
Here’s a strange coincidence: I spent several hours researching bears and wolves yesterday in pursuit of reference images and to learn how they are put together and specifically how they appear when they attack. Today I’ve spoken to three of my friends, all of whom either dreamed about bears and / or wolves last night [...]
I’ve been breaking down the composition of the Devil painting today, making construction lines on the canvas and sketching a little. I’m going to need a couple of models for this one, a man and a woman to pose as the slaves. I’m not completely satisfied that this is the image I’m actually going to paint, [...]
I enjoyed spending an afternoon with Sean Sobczak, the light sculptor and my old friend. He’s posed for me several times now, twice as Christ, as a member of the crowd at the crucifixion and now as a swordsman and the devil. I’m working on the tarot series with him, and placed him high up [...]
I’m learning about the popular emblem books of the renaissance, which I had never heard of until very recently. When printing became popular in the fifteenth century some of the earliest best-selling editions were books of moral lessons accompanied by woodcut illustrations, some of which superficially resembled tarot cards and alchemical illustrations. I’ve been searching [...]
I’ve been taking care of administrative work this last couple of days, in a rare fit of wanting to keep out of the studio for a couple of days after the intense work that went into getting the installations into the Brand Gallery in Glendale and the Hillcrest in Thousand Oaks. I feel very confident [...]
There’s going to be a reception at the Hillcrest Centre in Thousand Oaks California on Saturday May 30th, 4pm – 6pm. If you’d like to see the As the Crow Flies installation, come and visit the centre. I’ll be there, happy to see you if you can make it. I really like this piece of [...]
Here’s a sight to simultaneously inspire trepidation and joy in the heart of any artist. A freshly swept and mopped studio with four eight feet by eight feet panels laid out along the wall waiting to have canvas stretched on them. I’ll come up with the fabric in the next few days, stretch them, gesso [...]
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