Charcoal

Taking a closer look at Street View images and place by executing larger charcoal drawings. 

Sketchbook

Initial thinking and sketching utilizing Google Street-view, memory and direct observations of suburbia. The idea of doing landscapes in this way continues to intrigue me. 

Randomness from life, news/headlines.

Selfies, sans-smartphone.

Sketchbook

metal panel

Just a detail that needs to dry, but the texture here was just to good to pass up. It has been a while since I have been able to move paint around . . . something.

New Ideas, Old Panels Reconfigured

13 new 48"x48" panels ready for new ideas - thinking landscapes . . . 

Removed the tarps from panels that have been set aside since May of 2012. Finding and working new arrangements to submit to a Spring 2014 show in St. Louis.

Looking to get away from the panels for a different body of work: oil on cotton and plastic.  Saturated shirt in matte medium and then allowed to dry prior to applying oil paint. The shirt was not as rigid as desired so another attempt with a t-shirt and polyurethane is underway.

Friday afternoon

I put this together during my office hours today. I had three or four really interesting conversations with students during the process. It is amazing how many questions come up on a Friday afternoon. . . 

progress . . .

A bit more collage material found its way onto this panel . . . not sure where it is headed, but I may have just ruined it. Something else to deal with visually. {The tangents are intentional.}

The drywall has been mudded in this small section of the studio. It has a coat of paint and could certainly use some touching up, but it is nice to be able to see what it might be one day when it is finished. Since painting this last week, classes have begun. So there most likely be little progress in the near future. It is nice to be using the space for more than band practice.