Self Portrait (Luftballoons)
Graphite and Chalk 4" x 7"
Date/Time: 2005:09:16 19:47:06
Calm and quietly unnerving, it's wrong in all the right ways.
Nude study
Conte 14" x 17"
Date/Time: 2005:09:17 14:09:03
One of the best (technically) quick figure drawings I've made
Tan Line
Oil on Paper 14 x 15"
Date: 09/17/2005
the same model and session as the previous drawing. paint applied with a palette knife. cropped for improvement
Study from Jan Van Den Hoecke (da Rubens)
Graphite and Chalk, 4 x 7"
Date/Time: 2005:09:16 19:48:36
i nearly captured the remarkable expression on this woman's face. stupid baroque masters.
No Arms!
Graphite & Chalk, 4 x 7"
Date: 09/17/2005
study for a self portrait painting in the style of caravaggio. I'm looking down into a mirror and holding my hands behind my back to create the shoulder stumps. A challenge to pose & draw simultaneously.
Fountain
Ink on Paper, 4 x 7"
Date/Time: 2005:09:16 19:37:52
Drawn with a bamboo pen and smudged a lot. The fountain is in the courtyard of the school, a bronze copy of some famous masterpiece, by Verrochio, i believe. One of the most economic and rembrandt-esque drawings i've ever made.
Yet another self portrait
Egg-bound Guache on Sketchbook Cover
Date/Time: 2005:09:16 20:17:41
I kind of look like a satyr, don't I? Or maybe Mr. Hyde.
Poseidon and drinker
Ink and Conte on Paper 4 x 7"
Date/Time: 2005:09:16 19:40:49
I really like this gray ink stuff
Unknown guitarist
Chalk, graphite, and Conte on Paper, 4 x 7"
Date/Time: 2005:09:16 20:15:09
This dude makes a shit ton of money playing the same 4 songs over and over. Standard classical guitar repetoir; Segoviad hack.
Perseus from Below
Chalk and Graphite, 4 x 7"
Date/Time: 2005:09:16 20:16:10
holding a sword in one hand and the head of medusa (not in picture) in the other. That's medusa's foot.
Message
Watercolor. A couple inches square.
Date/Time: 2005:09:27 18:21:22
Completely inspired by Fra Angelico, can you decode the cryptic message? note the falling halo.
Magdalene
Watercolor. 3 x 5"
Date/Time: 2005:09:27 18:24:03
Watercolor from a Donatello sculpture of Mary after she's come back from the desert
laughing lady
charcoal and watercolor. the face was a spectacular accident
Date/Time: 2005:10:05 18:51:32
doesn't she just tickle you green?
Reflection
Watercolor. 2 x 2"
Date/Time: 2005:10:04 20:33:30
A sketch for a tempera painting; one of three sections of a painting of a window. the light yellow lines are architectural details seen through the window at night in a rainstorm
Portrait of Simone
pencil on paper. boy i suck at pencil drawings
Date/Time: 2005:10:13 20:57:00
i mean sure. likeness is there. but it's such a bland drawing.
Self Portrait (Hairy Eyeball)
Ink on watercolor paper.
Date/Time: 2005:10:13 20:43:04
I don't know why it looks like charcoal.
Squirt
pencil on paper
Date/Time: 2005:10:13 20:59:16
a michelangelo sculpture of a satyr faun at bacchus' feet (holding him up) and returning the wine in a delicate stone squirt
Bang
watercolor on paper
Date/Time: 2005:10:13 20:49:31
one of the best paintings i've ever made. very influenced by bay area figurative artists. completely invented setting and lighting on an observed model.
Stricken
This may be the most expressive picture I've ever painted.
Date/Time: 2005:11:18 16:08:57
This may be the most expressive picture I've ever painted.
Lori sitting
Californian and Minnesotan, both
Date/Time: 2005:11:18 16:36:45
Californian and Minnesotan, both
Winter Pigeon
I'm painting dead birds again...
Date/Time: 2005:11:23 16:20:39
I'm painting dead birds again...