8/52 – A Portrait a Week

Still thinking on a title for this one.  Any suggestions?   Sorry for the terrible glare on the painting.   Oil on Canvas 24″ x 18″  

6/52 A Portrait a Week

“The Light Within, the Light Without” Detail: Oil on Canvas 36″ x 24″ And here are some process shots for how I got here: Many thanks to my friend who allowed me to snatch this picture off her Facebook page and turn it into a painting. This and many other paintings will be on display…

5/52- A Portrait a Week

This is a pencil drawing of a friend of mine.  I saw the photo on facebook and asked her if she wouldn’t mind too much if I turned it into a painting.  She graciously gave me permission and I have started the under-painting for it already. I also did this sketch to help study the…

4/52: A Portrait a Week

I’m not sure what to call this one yet.  Any ideas? I started it last week and it’s finished!  You can read a little about the subject matter in the last post. It’s 24″ x 30″ oil on canvas. It came about pretty quickly as I tried to stay a little loose with it. I love…

New Painting Started, Cyber Shepherd’s Companion

I’ve been meaning to paint this for a while.  It’s a companion painting to “Cyber Shepherd”.  The reference was taken while we were getting her in costume for the Photographers and Mystics shoot which you can read about here if you like. I’m not sure why I decided to paint this under painting in this…

A Little Inspiration from Charles Courtney Curran

While browsing through Facebook, I stumbled upon something startlingly beautiful.  I love when this happens- suddenly I am enthralled with an artist I haven’t heard of or seen before and I do my best to dive into their work from my desk chair.  Mad googling ensues. Here’s what I found today: I feel like I’ve…

Lately

While it’s been several weeks since I’ve posted, I’ve still been making all kinds of things in the studio.  Lately, it was piles of Christmas gifts- lots of sewing happening. With the calmness of January, I have finally started my new painting project.  “The Muse” has asked that I not reveal too much of it…

More on the Triangle Park Mural

While I haven’t posted in a long while, I have been busy painting.  Molly Must gave me another figure to paint at home.  A wicked cold kept me from making quick progress on it, but here she got done eventually.  She is a singer who was in a band here in Asheville in the 1970s….

One side down…

We finished one side of the box truck mural.  Since we work during the day and it’s in use on the weekends, we were only able to paint in the evenings.  One night we painted past sunset and into the twilight and found that this had happened from the heavy dew: Now, when you budget…

New Mural Started!

Kurt and I have finally gotten started on our very first mural on a truck.  It’s been a little tricky since we are only able to work on it in the evenings (it’s in use during the day on the weekends and we work during the work week).  The days are getting shorter so we…