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These shoes are for walking
These shoes have seen hundreds of miles in the past 3 years. Here they are posing on the floor, kind of like a Van Gogh painting in my calendar, but…
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second figure – two
I had some more time to spend working on this piece that I started last week. I developed the face quite a bit and warmed up the body a bit.…
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elephant is done
I was lucky enough to get one extra day in the metalshop this spring, and took the time to finish the elephant! He’s now got a trail with stringy hairs…
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one subway car
Began working on this commissioned papercut last night. On Monday, I’d gone through a two-hour ordeal at Kinko’s, trying to figure out a way to get the design, which I…
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second figure – step 1
Last night I started this figure painting; next week I hope to spend another 3-4 hours on it and get it all finished up. Right now, she’s got a blueish…
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five tomatoes
The tomatoes and I had a plan for Tuesday. We talked about it on Sunday and we talked about it on Monday. Tuesday when we sat down together, we discovered…
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six bananas on blue
This lucky bunch of bananas got to sit by the window on a cloudy day and have their collective portrait painted. I was planning to paint them again the next…
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small barn
Yesterday I finished up the details on this small piece that I began working on a week ago. It’s on a 6×6 inch canvas-wrapped board and doesn’t need framing. …
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Maria is done
A couple of days ago I finished this painting of Maria that I painted in class while learning how to work with oil paints. I spent this week fixing her…
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elephant with trunk
The elephant is done for now! He’s got a trunk now, which was what he was really lacking. I’m going to shelve him for a month or two and then…
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Dog on her bed
Did this little 4 x 6 painting from a reference photograph of my dog, who will never actually hold still long enough to be painted. It’s challenging to paint detail…
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elephant day 4
Last night I spent a good 3 solid hours working on this little guy, but there’s less visible progress. I worked on some details, like adding metal to the body…