oils with a brush
Last night I got to paint with oils on canvas for the first time in over 10 years. It felt great. Watercolors are wonderful and all, but it always seemed…
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spring class
Yesterday I started taking an oil painting class. I haven’t painted with oils in years … about 10 years, I think (here’s one of my oil paintings from 10 years…
blue duck from the front
More of the Blue Duck, this time from the front. Also did a drawing from a photo of Dean, bending steel with his teeth.
Kayak Sketches
Well over a year ago, nearly two years ago now, I think, a friend sent me some photographs of her boat to render in watercolor. Somehow the project never actually…
Luna
Looks like I’m getting sucked in by oil pastels, a medium I haven’t worked with in a little while. This drawing is based on a photo I took of Luna,…
Mary’s Elephant
Here’s the second piece inspired by the lovely photographs of Mary Schwalm. This elephant turned out to be more colorful than I’d anticipated. As usual, I tried to match the…
Mary’s Frog
I’m hoping to do a number of pieces inspired by the lovely photographs of Mary Schwalm, who has generously agreed to lend me large prints of some of her work.…
3 fuller pl
The fourth guerilla papercut is done. It would have been done sooner, but I was sick almost all week and didn’t get much chance to work on it. It’s got…
chinese and hebrew two
This papercut, for two friends, combines Jewish and Chinese artistic ideas. The two people’s names are cut out in Hebrew letters, while their Chinese birth years are represented by the…
chinese and hebrew one
It’s becoming a habit, the habit of guerrilla papercutting (two Rs, two Ls, thanks mom). Planning and making papercuts for people who haven’t asked for them and aren’t expecting them.…
Mothership – done
A ship, rolling on the seas, rocked but not swamped. For the mothers on Adelphi Street.
art calendar
I’ve done a lot of updating to the art store in the last week. There are now a bunch of new products, new product designs, and the whole store has…