December 2009
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A zombie for a ring
I just fell a little more googley-eyed in love with Etsy - an online venue for selling art and handmade goods. Etsyians from around the Capital region did a holiday exchange. I was paired with Amy of Raine Studios. I sent her one of my string zombie illustrations. In exchange? She sent me several BEAUTIFUL rings (if you know me, you know i adore rings beyond all hope), and an interwoven pendant....
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For Sale!
9x12 watercolor & india ink, $59. Purchase here.
One of my newer paintings - features the female figure in abstracted form, fractured almost like stained glass with watercolor blooms.
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Super Quick Oil Paintings
Just attended Kurt’s two day workshop on sketching the figure with oil paints. AWESOME! Josephine, a super fly figure model, worked with us both days giving us amazing poses to work from. Each painting had to be done between 10 minutes and 30 minutes. Excellent practice for oil painting, and damn fun.
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What Happened During my Art Residency at Utrecht
I realized how amazing it is to paint uninterrupted. No internet. No kitchen to bake things in. No “The Wire” to put into the DVD player. Just me and paint = awesome productivity.
I began what I think will be a long adventure in painting and drawing bicycles.
I went on a Pixies rampage after my ipod shuffled onto “Cactus.”
Here’s some of the art I made while I was...
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Got covered in charcoal...
…at the Utrecht residency today. I’m drawing a still life of bicycle parts for a fellow bicycle-loving friend who I met while trekking across the country on our bikes.
This drawing is quite fun - I think there’ll be alot more bicycle art in the near future.
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What I worked on today...
…. at Utrecht. One of the paintings anyway…
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Sketches from San Salvador and Antigua
Here’s some pages from my sketch journal while I traveled in El Salvador and Guatemala.