exhumation

Now that they're online and in one place, it feels like somehow I've not done enough.  I was debating adding an artist's statement, but I figured more important would be posting the work somehow.  The statement isn't even complete, as I'm in the process of writing a lot of things. 

I will say though that these are breakthrough pieces for me, artistically and personally, and from greenware to gallery, they have closed doors that needed to be closed and opened a great deal more.

Show!

:) 

Tomorrow I flood the office with postcards!

Apparently I like the 'dusk/dawn' time of day

More 30 min color experiments. 

a relaxed day ... I should have been more productive

More Color Experiments

I'm working towards broadening my color understanding by selecting colors based off of what I see outside my window, or if at night, what I see in the room around me, then modifying that palette to suit my needs. 

This is another 20 minute quickie i did, this time its from a dream I had, that I may be developing into something more detailed and greater. we'll see.

This was another hour long quickie where I decided to channel Jon Foster, I think (badly, I might add)  ... just a scribble 

More to come!

Merry Christmas

Whatever holiday you choose to ecelebrate, I hope y'all have a happy holiday, and a good time with your family and friends!

Figured I'd just post something to keep the blog alive.  Here's a quick palette experiment, took around 15 minutes, more about color than form or description.  

Hopefully over the break I'll get a buncha work done, I'm hoping to do some plain air stuff later on this week. 

Prescription: MORE DR SKETCHY!!

Holy AWESOME I just got back from "Dr Sketchy" which is an open model session where the models are burlesque dancers, and man, am I hooked.

10 minutes, final drawing of the night


2o minutes

20 minutes

20 minutes

I cannot express how invigorating it was - a great atmosphere with like 50s music playing in a small room ... beer on tap if you want it, and a model session all in one! Not only did it get me off my ass to do some art after work, but for the first time I brought my computer and tablet to the session, with some (in my opinion) really good results for the time.

here are some shorter poses that were done earlier in the night:

5 Minutes

5 minutes

1 and 2 minute quickies.


Once again, I'm hooked. Hopefully more updates in the future, thanks to this nice kick in the pants.

30 minute scribble

Warming back up to painter, I decided to do a quickie of another notable villain, Don Logan (Ben Kingsley) from Sexy Beast.  

I've been so busy at work now that I'm a full-time concept artist, that I usually don't want to do much more than work on my bonsai and play with my cat when I get home.  I'm workin on an oil painting though, and I'm going to do a more completed portrait for sure in the future.  Its been a while since I've updated but I want to get on a weekly basis at the very least!

more to come!

HB

My grandfather, Harrison Bance. I made this as a present to my grandmother, who turned 90 last sunday. Happy Birthday Grandma!!

From a photo, of course, approx. 2 hours.