My legs are very stiff today (and I'm sure they will be worse tomorrow). Why? As I work through the photos from last night it's apparent that in about a couple hundred of them I was kneeling or crouching to get the letters in. That's a couple hundred…
I was on a mission tonight to find old photos of a friend from the ancient days before digital cameras and was therefore rooting through ye olde banker's box of photos. In the course of doing this I found the above cabaret ticket with the photos I…
Here is a better photograph pf the finished painting. It's a shame that the photograph never quite does justice to the real thing. There are simply unphotographable nuances like the difference between carbon black (which is flat and dense and very…
I finished the painting tonight. There is some glare on Anna's hair (second from the left) in the last frame. I'll take a better picture of it tomorrow. For now, enjoy the time-lapse.
At this point I'm somewhere around 24-26 hours into this, and I am pretty damned happy with it so far. Of all stupid thnigs, the olives on Rheanna's drink were a lot more challenging than I was expecting (and what the hell is she drinking?). Squid…
Between being sick and working on some photography projects I haven't had as much time to work on this the last few weeks as I would have liked, but it is coming along.
And for the people who are seeing this via my feed to Facebook - this is…
The new painting is coming along nicely. Even though I work in acrylic, I tried something more traditional oil-like approach with the skin tones - building them up in thin, semi-transparent layers. Acrylic has this stigma of being somehow a lesser…
