I have just started a page for selling digital prints of my collages and drawings:
I have been enjoying the process of refining some of the drawings that I originally made for the web, like the one below. With some upgrading, they work well as prints.
I’ll be adding more images to Imagekind soon. By the end of this week, I will also be online with an ETSY page, where I can sell original paintings, collages, and earrings.
Right now I am taking two painting classes, and in one of them, the teacher has asked us to practice by copying from Old Master paintings–not aiming for a reproduction by any means, but working in our own styles. She has also asked us to bring together figures from different artworks. I am working on a painting that includes the most prominent female nude from Manet’s Dejeuner sur L’Herb, a Cycladic doll, and two figures from Velázquez’s Las Meninas. It’s going to be called “Rex, Victoire, Kora, and Maribárbola Take the Afternoon Off.” Stay tuned.
In the meantime, here is a large study I did of Maribarbola’s face.
And here are some proto-Renaissance saints. Much to my surprise, I feel like they are very much at home among the inhabitants of my artistic imagination.
I have been using Google Earth to look at super-high-resolution version of selected paintings from the Prado in Madrid. Most of the time you can zoom in so close that you can look inside the cracks in the paint, but there’s this one section of the Garden of Earthly delights, a lumpy blue ball with spikes and screws sticking out of it. There’s a fissure at the bottom, and hairy, animalized humans are scuttling in and out on all fours. And the darn thing won’t come into focus no matter what I do. I couldn’t figure out why–there didn’t seem to be any special significance to this part of the painting–and then it occurred to me: Dick Cheney must have moved there.
Freshly returned to the Bay Area from Pittsburgh, I’m feeling visually inspired–both by my longtime muse, who goes by the name of Bart, and by the whimsically urban Laney College campus, where I’m taking a portrait drawing course. Â I’ve been doing a lot of fast sketching and am feeling pretty pleased with it. Â Here are some recent drawings. Â As you can see, I’ve dolled them up, to one degree or another, in photoshop.
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Here are two of my favorites from BART.
And here are two from Laney College, where I sat in bleachers overlooking the swimming pool. The sky was full of helicopters in anticipation of further protest over the killing of Oscar Grant.
