Open studios at The Distillery is just a few days away so I have been working hard to finish a few new paintings, including this piece that I will put into the Open Studios show in the Distillery Gallery.

So, since I spent all day cleaning my filthy studio, be sure to come down to South Boston this weekend and stop in to see some art.  (And of course, have some wine, cheese and tasty beer)  I will be here with my doors open from noon – 6 on both Saturday and Sunday.  If you need direction or some info on South Boston Open Studios and the participating artists, head over to the official web site, southbostonopenstudios.org or go to the Facebook Page.

For those of you that did not make it out to The Distillery Gallery in South Boston to check out the People Places and Horses show, you can now take a virtual tour of the show on The Distillery Gallery’s Flickr page. Click on the photos below to see high resolution images on Flickr:

I just realized that I have not posted any new art all month so here is a quick preview of my next portrait. Yesterday was such a beautiful fall day (and everyone knows my mood is entirely dependent on the fickle Boston weather) so I packed up my paints and ventured out of the studio and into the world. I was feeling good and the painting shows it. This will eventually end up layered up with text, similar to this painting. Anyways, here is 10 hours of non stop painting all captured in one crappy low quality cell phone snapshot:

Expect a better picture of this painting (possibly even taken with an actual camera) to be up soon as the painting gets closer to being complete.

The Distillery Gallery, where I have work hanging in the current show, has been nominated for the 2009 “Dig This Awards” by Boston’s Weekly Dig! Go over to the Dig’s website and vote for The Distillery Gallery! There are a lot of categories and best gallery is all the way at the end so, if you are in a hurry just skip ahead and scroll right to the bottom of the page and click “South Boston Distillery.”

Last night I went back and checked out all the photo studies I have done for the make up paintings. I found a few that, while they didn’t fit into the normal 4 panel format, were still pretty interesting photos so I decided to upload them to my Flickr page. Some are better quality than others but they are all fun images. Maybe I will use these for screen prints or something but, for now, hopefully they will brighten your day on this cold, rainy Friday in Boston.

Click on any image to go see the full size version on Flickr.