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.
Looks great so far!
Thanks, i am excited to get back to work on it and get it finished.
Aw! This is awesome!!
Just wait until it includes words by Kyle.
HA words by kyle? doesnt he have other to finish first?
Kyle already finished vandalizing you, I just have not gotten back to finish that painting yet. Its sad that real life and paying work sometimes have to get in the way of making paintings.
Your flesh tones are gorgeous!!! I love your paintings. Are you a fan of L. Freud?
Thanks, I spend a lot more brain power than I would care to admit trying to come up with interesting flesh tones without falling back onto the standard earthy flesh tone pallet. Of course I am an a fan of Lucian Freud, it is hard to be a figurative painter these days without spending a lot of time thinking about his paintings. You should come by the studio one day and hang out, or else come by during open studios or something.
I'm dying to get down there! Thank GOD I'm done with 10 years almost of college..ARGH!! Being "certified" to be an art teacher is cool, but the arena for it is debatable to me (sorry state of MA…lol) but "any-hoooo"! I'm a pumped up artist along with, and outside of, that hoo-ha political school-system crazy-ness. I'll probably get a studio on Fountain St., Framingham to start with:) What is the scale of those portraits?
I gotta say being a certified art teacher is better than me, I am a certified nothing! Good work. You should get a studio at Fountain Street, they need some more life in that building. This portrait, along with most of the rest of them, is 2 feet square.
Thanks bud…..soon!
And..wow…props yo!… it's wicked haaaad to mix batches of color like that! (I have Skippy Jars for those operations…:D) I heart GALLONS of Gesso+pure pigment (hey it's pro for my genre of painting)….I'm a HUGE P.Guston fan 
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