Here is a closer look at all the colors and details that are making up the skin tones and textures, you can see the areas that are more finished, and the areas that still need to be mellowed out with the final skin tones:

Really tried to pack as much as possible into the flesh (as usual) without going overboard. With this one nearing completion, I have set it aside temporarily to start a new diptych which will include a male face (finally). I had the models over to the studio for the first time a couple of weeks ago and the two panels are off too a good start. Should have the first preview of the progress on that piece posted later this week. I also have another screen print/oil paint, mixed media piece based on the same imagery in the works that should be ready in February. So, if you liked the last batch, start saving your pennies now because it will be another limited run, this time of 4 different colors/editions (CMYK).

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Speaking of Open Studios, I have decided to try out a Facebook deal for the event. Anyone who comes to Studio 405 to hang out for a while that check’s in at my artist page can take home a free art print. I will post some more details once I figure out exactly how it all works.

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Decided to bring back some color into the background since the grey fall weather is moving in. It has been a slow start as I have been adjusting to working in the new studio but I think I have caught some momentum and should have a lot more progress to post soon.

Speaking of the Kenji collaboration piece, here is an up to date image, taken with an actual camera of that painting. I got the second panel from Kenji and I am pretty excited to get back to work on this one as well.

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So, come down to Southie this Thursday and enjoy a cold Narragansett and check it out (along with a lot of other cool collaboration pieces).

Click here to get details on the Distillery Gallery website or,
click here to check out the event on Facebook.

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Here is my latest piece which I think I will call, “Bored Nude” or something along those lines. I believe I have mentioned before that the image of this girl, sort of playfully giving me this bored – impatient look while I was fooling with the camera in the middle of the photo shoot really struck me. Just an unexpectedly great image hidden in the out takes.

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This time I am handing off the letter work to my friend (and Distillery neighbor) Kenji Nakayama. Kenji is a super talented stencil artist and, as luck would have it, he happens to have some serious skills when it comes to lettering and pinstriping. So, for this painting I started off by doing a fairly ghostly black and white underpainting, and then handed the panels off to Kenji. I have no idea what he will come up with but, I trust it will be great. Once he is done with it, he will hand it back to me and I will add the full color portrait right on top. Should turn out to be a pretty interesting painting.

Here is how the painting looks today, right before I dropped it off at Kenji’s studio (this is only one panel of the two, cropped to keep it rated G for facebook, click here to see the full painting).

It’s always scary to lose control of a painting in progress but, I am excited to see what comes back.

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With that said, I know not everyone cares to have their brains polluted with all this extra nonsense. Therefor, I will have two separate mailing list/RSS reader options:

The first will be the full blog including all the (possible) new posts, works in progress, ramblings, show announcements, updates on new works available and who knows what else. If you already signed up for the old blog rss feed or mailing list then you will start getting all the new posts automatically unless you want to change. I will probably update once or twice a week so, don’t expect me to flood your life.

The second option will be for those that ONLY want to get updates on shows, new complete pieces available and other announcements. This will be updated a lot less and will stick to the more important business. If you are currently subscribing to the blog and are not interested in pulling back the curtain to see the ugly truth about how paintings are born, go ahead and switch to this.

Here are links to both options for anyone interested:

Click here to subscribe to all blog posts with your RSS reader

Click here to get all blog posts sent to your Email

or…

Click here to just receive updates about shows and announcements on your RSS reader.

Click here to get updates about shows and announcements sent to your email.

With that said, here is the latest progress on my portrait of Margaux.

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