Here’s a teaser of some new work to be featured in the May one-man at Trés Chouette, a show called “Order of Solitaries”. The show opens May 7th at 6 pm. (Trés Chouette is located at 2119 Shamrock Dr. in Charlotte, right next to Foskoskie’s… these openings are a lot of fun.)
The work here is [...]
The web is a beautiful thing. Bits and pieces of one’s creative past, for good or for ill, can resurface out of the ether and provide amusement and a sense of perspective.
As it turns out, over 80 years worth of student newspapers from Davidson College, my alma matter, have been saved in [...]
Happy to return to the Thursday schedule of morning life drawing after a few weeks absence. Amazing what a bit of time– both good and ill– can do to the seeing process.
Also taking the opportunity to work in new mediums– straight conté in shades of sanguine, which I think will open doors of value judgements [...]
Update in the Drawings section– some recent charcoal and conte works, on toned paper. Any and all are available for purchase… just ask!
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This past couple of weeks have been full of activity (work, painting, work, painting,) but at least a few days were spent leisure-like in Charleston, S.C. The delights there are many, in particular for the arts minded; the act of strolling, in itself, is a kind of cultural escape, given Charleston’s mise-en-scene. I [...]
Here’s a collection of drawings from the first part of ‘08. Most are of the 20 minute model-pose type, but I’ve thrown a few of the five minute poses in for fun. All are charcoal, conte, and white chalk on either newsprint or Strathmore 400.
Truth is, sometimes I prefer the fivers– there’s a spontaneity [...]
Of all the stuff I learned in College– the factoids, cocktail party tidbits, habits bad and good, and actual truths (yes, real, actual truths)– one of the more lasting practices I retain to this day is that of journal keeping. Not necessarily of the Robinson Crusoe “today I found coconuts… tomorrow, more coconuts” variety. [...]
Took some time today to add and subtract from the painting and drawing sections. Most of this work is from within the last 3 weeks. Something about the dark and cold makes me want to retreat into my studio, happy elf-style.
Also, I have started to promote my skills in portraiture. I’ve been lucky [...]
I recently joined this professional creative networking network, and I have to admit I’m impressed. Myspace may have been fun for the first few months, back in ought-four, but it quickly became clear that it was 1) for younger (i.e. teenaged) folks, 2)overrun with overzealous “friend-makers”, and 3) kind of a crappy application, always “blowing [...]
