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Self Portrait

I was thinking of doing a self portrait (it's that time of year) of me, refleced in the mirror, with my mom in her hospital bed behind me...

On second thought, perhaps I'll just do my face. In a mirror. On a chest of drawers:

Latest sketch/painting in progress:

here is a self portrait in progress, a detail

Cameras and phones

Wow. I have relatives in Finland who own a photo shop. Times have changed since people went into the photo shop to get important photos done in the studio. I have several good friends who are professional photographers. Times are changing for them as well. Here, Chase Jarvis, a photographer talks about using your phone to take the picture and share it:

Fabric and Painting

Gary Faigin showed his Still Life Painting Atelier last week how to render fabric, and how to determine what folds and wrinkles should be not included to make the image read well.

Atelier and Skulls

It's before Halloween, and yet.. I am painting a still life with

a skull in it. I am looking at sketches, hung upside-down n

front of my fireplace... the one on the right makes it back into the atelier

for the painting...

On Turning Sixty

This article in ODE is an interesting take on friends and turning 60. I am thinking of this because I just left a friend's birthday party, where there were many friends, of all ages (really, from 5 weeks old to 91). See what we did for the artchix next where we celebrated one of us turning 60.

Garden Creatures

Here's a creature I painted while thinking of insects as weapons, against pests and other things in the garden.

Ant

How fun was this? Super fun. Gary Faigin's book, the Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expression is the basis for his class. Above, notes on the board from day one of a five day workshop. GAGE is the school that Gary started with is wife, Pamela.

Color Creativity

Dyeing Fabric in a friend's art studio took a day and many pieces of fabric. Some of us painted the dyes onto paper, others dyed fabric. Much fun, thanks Karen!

Fall Leaves

Rejection.

Accept the News

Here is an image I worried over and now I think it's done, although I occasionally paint over things I don't like.

Last night, it looked like a creepy person. Today I think it looks like someone who has just heard some news that shocked them, and in the very next instant, they blink, and accept the news and decide how to react.

Laughter or tears, I wonder.

Finishing the Face

Making Art

I draw when I am waiting for things, like in a seminar, or at an airport...here is a sketch I made of a person listening in a class.

Here is a video I made while working on a project. I was quite engaged in making little cartoon people out of photos of people I saw in magazines.