Went figure drawing this morning. The last one of the year. This was the first 20 minute pose of the session. It was the only one that turned out halfway decent. Thank god there is next year.

It was cold and late rainy morning. A rather quick gouache sketch from my car. I was so hungry that I had to wrap it up and get something to eat.

20 minute Gouache head sketches.

I have 2 funny little pieces in a group show at the Blvd art gallery. It's a group show titled Good verses Evil. Each artist does one painting for each. It was a quick fun thing to do.
check the link
the opening is Friday Dec 14th.





pie is good
4.85"x4.85"
gouache on paper

evil bitch
4.85"x4.85"
goauche on paper

this sketch was done in my car. A very cold clear late fall day.
Gouache on toned paper.

Did this little plein air painting this past weekend morning.
A small part of a cement factory.
8x10 oil

Goauche on toned paper.

2 figure studies, same pose. I just moved around the room.
Both are 10x12 oil

Train Bridge 14x11 oil

Did these both tonight at an open painting session.
the one on the bottom I did first. Then I moved to the other side of the room. The lighting was tough.

I painted this one for my little niece Stevie. she turned one last week. Yay!
24"x18" oils

Painted this sketch from a roof top in LA. It was stupid hot. Too hot to paint. I planned on doing more painting but seeing how hot it was my desire to paint was cooked away.

Playing around doing some tests for things to come down the road. here's one of them tests.
10x22 oil on board

Late morning on the sound.
gouache on toned paper

quick oil sketches.
oil 10x12

I did this little gouache sketch in the car.
Waiting for the shop I was taking my car to, to open.

Rar!

Some older stuff that I did while working at my old job at GPG . I did loads of this stuff. Don't think I've ever really posted any. I've gotten kind of gotten drained over the years drawing chicks with swords, guys with big shoulder pads and Monsters. Guess that's to be excepted when you stay doing something long enough. These are some concepts for Dungeon siege 2.

a little while ago I did this piece for a Muppet Rawk show. Where famous Rock Album covers and Muppets collide.

Yet another head study in gouache

Here's what I did at the second session. I ended up leaving a half hour early due to the fact I started messing with stuff the should be left alone.

6 hour pose.
but this is 3 hours in.
Will be interesting to see what I can pull off in the next 3
28 x 22 oil

Another Head sketch.

randomness

Portrait in Gouache

Geisha
Almost forgot about this little sketch. At some point I plan on doing a little Geisha series.

Falling in Love again
Over the past few years I have fallen out of love with drawing. My painting has suffered because of it. I just put big shapes of color down and didn't really put my attention on the drawing. It has become painfully obvious to me. Guess I have or had a foolish notion that while I paint it will all fall together. Unfortunately this isn't always the case, not even close, least not for me. So in effort to fall back in love with drawing I went to a gesture session TO DRAW!!!
going to make this a priority once again.

did these studies on the same day last weekend. the bottom one I painted looking through a fence from across the street .It's a Steel mill and I was watching them dump this hot shit on the back of this dump truck. I would like to go back during the night and try to capture it. I was painting under a overpass and cars would drive by me getting on the freeway, it was very busy and noisy. I don't know what it was but people kept honking at me. Everytime it scared the crap out of me . So I painted fast, only trying to get the color. next time.

I start to paint this little sketch outside and about 15 minutes into it a old friend of mine walks by out of the blue and we start chatting while I paint. In the process I didn't watch the valves and the piece ended up not being strong. Of course all this an excuse for the suckage.

Under the Over

Did these outside all last saturday. I spent no longer than 2 hours on a piece.

A little 6 x 8 oil sketch

I ate something that was killing my stomach. Gah!