Month: August 2015

  •   ABOUT THIS PICTURE 8.5″ x 11″, craft acrylic on paper. This started as a loose sketch painting trial using acrylic paints, for a large scale painting I was going to begin working on. As I was unfamiliar with acrylics at the time, I used craft acrylics, which came in bright pour-out tubes of color. They are an […]

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  •         ABOUT THIS PICTURE 8.5″ x 11″ graphite on paper. This took a little over an hour to draw. In an attempt to get some portrait drawing practice warmed up again, I started sketching from a reference photo of photographer Diane Arbus (reference photo is here). I had some difficulty getting accustomed […]

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  •   ABOUT THIS PICTURE 8.5″ x 11″, graphite, acrylic, and ink on paper. This is one of my first mixed media attempts. Even though she’s very unfinished, I like the incomplete nature. I started this with the idea of working on a portrait in graphite, but I randomly got the idea to make a rainbow come […]

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  •     Our eyes are our eyes, extensions do not lengthen us. We blush only for ourselves, knowing the forest for every tree, surrounding foliage, average rainfall, temperature, even in Celsius. We hide without hiding, unseen and unseemly. We are hyper-quiet and lost, insecure in others, but found in self, finding it all too easy to […]

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  •   ABOUT THIS PICTURE 8.5″ x 11″, graphite on paper. This is a quick sketch done in the style of Matisse; simple shapes and quick strokes of line. I think of it as Matisse’s Woman with a Hat but in sketch form. This image was based from a picture of a friend drinking wine while taking a […]

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  •     ABOUT THIS PICTURE 9.5 x 6″ ink on paper. A simple line drawing based on some flowers I picked. I had in mind to work on perceiving negative space. By drawing the outline of the petals and focusing on the overall shape of the bouquet, I was able to get a pretty good line […]

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  •   ABOUT THIS PICTURE 8.5 x 11″, graphite on paper. A simple portrait sketch that took me about half an hour to make. I used a black-and-white reference photo. My goal wasn’t to focus on shading so much, as it was to practice placing the features of the face. In this picture, you can even […]

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  •   TEXT OF THIS POEM Bubble machine on a ledge children singing as they talk over the forgotten fence from far away, an ambulance on the asphalt, again.   ABOUT THIS POEM I thought this poem would be fun to write by hand. After seeing Tyler Knott Gregson’s poems on instagram, it seemed worth trying. […]

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  • We’re packing up and moving down to the more artsy South Bay Area, so I stole some time between packing boxes, scooted onto the floor near a nice natural light area and drew this.   ABOUT THIS PICTURE 8.5″ x 11″, Ink on paper. This started out as figure drawing exercise based on a reference photo […]

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