Decided to do a series of self-portraits while trying out different approaches than I usually use (Oil or -rarely- watercolor for portraiture)–Here i am using Goldin’s heavy body tube acrylic on illustration board prepped with acrylic gloss medium. Also, I have been looking at the work of various colorist artists– – So, I thought I would try using a color wheel for inspiration! I am using blues here as the dominant color and reddish yellow as the center of interest. it feels a bit to opaque and sort of heavy to me – – so, on to other experiments in the next few days. 

My faux New Yorker cover created in Anita Kunz smArt school class last summer..the assignment was to do a New Yorker cover..and drones had just started to appear on the scene…obviously just the drones and the fly swatter are my original idea…!!   

so here is the bottom of the piece..and i remember why i don’t like it..but maybe i shall cut the board…

Here is an oil painting on plywood I did a few years ago. I have never really liked..so..this past winter I put it outside to protect the bird seed from the snow but as the weather turned warm, i didn’t need to protect the see so i leaned it up against the house…and, was suddenly a late March snowfall yesterday and when i went out to check the birdseed..i saw this…the perfect crop! i like the painting much more now that the snow has cropped the bottom! wonder how much damage has been done to the painting…looks pretty good…so..??

i was trying to portray him the way the Republicans viewed him… 

  

Hour and a half study to see what d’Arches oil paper is like and also thought i would test out doing an underpainting with Gamblin’s Fastmatte raw umber, black, and white oil paint….found the paper too absorbent for my taste so certainly would still need more oil gesso undercoat..and the Fastmate is so fast that it makes edge control difficult…however..for illustration purposes or even just to get something done quickly, i think it works quite well..just not for a final layer.  Anyway…painting this was just so i could have a bit of non-work fun and the picture is of one of my favorite British actor whose name, embarassingly, escapes me…the photo which i just randomly downloaded from the internet, doesn’t have a name attached and i don’t know where i got it in the first place. i don’t think this is Alan Rickman although quite similat in appearance…totally embarassing…!!!