i found a loophole (don't you love loopholes?) to my art-selling problem. I have the option of donating the piece for the silent auction they're having at the show. if the piece sells, i get half. if it doesn't sell i get it back. my problem is solved and i've donated to a worthy cause at the same time! how come life doesn't always work out like this? it would be so much more convenient.

wish i could say i had some new art to post. let me see if i can scrounge something up... nope, i got nothing.

this is going to be in an art show in August, which sounds like a bigger deal than it really is. now i have to decide if this is for sale or not and if it is, the price. i don't have a problem with selling it, but putting a price on something makes me feel very self-conscious. i have a really hard time judging the 'value' of something i've made. i look at it and i see a old scrap of cardstock that's been colored on, i see the parts that i wasn't satisfied with. oh well, i'll probably sell it anyway. i'll wait until the last minute and then pull some number out of my ass. i'm sure it'll be underpriced, but at least it might sell that way. of course, they also want to know if there are more for sale, how people can contact me, my website... just the thought of having to price other art also makes me want to mark it 'not for sale.'

i'm being a lazy and childish twat right now and i'm perfectly aware of that. i think all the time how great it would be to just make art for a living and not have a day job (these are day dreams, okay? they're not supposed to be realistic), and here i am being all weird about selling one little drawing.

ugh... why did i even post this

i've put myself on art house-arrest. or maybe it's art-house arrest... either way, i'm locked up and not coming out until some things get finished. i've got 6 (6!!) paintings going and 2 big drawings. that's way too much unfinished work sitting around. and i just keep buying art supplies! my local art shop obviously bought way too many canvases last fall and now they're always on sale (and we're talking nice big canvases for dirt cheap here, like buy-1-get-4-free cheap). which obviously means that i have to keep buying them. i just counted 20 stretched canvases in the hall closet, plus 2 more that i bought yesterday. add to that the 21 small unstretched ones i've already primed and my house arrest is starting to feel like a life sentence! also, i think it's very sneaky of them to have the canvas on sale and never the paint.

so i'll see you all around xmas time. if i make any progress you (and flickr) will be the first to know.

Look! it's not me!!

drawing other people is fun.

i didn't really have anything to post, but i felt that i should post something since it's been a while...



i obviously have too much free time since i drew my own halftone. seriously, who does that?



they're supposed to be the windows to the soul, right? this could be cool if i hadn't drawn it on a painted page in my moleskine. the texture is not working well with the colored pencils.



some big drawing of someone i don't know. i'm learning that i have a really short attention span for art. if i don't finish it in one sitting there's a good possibility that it will never get finished. i have proof of this theory. lots of proof. this whole blog might be proof.

i feel like i should explain this somehow. but i'm not sure i need to and i'm not sure i can.


i'm still working on this. the hand seems really big to me, but if you look at the original photo it's quite accurate. i think since the fingers really pop and the shadow under the hand has gotten a bit lighter, it's lost it's anchor to the body and seems more prominent than before. the colors in this photo are a little wonky too. i tried to correct them a little bit, the yellow tones on the arm and hip don't looks as harsh in person. the wrist and arm need to be brighter, the light hitting the hip much brighter. bringing those areas forward should help with the hand too. right now the hand has life and everything else is kinda flat.

i've been painting like mad this week. i've started 3 self-portraits with one more canvas ready to be prepped. they are all still very rough, but turning out much better than i expected (or am used to). i wasn't going to post anything, but i just can't hold it in. this is the newest and roughest of the three so far. 12x16", oil on canvas.



i like the other two even better, but i'm going to wait and post them when they're finished.