Last week, the day before my 32nd birthday, I finished a 6×8″ still life study of three lemons. One lemon sits in a silver parfait dish, which I bought at a collectibles shop that was painful to leave with only this cup.
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Portrait Workshop with Gregory Mortenson
In August I took a two-week portrait workshop in New York at Jacob Collins’ atelier, Grand Central Academy (GCA). The workshop was taught by Gregory Mortenson who does beautiful portrait work.
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Best of Show and the End of Year Two
Second Year of the atelier is over! It ended Friday with the Best of Gage show.
Read MoreColleen Barry Figure Drawing Workshop
(Featured image: a charcoal drawing on tone paper by Colleen Barry.) I should have long ago stated that my contemporary hero artist is Colleen Barry. Her drawing above, and some more of her work below: This last image is in Juliette’s book Lessons on Classical Drawing, where I first saw Colleen’s work. She lives in…
Read More“The Poet”
The end of the year is nigh!
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On Friday we finished up our yearly pastel drawing workshop lead by one of our assistant teachers David.
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February and the Shadow Side
(Featured image: Study of a Male Nude by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1801) A week ago I finished my second figure painting using a limited color palette.
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Three-Hour Portraits
I’ve mentioned a few times that I want to get better at drawing portraits this year. But how does one manage this when the first half of each day is devoted to painting the figure and the second half is all about still life?
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Warm Cool Still Life
Today I finished my first warm/cool palette still life.
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The Warm and Cool Palette and Then Some
Is this thing on? Testing. Testing. One, two. I can’t believe it’s been two months.
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Art Monk 