It's "Crappy Drawing Day" and I decided to do a little limnery. A while back I attached a shelf to my easel to rest my palette on while I'm painting. It works great, but it looked odd folded up. Since this thing lives in the living room something had…

The painting in progress, with the original photograph, blocked in, and part way through being painted.

The finished painting.

This is a bit of a crappy picture because there is no light. A lot of the subtlety of the colour is missing. I'll take a better one tomorrow when the sun is up.

I said I would paint this almost a year ago. I wasn't happy with my first attempt and scrapped it. Even though I'm only as far as blocking it in, I'm much more pleased with this second attempt. This is a departure from my other work, but it is the…

Studies and sketches:

"Itzcointli dog with me", 1938, Frida Khalo

"Dead Cedar Stump", 1938, Georgia O'Keefe

Man looking at Ken Lum cirular couch

Ken Lum circular couch from above

4th floor of the VAG

The finished painting

So I finally finished the painting of Nicole last night, before the cannon-fire started. It is so much easier now get images of my work as well. Snapping a high-quality photo with my new camera is sooooo much easier than scanning…

Nicole

So I went ahead and bought the camera and it rocks! What you see here is a reduced photo of the painting of Nicole as it currently stands. No more fooling around to scan paintings in multiple passes. I can finally get decent pictures of my…

I barely made it into work on time for our Thursday morning meeting today. I got to bed late and didn't (couldn't) get to sleep right away. Getting up this morning was brutal. Given that I don't want to be sleepy when I'm out with Ivana tomorrow…