Monthly Archives: February 2006

Didn’t get quite as much done today as I was hoping. I had a plan for dealing with some of the colors that I wanted to start introducing—it all worked so perfectly in my mind, but when I went to … Continue reading →

I hope that no one had their heart set on one of the other colors…. It took literally took about twenty dollars of oil paint to cover the background, and that was using mostly earth tones (earth tones are generally … Continue reading →

So, obviously I was feeling a bit spun around after that last critique. New strategy is to work out the color schemes, and in particular to determine what will be the background color. Perhaps background color is too simple a … Continue reading →

As I mentioned in my previous post, I had an individual critique with Vincent Desiderio. This is the reason that one comes to school in New York City: to have an opportunity to interact with world class artists like Vincent … Continue reading →

I’ve put in three solid days working on the under-painting. Most of it is still a first pass to block in the major masses and try to find the contour while building up some texture. Though you probably can’t see … Continue reading →

I have not been idle the past couple of weeks. I completed head studies of all the principle characters in my composition and I have moved on with the final support, finally getting into some real painting today. Here are … Continue reading →