Category Archives: Art

Things have been rather slow lately, a bit like watching the paint dry. Perhaps that is a bit of an exaggeration, but I have been waiting for the underpainting to be sufficiently dry to accept an isolating glaze. Here’s a … Continue reading →

Monday continues to be the day I work on portraits. Here’s a couple images of the clay as I continue to work towards a likeness. The mouth/chin area is coming along, though there is still quite a bit of work … Continue reading →

I haven’t posted a new picture in a while, so I thought that I’d show everyone what I did over the break. I don’t know how different it looks to the casual observer, I stare at the painting for several … Continue reading →

I had my mid-semester critique this past Thursday. That’s sort of the last major hurdle before the end of the diploma project. There is an end of the year critique, to which the entire school is invited, but it seems … Continue reading →

I know that it seems like the only thing I work on these days is the diploma project—even I feel that way most of the time. But the truth is that I am still taking other classes. One of these … Continue reading →

I have to wonder if you all aren’t getting tired of these updates. Even Julie says that she has a hard time telling what I change from day to day. I have most of the block-in completed at this point. … Continue reading →

Slowly continuing the underpainting. Not much more to say… need to finish the block-in and start the rest of the heads. I figure it’ll probably take about three passes to render the heads sufficiently well for the underpainting. – Jeremy

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 →