Bodies

It's interesting how many things bodies can be a reference for and how they can inspire so many different things. A photo of a woman pulling her hair up inspired the start of these three paintings....could do an infinite number of paintings inspired by the pose. Again...these are just started...

Bodies

Just a few of the things I've been working on.Clearly not finished..but sometimes I like them at the different stages.Bottom one is an old painting that I decided I only liked a few parts so I applied gesso over it and created textures. (Same approach I've used with most of my abstracts. An under layer of textures that flow around the surface.)

Been working on my Penile Colony series this summer. Reactions have been interesting. Many of my art friend/teachers are a bit shocked or seem to think that the images are a bit risque. Everyone else seems to think that they are not over the top...but the funniest reactions are from men that I date.When a man asks what is my art like I just tell them to go to the website. The next time they see me or talk tome...well, the response among my dating field seems to be uniform:Who are your models? Those pictures are awfully detailed..how close do you have to get to do them? And somewhere alongthe way there is always some stuttering..