Enjoying the Ride

Treading Slowly & Using What You got

Afraid to Throw & Head Above Water

Walking on Water and Savoring the Surf

water series

I've been working on the water series..am very excited about it and the penile colony one.I'm attaching a bunch of the water series ones that I've completed. I'm looking at water as a metaphor for life.It's all about the choices that we make. Some people just give up. Others embrace it and jump right in. have more ideas than time to do them right now....

Working with a model

It's been a long time since I worked with a nude model..but I wasn't able to find and work with the type of images I wanted. I wanted more unusual perspectives (mostly extreme angles from above or below or with extreme foreshortening)so I contacted a former student,Tom Lail, who is a art professor at HVCC. He helped put me in touch with one of his steady models. Had the photo shoot about a week ago. Got most of the poses and angles I wanted, but it was hard. My model kept dancing around trying to show me the various yoga poses he was capable of.I wasn't interested in that type of pose , but he wouldn't stop. And he wouldn't stop talking.The things I was looking for wouldn't look like the stiff and artificial things he was doing and it was hard to get him to relax into the poses I wanted so they wouldn't look like he was posing. I felt like I was in a Saturday night skit and wished I had it all on video.Picture dancing,arms swinging, doing arabesques, sitting down tied up in knots.It's a good thing I manipulate all my images.

Since I started working with a palette knife..the initial stage of a painting has gotten even faster...but then it slows down drastically.
This one had the background laid in with a palette knife, then the next layer with a brush. It's gotten alittle further along than this version..but it's slow.