SWAP!!

Studio work swap is something artists often do where exchanging art works becomes a way of bonding and showing admiration :) I received a "Bunny of sublime" painting in exchange of one of my "Subway Dance" paintings, good swap!

Caricature of People Seeing A Caricature Exhibition

Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine

 Met up with a friend over the weekend for some good food and saw the caricature show at the Met.  It was also fun making caricatures of the audience at the caricature show, watch behind your back or you might end up on my book, ha!  >:D

THANKSGIVING Prep Talk!

Found this on the net thought I'd better share it :)

HAVE A GREAT THANKSGIVING Y'ALL!  :)

The Apotheosis of Shame (IN PROGRESS)

20'' x 30''

Oil on canvas 

  "The Apotheosis of Shame" is an ongoing project of experience with how people often relate nudity with instant shame. People who reject nudity often are insecure with their own bodies, in which they see themselves in the work and imminently feel appalled.  I'm not saying that everyone should become nudists, although that would save us a lot of money on clothing; without nudity, there would not be figurative art, or the inspiration of certain other art derived from it, instead, we will all be wrapped in fabrics trying to forget the fact that we are born naked from the womb and we are naked when we die. 

Cloudy day

My fabulous friend + model + fashion designer = great cloudy day drawing project

In this drawing, I am not chasing after the "aesthetic rendering", I am instead more interested in capturing the model's energy, the couture of her clothing vs. the negative space...etc.  One can render a drawing to death and the result might be beautiful, however a truly successful drawing will have both the structure and the energy of the objects, it should never stop giving you information.

More subway dance!

Deck the wall!

Putting a few theses little guys in for Deck The Walls this year!

 Interiorscape 

6'' x6''

Oil on board

IN PROGRESS

As the weather is getting colder, the city seems to be moving faster every day <:D 

Recent sketches

 

 

 

Ongoing lessons

A painter can spend up to 10 years on a painting.  I have learned a lot in doing this painting in just a few months, although it's not finished.  In order to see the true depth of color, one must observe from life, and not from photographs.  Thank god to Google, we can almost always get references. However, a flat random photo can never fully justify a set up, an object, or a action.  I would totally recommend not to be dependent on photo references. 

 

Mid Term den-den-den--!!

Just survived the midterm of the midterm! The real Midterm is at the end of this semester. The critics are a bless to the artists- despite getting over loaded with too much feedback can short the fuse a bit...anyway. The critics went fine!

I haven't figure out a name for this painting yet, but it has everything to do with "private nudity"and "public nudity".  I am not a nudist, and doubt that I would ever be one, but I am essentially nude, as we all are behind clothing.  I think it's ironic to somehow condemn nudity in public but is fine behind doors.  When I modeled for painters, I modeled for 20 or 30 artists, I loved it.  The entire academic painting is based on life models, are these models "shameless" to have helped to created figurative art?  Actually, this was still an issue in the early 1900's at places as civil as Philadelphia, where Thomas Eakins once taught.

This is life model and made up back ground.  Also not sure what to name it.