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Everything is on track, Spring is GREAT!

"The Dancer" (In Progress)

4' x8'

Oil on canvas

Work.a.holic!

Time has been cheating us--last time I checked there was still a year to stretch, now we are looking at May right in the eye -- how did that even happen??  The past two years have been both fun, challenging and at times, heart wrenching. It's hard to be working as an emerging professional, looking for jobs post graduate and deal with other personal distractions.  (Thank god the worst part is coming to an end soon, but not soon enough. )

On another interesting note, I'm writing a play called   "AT THE END OF THE DAY"  for the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.  The play is inspired by David Hare's "The Breath of Life" premiered in Philadelphia in 2010. 

The Dancer (In Progress)

4' x8'

Oil on canvas

Recent Work Continues!

Self Portrait (Partial in progress)

Oil on canvas

4' x 9'

Egg Tempera w/#2 Brush 

Class work in progress

Works

School is going well, it's good have a great studio space next to great friends:) All girls and NO secrets!   For Lisa's class we are doing a study and a still life.  My set up in the studio is not as ambitious as the class set up (no green frogs or plastic snakes).

Still life set up in my studio

Monochromatic study of the still life
To simplify the tone and shape, a fast study is to establish compositions that when move to the full color we would know how it is going to be framed (compositionally). 

My pigments

These are the pigments I am using for the full color still life, as to the study, I'm only using Mars Black, Zinc White & Earth Red.

 

Portrait in progress
This is my own project, the goal is to maintain the vibrancy of tone. 

 

My pallet

 

Drawing, drawing, drawing...painting!

Just came back from the mixer, got to see works by the first years. Really. Impressed.  Gotta have to work extra hard to be able to put out a good graduation!

A sketch study of multiple casts in Lisa Bartolozzi's "Technique of Painting" class.  Love Lisa, love UD!  (Deer park rocks!)

Portrait of Ellen wearing red helmet in progress-- life is constantly in progress isn't it?

Studio Work

"Tangled"
(In progress)

Charcoal on Cansson

5' x 7'

2011

Portrait in progress...

I've been working on this painting since...let's just say after the summer.... It's been going quite well, by well I meant frustrating and exciting. I am still working on correcting the proportion of the figure's face to the rest.
A very good friend of ours is going to start a portrait of us; most importantly, we get to have a copy of it and to be the actual subject :) Wheeeee!