drawing on saturday

3 little drawings, a couple of them could work in small paintings. We'll see.
All 14 x 17 in graphite.

I have a new live in model (not the one below) but she won't be still. Keeps wagging her tail. She doesn't understand the concept of not being patted and petted all the time either. Hard to work in the studio but hopefully she'll figure it out.

1/1/11

2 figures

Many moons ago the concept of being alive in 2011 was an abstract one. I had hoped to celebrate the new year by finishing everything I was working on but I have fallen short. The larger paintings just needed more layers of paint than I could do in the time constraints.

However, I did finish 8 small paintings, miniatures to me. They are 8 x 8 or 8 x 9 inches. The square ones are 8 x 8 and the ones that aren't square are 8 x 9. Ha! 4 figures and 4 portraits in what I hope is a traditional style. 7 of them are oil on masonite panels, 1 is on stretched canvas. I've mounted them on a slightly larger piece of masonite painted black so that when framed the rabbit won't cover the edge of the painting and give a black reveal around the picture. This isn't an original way.

I went to the trouble of setting the white balance on the camera but should have left it on auto. I just couldn't do it all over. whine!

So I have 20 or so blank formats of all size plus the 3 leftovers to start the year. we'll see how that goes.

So here they are with a progress foto at the end.

Happy New Year.

conroy

coastal figure

figure

Janet

Kimberly

Lydia drinking

Lydia eating

Puff # ?

The end