Painting for Mary Claire
October 18, 2008 By 1 Comment
Last weekend I delivered a commissioned piece to a client (and now friends) in Carmel/Pebble Beach. This was a difficult piece for many reasons. The painting is of three sisters, two of whom died when they were teenagers. It was commissioned as a gift to Mary Claire, the third sister in the painting. Obviously, I wanted to make sure I honored them all, but at the same time I was experimenting a lot with new techniques and being a lot less literal than I usually am with a painting. The photo I had as reference was very small and cropped differently from how I wanted to compose the painting, so I had to make a lot up.
Her husband Michael had asked me to unveil the painting at her birthday party. I was a little nervous about that (terrified, actually). Fortunately, it went well. She loved the painting.
Michael surprised Mary Claire with a painting for her birthday….
MC, Michael,& me…MC is taking another peak at the painting
Talking technique…
Birthday Party day 2… friends and family gathered at Mary Claire & Michael’s and we hung the painting.
CAST!
April 29, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Last night I went down to the Mint to check out CAST! .The Mint has a great monday night scene– with the added bonus of no cover charge. Loved it; CAST were absolutely fantastic. I’m really glad I went (almost didnt). I talked to Nick (bass) & Karma (drums) a little afterwards, both very cool guys.
I did a few little sketches while I was there and then today did quick paintings off the sketches. A nice little challenge… the paintings are mostly from memory so the likeness isn’t there but I had fun with them (I wanted to play around with acrylic on paper.). The sketches are about 2″ mostly looking to capture the gestures, the paintings are about 20 x 24″,
Nick
Karma
(they had a great set up: I could actually see the drummer!)
Julian
More Musicians
March 2, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Earlier this week, I got to hang out with the band Stampead at their studio while they rehearsed for their next album. Very cool guys and it was really nice of them to be so accommodating; especially considering they were only a few days away from going into recording. Thanks to Jill for setting it up.
A few sketches:
Judd
Sean
Ivan
Sean
Eric
Nude Study
January 15, 2008 By Leave a Comment
I’ve been going through my paintings & found this one. I did it a few months ago (October?) and had forgotten about it. I was working fast that day; I did a few portraits and then decided to do a quick full figure before I had to leave. This was two sittings, so probably about 40 minutes.
Vamos a Carlos Paz
December 26, 2007 By Leave a Comment
This is Paz. She’s 2. Paz has a great sense of humor:
On the way back from La Cumbrecita, a beautiful little German town outside of Carlos Paz (where we stayed for our first week in Argentina), Paz (one of the cutest, sweetest, most adorable, little kids Ive ever had the pleasure of spending hours in the car with) asked someone in the car (I honestly don’t remember who, it seemed such an innocent question at the time) A donde vamos? Someone answered: Carlos Paz. I’m guessing Paz liked that answer because for the next 45 minutes, like a broken record in the back of the car we heard….
-Vamos a Carlos Paz, vamos a Carlos Paz, vamos a Carlos Paz, vamos a Carlos Paz, vamos a Carlos Paz, vamos a Carlos Paz, -(Brian, at least, had his headphones and an ipod.)- vamos a Carlos Paz, vamos a Carlos Paz, vamos a Carlos Paz, vamos a Carlos Paz, vamos a Carlos Paz, vamos a Carlos Paz, -(why why why did I leave mine at the house????)- vamos a Carlos Paz, vamos a Carlos Paz, vamos a Carlos Paz, vamos a Carlos Paz… vamos a Carlos Paz, vamos a Carlos Paz, vamos a Carlos Paz, vamos a Carlos Paz, vamos a Carlos Paz, vamos a Carlos Paz, vamos a Carlos Paz, vamos a Carlos Paz.
I did what any mature adult would do: I laughed at her and occasionally asked A donde vamos? Which Im positively sure did absolutely nothing to encourage her.
Eventually, she fell asleep, woke up briefly and picked right back up again and then finally passed out completely until we got home.
She did the same thing on the way to Cordoba and again on the way back into Bariloche after our boat trip (she is a very smart girl so clearly, she knows to say Vamos a Cordaba and Vamos a Bariloche) but she fell asleep sooner so it didn’t have the same impact.
Natalia swears that she only did this when I was in the car. But as everyone knows– Natalia is a compulsive liar so its not wise to take her word on that.
All the same, just to be safe, its probably not a good idea to put me in the back seat with your 2 year old.
