Thursday, January 22, 2009

Day Five


This is a creepy styrofoam head wearing my big ass air traffic controller-esque headphones. It was fun to paint. It was also challenging to try to find colors in the white objects (both the styrofoam head and the headphones are white) and paint them.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Day Four


This is, as I hope you can tell, a painting of a beer bottle and a beer can. In other words, pure class. I also imbibed some "pure class" immediately before starting this painting.

Anyway...the bottle is Ale Asylum Ambergeddon and the can is Pabst Blue Ribbon. Both Wisconsin beers. And even though the PBR has that big honkin' blue ribbon award touting it's great taste and all-around beer-ness, I have to say that the Ambergeddon comes out on top. Waaay on top. And yes I *know* that PBR is the cool cheap beer that automatically endows the drinker with hipster cred, but I stand by my judgement.

Regarding the painting...I think I got too hung up on the color changes and reflections in the bottle and can, especially in the can. Damn you, PBR!

Cheers!

Day Three


Ok. So I realize this post is a day late. I also realize the image above is not a painting. But it's what I spent all last night doing. So I'm counting it as my painting for the day ("the day" being yesterday).

It is a poster/announcement for my brother's senior recital on 1/29 in NY at the Juilliard School. I'm going!! And I'm very very excited about going! I had fun designing/experimenting/making this poster. I feel semi-okay about the way it turned out. Why did I choose a skull for the centerpiece? If you have to ask "why a skull" you will never understand. Skulls are just cool. Period.

I took my drawing to FedEx/Kinko's this evening to make copies and ship them off to my brother. At the very last minute, just before I was going to seal the envelope, I spotted a typo. Grrrrrr!!!!!!! I had to redo it and re-envelope it before the FedEx guy made the last pickup for the day. Very frustrating.

Monday, January 19, 2009

Day Two


My thoughts on this painting: Gaaaaahhh!

Okay, so I got a wee bit frustrated. I found a yellow rubber glove and thought it would be fun to paint. Fun, ha! I spent about an hour on it.

I think I need to focus on finding more definite boudaries between light and shadow. I am also trying to paint with a lot of color. The painting itself is more colorful than the photo displayed here. My crappy camera is a convenient scapegoat.

I think tomorrow I might do a black and white painting. It is a good exercise because it forces the painter (in this case, me!) to distinguish between color and value, which is actually a fairly tricky thing to do.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Day One


I'm starting this blog to make myself paint.

I graduated from art school a few years ago. Since then I have gradually painted less and less. And now I barely paint at all. I let everything else in my life come first. Sad. But no more!

I will paint every single day (if at all possible) for at least an hour. I will document the products of my labors with my dying camera and post the images, with my commentary, on this blog. With luck, the paintings will get better as time progresses.

I don't know if anyone besides myself will follow this blog, but I'll pretend people are following it. For motivation's sake.

Today I painted my face for about an hour. Kind of a masochistic thing to do after not having painted for a while.