New Stuff...

Trying to work on some different pieces simultaneously. Hopefully it will keep things interesting while I'm snowed in my house;)

Secretary of the Arts Petition

Quincy Jones has started a petition to ask President-Elect Obama to appoint a Secretary of the Arts. While many other countries have had Ministers of Art or Culture for centuries, the United States has never created such a position. The country, and the artists, need this now more than ever. Please take a moment to sign this important petition and to pass it on to your friends and colleagues. http://www.petitiononline.com/esnyc/petition.html

Current Work...

This is what's on desk now.......still! I'm spending way too much time on this piece. But I think I'll be wrapping it up soon. I have so many more to do! O_0 I'm sure by the time I have a chance to get out of the house I'll look not unlike Golem. But with smaller feet.....damn you Golem!!!

Juxtapoz

I got a little feature from the fine people at Juxtapoz. Thanks!
http://www.juxtapoz.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5192&Itemid=1

Movers & Shakers Show

http://povevolving.com/
Opening reception Sat Feb 14th...with Love;)

Photo Ref...plus one

Photo Ref

Irene( http://igallo.blogspot.com/ ) mentions reference. So I thought I would post up some of my own. Some old some recent. Sometimes I visit my Alma Mater to speak to students on illustration. I always stress the importance of proper reference and research. Personally, my work made a huge jump upon introducing photo reference. As I've mentioned before. The struggle comes when adapting the ref with the initial freshness of the sketch. I often have to frankenstein my ref using a piece of a hand here part of a body there. You may not want to become a slave to your ref. However, if you need the information it provides you it's there. Perhaps you can guess which ref was used for which final:)

Video Round 2

Trying a different angle and in real time. I tend to turn and spin my painting as I'm working on diff parts so we'll see that will work out on the full video. Plus I often hoover over the work. hmmm....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QAlo5YpLvM&feature=channel_page