Sunday, October 25, 2009

Day 69, Oct. 25







I am not, not, not going to give up on this. Even if no one reads it because my posts are so sporadic, it is good discipline for me to put up work when I can. I just don't know what is wrong with me...it this just normal
aging? Now one of knees, the better one actually, has developed bursitis, and I've been limping around on a cane, sleeping in a recliner, and generally nursing myself back to whatever I was before this episode.

I have been making it to most of my figure classes (I've posted a few studies donein class), and also, I happened to receive two little commissions, so I am working on those as much as I can.

OH! There is some important news: the rabbi who helped me plan my trip to Israel for the project has asked me to be on his local TV interview show about the paintings. So I finally got up the courage and set a date for late in January to record the show, and I DO WANT TO HAVE ONE MORE large painting to bring with me then.

Today I completed the first commission: an exact copy of a charcoal drawing that a woman had done in the 60's of herself and her sister. She wants her sister to have one as well, and since there was only one drawing...she hired me to make a duplicate!
I think I did OK. It was a weird assignment, but actually I think I learned some stuff about doing the head in charcoal. The artist who did the original was pretty damn good, I think. He must have done hundreds. They got it at a big flower show in Phila. Anyway, I am posting the original and my copy so you can see. Of course the original is the one with the glare of the glass of the frame.

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Day 54


Gad zooks! Time has been flying by, without any news from me, until now! I am happy now, because I FINALLY painted a little landscape painting that I feel good about.

Other news: I've been busy taking Advanced Figure Drawing, twice a week at WesConn, and I feel that I am getting a lot out of that class, which will pay off in the long run, when including figures in the landscape. Also, I'm reading lots of my art books, mostly focusing on books about: A La Prima painting, color and impressionism.

Anyway, I am posting the painting today that has me excited. I hope this may be a breakthrough in my landscape work. It's a little park in Newtown, CT. The painting is done in oils and is 8X13" in size.