TV guys

don't really think i'm done with this one... but for now, sure. I was still working on it when my friend showed up to bake. Walt from Breaking Bad. Which is a fantastic show.

acrylic, bout an hour maybe
Charlie Day. I don't think I quite got him. Close, but no cigar. Gee, I'll just have to stare at his adorable face some more and try again!
acrylic, hour.

Finally found a bit of time yesterday morning to sit on my porch in the beautiful fall weather and just paint for a bit. Gonna get designing a tattoo today, and then back to work Monday.

Thanks for poppin' by!

Raja and Jordan

Still figuring out gouach!!! This is the beautiful Raja Aossey. I haven't seen her in a very long time (too long!), but she is one of those people who never fails to inspire me.
Aaand this character is Jordan Valdiviez, another person I haven't seen in awhile. He's completely awesome and always fun to hang out with.

I'll keep working with gouache. I think I'm beginning to get the hang of it, ever so slightly!!!

Week Two.

hi 'gain. First portrait is of Denis Menochet, a beautiful french actor ( you can see him in Inglorious Basterds).

Second piece was done in class for sketchbook today... The prompt was "summer camp".

Well... Years ago I went to an aviation camp. My roommate was a girl named Ashley. We became very close friends and remained pen pals for years. (ah the days before facebook/myspace). Then, on my 12th (i believe) birthday, September 14th, I get an email from her telling how her mother, Wendy Faulkner, a vice president of AON life insurance, was killed in 9/11. She gave up her spot on one of the last elevators during the evacuation of the second tower to a pregnant woman and was in the stairwell (72nd floor) when the second plane hit. She was killed instantly.

This stuck with me for years, and I think of it every year not only with 911 but with my birthday as well. So this silly watercolour/pen/ink piece is Ashley and I playing with toy airplans, with two trees and smokey clouds... OH SYMBOLISM.

We lost touch eventually but years later I saw her again....

Yes, that's her. She was in a lot of reelection ads for W. Small world.

ANYWAYS.

others are more portraits and some figure drawing.