Making Up

The past few weekends have been very exciting, indeed!  Earlier in the quarter I made three pilgrimages with various friends to Atlanta to see live music (always an artistically inspiring event), and in the past few weeks I have been included in two shows, one at The Butcher entitled Horror Show, and the other in the quarterly Painting Open Studio at Alexander Hall.  It's been a great way to start off my senior year, and I look forward to updating you on the rest of my adventures.

I've been faithful with updating my blog in the last few months (by my standards), but unfortunately I haven't been faithful with updating my work!  I've posted hardly any work at all from my painting classes the past three quarters, including but not limited to Portrait Painting, Large-Format Painting, and Alternative Media Exploration.  I'd like to make up for this, and what better time to start than finals week?  I have decided to post only tidbits of work from these classes at a time so as not to feel overwhelmed with a blue whale of an update.  This is the debut!

These two pieces were part of an assignment in Portrait Painting with Greg Eltringham, where we were assigned fifty, one-hour session portraits to complete over the span of a quarter (ten weeks).  These self-portrait studies were created using Gamblin's Torrit Grey and Titanium White, on 9 x 12 inches canvas panel (canvas panel was my bosom friend for this assignment, for all of its portability and compactness).

Until next time!