The Student

Many thanks to my friend (and published poet!) Susan Sonde for inviting me to sit in on her art lesson with resident artist David Zuccarini at the Howard County Center For The Arts (Elicott City) last night and for his permission to occupy an empty space and take a shot at a quick study from life of Susan at work. 

Susan has a distinctive style of painting #portraits using shades of blue and grey with beige and occasionally shades of brown or purple, and so I tried to imitate her style a little here. My blues are a little too bright and the faces are incomplete, but I’m happy with it for a 2h #speedpainting (although  she disputes the size of her nose lol). What a great space and teaching opportunity for Howard County. They also have 2 exhibitions going on in the space right now. 

Speaking of exhibitions, I have a piece in Maryland Federation of Art’s  Spring Member Show right now at Circle Gallery in Annapolis. See Https://mdfedart.org for reception times and virtual gallery

5/8/2021 Freckles

 

5/7/2021 Artemis

 

5/6/2021 Pause

 

Goddamn Cheetah

 

Goddamn Cheetah—in progress

No apple yet, but this is what I came up with for a recent art therapy assignment. I was to try to think of something/one that is doing what it's supposed to be doing (is making a valid choice, is not making a mistake) by not being urgent, by resting. Well, big cats spend most of their time resting. They expend energy in bursts to take down prey, but other than that, they sack-out most of the time. And that's what they're supposed to do. Thats them being what they are. Being that way is valid. So I was to do an image about that. But did I make the image of a figure at rest? OF COURSE NOT! SMH.

So now my assignment is to show her at rest. What does it take for her to be at rest? Well, I can tell you right now she'll be up a tree. 

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4/15/2021 Summer’s End

 

3/26/21 Emergent

 

03/24/2021 Self-portrait

 

03/15/21 Iconaccidental Study 2—Final

 I was not satisfied with this as it was. She looked like a zombie to me. I added shading/contouring/highlighting/color and tweaked the saturation and am much more satisfied with this version. Still not really realistic, but I guess that’s what cameras are for.

02/23/21 Icon Accidental study continues

Not a lot of progress today, but some. Much more work than progress, really. But hair is fun.