Painting, Day I

Now can you guess what it is?



It's just the underpainting so far. I'm test-driving some new water-soluable oil paints that I got for school. I'm kind of a paint snob -- I really love oils and have been suffering through using acrylics more at school because of the fumes. I had seen these oil paints that you can cut with water in catalogues and put off buying them until I had gotten some good reviews from other artists.

They're pretty cool. They're not the same as regular oil paints, but are close enough that I think I am going to like them better than acrylics. We'll see how they do as I build up paint thickness on the canvas.

Painting Everyday

Brooklyn artist Nathan Bond has a blog, and every day posts images of paintings he's working on. His oil still-lifes are like icons of everyday living, although he has some awesome figurative pieces like the example I chose for this blog. The guy is mega-prolific with the paintings, but quantity does not sacrifice quality -- his works are nice! You can purchase them on Ebay, or just enjoy them from your desktop.

Hmmm... I think I'm going to add this to my blogroll.

Iris

Iris
3' X 3', oil on canvas

This is actually an older painting, but it's probably my favorite. At the time I painted this, I was going through a rebirth of sorts. I had gone through some big, difficult, personal setbacks and was starting to come back to life, in a lot of ways.

Of course, that wasn't the message of the painting. The painting just happened. It's funny how sometimes your artwork can be more autobiographical than you intend it to be.