some holiday pics

worked for some nice people this year on a few small projects but had to keep them to myself. now christmas is over i think its okay to show them.

invisible sketches for paintings

doing a lot of reading, one book is mastering composition by ian roberts. gave me the idea for a planning experiment for next batch of paintings. in particular, planning invisible skeletons for paintings ahead of time and also planning a sort of general “value map” also ahead of time. not positive thats what roberts was pushing but thats the direction i want to head in for this experiment. hope everybodys doing well!

Sorry about the lack of updates

Hi, I’m preparing a new painting and I need an SD card reader because my pictures of the finished mural are on a card in a camera that died on me. So between trying to get on a healthy track to maintain proper energy levels, and starting the school year off right and prepared, I’m also playing with learning C++. I need lots of hobbies. Painting, Russian and C++. Never a dull moment. Also having lots and lots of fun with Brittney and the kids, because I’ve hardly seen them in the last few weeks. I’ve never been great at programming but I’ve always loved playing with it. I remember my dad made a game on our VIC 20 once and it was saved on a tape deck, which sounded insane when you tried to play it on the radio. I liked making content software-kind of stuff in PERL when I was in web design, so I guess it’s been like thirteen years or something. Anyway, that’s what’s going on. Wow I just reread what I wrote. COUGH-DORK-COUGH

done!

mural completed!

getting there

almost out of yellow

mural

I’m hoping to be done by the end of the week, so until then-no more photos. When it’s all done I’ll take a picture with a nice camera. It won’t look too different, just cleaned up a little. Until then, here’s a little goofy thing: http://youtu.be/J3U8tHWTNXw

night 8

Long night , feel good, there were deer by my car when I went out to go home! Very cool, and the car didnt break down on 481. Shirley had me go out and see the sunset with her but she didnt visit afterwards because her legs hurt too much.

night 7 on mural

heres more of the wallbefore i came home to find awake and/ or sick kids at home waiting for me at 230 am

night 6

now i’m bringing the mural in to focus with details so my usual photos dont really show so for a change i’m throwing a few extras in. hopefully u can tell what parts are blurry and what parts i worked on.

night 5

Another short night, 3 hours, had a late start and my eyes just quit and turn blurry at a certain time of night, but I pecked away for a few hours at least. Moving from big blurries to the beginning of focus. No sign of Shirley. Story of my life.

mural-in-progress for St. Luke's Health Services Cafeteria