
I really blew through this one fast, probably because I'd volunteered to supervise the Open Drawing program at Mass Art, a 2-hour block on Wednesdays of free life drawing sessions open to all students and faculty. It made me realize how rusty my observational drawing skills have become:


























if the models are running late (or don't show up at all), we all take turns doing 5-minute poses with props from the closet:














3 in-class demos I painted in my Media Techniques class for doing fast acrylic brushstrokes over your pencil lines with a single color, then washing the same, thinned out color over the whole picture, then adding a few more related colors over the underpainting. Each one took between 15-20 minutes:

Frankensteiny:

more doodles of my dogs:



sketches for the Ereshkigal and Pazuzu Painting I whipped up for Space 242's Halloween group show, inspired by an act that we perform as Black Cat Burlesque.


Photos and final painting are here
traditional/ digital sketches and color study for the Burning Embers book cover I was hired to do by author Charlie Close:





sketches for a surprise anniversary painting commissioned by horror fan Dennis Fesenmyer:


sketches for a commissioned portrait of Rocco the French Bulldog:



poster sketches for the MassArt Black & White Illustration book call for submissions:


sketches and color study for my 2008 Holiday Yeti postcard I hate myself for not finishing in time:



character in a project I'm working on:

random:









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