Mirror Image One 2012

Drawn from mirror and imagination, today.  This is not a "portrait"--more like an impression/instantiation of feelings.

One great thing about self-portraits is that there is no worry about flattery.  Indeed, my self-portraits usually veer in the opposite direction.  This one could be called " Picture of Dorian Gray meets fun-house mirror."

Tombow marker and pan pastel on watercolor paper, 8" x 8".

Sleeping Woman

Drawn from life, in Spring. 

Charcoal on paper, roughly 12" x 12".

NATURE WATCH:

Night fall at Bull Creek.

Blue/Lavender; Gestures 4

Drawn from life, this April.

Blue/Lavender is Tombow marker, ink and pastel on highly absorbent watercolor paper, about 6" x 9".

Gestures 4 is charcoal on shopping bag.

PRIZE :  

I won Petrea's 200th Zen Monday contest (okay, I tied with Pasadena Adjacent).  To participate in more Zen Mondays, which are lots of fun, even without prizes, check out Pasadena Daily Photo.

NATURE WATCH:

Bull Creek, beer and ribs.

Quiet Time (Work in Progress)

Painted Saturday, from imagination and sketches from life.

I've stopped here, for now.  I may make some changes, but I'm going to wait on this one and see what I think in a few weeks.

Oil on canvas, 16" x 16".  Work in progress.

NATURE WATCH:

We play tourist at the Oasis.

Seated Brown; Reclining Grey

Seated Brown is pastel over Tombow marker on 8" x 8" watercolor paper.

Reclining Grey is pastel over Tombow marker on sanded paper, about 9" x 12".

Drawn from life, Tuesday morning.

Austin Summer Blues (Re-photographed Yet Again)

Oil on canvas, 30" x 40".

Still not able to capture the lightest yellows in a photograph.  For example, the sky in my painting is actually predominantly pale yellow.

June 22:

Oh, no!  I just saw this on a different monitor and the colors were wildly off and highly intensified, compared to what I see on my old laptop.

So I have photographed it yet again, outdoors in the afternoon, out of the glare.  I think this is closer to the way the painting looks, at least on my laptop.

For now, no matter what colors you are seeing, I hope you enjoy this painting of summer.

NATURE WATCH:

Austin goes to the dogs.

Austin Summer Blues

Oil on canvas, 30" x 40".

Last summer in Austin, from my memory and imagination.

NATURE WATCH:

Austin goes to the dogs.