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Back in Gray

Sunday, May 13, 2012

For any artist, I think, regularity of work is essential.  For an artist like me who does other work to make a living, it can be very difficult to keep the creative practice vital and central.  I hold my life drawing practice as a constant.  Sometimes in my life I’m working on special creative projects, [...]

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Collector of Souls: Alice Neel

Friday, March 30, 2012

  Alice Neel (1900-1984) is always described as an artist that was slow to find recognition.  It’s true, but I think it’s also true that her brilliance was of a kind that is only achieved through maturity and persistence.  Our culture likes to think that a genius is a genius, that they must be incandescent in [...]

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Givens and Options

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

In an open life drawing session, the givens are simple:  There is a live nude model, who will take a pose and hold still for a designated period of time.  Using the materials of visual art, we must draw what we can from the model during the interval allowed.  Over a series of sessions, we can [...]

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The Body Contemplated

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

a person is a bit of this and a bit of that fuzzy tendencies overlapping, interacting forged and scourged in the kiln of embodied life   eyes ions, black magnetic pools   zone in on tones undertone, overtone, midtone let the parts fall where they may   body takes a beating just doing the day [...]

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Wax and Water

Sunday, January 8, 2012

A few months ago, I made a change in my regular life drawing practice.  My primary drawing medium for over fifteen years had been Caran d’Ache Neocolor II aquarelle crayons.  Aquarelle means watercolor, and the pigments laid down by these crayons can be thinned or blended with water, but I always used them as a [...]

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