Tasha-Sexy painting

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Finished the first painting of a series of 30 large paintings. I had a blast listening to the new roots album undun while I was designing the background. The Nupastel drawing was sealed with the magic medium (polyurethane) and all the yellows in the painting disappeared so I had to come up with a solution for it. The polyurethane created an opportunity to a creative solution. So I carved out the figure with oil paints to make sure that the figures silhouette read well. Although now the figure looked like a cut out. So I had to get the background to interact with the figure some how. This is when the fun really happened. About five hours later it was done. Today was amazing and tomorrow I begin the first bike portrait of 30. Amazing times.

DRAWING # 100

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drawing 77

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drawing 85

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drawing 95

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Finished this drawing yesterday and had to recount what drawing I was on. Bamm! 100, already. Woah! one month and a couple days later. I draw one before I go to sleep and one when I wake up. This project is giving a great deal of inspiration and a good beginning to the way I'd like to continue creating, learning, and experimenting. I would highly recommend studying one particular thing that you would love to learn about and capture with out taking too much time out of your other obligations through out the day. I mostly have fun with these drawings and continue to learn about capturing a persons personality and beauty in a drawing.

Phidias Reception Show Dec 2nd

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Drawing #69 

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This Friday Show opening for The Distillation Show. I had the pleasure of painting one of the bottles that will  in the show. The bottle is a portrait of a muse, Roben, who has inspired me to create a book. This book explores black and white drawing ,design, and capturing the essence of a person. Over 140 drawings in two separate sketch books. Currently the book is at 90 drawings now and still cranking. It should be released online around New Year's. But the Distillation show has my "Muse" bottle with 3 drawings and a mysterious portrait that can be purchased there:) We all need someone to inspire us to create. 

Also Francis created an Amazing t-shirt for the show and an awesome bottle of his muse. Here is a preview of the shirt design.

I want to thank Wesley Eggebrecht  for letting me be apart of the show. I like his Phidias Gold apparel idea of the 10th muse.  Check it and have an awesome night!

Everyone should be some type of artist

The next best drawing I have done of a figure....ever. I will keep pushing the background to have more interaction with the figure. This is the first of thirty pieces I intend to create and make a second book along with the 30 portraits which are all a study of beauty. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder so I will show the beauty that I discover for myself in the images and writing that I create. I just finished watching http://www.presspauseplay.com/ and in the film they discuss that more and more people are becoming some type of artist because it is easier and cheaper thanks to the digital world and some think of it as a problem. The first reaction I had was how wonderful it would be if everyone had some creative outlet that they could share with the world because even if everyone was an artist the more important thing to think about is the persons perspective and how they view and create things. I have personally discovered that just beginning the search for beauty has led me to have a more intense experience of life and to appreciate things more. It sounds cheesy I know. But if your an artist you know that you view the world differently and more intense then if you had no creative outlet. That's my rant for tonight now to finish this piece. Thank you for listening and if you have time watch the film it will make you think;)

Andrea long 9 hour pose

This is a 9 hour figure drawing in Nupastels the size is 26"by30" I consider it one of the best drawings I have created in Austin. A Long live figure drawing definitely pushes your limit on how much you can draw from the figure. I reached a point at 6 hours where I didn't know what else to do and learned very quickly that there are subtle color shifts of warm and cool that I played with during the last 3 hours. Enjoy and thank you for stopping by.