Thanksgiving Weekend

I will be subletting in the Torpedo Factory next weekend. My work will be in Studio 9 from the 24th to the 26th, and I'll be there Friday and Sunday. Hope to see you there! :-)

Torpedo Factory Art Center
105 N Union Street
Alexandria VA 22314

Untitled

No title yet, but done nonetheless:


Finished it last Saturday.

Doodles

Doodles from Geology last night:



And doodles of a group presentation in Sociology this morning:

Red and Green...

Started this one last week. I'm about 3/4 the way done on it... Just need to finish the hand and jewelry and then do some touchups. The paper's getting really warped, so it's a pretty distorted photo, but once the painting's done I'll post a better pic.

You Can Tell It's Monday...

... because my car broke down. It's deader than a doorknob. Oh, and one of the door handles just broke, too.
Better to be stranded at home than by the road, though.

Anyway, because I was stranded at home with nothing to do, I broke out my oil paints and did this:


I've been meaning to do an oil painting, but every time I thought of doing it, I didn't have the time. Today, though, I had so much time on my hands I hardly knew what to do with it.

Katie in Shades

Katie in Shades, 26" x 15.5"


Katie in Shades (detail)

Shades (In Progress)

About 3/4 the way done... I just need to finish the hair and the shirt.

Portrait of Katie (Finished)

Shades (In Progress)

Shades

Started this one today -


26.25 x 15.5

Also finished the Portrait of Katie, but I don't have a photo of it yet. I'll post a picture of it soon.

Mini Update

Updated with a better photograph of Katelynn.

Another Sketch

Here's a sketch I did a couple nights ago in Geology... Just a bunch of doodles of the professor's hands. He gestures a lot while he talks, so it's really fun to try to draw his hands as he makes a point.

Portrait of Katie (In Progress)

17" x 16"

Portrait of Conner

17" x 15"

Finished it Sunday.

Update

Updated with a better photo of Carson. There's also a final photo of the Portrait of Carson. I just finished another commission, so I'll be posting a picture of that in the next few days.

Katelynn

26"x15.5"

Just finished it this afternoon! I'm VERY happy with it. I think it might just be my new favorite.

Surprise!

More sketches.

My sociology teacher was late (again), so that gave me lots of time to draw...


This was before the teacher arrived...




And these bottom two are from during the lecture. I was stuck on hands in the last one... I count at least 10 sets of hands and arms in there, not counting the random disembodied hands floating around.



I also finally had time to paint today, so I got a lot of work done on Katelynn. I'll post pictures sometime in the next few days.

Yet More Sketches

So I said I wouldn't have any sketches from Color Theory - I lied. These are actually from before class. For some reason, everybody's always in the room at least 30 minutes ahead of time. All the more reason for me to get there super early. Means I get plenty of people to draw while I wait for class to start.

The Second First Day

Sketches from the second First Day of school...
Sociology today. The teacher was thirty minutes late, so I had a fun time sketching while the class waited...

Sketches...!

I should have been doing this last year. But, better late than never. Classroom sketches... These ones are from Geology tonight.


(The teacher, the guy that sits right in front of me, and... somebody's ear.)


(Hands of the woman sitting in front of me, holding her textbook.)

These'll probably get boring after a while, though. (Same people over and over again...) I don't really have a great view of the classroom from my seat. (I probably should've sat in the back... Oh well. I still have a good view of this guy's ear...) Geology will be more boring just because the seats are arranged in traditional rows. In my Foreign Policy class last spring, the desks were arranged in a U shape, so from where I sat, I could see every single occupant of the room.

I almost definitely won't have any sketches from Color Theory, since that'll be a lot more work (compared to note-taking). But I still have Sociology and Film, so maybe there will be plenty of doodle time in those classes.

Needless to say, progress on my current painting has stalled. But I'll probably have a new photo of it to post come Sunday.