Sunday, February 23, 2014

Seeking change

SO, busy week, again.  But i'll do an update first;  I will have some paintings being presented for TRAC2014.  It'll be awesome.  If you haven't heard of who they are or what they're about check it out.  It's very relevant to contemporary art.

http://www.trac2014.org/
Philosophoper Roger Scruton, artist Juliette Aristides and painter
Odd Nerdrum will be be participating in this event along with many others.  Should be exciting!
If you haven't seen R.Scrutons documentary 'Why Beauty Matters', it would be good to watch.
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/why-beauty-matters/



Went to the Autry to check out the Masters of the American West show with a group of comrades.  I'm spending part of monday writing an essay on it for fun.   Perhaps i'll do a small replica of one of my top three paintings three.   Go check it out.
http://theautry.org/
Below, Logan Maxwell Hagege; Mesa Drifters painting. (detail)

With that said i did have some time to do some artwork this week.  Studies for the most part so this week will be crazy with me trying to catch up with my own deadlines for final pieces.   Can't believe it's the end of February.  Trying to turn the tables on this year and enjoy life as i run through it.  Smile. 

So here is a paint sketch i did of the model Jonathan this week.  I'm getting accustomed to a new approach in painting which is, well, based alot on thinking, patience and organization.   You can only change so much at one time when doing things the way i do them... which is evidently the hard way.  there is hope yet, at least for some things.


and still playing with charcoal.


and, another study using the new method, studying light, structure, etc.