New stuff!

Steff in her huge blue robe on Christmas Eve morning (our Christmas)

Purple lettuce leaf from dinner with my father last night

The fantastic new easel my father gave me for Christmas!

Pizza for dinner

Pizza with tomatoes, black olives, TVP and cheese: Super tasty.

Pose Maniacs - 90 Second Poses

Grandfather

Not an incredible likeness - but I still kind of enjoy it.

Steff

One of my better renderings of Steff, I think:

Oil painting update

Spent some time at my father's place on Wednesday night. He helped me block this out a lot better. I'm excited to work on it more.

Self Portraits

Feeling slumpish with art the past few days - I'm trying to chalk it up to the low-grade cold I think I had. Now I'm trying to get back into the swing with some quick self portraits.

Fruit

Really rather uninspired fruit renditions today - sorry - I could have added shadows at the very least...

Last night's PoseManiacs session

Each pose is about 60 seconds, though I didn't time it - just tried to capture as quick as I could.

New Oil (work in progress)

Started this painting the other day - it's based on a couple of poses that came from playing with the Scribbler

Pose Maniacs 45/90

I spent a good chunk of time at PoseManiacs.com tonight. I warmed up for about 20 minutes doing 45 second poses. I then moved on to 90 second poses for about 15 minutes. Every time I go to posemaniacs I think about how I should really seek out a life drawing class...

45 second poses:

90 second poses:

Pop

Pop in watercolor in my moleskine - done while out at dinner tonight.

The Scribbler

A while ago Ze Frank created this fun flash app called The Scribbler. At first it seemed like just a fun toy, but I'm now thinking that it can actually be a very useful artist's tool. It can be used to get an idea of where your strengths and weaknesses are in quick sketches. I also think that the sketches it produces could be useful foundations for paintings or other larger works. Here are some quick ones I made using Pose Maniacs images as models.

Here's my very poor attempt at translating a couple of these into watercolor. I think i'll try again this weekend with oils.

Lunchtime

I've taken to doing most of my drawing at lunch lately.

This was an attempt to capture the pear's odd skin.

I finally got around to picking up a pencil sharpener.

First significant snow

The first significant snow of the season in Boston.

Oil update

Incorporating some (slightly) more natural colors - apologies for the abysmal photography job. These are still very much works in progress.

Rusty chain on the beach

An old rusty chain link on the beach on Cape Cod.