day 2

I saw "Imogen Heap" and "Zoe Keating" sunday night at La Tulipe. Amazing show, those two are incredible.

And here is the detail. It`s a shame I lose this when painting over it. I`ve always loved the look of "unfinished" drawings. The only reason I don`t keep it like this is because everybody always says..Wow it`ll be great when it`s finished, ah... how sad.

day 1

Started another painting, this one is a little bigger, 42" x 62". Here you see the under drawing, and above is the detail. Stay posted and watch it grow.

Started a new drawing, you can`t tell but there is about 8 hrs of work here. The slow build continues! Can you tell what it is?

Had a crazy running weekend despite the rain. Sat- half marathon 21km, sun 10km( lazy boy), mon-another half marathon!

Looks like rain all weekend! Hopefully I`l be able to show something new on tuesday. I find that I get more work done when it`s sunny outside..funny.

"O.K..... 2 paintings in 20 days instead of three, still they turned out great. I hope you like them. Stay posted for the next one.

"Almost finished!" These two have almost run their course, a little more work and they will be complete. I`m looking forward to the next one.

Sure realist painting is always in and out of fashion, it makes we wonder, is it the fashion that defines a "times" art or is has simplicity become learned. What I mean by this is that the imagery of today has become increasingly simplified. The youth of my parents was full of crafted labouriously created works of realist representation. Today a lot of visual art seems to be..for lack of a better description, ipod art. Simplification seems to be enough for us to understand, ie a shape of a body seems as good as painting of a bodies every nook and cranny. So is it because we have become more intelligent, or less visual? either way our visual cues have changed.

"Day 3"

Grow me green, then burn me brown.

Day 2
Here is the start of another painting, this one is 35" x 35". again, oil on canvas