Monthly Studio Update - October, 2003

STUDIO UPDATE: OCTOBER 2003

 

Studio Updates:

Unfortunately, I am not very good a multi-tasking, the work for the Foundation of the Advancement of Art's first conference in New York, Oct. 6th, has been very demanding of my time. So I don't have much coming from my studio but for sanity's sake I have drawn a few things!

 

The recent following 3 pastels are unfinished. As soon as I back from the conference I will immerse myself in pastel drawings. This one is of curtains in my studio. I have always enjoyed the complexity of semi-transparent curtains.

 

 

This is a land/waterscape view from my studio, on the other side of the curtains. There is not much more to do, just need an hour or two of clear sunshine, from 10:45 to 11:15 A.M., and complete a few details.

 

There is still a bit of work to do on this one. Back-lighting is very difficult, the model's body is in shadow. If I draw him with too much detail the shadow will not feel real. Let's see what happens...

 

Yesterday, Sept. 30, I took my digital camera to my Mom's house and took a few images of my earlier work.

 

This is a portrait of my sister, Laura. I did this, I think, when I was 17 years old, a senior in high school. The influence of Rembrandt should be readily clear. But, of course, my skill here is crude and the lighting harsh.

 

This is a portrait of my other sister, Janet. I signed this with my initials, which I used somewhere between 17 and 20 years old, until my favorite teacher, Edgar Ewing, told me I needed a more artistic and less "commercial" signature. I poured through my art history books looking at how artists signed their works and changed mine to what it more or less looks like now.

 

Early self-portrait.

 

This is a life-sized portrait of my mother, done in 1976 when I was 20. In my first three years in college we had on two weeks of life-drawing, drawing from a living model, look at the crudeness of the hand--the teachers were no help. At 20, on my own, I moved to Holland, there I took nothing but life-drawing classes for two years.

 

Not sure of the date. But this was my first year in New York City, '79? A scene from my studio looking at my bedroom in the East Village between 1st and A! It was a dangerous place to live!!!

 

Landscape of La Jolla, my home town. This painting was done in 1984. I had been living in New York, had a big exhibition in '83 in Manhattan, had a little money, took six months, working around the clock, and painted Pursuit. Afterwards I was completely broke and I moved to La Jolla, the time of this painting, and looked for work teaching tennis.

 

 

Non-Studio Updates:

The Foundation's Fall Conference, INNOVATION, SUBSTANCE, VISION: THE FUTURE OF ART, is about sold out!!! I need to double check the confirmations but we are around our maximum audience of 45 people. It is October 6th, 2003 at the Pierre Hotel in New York City.

For the invitation click: INVITE

For the recent Foundation's Press Releases click: PRESS RELEASES

That is all for now, back to the Foundation work but I hope next month I have a TON of drawings to show you!