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Norman Rockwell’s Technique – Peak Whites
It seems like over the past ten years or so Norman Rockwell’s reputation in the art world has been rehabbed. Instead of being tossed aside as a sappy illustrator popular among People Who Don’t Know Anything About Art, the art world has slowly embraced America’s favorite son. I’ve seen his work reappear in plenty of…
Presidential Losers Book Release!
THE PRESIDENTIAL LOSERS BOOK! Just prior to the last Presidential Election, I was invited to partake in a great idea for a group art show – a show devoted to all the men and women who ran, and lost, a Presidential Election. The show, the brainchild of the crazed Austin energies of Shannon McCormick and…
Last Supper – Thirteen Days In…
Nov 2013 – The work on the Last Supper continues along as the painting moves past the underpainting and into what I always consider the real work – finagling with the drawing, checking composition, adjusting values, and building up colors and layers of paint. Despite promises to the contrary made to a lot of colleagues…
Last Supper: Three Days In…
The early days of work on the Last Supper Commission continue… All the work continues on the underpainting and cleaning up the rough edges of the transferred drawing. I rescaled some of the figures (mainly the three men on the far left), slid Jesus over a little, and planned to re-position the column before Jesus…
The process of a commission – the stretcher
A Large Painting Stretcher. Always a project to build. So I’m working on a commission of the Last Supper. The first words out of my client’s mouth were: “I don’t want a copy of the famous one, I want it in your style.” Feeling relieved, I checked out the space in her house it will…
Austin’s Art Meltdown – Charlie Sheen Edition
Lately, there have been two sorts of meltdowns making the news on a daily basis. The tsunami stricken Fukushima nuclear plant provided a sad, gripping serial for the rest of the world to helplessly witness. On American shores, the citizenry got wrapped up in an altogether different meltdown: Charlie Sheen’s dip into a facade of…
Things They Don’t Teach in Art School Anymore
It’s been fourteen years since I graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute with my pants at my ankles and a diploma in hand. I felt the best comment I could make on spending a then outrageous $80,000 on my art degree was to shake the President’s hand while wearing orange dyed tighty whiteys. I…