The Ephemeralia Series is a circus trick, a body mirrored. I took a slightly different approach with this one. I’d been using a grid in my Dysphagia Series but the tape was always applied to the first layer of the painting. I used some black gessoe to make a checkerboard, re-gessoed with white a used that as the base for Ephemeralia No.7. My […]
"My work explores the connection between the artist and the model, the energy exchanged between the two. It's about emotional response, tactile, visceral, abstract, created with a limited color palette, leaving the brush strokes and drips raw and unrefined. It's as much a conversation as a picture, a snapshot of emotion, a thread running between the observer and the observed. Connective Tissue."
Visceralia No.14
I worked with Sie ist Idaho ( a wonderful artist and model) on this piece, part of the Visceralia Series. If you’re a Howard Cruse fan, it might remind you of a poster that was on Barefootz’ wall. I like the power in this one.
Donated to The Southeast Community Services Silent Auction.
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Ambiguation No.24
Part of the Connective Tissue Series, and later Ambiguation, this painting was a breakthrough for me. I’ve always enjoyed figure drawing, I taught myself to draw by copying comics and picked up pastels from there. My earlier work is very pretty but lacks emotion. When I picked up oils in 2006, I struggled to get the same look that […]
Hair Studies
An odd little painting started at the end of the long term at Todd Leninger’s. I’d finished my first painting and changed my view for a profile of Sarina. I’ve always loved the flow of walnut oil so I went kind of nuts with the hair on this one. The second layer is Samara, who had long […]
Fascia No.2
Fascia No.2 Oil on Canvas 12″ x 24″
Dysphagia No.13
A standard figure drawing pose is the basis for the piece from the Dysphagia Series. it was a cold day in December, around Christmas time when I decided to paint the second layer. Models were nowhere to be found, but then there was Craigslist.
A young lady named Malin posed for the second layer. Some nice spacial things happen […]
Dysphagia No.24
From the Dysphagia Series. Portraits have always been tough for me, it’s taken me some strain to distance myself form having to capture a likeness. Two of my favorite people sat for this one. Samara, who has a very quiet depth to her and Mila, whom I swear is a demon trapped in a woman’s body. I keep it on […]
Fascia No.8
The Fascia Series started with this canvas. I found it at Muse Art+Design. it’s 12″ x 24″. I taped it into thirds, painting the hips from two different models at each end. The middle section is badger for a long term at Todd Leninger’s. It sat around the studio until I met Dr. Zingsheim and had her sit for me.
I planned […]
Portrait of Nicole
I met Nicole when she started modeling, she’s a talker and wildly entertaining. I caught her in one of her quiet moments at Hipbone Studio. This one of my favorite portraits. I used three colors, burt umber, alizarin crimson and ultramarine. It’s so simple and so strong.
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Dysphagia No.6 — The Process
A painting created at Todd Leninger’s studio over a six week period. Lauren modeled for this one in Todd’s exquisite white wing backed chair. The studio is set up in a half moon with the model against the wall. There eight or so stations to pick from, I chose the six o’clock position (six weeks, six 0’oclock, six […]
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