A still life I painted for my class at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The class was a brief introduction to traditional painting techniques (glazing, scumbling, egg tempera, etc). Excuse the photograph, the painting is already behind glass:
Oil on masonite.
The masonite panel is primed with Gamblin’s traditional gesso. Other [...]
I consider this piece, and hopefully more to come, as an extension of the photohagiography series. Basically, I’m trying to concretize certain aspects of “photographic vision” into material media, in this case painting. I’m pretty happy with this piece. The metal support is aluminum, which I bought from a small metal shop in the Irving [...]
These works are based on a photograph of a friend I took a few years ago. I used a medium format Mamiya press camera. It gives an extra-long picture compared to most medium format cameras. I suppose I was trying to create a Kafkaesque space, where things are surprisingly present or absent. [...]
At least there are eight of them, now.
Madonna 2.
Madonna 3.
Oil paint on gold mat board.
Here are six of a series of eight Madonnas. They’re numbered left to right, 1-4 on top and 5-8 on the bottom, for convenience’s sake, and a final order is not yet determined. Of the first four, only one has emerged relatively unchanged, that is Madonna 6:
This is [...]
Oil on gold mat board.
Here are the first four paintings. Click on the image to see them all. I’m still struggling with certain aspects of the piece.
Oil on gold mat board.
This is the first real study for the pieces I want to do, a full dress rehearsal, you might say. I normally would just dive in, but I have only so much scrap gold mat board from the shop. This piece was irregularly sized, so it’s my practice board. [...]
