3.24.09 - 205/365

groovin' on the wide angle a bit

not sure why i did this
to this
but that's the way it went tonight
maybe a reflection of the contrived nature of my work flow right now
have to figure out how to make that a bit more fluid

3.9.09 - 190/365

i am beginning to feel as if i am up against that proverbial brick wall



not sure what prompted this, but i thought i'd include it

2.18.09 - 171/365

a man paints with his brains and not with his hands. - michelangelo

prep

&
the making of

12.23.08 - 114/365

i don't wear tutlenecks that often

even though i cut way back on the xmas shopping this year
i still bought myself a little present
:)

truth be told
i like the triptych of today's images the best

11.14.08 - 75/365

that moment just before

feels a bit like

10.31.08 - 61/365

so this is a first and a last

the first time i have ever done my watercolors in a car
(i almost always do them when i fly)

and the last of my october postings of drawn self portraits
i feel i have learned a lot from doing them
and i think i should continue
but i also think i need a bit of a change right now
so i am going to change it up for november

a bit of the road

10.6.08 - 36/365

it's going to be a long month...
but i am learning,

i made this composite to see where i am going wrong
part of the problem is my use of watercolor,
being self taught,
as an abstract painter,
it's not such a big issue
but with figurative work
it really come into play
just one tiny flick of the brush
and i lose any semblance of a representation

and then there is the fact
that i have always used watercolor like oil
put it on
take it off
but paper is really too fragile for this
and with a portrait
i think that you rely more on transparency
and this (anti-)technique
just doesn't work

and then there is the issue of getting hung up on reality
which i am not very good with to begin with
for me this means getting stuck in representational minutiae
and the feel goes right out the window...

as i said
this is going to be a long month

(but the pears...
they are an abstraction to me
they do not require line
they do not require fidelity to the form
and
they smell sweet when they rot
long live the pear)

9.21.08 - 21/365

throwing out,
involves going through
and in doing so
i came across some loose self portraits
from the first time around with all this

that image in the center
in many ways
defined my life senior year
it appeared in different collages
usually hand colored

the image on the right was very typical of how i shot then
usually not looking through the view finder
often low light
rarely with a tripod

the aesthetic around town was hard core street photography
friedlander, winogrand, papageorge, etc.
emotive, experiential work was not quite accepted
it was a tough year.