The Decline And Fall Of Snowmeng
Portland’s snowy hellscape has gone the way of warmer temperatures and more typical rain, and the snowy Menger sponge I built along with it, but I took some pictures while it was still up and while it...
View ArticleSo I built an easel
When I started painting last summer I bought a cheap wooden tripod easel online, not knowing what I’d need or whether I really wanted to invest too much in what was a brand new, possibly short-lived...
View ArticleSelf-portrait grisaille, from a Huntsville selfie
Painted this last night, based on a selfie I took on my phone in the summer of 2015 when my wife and I were in Huntsville, Alabama for a NASA internship she’d gotten. This is my third go at...
View ArticleColoring my face
This is a first color pass on top of the brown grisaille self-portrait I started in on last Friday; I gave the entire painting a go with semi-transparent color glazes to try and build color...
View ArticleAn Averaged Menger Sponge
I’ve been doing a lot more painting than posting-about-painting recently, and got it in my head to line up a lot of Menger objects I’ve made since last summer in one image file and use transparency to...
View ArticleFour Buildings
Four Buildings, in forward ordering. I’ve spent the last week working on Four Buildings, a series of large (for me, at least) oil paintings of buildings at different times of day. You can see them...
View ArticleScrewing Up A Painting Correctly
Detail from Six Menger Sponges In Transit So, this isn’t the painting I thought I was making when I decided to make it. At conception, Six Menger Sponges In Transit was going to be a sort of sequel to...
View ArticleFive Concentric Wireframe Cubes, step-by-step
I spent the last couple days, in particular too many hours yesterday, working on a new painting, Five Concentric Wireframe Cubes. I also took a lot of pictures along the way, as I drafted out...
View ArticleLooking back at a year of oil painting
Untitled work in progress, 36″ x 24″, June 20 2017 A year ago today, I went to a neighborhood art store and bought three tubes of oil paint on a whim, and started making oil paintings for the first...
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