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Self portrait in pencil
Sketch based on my passport photo. Originally I’d just meant to get basic shapes in to try inking over, since that’s something I need a lot more practice with, but I ended up digging in a little bit...
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Pipe Minimal
I’m calling the typeface Pipe Minimal, at least for now; easier than calling it “the typeface”. It’s aggressively minimalistic in terms of the core design elements, and those elements could be...
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The Abominable Snowmeng, and other winter fractals
It snowed quite a lot in Portland, yesterday and overnight. About a foot altogether, which for this town is if not historic at least very rare; a typical Portland winter sees no snow at all, or some...
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Inverting a Menger Sponge
So here’s the question: if a Menger sponge is what you get when you keep removing successive chunks of innards from a cube, what do you get when you keep the innards and throw away the sponge? You get...
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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...
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So 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...
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Self-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...
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Coloring 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...
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An 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...
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Pipe Minimal
I’m calling the typeface Pipe Minimal, at least for now; easier than calling it “the typeface”. It’s aggressively minimalistic in terms of the core design elements, and those elements could be...
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Four 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...
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Screwing 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...
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Five 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...
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Looking 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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