Clinton

Very exciting news. Former President Bill Clinton is coming to Sarasota on 9/30 to give a lecture. My college sent out a call for entries for students interested in painting a portrait for Mr. Clinton. I was informed on 9/22 that I was the chosen one! Tomorrow is the big night so I've got to clean my self up. I had invested about 3 days into the portrait before I realized that everything was wrong with it so I scrapped it and started anew. Here is the finished second version.

30 portraits in 30 days: 6

here's tonight's portrait: General Lee's Lament (acrylic, ink)

30 portraits in 30 days: 1-5

I'd say it's about time for an update. Things have been really busy at school, much more so than I had expected, but that's a good thing. I'm currently working a rather epic project, 30 portraits in 30 days with a different medium for each one. They are, in order: Henry VII (red conte, vine charcoal), Louis CK (graphite, gouache), Lil' Wayne (coffee), Achilles (charcoal, halloween blood), and Frank Frazetta (watercolor, b/w ink)

Engagement Party Caricatures

Here are the caricatures I did today at my second gig doing this stuff.  I'm starting to feel like a whore for having to tone down the level of exaggeration that I want to do with some of these.  This one woman made me do hers 3 times (see if you can spot all of them).  And the old people complained if they looked a little old.  I'm an artist, not a friggin' miracle worker.  I personally think that wrinkles (well most of them) add character.  A lot of people could use a thicker skin.

Tony Ryder workshop

I just attended a 3 day workshop with the incomparable Tony Ryder at the Long Island Academy of Fine Arts.  I have been in awe of his work ever since I first saw it in 11th grade.  I never thought I would get to meet some one that I had such a high regard, let alone get to study with him and have a couple laughs over lunch.  Definitely one of the nicest guys I've ever met.  He never shuts up while teaching, but that's a good thing because he is the master of humorous analogies.  Anyways here's the portraits that I did over the last few days as well as Tony's demo at the bottom.

first gig

Today I had my first gig doing caricatures.  It went really really well and I can't wait until next weekend for my second gig.  It was slightly challenging because everyone a the event was Japanese and I had almost no practice drawing asians (nor did 

I speak Japanese).  I tried really hard not to rely on stereotypical features but in some cases it was unavoidable.  

craft fair crap

Here's a couple of pieces that I did at the craft fairs (I forgot to take pics of most of them)