gathering thoughts and images

recording, capturing, and expressing the complexity of the human psyche and emotion
November 11
My high school art teacher hired a model for a sitting one Saturday for those of us who were interested. This is the charcoal drawing I did from that.

My high school art teacher hired a model for a sitting one Saturday for those of us who were interested. This is the charcoal drawing I did from that.

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I  grew an intense increasing desire and curiosity to explore painting right before my last year of college. I jumped in head first into it using life size scale and immediately fell in love with the power of color and brush stroke. This was my first painting. Oil on panel

I  grew an intense increasing desire and curiosity to explore painting right before my last year of college. I jumped in head first into it using life size scale and immediately fell in love with the power of color and brush stroke. This was my first painting.

Oil on panel

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April Oil on Canvas

April

Oil on Canvas

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Artist: Lucian Freud [British painter, born 1922] Title: Reflection (self portrait) Date: 1985Medium: oil on canvas This is one of the artists who had the greatest impact on the start of my journey into figurative painting

Artist: Lucian Freud
[British painter, born 1922]

Title: Reflection (self portrait)

Date: 1985
Medium: oil on canvas

This is one of the artists who had the greatest impact on the start of my journey into figurative painting

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  • I was internally, almost obsessively, compelled to draw from early childhood without the advantage of any formal training or influence until high school. When I re-entered public school and enrolled in art class, it was my first experience into the type of community/dialogue/synergy that comes from relationship with other artists.