Speed Painting

So, I purposely don't have internet access in my studio. The idea behind this was to remove the time-wasting temptation of needless-internet browsing. In practice, this means I instead waste time re-reading lone wolf and cub comics, juxtapose magazines, and I never post anything online.

Lately, I have been a lot of speed figure painting. Here are a few 15 minute paintings in acrylic, which I painted at the Austin Visual Arts Association and at the United States Art Authority.

Color Theory

I've been lucky enough to be pretty busy lately.

Between classes and new students, I have had to give several color theory demos in the past year, and so I wanted to take a minute and put them together for future reference.

On Lake Travis

I dropped my wife off at her book group, which was at this cafe on Lake Travis, and ended up hanging around.

After tip, I somehow managed to spend six dollars on a coffee at this place. Still not quite sure how. Anyway, it was a very nice place to draw.

Painting of my Mom and Niece

New in '10

Ok, so I'm shooting for more blog updates in '10. Shouldn't be to hard. The bar's pretty low.

Step one is keeping the sketchbook with me all the time. Last weekend, I sketched this gorgeous woman at the DMV. She was only mildly amused, but was still nice enough to eat brunch with me later. This probably had something to do with how I married her last april.

The Friar

The Ex-Presidents... are surfers.

Sadly, Patrick Swayze died this week.

While many will remember him as the heart throb in Dirty Dancing, or as a tearjerker in Ghost, he will always be my a teenage role model to lead a life of bank robbery, all to fund an endless summer of surfing.

I was, however, singing "She's Like The Wind" the whole time I painted this.