OK. Here’s my drawings and paintings from the last week. This is a fair amount of shit. Despite the gothy look of my latest painting, I swear that I don’t think that I’m a vampire, wear eyeliner, or carry around a vial of blood from my one true love.

I was pretty productive today.  It was one of the first Saturdays in a while that I’ve woken up without a hangover.  I went painting at the Austin Figurative Gallery from 1-4 today.  Then I went for a run.  Then I did web stuff at Café Medici.  They have a superior latté.

I may be harming the drunken artist image I’m trying to cultivate online with all this talk of running and lattés.  I’m going to have to stop before I reveal myself as the yuppie douchebag that I’ve become.  I need a 40.

I skipped the Faster than the Speed of Light fundraiser tonight because I got myself involved in a six hour portrait.  It’s been years since I spent this long on a painting, so I thought I’d see what happened.

I experimented a bit with the process.  I first did a tonal charcoal under-drawing, then painted over that with acrylic, then finished up with oil.  It’s a pretty good process, but I should have stopped after my initial glazing with the oil.  The features were much stronger in the acrylic under-painting.  Although you wouldn’t know it from my painting the model was actually very beautiful.

I also did a quick photoshoppery to it, to see if I could improve it.

I contributed a couple of paintings to a fundraiser for a local indepentant production of a science fiction rock opera called Faster than the Speed of Light.

It’s from 6-10 Sunday night, May 3rd, at the Salvage Vanguard Theatre.  The play looks pretty cool and the fundraiser event sounds like a lot of fun.  There’s gonna be bands and probably a lot of short haired girls wearing glasses.  Which is enough to get me to kick in a couple of paintings. More info here.

Here’s the paintings that I contributed:

So come on out and pay a lot of money for my paintings, or somebody else’s.  It advances the cause of short haired girls doing cool shit.