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Tonight we had a great model at the AFG. Very dynamic and challenging poses. They’re the pencil drawings below. I realized that it had been quite a while since I’d scanned anything. So I scanned a bunch of stuff in the sketchbook tonight.

I’ve been doing a lot of freelance recently also.  I just finished the Sky Candy website and I’m working on another one for Native Nom Nom, a new restaurant that’s just opened in south Austin.  So these projects take up art time and so does going out and drinking.  But as Jack Nicholson said, “All and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”

Here’s a bunch of recent figure drawings.  I have charcoals to photograph also.  Maybe next post.

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Howdy there true believers. Tonight I went to Gibson and did a couple of watercolors while sitting at the bar. I wanted to spend some time doing arty stuff tonight, but I seem to have the opposite affliction to agoraphobia. Claustrphobia? I have an irrational fear of being home. So I took my sketchbook and watercolors to Gibson, my friendly neighborhood bar and did couple of paintings. It was enjoyable. I got there around 7 and had a couple of hours to talk with my friend who worked there while it was slow. Afterward I was heads down into the painting and was surrounded by people ordering drinks. While making this post, I have one question. Is The Crow soundtrack really the best CD of all time? Or is it just because I was 15 in 1994 that I respond so fervently to this music? Is it a Pavlovian response to the feeling of accomplishment of having grown pubic hair? Maybe the hormonal high of having a new batch of zits to pop every morning felt much more pertinent than the air conditioned nightmare of the cubicle life?

Meh, now that I look at these I see that the photoshopping of the painting of Liz is bullshit. The straight-up watercolor is much better. Oh well, it’s late. If I return to it at some point, it can be improved.

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