I did a few paintings this Christmas as presents.  I did one for each of my roommates, and one for my parents.  I naturally waited until the week before leaving for my trip back to Indiana before starting these paintings.  I did three paintings in three days the week before Christmas.  The one for my parents was done on a 16×24 hardboard.  I stole a few idea from looking around the East Side Studio Tour and the 12×12 Box Art Show and started masking a border around my paintings.  It makes them look a lot more complete without a frame.

The paintings that I did for the roommates were both 24×24 with a 4 inch border done on 3/4 inch plywood.  I lifted that directly from something I saw on the studio tour.

I also participated in the Austin Figurative Gallery Winter Opening Show.  I have several paintings hanging up at the USAA.  During the show we did a live painting demo.  It’s always fun to paint in front of a crowd.  Usually it’s done alone.  We did four fifteen minute poses of models in costumes.  We got my favorite models, Drea and Waverly for the special event.  I asked them for space outfits, and they delivered with some great outfits.

It seemed to go well.  Spiderhouse opened the bar in the USAA so we had drinks available.  The music was excellent and we had a good amount of art up in the place, including some incredible photographs by a guy named George.  Unfortunately hte rest of his name eludes me.

I just finished a painting of a street scene of Austin.  This is East 6th Street, somewhere around Rio Rita.

Here’s some recent paintings from the AFG.  I hadn’t done these quick paintings for a while.  For a couple of months I deluded myself into thinking I preferred long poses.  But there’s just something about the energy of a really quickly done painting.  15 minutes doesn’t give me time to fuck up a painting.  Since I can come up with 6 of these in a two hour session, if half of htem suck it’s still a win, because I got a few good paintings in one night.

So here they are, I’m a couple of weeks behind, I have another batch of six to photograph and post.

So I was painting a picture of lesbians and it turned into this.  I figured I’d put it up since I’ve been lax about updating recently and I know my fans are clamoring for more.  So here it is.  Now I’m off to watch a beard and moustache competition.