Face Flaw

I painted this sumi portrait some years ago. Like most of my figurative work, its a portrait of imaginary friends. I don't paint from models and rarely from photos, but rather memory and imagination. Sometimes this can create little problems if your not thinking it all through––for instance there's a subtle ( or not so subtle if you see it) flaw in this face. If you think you know what it is, tell me with a  comment below. 

 

This is a detail. Look in the sumi gallery to see the full image. 

Bucephalus Dreams

I know dogs dream, cats too. So its a safe bet that horses dream as well.

 

I was just throwing paint around on this one and then I saw a horse in a splotch. I encouraged it a little bit and thought If I was a horse I'd be proud to have a dream like this. I would be a really exciting horse. If you were Alexander's Horse, fighting your way across Asia, you might have dreams like this. Do horses get PTSD? I can't answer that.

One reason I'm positing this painting is that what's going on in the details of the paint is similar to what I like about glass, its capability for chaos.

Painting with glass

A Vitreous Girl

Here is another image from my recent glass work. Its around 10 x 14 x 3/8 inches and contains gold mica and powdered glass applied in the interior layers like paint. Even though I've used a lot of the tricks in my kit bag in making this photo, its hard to see all the qualities of 3d glass in a 2d photo. There is a lot of internal iridescence in this piece that you can't see here. But this is a decent approximation.

 

There is now another glass gallery in the painting galleries section with a few more projects from the cascade workshop series. 

Here is another image from the recent batch

 

Got to fuse some more! 

New Glass

I'm coming off a month of intensive glass kiln work and wanted to share some of the latest. Thanks to my friend Jim, I've got some images to share. Hoping to have a new glass gallery up soon. here is a sneak peak.

 

First in the original conception as a landscape

and

then

also

 

 ...an alternate vertical format. This is a hard call for me. I like the abstract quality of the vertical, but it's also a successful landscape piece. Anyone care to comment?