I have spent the past several weeks working on a painting for a group show coming up in a few months at Gallery 1988.  The show is Under the Influence: A tribute to the Beastie Boys.  I’ll post more info about the show as it gets closer.  In the mean time I will share with you the piece I have produced:

Ensconced Triad; Acrylic on Canvas, 11″20″

And here is a some of the process:

1) The final composition, with all the bits combined in photoshop and ready to transfer

2) The drawing transferred  onto the canvas

3) The underpainting

4) All the color is blocked in

5) Color is refined a bit and the microphones are added back in

6) The painting was nearly done at this point, all that was left was final highlights and detailing

That’s all for now.

I have spent the past couple weeks working diligently on a painting for a show in a few months.  I am taking my time with it, trying to work through all the bits that bother more methodically.  I’m not going to show too much until I am done with it, because, well, I don’t want to.  BUT here is a shot of my current painting setup with it sitting on the easel.  You can sort of the see the painting…

More of this painting when it is done.  And maybe some smaller stuff in the interim, who knows.

I watch movies and whatnot on my computer.  Often times while doing this I open up MS Paint in a window off to the side and proceed to doodle in there with the mouse.  Now, I am not generally inclined to save any of what I do, but I made a couple MS Paint doodles while watching Manhattan the other day that I was sort of fond of.  Here they are:

I was mindlessly doodling in Illustrator and this is what came of it.  It seems reminiscent of the cowboys I was briefly working on a year  or two ago.

Edit to add:  Made a slight change to the look of the blog as well.