update

I have been painting away on my last supper. Da Vinci was well known for getting sidetracked and dropping one project for another. He even fled cities to avoid getting arrested for commissions he did not complete. I always try to complete what I started but I cant always control getting side-tracked. I have to take ten days now to work on making glass images of postage stamps for a stamp society in Pennsylvania. I must change my deadline for the last supper to the end of the month and it is not changing my TV appearance, I will still go on when done. This stamp job is very difficult, so on top of my painting I will be dealing with a sever deadline to make eight postage stamps in glass. I will post the images here as I finish them. Sorry for slacking on updates.

queens final

I had to make some changes as usual-- so this is the final final cover for queens yellow pages. This is the fifth time I painted this unisphere. It is left over from the 1964 worlds fair and is the first thing I remember seeing when I moved to NY from Texas as a child. For the first time I mixed photoshop and oil painting. I think I was the last artist still painting book covers with actual paint. The structure of this thing is nightmare to paint so I opted for a photoshop and oil paint approach. It is hard to keep things fresh when you have painted them many times but that is part of the challenge. Michelangelo stayed for four years on the chapel and actually got better as he progressed. So painting a small painting of the unisphere is not much of a battle!

art lesson of the day

my post yesterday is concerned with lighting and how light falls on concave objects vs. convex. I will expand later. commit this to memory in case you are ever on a quiz show.

NASA MARS CAVES

I came across this image on the NASA website that claims to have found "caves" on the Martian surface. I can't believe they are so naive. If you look closely you will that the surface markings are "raised." The light source is from the right in these photos. These are not craters but raised surface "bumps." The dark "caves" are actually shadows of raised projections. If you take a pebble and light it from the right side with a very bright light you will see what I mean. I cant believe they don't get this. It almost seems like propaganda and the F image doesnt seem to be an actual hole at all but a mistake or a black spot. i will make a drawing to show what I mean later.

dirty laundry

I hate showing work before it is done as it is never comforting to show the decisions you made before you decide they are bad decisions and throw them away. I am a very unorthodox artist and could never confirm to any thing orthodox as far as method, technique, etc. I know a hundred artist who are very methodical and careful and follow another artist like the good lord never gave them a personality or mind of their own. I paint from my gut and it goes to my hand and god made my guts so they must be good.