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September 2007
09/18/07 Update:  Been having difficulties [@$#%!1!] with the mailing list-thingy, so I've installed an RSS feed-thingy on the blog that you can subscribe to -- should make things a bit easier and less weepy for both of us.

09/11/07 Update:  Here's a detail of that grisaille WIP, and the latest blog entry.

Yeah, I re-did the site, yet again.  It's a long-ish story:
Y'see, I'm working on a series of grisailles in oils -- and I'm really, really [!] enjoying this, playing with nothing but lights, shadows, and textures.  [And it's really making me nostalgic for a black-n-white darkroom, and endless reels of Tri-X Pan.]

One of these new grisailles is nearly done, so I took a couple of digital snapshots of it and put them on some test pages to get an idea of how it would look on the website -- and the pix frakkin' vanished.

Poof. Gone.

They just went and blended in with the neutral middle-grey background like a bunch of little grey-scale chameleons.  I cannot even begin to tell you how very little I felt like dinking around in the editor to create a more hospitable environment for the graphite drawings, line art, and now, grisailles.

Gads.  I have a serious case of mouse-hand, now.  Not fun.

April 2007
Once again playing catch-up -- moved my blog from Blogspot to WordPress, and got some new figure studies, and wrangling to get the pix online.  Hang loose.

September 2006
Last update for the month:  watercolor sketch of another male torso.

Website update:  just finished a bit of hierarchy dinkage to ease up the navigation, complete with a "master list" of originals displayed on this site.

A small head study in watercolors and acrylics.

Another small figure study, in acrylics.  Some straight guys give me grief over doing compositions with male nudes, but I figure the world - especially the 'net - is already drowning in images of nekkid wimmin.  Just consider it 'equal time', boys.

Another watercolor doodle, . . . 
Lotsa new ideas in the sketchbooks for paintings, some of them truly bizarre.  [what has my Muse been smoking??]

August 2006
A couple of new figure doodles in watercolors, of a statue I'd photographed in the British Museum [?] a few years back - a Grecian [?] girl crouching with a water jug, in two different angles.
 
 
 
 

"Change is not only inevitable -- it is necessary."
--  Frank Zappa 
 

"The last of human freedoms: 
the ability to chose one’s attitude in a given set of circumstances."
  -- Victor Frankl (1905-1997) 
Psychiatrist and philosopher 


WIP:  Grey Lady
 


Figure Study
 


Head Study
 


Figure Study
 


Another What-Not
 


Water Girl

 
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