Went to Kykuit with onsite this week, and get to go agaaaain next week

(unfortunately couldn't completely avoid some glare while taking a photo)

Yom Kippur in the PAC~
Maybe I'll paint the door in, but mayyybe I wont.

Start of the 3x4 ft canvas for onsite, slowly but surely comin' along

And the result of sketches from 3-4 hours on the F train:

   --->

Onsite painting: made possible by the intense flooding of Purchase College.

And onsite painting class begins! Trying to get as much in before the good weather disappears, which the way things have been going will probably be pretty soon. Not done yet, but when drawing in the woods you can't exactly pull an all-nighter. (and 22x30" is a lot when you're used to miniatures)

I have a bad habit of taking photographs as references for paintings which I never end up actually painting, (and some would argue using photographs at all is a bad habit, but there I have to disagree)
So here is a pen-sketch of one of those many unused photographs

(enjoy, catherine, two birds with one stone - told you i'd make something of those pictures, and told you i'd post)

Summer has made me want to disappear for a little, but i've only succeeded in doing so on here. So here, I'll begin to return with a random sketchbook page from today -- you know I spend too much time on my computer when I begin making self portraits while looking at myself in photobooth:
(the joys of online class)

ALSO - rest in peace Lucian Freud, A master to say the least, and always a huge inspiration to me