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Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Jaxson in Four Techniques

 


Jaxson

This post is a result of an art assignment in a materials and techniques class.  The original photo of Jaxon was painted with four techniques: Silverpoint and paint pigments using egg, oil, and wax.

       


Silverpoint

Oil Paint

Wax Encaustic

Egg Tempera
















Thursday, May 12, 2022

Conquering Corona


This is a contemporary oil painting is from a charcoal drawing of Olimpio Fusco by John Singer Sargent dated 1900-1910.  Sargent chose to draw this young Italian boy for his beauty.

I needed a handsome, athletic man for my idea of crushing the corona virus so I picked Olimpio as my model. 

Sargent did drawings of the WWWI and contracted the Spanish Flu so I thought this was a good fit.



Saturday, September 12, 2020

Conquering Corona


This is a modernized portrait portrait of the charocal drawing of Olimpio Fusco by John Singer Sargent date 1900-1910.  Singer chose to draw the young Italian boy for his beauty.

I needed a handsome athletic man to squeeze the life out of the corona virus.  Sargent survived the Spanish flu while in France in 1918.

I don't know what happened to Olimpio.






Olimpio Fusco 

John Singer Sargent
1900-1910

Friday, April 10, 2020

Michael Watching the Solar Eclipse


Michael watching the 2017 total solar eclipse in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.  

Obviously it hasn't happened yet as the sun is strong on the face and those eclipse glasses. 

The t-shirt is my rendition of what I think the total eclipse and solar flares looked like to those lucky enough to be observers.

Monday, January 13, 2020

David and Kylie

David and Kylie share an intimate moment after the ceremony converting Kylie to Judiasm. She has just come out of the ritual bath called a mikveh. The water is warm. 

What does David's look say?  Kylie is just turning two years old.  Is she reacting or expressing?