Process images: this category includes all posts that show process images, either in photos and in video.

Second chance

We’re all chameleons to some degree, adapting our attitudes, expressions, and manners to our environments.  A single portrait often can’t capture all the truths about a single person—and especially if that person is a drag queen!

“Hand it over, sister.”

When Kevin Cook says so, I listen!

Mother

Despite appearances, this post is not about cruelty to animals.  It’s about a Madonna and child. 

The tools make the artist.

The tools an artist chooses to use define not only the process but also the results.  Three tools have been especially formative to me: a digital SLR camera, a specific kind of flat varnish brush, and acrylic paints.

In search of specificity

I can very easily make a pretty painting of a little girl: it’s much more difficult to make a portrait of one particular little girl.  That’s what makes portraiture so much more interesting than plain figurative work. 

Making it up as I go along

It’s the only way I know how to paint, but I’d forgotten until recently that it’s the only way to live too.

“Me-tail”

I didn’t make up the term, but it makes sense to me.  Traditional retail appeals to me about as much as much as making (or buying) the kind of open market art that has a factory-made, gimmicked-out feel to it. 

Something to sink my teeth into

As complicated as mouths are to paint, part the lips and the problem is only intensified.  Teeth are best hidden if you’re unsure of how to tackle them.  Nothing will make a painting look strained like a toothy mouth poorly painted.

Liberty, equality, and homeland security.

Everything I know about patriotism, I learned in grade school making handprint turkeys in late November. 

 

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.

The 19th century American portraitist John Singer Sargent famously said so, and, in many ways, he was right. 

A little pouch of love

Also known as a little pooch of love.

Gender profiling

Being mostly unseen means being largely uncelebrated for a couple of American icons.

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