You Bag: this category of my blog includes articles and videos about my You Bags, portraits painted directly on canvas bags.

Between portraiture and figurative art / Entre le portrait et l’art figuratif

Portraiture can be considered a figurative art, but figurative art is not always portraiture.  Le portrait peut être considéré comme un art figuratif, mais tout art figuratif n’est pas du portrait.

A little bit in love / Un petit peu amoureuse

Painting portraits is a loving act.  Peindre des portraits est un acte d’amour.

In it together

Thursday Friday’s Together bags bring up interesting questions about status and hierarchy, both in the social sense of those words and in how they relate to the concept of intellectual property.

Put a bird on it / Mettez-y un oiseau

My latest You Bag is all about carrying a piece of comfort around with me as I go about my day.  Mon dernier You Bag est ma manière d’emmener un joli souvenir avec moi partout où je vais.

Painting a familiar face / Peindre un visage familier

There’s a difference between painting a familiar face and painting the face of a stranger.  Il y a une différence entre peindre un visage familier et peindre le visage de quelqu’un que je ne connais pas très bien.

Pansy / Pensée

I’ve always loved how the English word for the flower comes from the French one, “pensée,” which, in a pretty piece of poetry, is also the French word for “thought.”  Je trouve ça beau que la fleur soit nommée pour ce qui nous passe par la tête.

You Bag / Comment traduire?

My You Bags are some of my favorite kind of work, especially when David’s face is on the tote and the bag is for me!  You Bag se traduit littéralement par «Vous Sac» et ça n’a pas du tout le même sense.  L’effet est complètement perdu dans la traduction.

Complete

Complete means “having all the necessary or appropriate parts.”  For a painting to be complete, it needs its subject.

The Gitomer bag

This You Bag is a study for a wall-hanging portrait that I’m currently working on.

Good dog!

Joey is still just a puppy, but he taught an old dog (me!) some new tricks.

On making a mark

In between these detail images of two portraits of Jesse are four years and almost two hundred paintings.  They prove that style isn’t something you cultivate, but something that cultivates you.

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!

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