new school old school

painting from a street in austin tx of the austin pipe & supply building.

painting from the street last sunday, 6/14/09. i hadn’t painted a landscape since artschool. size = 2′ x 4′

wow i haven’t posted for a long time. these are from last week. i gave painting a shot again and was ok with it. though i enjoy the drawings more (only posting 1 out of 4 paintings i did). for the first time in my life as i’m typing this i just questioned why we put double spaces after periods and it was awesome. so was nick swardson at the paramount on friday night. i LOLd like the whole time.

this is my pitch for spiderman 4. it’s called “spiderman begins.” i showed this painting at the birdhouse gallery in east austin on saturday night. the show was a group self portrait show, and there was some really nice work there. the show runs through April 12th.

tonight we had a special AFG session where the model posed for 2 HOURS. that’s unheard of. we always do 15 minute poses so it was somewhat blasphemous. a few of us, including myself, painted on 2×4′ boards donated to us by the lovely ampersand art people. here’s mine:

cos its due back at the video store tomorrow. gonna watch the watchmen tomorrow too, not at the video store. it just came out this weekend and i see ppl on the interwebz freakin over it. in 4 years from now, this paragraph will seem so 4 years ago. (video stores??)

spaced has been a lot of fun to watch. i’ve realized i really like shows/movies when the characters are kinda losers. i also love it when they talk about brian doing art (his influences are pain, anger, fear) or when that raver guy starts jammin out anytime something makes a repeating noise.

on these drawings, i made an effort to start out by drawing lightly for longer. the last 2 are on masonite, which has been really fun to draw on.

the paintathon was hardcore… we had 5 models and painted for about 4 hours straight. 15 minute poses, as always.

unfortunately we never ended up having the AFG group show of paintings of paris hilton. maybe we can do again, but a running theme was supposed to be paris hilton running for president… and some peeps felt like what was the point after teh electionz. i dunno, whatevz, these were the two not political paintings i did for it (they’re small):