portrait of Chantelle

I was live painting at a nightclub last night called Ruin... I was thinking to paint the scene or I brought a photograph of elegant painter Chantelle Dinkel I was more excited to paint Chantelle so here's how that came out. The light in the nightclub was very dark and red and I really couldn't see the colors I was painting, only values. But that was a fun stumbling block and when I woke up today to see the painting in daylight, I was happily surprised and pleased... I read that William Turner was often in the practice of starting his paintings in almost total darkness, he probably felt the same abandon and excitement as I did! oil on canvas, 40 by 30 inches

Painting the Town! episode 7

An exciting new episode of Painting the Town!! Amazingly flexible Amanda Jane was our guest, a yoga, pilates, fitness instructor. visit her website at http://malamotion.com/ Enjoy the show! (p.s.there were a couple power failures at the end of the show which is why the end is mixed up)

portrait serendipity fun!

It started out as a portrait of my friend Rod painted with his grandkid Luciano and ended up all over the place! A good time was had by all. ^_^ oil on canvas, 22 by 28

erotic art school!

this past Saturday was Erotic Art School! in Hollywood. Chock full of beautiful people willing to pose! I was one of two artists allowed to paint live, and here are a couple paintings I ended up with. It was a super fun night, I was needless to say very excited to be there! oil on canvas, 24 by 36 and 36 by 18

the Glendale Galleria

Yesterday a bunch of artists were invited to "live paint" at a gallery inside the Mall and I took the unique opportunity to paint some indoor plein air urban landscape! oil on canvas, 24 by 36

Angel's Flight

In downtown Los Angeles, the city re-opened the Angels Flight funicular railway after being shut down since 2001 I think. So I decided to commemorate that day with some plein air Painting the Town! oil on canvas, 24 by 18

Painting the Town! episode 5

It was a good show! I painted a color interpretation of a black and white print out of a famous old Farrah Fawcett poster and John painted a still life of honey bear! good times were had by all... oil on canvas, 36 by 24

painting the nickel

John Kilduff and I were downtown around 5th and Los Angeles St aka "the Nickle" aka skid row to do some "on location" plein air urban landscape and get some cool footage for our show Fridays at 7pm PST at unitedartscene.com! What a super view. My painting flew right off my easel and into the life of a gentleman who lives in the building I painted! How cool is that?? oil on canvas, 24 by 20

the flight into egypt

I've been working more on the copy of Bassano's Flight into Egypt which I started on Painting the Town episode 3, fastforward to 22min. On the show I blocked in the painting with accurate color but total disregard for "drawing"... only trying to put the right color in generally the right place (something I discussed w/ regard to a van Gogh quote in episode 4, fastforward to 8min30sec) I let that dry but as it was doing so I carefully smoothed out the paint a bit using fan brushes and fingers and palette knives, etc knowing I was going to work more over it and didn't want too much impasto. Then I imposed a equal proportion grid over my print of the original and my painting copy and with a set of pastels, began to move the color shapes to their more "accurate" places (which is the first photograph) and then I gave the painting an entire second coat of oil corresponding to the new 'drawing'. It's a fun way of easing into detail without ever feeling choked up or stifled with the process. oil on canvas, 24 by 40

Painting the Town! episode 4

In this episode John and I have a couple plein air clips, I discuss an interesting pictorial idea in conjunction with a van Gogh quote, and then we paint poet Carmen Vega! Let's go have some fun.

Painting the Town! Malibu edition

oil on canvas, 18 by 36

one hour parking, one hour painting

I got a cup of coffee at Cafe de Leche and painted the view across the street, parked in one hour parking. oil on canvas panel, 6 by 8 inches.