HANDS.01

Now that I'm finally finished with those commissioned portraits i can move onto doing something personal. Nathan Lumm (see links) is putting together a group show for the Pink Ghost in Fort Lauderdale, Fl. The only restriction is the piece has to be 8x8 inches. I'm going do a few hand studies to go along with some portraits. I think they will provide a good balance and i'm hoping to capture the same emotion and character that the head shots had.

HANDS 01

here is a wedding portrait i'm doing for a neighbor. It should be all finished tonight...yay! Then i can go back to working on my own crap. I've got a upcoming show in Berlin later this year and haven't done a thing.

Commissions

Its been a while! I got 2 commission portraits a while back and it took me forever to knock them out. The first was of a friends nephew for her parents. Kids can be quite troublesome, its difficult to make them look cute...they tend to look like some weird old fucked up dude. This kid in particular was a bitch. i had both hands in the original design but it gave him a weird creepy quality....and i have to admit, in retrospect he still looks a little creepy! I removed one of them which helped quite a bit. I didn't get a good photo of the final but here are some images of the major stages.