Hi y’all,
Welcome back to the blog! I’ve got a new plein air piece, updates on collaborations, some watercolors, and a review out.
As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been trying to get looser and more impressionistic with my landscape paintings. For a brief refresher, here’s the last one I posted:
Guarded Sunset - 12’’ x 12’’ - oil on canvas
I tried to take this a step further in my most recent piece:
Alameda Station - 12’’ x 12’’ - oil on canvas
I definitely had some fun with this one. I liked how the looser brushwork came together, as well as the complexity in the warms and cools, but I think I overcrowded the composition. Live and learn!
In other painting news, I recently started teaching drawing and painting with the Arts and Culture Department at Denver Parks and Rec. As part of my training, I got to shadow the watercolor instructor — a medium I’ve generally avoided. But I got some fun results!
Eye and landscape - 12’’ x 9’’ - watercolor on paper
Hamsa - 12’’ x 9’’ - watercolor on paper
I also got to do a brief oil demo for an open house. I decided to do a little hamsa; definitely had a blast!
Hamsa demo - 12’’ x 12’’ - oil on canvas
I’m also happy to share that my friend Kevin Shoemaker’s debut album, Sounds for the Young, is out. You can stream it here. As I’m sure many of you know, I made a series of digital drawings for the album release, one for each track. Here they are below:
Capital - Procreate
David - Procreate
Beauty - Procreate
Americana - Procreate
Tutu - Procreate
Honey - Procreate
Prophet - Procreate
Burn - Procreate
Be sure to check out the full album, and stop by Kevin’s website for more!
On the poetry side of things, I’m happy to share a review I wrote for the literary magazine I work for, Consequence, on two excellent poetry collections: Graham Barnhart’s The War Makes Everyone Lonely and Nomi Stone’s Kill Class. You can find the review here.
That’s it for now. Thanks for tuning in, and keep creating!