I went to Dr. Sketchy's again, this time in NYC this past Saturday. The amazingly talented and accomplished Molly Crabapple was there. I'm eternally grateful to her for establishing Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School.

I'm going to the Dr. Sketchy's Philly this Friday, let me know if you're interested. It's fun, there's cool people and free beer, and it's in an amazing part of the Fleisher Art Memorial that's not always open.

I'm going to post about 20 sketches soon, from Philly and NYC Dr. Sketchy's, but for now, here's one of the beautiful Justine Joli.

One of the things it's easier to do with oil than the dyes is paint with green.

Here's an image from my second or third shoot ever. I recently got back in touch with this model after a very long time. Thanks, Facebook.

I'm working on more from the shoot. I've tried to paint from these images for years, but because of the lighting, they just didn't work well in watercolors or dyes. Now that I've learned to paint in oils, I can give them another shot.

Been busy. Working on my last run of paintings before my new boy arrives in September and I go on hiatus.
Here's one I painted in the past couple of weeks. It's a new color palette. If you know that I have synesthesia, then it'll make sense when I tell you that I see the colors in this palette when I hear the Ting Tings.

Last week was a pretty damn productive. I finished a painting last Sunday, then I did another Monday and Tuesday and then Friday I nearly completed a painting that night.

Here's crappy pics of the them, I shot some quality ones outside today, but I'll have to pull them off the flash card tomorrow / Monday night. Weird trivia: a couple of nights I turned down drinking with friends and painted instead. Coincidental. But, hey, if you want to help me paint, throw me some drinking invites. Apparently they drive me to paint.

Thanks to all my friends who commented on these already. It's flattering and keeps me going even when I just want to enjoy the weather. Though now I'm painting in oils maybe I'll paint outside old school.

Here they is:

Mosh from 5/8


Lilah from Cinco de Mayo


Veronica from 5/3

This one's next:

I probably won't be able to get back to this until Saturday. Denis Leary tomorrow, dinners on Thurs and Fri

From Twitter as I was painting tonight:
# Darks. I think that's all for tonight. Hard to really fight to get myself to paint for some reason

# Using a butcher tray for a palette. Crazy thing about water-mixable oils, I just soak the tray in water to clean it
# And I got these two #8 kolinsky sable brushes for about 1/2 off (normally $70 or so each).

# Oils were half off at the local art supply place

# Painting for the next 45 minutes or so

tomorrow i'm going to complete my experiments with different media and i'm using this image again to compare them all. i like to sketch before i paint as a warm up, so here she is again

Hi, I told you I'd make a new painting every week. I just haven't been able to post them until now. Check them out at http://www.fluidbeauty.com

Two of them are oil, which I haven't used in 15 years. I'm pretty excited about them.

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So since the first of the year, I've been doing a drawing every day. You can see them all at my site: http://www.fluidbeauty.com

I tried to post them here, but it's just been too much to post them in both places.

Anyway, since most of you readers are on Facebook now, I assumed you could see them there, and, more importantly, see that I was taking requests for February. I still will take your request if I get it some time tomorrow.

Actress Gene Tierney from the movie Laura