FOOD!

I just ate lunch about an hour ago. Saw these. Now I'm hungry again! These extraordinary oil paintings (yeah, I know. PAINTINGS!) are by Atlantan artist James Neil Hollingsworth. I love how there are no settings. It's just the food sitting there in dark spaces. All your focus is drawn to the realism of the cookie part of the oreo or the glimmering jelly in that PB&J. You can view the rest of his work here where he has a diverse array of subject matter (the food just happens to be my favorite).

New Drawings

Here are a couple new drawings from lasts week long pose session at Spring Studio in Soho. Our model was so serious the whole time. Almost angry. But his face was so fun to sketch. Such character. The top two (one's a close-up) were the long pose (about 80 minutes with a couple breaks). The second I think was 15 minutes and the last was 5. I'm thinking about bringing in ink and brushes for the next session. I want to start creating pieces that are wall-worthy for my apartment.

Edit: Man, I gotta work on my hands.

The Work of David Jon Kassan

It's been a few months since I've attended a drawing session at Spring Studio. Motivation hasn't been so high lately when it comes to illustration I guess you can say. Above is exactly what I needed to see though. An artist who is so good my mind is racing with inspiration and creativity. I can seriously feel every texture this guy paints or draws. So beautiful. You can view the rest of his work here.

It turns out he's having a solo exhibition right here in NYC as stated in his blog. I will definitely try and make the opening on March 12th. Can't wait.

Netherland Art

I came across this artist from Chicago. His name is David "Netherland" van Alphen. He says that these are created using acrylic, collage and resin on wood. I would LOVE to have some of these hanging on my walls. You can view more of his work here.

Duane Wardlow

My Great Uncle Duane was quite the artist back in the day. Pictured below are some of his early illustrations.










Although his charcoal and pastel work was great to say the least, I find his gauche and watercolors to be the most inspiring. I'm not entirely sure, but I think he did work on ads in the 1950's and 60's. He passed away recently but I'm very happy to have some nice memories of him. I remember him visiting our family once while we still lived in Florida. Near the end of his visit he offered to do a charcoal portrait of me. How could I say no!? I'll scan that soon. Thanks to my cousin, Shayna, for helping me scan these by the way.

He's pictured sitting here closest to the camera on the left:



You can view much more of his artwork here.

Update: Here's the portrait he did of me.

3 Drawings...

...from college years.