Portrait Sketch #3

Charcoal on Paper
8"X6"
$50

New Update

The next four entries were completed during the last month. They are all drawings, and will be for the foreseeable future as I hone my skills with Van Saro.

Master's Copy: Malcom Liepke's "Touseld Hair"

Graphite on Canvas Board

12"X19"

What better way to learn than to copy the masters? Malcolm Lipeke is one of my favorites.

Heather's Poise

Graphite on Canvas

12"X6"

NFS

A New Path

I have begun what I hope will be a path to more skillful and intuitive artwork. I am studying under the tutelage of Van Saro (www.vansaro.com), an outstanding young artist who teaches the classical method of drawing and painting. It may mean that the number of postings will decrease as I strive to make my work more accurate, but I hope that the level of execution will be obvious when a piece is posted. My goal is to train my eye and hand to be as accurate as possible, and then to push that knowledge into my intuition and paint the things I see when I close my eyes at night: the artwork from my heart. Wish me luck and send me good energy! -Lin

Sculpture Open House

The open house at Art Center on Monday evening (4-14-08) was a success. The work was inspired and the attendees were fun and interesting. Art Center will hopefully include some of the sculpture photos in their next class description in the Fall. I showed several pieces including my final project shown in this post:

"Mine"

Clay
24"X24"

Introspection

This piece is about how we see ourselves, particularly when pain sets in. Sometimes it's important to just observe from the higher vantage point and not judge...
Clay 20"X 10"

Valley Artist's Guild 60th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition

Two pieces were accepted into this show: "Cool Joe" and "Heather's Joy". The show will run from 3-9-08 to 3-22-08. I hope you all will get a chance to visit the gallery (www.vivagallery.org) ; the quality of the work in this show is outstanding!

Life

Oil on Canvas
16"X16"
This piece also needs another pass, but the feeling that I wanted is here already and I wanted to share it. Sometimes there are people in your life that make it fun to be alive: that's the feeling.

Ap

Oil on Canvas
20"X16"
SOLD

Dad 2

Pass #2: Dad is an avid fisherman, and loves the outdoors. As I stared at the first pass, I thought, he would rather be outdoors, by a lake, in the fresh air. The background is a subconscious memory of the places we used to fish when I was a child. ...not that I ever liked to fish, but I loved being with my family out there in the sunshine. I feel like the next pass needs to be very deliberate and judicious.

Oil on Canvas
11"X14"
This is just a start...but I thought it might be fun to watch a progression, especially since this piece is taking its own unique path. I started with a "sight-size" sketch using pencil on the canvas, and followed that with a light oil wash just to tone the canvas. Stay tuned...

Wooden Rose

Oil on Canvas
12"X6"
SOLD

Forrest

New Work

Clay Sculpture
20"

Rajiv in Color

Oil on Canvas

8"X6"
$100

Eleanor Sr.

Oil on Canvas
12"X9"
SOLD

Abstract Figure II

Oil on Canvas
12"X6"
$100

Abstract Figure I

Oil on Canvas

12"X6"
$100

Midlife

I'm really proud of this one. For now, I'm just trying to upload images as quickly as possible. I'll write more later.

Clay

6"X8"X16"

SCULPTURE?!?!?

What am I doing sculpting? Trying to understand my painting better, or at least that's how I started. However, it turns out that I LOVE sculpting. It's addictive! Very tactile! I'm taking a figure sculpture class at the Art Center this semester from the very talented, Chris Slatoff. You can see one of his pieces at: http://saintfelicitas.org/Userdocs%20Church/Bulletin/FrontBulletin.pdf He's an excellent teacher and attracts a talented, close-knit group of students. I'll post more as we go. Each of the two sculptures posted below were accomplished with a live model over the course of ~15 hours.

Sanyo Relaxing

Second Sculpture
~18" X ~6"