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Pos­si­bly Hacked

It looks like the site was the vic­tim of a pos­si­ble hack. It’s back up and run­ning now so please enjoy.

Pas­tel Sale

Marci, Pastel on Paper, 22" x 30"

I am let­ting go of some old favorites in a Spe­cial Sale. The larger size, 22″ x 30″ are $40.00. The smaller size, 15″ x 22″ are $25.00. All are on Rives BFK or Stone­henge papers, wrapped in acid free plas­tic sleeves. Con­tact me to purchase.

Paint­ings and Prints at O’Malley’s

Pastel Portrait of Kris

Scot Smith asked me to show at his place, O’Malley’s in SE Port­land. I have a selec­tion of lim­ited edi­tion prints on masonite as well as orig­i­nal oils on view through­out the month of May. Thanks Scot! O’Malley’s Saloon & Grill 6535 SE Fos­ter Road Port­land, OR 97206 – 4661 (503) 7770495

Back to Ink

Line Drawing by Daniel Liam Gill

I’m start­ing a cou­ple of books with Ariel and Sis­ter Thyme and I’ve switched back to ink to make them. These are draw­ings made at Hip­bone over the last sev­eral weeks fea­tur­ing Zach, Casey, Johnny and leah. Ink on paper from my sketchbooks.

Ret­ro­spec­tive

Pastel of Ann

I’ve had too much cof­fee today and I’ve been think­ing about fig­ure draw­ing, find­ing my voice as a painter and what’s lead me to the series I’m doing now. I started work­ing with the fig­ure seri­ously about a year after I’d moved to Port­land, back in 2002. I was teach­ing Illus­tra­tion at PNCA and I’d gone out for a walk…

Teach­ing Aids

Pastel Drawing of Ariel 3rd Layer

I’m teach­ing a class in Pas­tels at Hip­bone Stu­dio this month. Ariel will be my model, she dropped by the stu­dio yes­ter­day to help me make a few teach­ing aids. Here’s a sam­ple of what you’ll learn in the class. Thanks Ariel for your help. [fb_​like]

Hid­den Treasures

Pastel Drawing of Yellow Samantha

I found these in my newsprint pad, a cou­ple of nice draw­ings that didn’t make it with there ear­lier posts. I like this one of Trisha in the hat. The sec­ond is the last draw­ing of Saman­tha from Deer Island. I drew most of it in the dark, that’s why it looks like a banana. [fb_​like]

Sun­day at PNCA

Pastel Drawing of Louise at PNCA

My friend James King men­tioned the Sun­day ses­sion over at PNCA to me yes­ter­day. He told me Louise was to be the model. I’d drawn her before in a base­ment ses­sion in NE Port­land. She had great pres­ence so I thought that I would give it a shot. Nice to see both Jodi But and F.X. Rosica there. It’s…

Three Pas­tel Study

Study of Ariel - The final drawing

I’ve refreshed my tech­nique with pas­tels in prepa­ra­tion for my upcom­ing work­shop. Last night was the last 3 hour ses­sion in the long-​term series for Feb­ru­ary at Hip­bone Stu­dio. Last week I did a straight por­trait of Ariel from the shadow side of the pose. I com­posed the piece with a raw sienna pas­tel straight on to the page. I kept the palette sim­ple, 5 – 6

A Not So Snowy Day

Pastel Drawing of Elona on a bicycle

It was sup­posed to snow yes­ter­day here in Port­land, Ore­gon. Peo­ple tend to panic when that hap­pens and Hip­bone had a light crowd for both ses­sions. I was in a car­toony mood and had a great time draw­ing Elona in her hat, her boots and on a bicy­cle, sans the bicy­cle. Paula was the sec­ond model. She brought HER hat, her banjo…