student

in my defense, yes he did look this angry. in his defense, he was reading the SCUM Manifesto for his feminism class. on day 2 he read something a little more tame (although the light kinda changed and i think i killed the underpainting:

the old studio

jane just sent me this pic, taken a while ago by peter (our friend who rents us the new space) during one of our weekly drawing/painting group sessions.

my new favorite painting

jimmy brought this painting, which he has titled "jesus on a jet ski", home from mexico:

he saw tons of these prayer paintings when he was in san miguel de allende, and chose this one out of the bunch. rightly so, it is awesome. the text at the bottom is the man's prayer to jesus that he be spared from getting rabies from the dog that is currently ravaging his shoulder.

apparently when leticia (jimmy's stepmom) purchased it, she talked the guy down from its original price of 300 pesos, (about 30 bucks). i need to get down the mexico soon - i want to start collecting these.

the pensive professor

for our 4 year anniversary, i made this painting for jimmy, of our child:

new studio

i dont know if the picture does it justice - our new studio is soooooo rooomy..

we still need to move all of our stuff, and put in lights etc... but it's going to be so great. yesterday i moved my essential painting supplies over:

i've been in a bit of a dry spell, painting wise. i'm going to blame it on the disgustingness of the NYC summer; this happens to me every year. my studio becomes a sticky sauna and i slow down. but fall is my favorite time of year, and this weekend's lovely weather plus the excitement of a new space has me happily anticipating getting back to work.

:)

for The Bloviator's office

apparently they are redecorating the set of 30 Rock over there at NBC. so they commissioned me to do another drawing; this one will be in alec baldwin's office!!!!

more from st. barths

this painting was a gift for heather and luke, which i never got a photo of. i have it back temporarily as i'm taking it to get framed... (you'll have it back and framed very soon heather!!)
:)

lenny & carl

finally did the kitty commission for theo and natalie :)

cape cod: painting in the marsh

studies from cape cod

plein air painting is hard. plein air painting at the beach with wind, sand and blazing sun, really hard. to demonstrate. here's a little painting i did of the incoming tide. this picture was taken shortly after i finished it, and right after a big gust of wind blew my jar of turps over, spilling directly over it:

it immediately began to crack and attract sand, and i thought it was ruined. but miraculously when the turpentine dried it was ok, and i was able to dust off some of the sand:

even my tiny bathers were ok (i was very proud of my tiny bathers):

here's the second painting i did that day:



that photo was taken just before another big gust came and threw the painting directly into the sand. here it is now, sand and all (everyone kept telling me to leave it for effect):



despite the sand and the wind, painting on the beach was actually heaven. (how could it not be?) i'll post more pictures of us later, but here's one of me at the beach right by our cottage, on a really foggy day, where gaby and i found a good spot to paint, nestled by the rocks to block the wind...



...we were blatently disregarding the safety precautions being on these rocks. apparently cape cod girls tend to dramatically jump off them alot.. or, be whisked away by their sail-like skirts. or something..

self portrait study

study of mariette

weekly art group back in swing

we're trying tuesdays - here's a drawing of mark, who is a great draw-er and works in the space down the hall from us.

memory lane

this weekend jimmy and i took the bocho out for a drive up the hudson river and around westchester, where we enjoyed some lush scenery and fantastic antiquing. my pictures of the scenery were lame, but these shots of the little bug we took with the polaroid (we had a whole 70's revival this weekend) were pretty good:









when we scanned these in, we also scanned some other lovely photographs we have lying around... here we are in london:



and here's a pic that currently lives on our fridge, which jimmy named "shaundrey" - me and audrey on our foliage peeping trip this last autumn:



and finally, b/c she was here to visit this weekend and it was so great to see her and and take her and dave for a drive,.. and b/c we are just so damn cute, here's some pics of my friend kate and me, (actually taken last time she visited, in the winter):

TriBeCa Ball

Thursday was the Academy's annual fundraiser gala, the TriBeCa Ball, which involves a lot of fancy celebs and socialites dancing and buying art. This year I was invited along with a couple students to draw from live models as part of the "entertainment." Here's the drawing I did:



..at first it was a little nerve-racking, drawing in front of all the party people with photographers snapping pics left and right, not to mention doing so in a fancy dress and heels (note: making art while in heels: does NOT work for Shauna) - it didn't take long for me to go barefoot, until one of the models was nice enough to lend me her flip flops. but once i got into it, i was so happy to be drawing from a model again and was able to block out the crowds. here are some shots of me in action: