Newport

i just got around to developing a roll of film i took in rhode island this summer. lots of good shots of this little family of geese.

Leuchtturmwärter

it's been a while, but it's time to get the blog back up to speed. starting today, i'd like to bring the "daily" back into "thedailywarbler" and try to post something monday through friday, either art-related or just little daily musings.

for now, here are the paintings i did this summer for german artist sven johne for you to see. sven is a conceptual/installation/journalistic/photographic artist working in leipzig, and as some of you know he commissioned me to do 7 portraits for part of his upcoming exhibition. this component of the exhibition involves the last lighthouse keepers in germany. he gave me some photos of the actual individuals for reference, but it wasn't important to get a specific likeness, and for the most part the portraits are invented. sven was more concerned that the facial expressions convey a specific feeling. because these guys (and one lady) are basically the end of a line, he wanted me to push the expressions to varying degrees of pride, loneliness or sadness.

the exhibition opens in berlin in november; he'll be sending me images from the exhibition and i'll be sure to post them here.

The Teenager

Gro

sorry i haven't blogged in like over 2 months.. here's the portrait of Gro finally finished.

new studies

more studies :)

ed

a study i did from one of jane's models

small sp study

i'll be posting a few more soon; some little studies i've done here and there over the last few months. :)

a future in television?

last week i rented 11 of my paintings to FOX, for an episode of their new show "New Amsterdam." apparently it will air sometime in january, and when i find out exactly when i'll let you know so you can watch. the episode has something to do with some artist from the 19th century, and my paintings dressed the set of his studio; were meant to be his work. who knew all my figure studies from school would actually be rent-able!?

the new season of 30 rock began last thursday and sure enough my drawing is prominently placed in baldwin's character's office. here it is right between him and guest-star jerry seinfeld:







i'm sorry i forgot to give a heads up to watch, but it'll be there in his office all season if you'd like to tune in and see - it's a funny show by the way. and here is a shot of one of the drawings i did last season, just for one episode (on the wall behind tina fey):

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.