Empty Borders as Pop Up Gallery Space

The building blocks of new work.

I spent the entire day tediously scanning new photos onto the hard drive. And I'll be scanning some more of them tomorrow and editing them too. Thank goodness I'll be able to assemble some new compositions out of this boredom.

It's finished! (the drawing part anyways)

I am finally done with this thing! Now I just have to get it to it's new owner after I take the painter's tape off.

Almost done

Tai chi in the park

This is the current state of my most recent commission. It has taken me two more months to get to this point than I had expected. Its source image comes from a tai chi session in Millennium Park in August.

It's COLD!!!

It's getting colder in our apartment as autumn blows through. What is annoying is our apartment's one distinct deficiency: electric heat. I've been warned that electric heating bills can top $300. So we've been wearing more clothes. Impressively the thermometer on Meg's alarm clock -an unusual feature to be sure- reads 61 degrees Fahrenheit the 30 degree nights. That's "warm" enough for right now; however, when we should turn the heat on is still uncertain.
Gripping a pencil is uncomfortable in the cold weather. That's not a bad thing. I'm more aware of my hands, more conscious of what I do, more eager to draw. My drawing commission is emerging that much faster as a result. And once that is done I will be onto another commission, one that means more to me.

New paintings