Crossroad’s Gallery at Goodwin House
I just wanted to thank everyone for all your support and for coming out to see the works on March 6th at the Crossroad's Gallery at Goodwin House. As I said earlier, during my talk, musicians always have a dancing…
Music as Data
So I've been spending much of my time working on the new show for September. It's titled, Music as Data. The point is addressing music from when it's being recorded all the way to once it's already data and being…
The Tuba Player
Every year we donate one work to the Workhouse Arts Center's Collector's Showcase Gala. Oddly, I tend to put in my best work. Last year I put in a fun work that wasn't my best. I had had the flu…
New Show, New Series.
A wonderful man popped by the studio this weekend asking numerous questions about my visualization structures which prompted an immediate delving discussion on sound-shapes, physics, aesthetics and all that we are exploring in common. Before wrapping up, he added…
Menagerie Musique
Creating a lot of drawings for my next show, set for the 2nd Saturday in August. Exploring, examining and enjoying some graphite. This one was going to be donated to The Workhouse Arts Center Collector's Showcase, but I was…
Counter Weights and Balances
A lovely, lovely day in the studio. Currently working on a massive jazz series. It's only 4 works, but they are large and infinitely chewable, which means complexity abounds. Not the best for deadline work! But the best for me…
State of Weight
Well, here we go. This is the very first drawing I hope to sell. It's also the first of what will be a drawing a week that will also be available to find a new home. I haven't gone down…
Introspection
So we're coming up on the one year anniversary my almost death, and the string of deaths of several family, friends and closest friend. I have slid so close to cliff of death once but thought twice this year and…
Working with what you have
Being that I've been unemployed and laid off for 14 months I no longer have the means for art school or its models to work from. So today I used the ole imagination. It has a few serious structural failures,…
Firebird Suite
When I was five, six and seven I had a little portable record player. There were ony two records that I wanted to play on it. One was Stravinsky's Firebird Suite, which was played into oblivion as I danced around…
First Dates
The great thing about first dates, well, those first dates with someone you are highly attracted to, is their sheer potential. Everyone spends most of their efforts trying not to wear their heart on their sleeve. They look for great…
You Holding my Smile
A smile is more that an inexplicable upturn of a lip it is the brimming over of inner joy. It rises up without consent and it fills us. Smiles exude a hug, a hand hold and a love. They…
Form Study
Context it always fun to configure. A study in form... But adding the feel, like taking a simple form of a woman to a feel of someone who waits for someone is about giving space contex, in this case it…
A home for where my heart would be
Each year, around the second week of October, or so, I begin to wax poetic on my dreams of sitting on a front porch, bundled up with book in hand. Perhaps a small lamp perfectly placed on the table beside me.…
Happy Birthday Steve!
So at midnight tonight it will be my friend Steve Ray's birthday. He's a great fashion photographer from San Francisco, CA. But what makes Steve really great is his wonderful empathy for those in need. When I had a tough…
Portrait in B
Today I took a break from the experimental portraits to have some more relaxing fun that is just me. This work would be scored in B on the Piano. As I've been thinking and over-thinking new ideas with my…
Portrait of a Woman
I really love this work. It is embodying where I'm headed creatively. I got a lot of great work done this week. Some weeks are not conducive to being in the zone. This week on the whole has been wonderfully…
Portrait of a Woman
I'm trying to spend an hour a day, if possible, knocking out a drawing of some kind. Today's is a made up portrait of a woman. Just seeing what I could come up with while defining a face. I'm signing…
Muse in Plain Sight
I sketched this the other day. It's the muse in plain sight. Always when you least expect her.
The decent of Zeus…
into the English Countryside where pour little church going women lay unsuspecting. Zeus arrives from the night time sky with the moon at his back, riding his golden chariot which here, is more of a sail boat which also acts…
Whistle while you think
Needed to relax - just sketched "Whistle while you think" I really need to learn guitar. Head full of lovely music. So, it's been a crazy time. That said things are moving along very nicely and I'm getting back in…
Hello again fair world
Well, all hell has broken out in the Britt world since we last spoke. Too much to go into here so I will just place a couple of links to personal posts I made elsewhere that should give you an…
Still fruit
Still working on technique and style. Fruit is a great way to work on both. Tonight is an apple and a pear. This is the second time I've thought I was actually getting somewhere with this drawing. It's…
Walk the Dog
Today I went to two outdoor antiques markets in Arlington. One of them is across the street and the other is up the road about a mile. One of the fun things about tooling around Arlington is the great…
On the Air
I got this at work and have been meaning to draw it forever. After a couple of test runs I am far more pleased with tonight's version. This is charcoal. A bit messier than the graphite I've been mainly…
My Favorite Shoes
Drawing something completely different each day is a bit more difficult than I envisioned. I was mentioning this the other day to some friends and one of them suggested I do my Converse Sneakers. I replied, "That is a great…
A good chair two
Well this is the second stage of my Good Chair image.. the other is in the previous posts section. Tonight I've added the tables and tea cup, book and flowers atop the carpets. I will probably leave this one…
Materials matter
I received a message the other week asking... "Any still lifes yet?" Well it has been a while. So tonight I have drawn a cup of brushes. After finishing it I realized one big mistake. The biggest Brush is…
Flowers for Mom
My mother has been through a tough time lately and these days lives fairly far away. She's been asking me to draw something for her forever and realized tonight what I would get for her if it could last…
A Weekend in the Courtyard
For the past few days Erika and I have been enjoying the lovely weather out in the courtyard, reading and drawing our Dogwood. She sat reading on her blanket with book in hand while I sat amongst…
Note to Self
I left this one blank so that I could mentally fill it in. It's a nice way for me to start my new list this week of all things I should be doing, hopefully by the end of the…
You are missed Potempkin
I had a rough morning and day. Our cat Potempkin (yes that is how we spell it) of fourteen years passed away. We stayed with her until the end at the vet's and although we knew this was coming,…
Academic Drawing
For the past four months Saturday mornings have been a treat. I get up at 7:30 am on my day off and pack up my drawing supplies and board and head over to school for the best mornings off…