November

Aw November, when I'm again reminded why the sycamore is named for its leaves. And its little goddam spiky seed ball things that fall by the thousands.

 Saskia Reeves

Cynthia Nixon as Emily Dickinson

Master copies -Charles Chaplain [French?], DaVinci and Nelson Shanks

Stuff from Hipbone Studio. The first was done without white; got a notion to just pull back to the canvas with rags and q-tips. Wouldn't do it again, but an interesting experiment.

head studies -this first photo off the web had amazing color on my tablet, which is all I paint from  now. She's somewhere between 8 and 20 y.o.- couldn't figure

 the duuud

 older one, also web pic

 three live figures -the first 2 same model same pose (not that you'd know) plus an older one

 Kathryn Stats copy

 the band Now,Now (which seems to be defunct sadly)

 VerMeer copy -new on the left; 70's high school piece on the right which hadn't aged well [cheap linseed oil]

head studies

Hipbone live sessions -the first a couple years ago with some brushwork I liked; the latter recent but a little weak in the face

Got lots of time now so I'll try to get this backfilled and up to date. 

From my photo south of Mt Hood:  

 From a WetCanvas user photo -these are conkers [horse chestnuts I think]. 24X18 and kind of finicky but it was an amazing picture.

 Copy of a Nelson Shanks from a few years ago

 A  couple from live sessions at Hipbone Studio [Portland] from  last month and '11 (respec.). Work had me too tired to manage this more than once a year -now that I'm at liberty I hope to get  back in the groove with this. The lower one had a hatching stroke I'd like to revisit, the recent more fat-brush.
 [It would seem the layout tools here are still their fine standard of WYSIwasn't]