Stop Motion Animation: Transport

Re-edited video from 2007, fixed up in 2011. This video began with a sound piece by Holly Lang and Young Jae Jang. I edited their piece down to 40 seconds and animated it using paint, chalk, and charcoal.

Paintings from Palo Alto

I painted these while I was house-sitting/cat-sitting at Katie’s house in Palo Alto, summer 2009. 10″x12″ oil

Drawings on the Light Rail

Project with Katie Morton. We got off the Light Rail at each stop and drew until the next one came. We did this on October 24, 2007.
4.25″x3.5″

On the Light Rail

Erica- this is as far as I got drawing you before Lutherville, so I’ll have to do the rest out of my head. Thanks for the pencil, I felt crippled without it.

6″ x 12″
graphite on paper

A couple months ago I told you I’d give you a drawing in exchange for a pencil, so since I can’t give this to you in person, not knowing really who or where you are, I’m posting it here. Maybe you’ll find it someday if I put enough relevant tags and you happen to go looking for it.

Landscape Wednesdays

For a little while two falls ago, Katie and I kept up a semi-regular Landscape Wednesdays. We had just had Dan Gustin’s landscape class in Italy, and thought we’d do the same in Baltimore. Sketchbook sized, (1-2 feet), oil on primed paper, fall 2008.

Four Views of North Ave.

I painted these while looking out the window of my studio on the second floor of MICA’s Bank building, a converted warehouse on North Avenue, now called the Studio Center. That semester I primed tons of 30″ x 22″ sheets of cream colored Rives BFK with matte medium. I always had clean or half painted surfaces ready to go. These paintings are in oil paint on that paper ripped into half or quarter sheets.

Model with ladder

Model with ladder, originally uploaded by Jane Westrick.

When the class resumed the next week, we had a different model! That was odd painting this 5 foot by 6 foot painting with one model one week and a different one the next.

Standing Model + Students

Standing Model Progression

On Friday, at the figure drawing session, I experienced something more convincing than the beauty of the human form– the pain of the human body. The older man modeling strained hard on every pose, but on every break he returned unknowing to the same position. His final pose is more beautiful than the grace of his resting. He attempts to hold the pose for the entire twenty minutes, and the modifications that he makes in his stance show the strain it puts on his body. He begins straightforward, tall, and determined. And so slowly, so slowly that only the evidence of the drawing proves it has happened, he shifts his weight to his left leg, and eventually rotates his hip and bends his knee to alleviate the pain.

Clouds in Baltimore

Eerie cloud patterns were moving across the sky in the evening outside my studio on North Ave in Baltimore that night.
30″ x 42″
charcoal on Rives BFK
november 2008