I want to encourage all of you to attend my upcoming show at Iveta. (See the announcement at the end of this post). Most of my recent shows featured smaller work, but this will be a rare chance to exhibit the larger figure paintings I’ve been working on these past few years. Iveta is a great venue. I hope to see you there on Friday, March 7 at the opening reception.

This month I want to present a set of mixed-media figure drawings on the blog. They’re not on-the-spot contour drawings, and though the poses come from life-drawing sessions, the drawings shown here are reconsiderations done from photos and/or sketches from the model. They took many hours to complete, and the majority of them were reworked over several days. This kind of work is the opposite of spontaneous. Instead, it resembles the slow-build process that occurs in a large-format oil painting, with additions and subtractions pulling the image to its mark.