The Big Painting

A few progress shots.  Can you tell the difference?  The bottom image gives a sense of the scale of this thing.

Something Different

Monoprints from my press.  I love how the images change with the different colors and infinite ways of inking the plate.

Work in progress

Some work in progress.  The bottom painting is brand new.  Just started it this afternoon.  It's 63"x79" on linen.  Very exciting.  I painted the top seascape over an old refinery painting.  The next one below, the plants, used to be a seascape.

My Studio

Here's a photo of my studio looking mostly like it does when I'm working.  I usually work on one or two paintings (one on each easel) at a time and up to four or five in one day.  All those other paintings stay on the walls - I am quickly and sadly running out of space.  My process is a little scattered.  Most of the time, I'll plan to work on a particular painting and end up mixing a color that's exactly right for another one.  The first painting is quickly forgotten.  Only very rarely do I spend an entire day on one painting, but that does occasionally happen when I'm in the mood to revisit a particular place.  I don't necessarily work in series, though something that happens in one painting will inspire further exploration, and before I know it, I have three seascapes or a bunch of oil tanks.  Lately the paintings have been getting bigger and bigger.  It's hard to switch back and forth between small and large, but I'm happy to say that canvases that seemed immense earlier on now feel very manageable.

 I am in the studio working from 8:30 or 9AM until 6PM weekdays. The studio space itself is about 15'x20' in a larger space which I share with five other wonderfully talented artists.  It's housed in a former Best Foods mayonnaise bottling factory in the Mission district and is full of other dedicated artists.