New Nude – Cold

my painting has been sporadic but effective this week. I’ve finished glazing the blindfold on this piece, and painted a highly psychological piece in a marathon session that left me drained and very sick.

seclusion

It has become blatantly clear to me that I spend most of my time working online and not nearly enough time painting. It’s all very well to work on promotions and building my online presence and it is paying off, but I need to focus on making my art as well.

Housekeeping

I have been working on CSS for this blog, I’ve been worried about the way images have been displaying especially. I don’t know about the rest of you but I’ve been seeing images randomly squishing. the title and artist info has been not uniform and blended too well with the general text.

Nudity in Missouri?

A Fair Catch by Norman Rockwell,by A Fair Catch by Norman RockwellNorman Rockwell knew what he wanted and wouldn’t settle for less, even when it came to models.Peter Rockwell recalled a 1956 trip to New York he made with his father, who needed a model to pose nude for a painting of an old lobster man with a mermaid trapped in his lobster pot.“When we got to the modeling studio, there were six young women waiting, each holding a photo of themselves in the nude,” recalled Rockwell.“In the painting, my father carefully covered the mermaid’s breasts with the bars of the lobster pot, but some still called it lurid and pornographic.”

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