The Red Line

This is a repository for a lot of my various art stuff.

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"The City Silent" page 276. I think Smatt's getting taller...

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Writer's Block Self. Trying to keep likeness while loosening up.

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Slightly pouty self portrait.

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Another in this experimental series. I usually start with pretty tight sketches. Here, I painted the whole thing at once, eyeballing, then went and did sketches just for the faces. I think it works?

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 I've been wanting to experiment with portraits for awhile. An idea that came to mind was to keep the background and even figure as abstract as possible while doing a much more detailed version of the face. So I prepared by doing a gridded version of the face and then free handing the rest. It was actually pretty fun and while I don't think the exact likeness is there, it captures the young man I photographed on the subway pretty well. And this is how we look at things, isn't it? With the important things in sharper detail, the rest a sort of blur of colored shapes.

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Self portrait made from a photo my sister took of me on the tube in London.

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"The City Silent" page 272.

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"The City Silent" page 271. Slow progress is still progress.

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"The City Silent" page 270.

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"The City Silent" page 269.

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"The City Silent" page 268. Simple, but at least it's progress.

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Another abstract self portrait, trying to be looser in my drawing and strokes.

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"Cardullo's." Tried something different; minimalist landscape. I kept cutting and cutting the detail, trying to get to as little as possible while retaining identity. Sure helps that there's a sign.

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Just some rando I saw on the subway, lit by the worst lighting, staring into nothing. I've been there many times myself. One of the three guys from the image I did last year, "Three Horsemen."

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Another self portrait as I've been so short of time lately. Just need to make something if only one of these.

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"The City Silent" page 267. Smatt spotlight.

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Alex Horne. I've painted him before. He has a very interesting face.