EARLY WORK
Fall 2004-Spring 2005

The first section of this group of work is an example of what I produced after a time of working mostly from specific assignments in college. After learning classical techniques in oil painting, I decided it was time to expand a bit from those traditional rules. I used only slightly primed unstretched muslin cloth, and using direct painting, I created a series of portraits from live models, spending about 40-60 minutes on each.

The next group of paintings were created before the first, and are examples from a time I spent studying the sculptures of Michelangelo. I used the classical underpainting method, Grisaille, to render interestingly cropped studies from printed images of Michelangelo's sculptures.