Old School

I wound up finishing this one first. It's 18" x 24" acrylic and pastels on 140 lb. cold-pressed watercolor paper. That's Pam's old Argus camera on the left and mine on the right. My grandmother gave it to me when I was in college and it was what I learned photography on. I used it to take reference photos for my earliest charcoal studies. The negatives were from another camera I had 30 years ago.

Works in Progress...

WIP 1, 2, 3. The first two are for a composition I call, "Green Tomato Wine", the last one is, "Old School". Almost finished with GTW, and still working on Old School. They are mixed mediums, mostly acrylics, with final accents of pastel pencils.

Faith, Hope...

A cold day in January, 2010, Crisco wanted some shots out by the fire for his portfolio.

I Was Raised In Sundown, TX....

Since it was the first day of a new year, my wife, Pam, wanted some new pics of me and said she wanted the theme to be a seasoned, grizzled look. I guess for the time being, I fit the bill, so we set it up. I'm more comfortable behind the camera, but tried to follow her promptings in the poses. She shot quite a few shots in this session, but I am only showing a couple here. She did a fine job, but I told her the subject matter was wholly lacking.