Refreshed

August 2, 2009 by tom.

I feel refreshed after my vacation. I know I wrote that I was considering creative retirement but after more rest on my vacation, I don’t think creative retirement will happen until I draw my last breath. I guess I was going through a creative block. I did start drawing more cartoon style characters from a book that I was reading. The book is one of my reference books -Cartooning the Head and Figure by Jack Hamm. I’ve started to incorporate cartoon elements into my work. More to do with fine line work and drawing with a pencil, then using acrylic paint over top of the pencil. I like working in Mixed media more now than I have in the past. As I’ve been painting, I seem to miss drawing and have decided to combine the two and see what the results are in the finished work. Also, before I go, I spilled yellow paint on a cork board by accident and used my palette knife to wipe it off and ended up painting the whole cork board. I’ve never tried or considered cork as a painting ground before today. Accidents can bring surprises. Here are two of my latest paintings. One is of a man in a pool that is not yet titled and the other is a page for my in progress artist book. Enjoy, Tom

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