"Portraiture" Blogs & Blog Posts

Remember Ryan Zinke? You know, President Trump’s former Secretary of the Interior. The guy who advocated drilling in all American waterways, compared Confederate General Robert E. Lee to Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, enjoyed extravagan...

Generative Adversarial Networks use a pair of machine-learning models to create things that seem very realistic: one of the models, the "generator," uses its training data to make new things; and the other, the "discerner," checks the generator's out...

Still running full steam ahead! The sticky glue-fingered part is over and I'm in the performance zone. Attempting to capture the possible relations between the objects I've made and the body. It's a playful and silly practice. But you must take it se...

I've been spending an awful lot of time at home lately, packing the house, making work and generally attempting to save pennies so that we can give them to all the people involved in buying and selling houses (it's a frightfully costly venture). Anyw...

I don't care about my looks but I wish people will see my soul and it appears more clearly in these photographs than in others.~ August StindbergI take an awful lot of self portraits. Well, actually, I take a lot of photos of myself. I don't know if...

As a favour to a fellow artist I spent Sunday afternoon taking some whacky portraits. It was a lot of fun  - the session was full of shenanigans and fits of hysteria. Here are a few of the final images. Haha! Chris will be exhibiting with Curren...

"Asima"24"x30"Medium: Acrylic paint on ricepaper mounted to canvasProcess: I used one of my pattern linocuts printed on ricepaper as a starting point and attached that to the canvas with gel medium. Then I alternated between painting her an...