New Paiting Video

I just finished shooting my new video, painting a nude outdoors. It was shot over two days in an Aspen grove up in the Eastern Sierra. I dont know how long the editing process will take but I'll post an ETA here when I can and I'll put up a teaser here sometime soon, in the mean time here are some photos.



What else do you do when you're on a break with your crew? Teach everyone gang signs.

March California Workshops

I'm doing two 3-day figure painting workshops at my studio in California later this month, March 20th - 22nd and 27th - 29th. We will be painting in the studio and outdoors.
You can register online on my website.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Zorn painting restored

I found this interesting blog post by an art conservation student about the restoration of an Anders Zorn painting of a nude woman and child at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. I've seen this painting pre-restoration and it looked kind of dull and hazy. Apparently the painting was censored a while ago when someone painted over the woman's pubic hair. The varnish was also in bad shape and needed to be removed, it looks much better now with the more brilliant color. There are more pics on the original blog post.

This is the UV light photo showing the Zorn painting as he intended it to look, the over painting on the pubes shows up because it is non-florescent and is on top of the varnish.

This is a detail of the censored version.

American Art Collector Magazine article and cover

I have an article in the June issue of American Art Collector Magazine Jeremy Lipking Force of Nature. Photographer Jeff Newton came out and took some cool photos of me working. There are some paintings from my upcoming show in Santa Monica including the cover image, a detail of a painting of my daughter Skylar.
My buddy Joseph Todorovitch also has an article in the same issue.