Mary Tyler Moore is awesome. If don’t already know this then I advise you to get with it. It’s hard to properly do her justice in just a blog post, but I will at least try to shed light on a few aspects of her awesome. *For starters, Mary’s Hollywood break was as the “Hotpoint [...]
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Second Spoiler Alert Painting (Marissa Cooper Dies).
So I am just about finished with my second Marissa Cooper painting. I mostly need to tuck that lower jaw bone in from popping up and make her face slightly more anatomically correct. Here ya go: (Recent O.C. re-viewing acquired knowledge: Marissa and Ryan had it coming. She put Jeff Buckley’s “Hallelujah” on her first [...]
Richard Avedon on Portraits
“You can’t get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. The surface is all you’ve got. You can only get beyond the surface by working with the surface. All that you can do is manipulate that surface–gesture, costume, expression–radically and correctly.” -Richard Avedon
Happy 4th!
In honor of the 4th of July, here is one of my favorite photos of Marilyn Monroe singing for the troops. Marilyn has mentioned how performing for the troops was one of her happiest moments. You can most definitely tell from this photo. Happy 4th!
Commissions: The View From Away From Here.
Commissions are always a strange and flattering thing. It’s wonderful when someone picks you out specifically, as an artist, to do something personal for them. It’s nervewracking because you are creating a piece, while yes..with their respect and blessing…but still FOR someone else…not as a gift, but for hire. Especially with a friend, you [...]
Joan Crawford
“She is the only star I know who manufactured herself…She drew up a blueprint for herself and outlined a beautiful package of skin, bones, and character and then set out to put life into the outline. She succeeded, and so Joan Crawford came into existence at the same time an overweight Charleston dancer, born Lucille [...]
A Dame and a Dress
I know I am majorly late on this, but it doesn’t feel to proper to not have wished a certain dead movie star a happy birthday. Marilyn Monroe was born 85 years ago this past June 1st. Later today, June 18th, the infamous white pleated dress from The Seven Year Itch is going up for [...]
Marissa Cooper is Epic.
Marissa Cooper is epic. Played by Mischa Barton, Marissa has a mythology and iconography which is continued in some form throughout the entire series of the teen show The O.C. The pilot for The O.C. is one of my favorite TV pilots. It pays a blatant homage to Rebel Without A Cause but without being stifled [...]
Sneak Peak: Spoiler Alert: Marissa Cooper is Dead
Here’s a peak at the piece I have going up in South Boston Open Studios Group Show. It will be on display this weekend throughout the month of June. This is my first finished piece in my Marissa Cooper series. This is part of my larger series on exile, exit, and loss in Teen TV. [...]
South Boston Open Studios, Spring 2011
It’s that time of year….time for Southie Open Studios. Come by, I will have new work. More info here.
