Fast Portraits

Taking a break from large (for me) paintings. I want to master or a least get better at constructing and completing more complicated paintings-but every once in a while it works to begin and finish a small paintings.

Painting a Head

We spend most of our time looking at peoples faces. I wanted to place this subjects hands on his head but couldn’t fiqure out how to capture this using a mirror. I’ve asked my wife to take a photo of me with my hands on my head so that I can complete the painting.

Women 2

2nd pass

Women

First run at new painting

Learning How to Make It Interesting

I am just about half way through on this painting and looking for ways to add some punch.

Another Portrait

I always find it interesting how I eventually wind up.

Playing with Color

Just messing around with paints, crayons and other stuff, brings out joy you remember when you were young. Hint!

Play (c) by B. Martin

Runways

My first working experience was in the New York Fashion Industry, 7th Ave as it was called. I don’t think we thought of it as an industry.

I got to meet people like Richard Blauner, (who gave me two ties from A. Sulka) Jerry Silverman, Herbert Sondheim and others. I was one of the first to see the original dresses and coats as they came back from the Paris Fashion Shows. In other words – I was in shipping. But none the less, I still admired the beauty of what I was seeing.

This painting is a layout of a series of paintings having to do with fashion for a show this winter.