Scott

I have two big shows coming up. The first is November 9th at MDH Gallery in Chelsea. The show is called “Forms, Human and Otherwise”. I’ll be sending several drawings and hopefully some new paintings up there as well. Opening reception is Thursday, November 9th. More details forthcoming.

MDH Fine Arts
233 West 19th Street, NYC
917-364-8221
michael@mdhfinearts.com

Next up is a group show at La Luz de Jesus from December 1st through 31.

La Luz de Jesus
4633 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90027
323-666-7667
sales@laluzdejesus.com

I have all new work planned for this show and have been busy lining up models and creating lots of new work. I hope to finish somewhere between 15 and 20 new pieces to send out, a mix of drawings and paintings. I have some really fun stuff going and hope to post some soon.

Mike and I will be flying out with Kate and Jared and will spend the week kicking around LA and Palm Springs.

I’ll be posting more about both these shows as the time draws near.

I’ll be down there Saturday for both this and Arts on Foot, and may do some chalk drawings myself.

CHALK4PEACE is the young person’s global arts project planned for September 16-17, 2006. Its goal is for one million young artists of all ages to create sidewalk chalk paintings around the world at the same time focusing upon peace as the theme. It is a one weekend event in September 2006 that happens everywhere…rain or shine…

10:30 a.m. EST at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, Washington, DC.

Arts on Foot
Saturday, September 16
Rain or Shine
11:00am – 5:00pm
FREE

Arts on Foot will take place in various locations in the downtown area between 4th and 14th streets, NW and Pennsylvania Avenue and L Street, NW

Metro: Metro Center, Federal Triangle, Gallery Pl-Chinatown, Archives-Navy Mem’l-Penn Quarter, Judiciary Sq, or Mt. Vernon Sq/7th St-Convention Center

Use the Gallery Pl-Chinatown Metro stop for the Art Market and Outdoor Festival Site located on F Street, NW between 7th and 9th streets and 8th Street, NW between E and F streets

Come join the fun at Arts on Foot 2006, the 14th annual celebration of the arts in Downtown’s Penn Quarter!

It’s been over a month since I’ve posted here. Several things are going on.
The agent I’ve been working with has kept me busy with several assignments.
Here are a few illustrations from the last project. I was really happy with
the way these kids turned out. I did 12 finished illustrations over the
Labor Day weekend. Fun eh?

These were done a bit differently than a few of my recent posts. The
sketches were done on plain paper and scanned in. After getting approval I
changed the opacity level to 10% in the layers menu and printed it out on
smooth Bristol using my trusty Epson Pixma 1500. This time I used just
gouache for the bulk of the work. Followed up with some fine detail work
using a terra cotta and then black verithin colored pencil. Finally I went
though with white for the highlights.

One of the differences with these illustrations is that I used a very light tone throughout and it made a big difference. My illustrations tend to get dark at times so it’s nice to make some progress. I look forwardto applying it in my fine arts as well.

This is for a project earlier in the month called “Squid attack” All the cool kids are doing squids attacking whales so if you haven’t done yours get on the stick.

From Wired Magazine. Good news for all of us that are over 29 and still plugging away.

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“What he has found is that genius – whether in art or architecture or even business – is not the sole province of 17-year-old Picassos and 22-year-old Andreessens. Instead, it comes in two very different forms, embodied by two very different types of people. “Conceptual innovators,” as Galenson calls them, make bold, dramatic leaps in their disciplines. They do their breakthrough work when they are young. Think Edvard Munch, Herman Melville, and Orson Welles. They make the rest of us feel like also-rans. Then there’s a second character type, someone who’s just as significant but trudging by comparison. Galenson calls this group “experimental innovators.” Geniuses like Auguste Rodin, Mark Twain, and Alfred Hitchcock proceed by a lifetime of trial and error and thus do their important work much later in their careers. Galenson maintains that this duality – conceptualists are from Mars, experimentalists are from Venus – is the core of the creative process. And it applies to virtually every field of intellectual endeavor, from painters and poets to economists.”