I did 3 new sketches and an number of events such as the SuperSense @ Rubin Museum (RMA), a panel on Monetizing Online Video Panel at Ultra Light Startups plus Interesting Cafe at Clickable featuring Garrett Brown and Girls in Tech Relaunch in the last week, not to mention the Social Media for Social Change event last Friday night where I donated 3 paintings and lost my Web 2.0 Strategy guide and a purple scarf (maybe it’s just misplaced since I can go back to Roger Smith Hotel and see if they found my stuff).

There’s also another project that my friends and I are hatching that may involve an Art Show and Web Summit in Manhattan – we’ve seen the space and it looks promising – that’s all I can say at this point.

And while I wanted to paint more – I managed to do a few sketches on Saturday that I posted on Facebook, but I’d like to blog about them here.

At the Met

This sculpture that I drew is the same one I sketched a year ago – I kinda wanted to see how I’d do it differently this time – I’m a little looser, which is good.

Life drawing of Claudia

All three sketches are done in my personal notebook which I carry with me where ever I go.   I may not draw all the time, but I’m ready to draw when I need to.   I’ve drawn this model before and while she’s painfully think, she’s also great as a model.

This painting, I think, is done – I went by my studio space and decided to finish it – if anything can really be finished.   Orginally, I named it “The Uprising” but I think it ought to really be named “Truth” because that’s what I feel when I look at the painting.

Truth 40" x 60" Acrylic and Oil Pastel on Canvas - Marshall Sponder

Well, the video explains it all – though the first part is pretty dark so all you can do is listen to the audio – Enjoy!

I did three studies today, including the Nude Study from my last post. Here’s the other two – and I did not spend more than an hour on each, if that long.

 

There was a woman painting the rest of the group as we all painted the model – in about 90 minutes she had done a finished oil sketch, maybe 30 x 30″ – I could recognize myself in her painting – it was quite good - though I feel she needs to take her work to the next level – but that’s for her to decide, not me.

Anyway, she took a catnap on the studio couch and I decided to paint her Palette – since her palette was the most interesting thing in the studio to me.  She kinda woke up after about 30 minutes and eventually wanted to use her palette, so I made this a quick study and decided to just abstract off it – thinking of Picasso while doing this – started with Oil Pastels and quickly used chalk over it, then spraying with fixative.

The last painting of the day, below, was another view of the studio – with the theme of “painting within a painting” that I started last week.  Only, you probably can’t tell because my treatment was loose and I got exhausted - but it was a good exhaustion.

I like this study – for all the looseness of it – there’s some color effects that happened – that I allowed to happen.

Again, I asked my self – what’s my commitment to these works?  Answer:  I don’t know.  I only know that it feels right to me doing as I am – where this all goes … I don’t know.