My figure-painting class here in San Francisco has a diverse student body, but not THIS diverse...
CAUTION: NUDITY
I was in the Stanford Bookstore and saw this strange visual pun across the room... or did I?
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
In drawing class I was supposed to be studying perspective, but I went beyond the box...
Worried you're anorexic? Gain weight, yet stay slender! Become a centaur, like model Paulina Porizkova...
CAUTION: NUDITY and BODY IMAGE/ANOREXIA ISSUES
A sea-centaur explains why some dreams don't LIKE to surface to so-called consciousness...
CAUTION: WET T SHIRT, EXISTENTIALISTS, HARPOONS
A Leonardo style skeletal study of a cat person that grew into more of a character study. I just like her...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
From an ad. I recommend drawing photos as well as live models; some poses, models can't hold!
CAUTION: NUDITY
After a workout, she looks at herself in the mirror, and for once, she LIKES herself...
CAUTION: SHE LIKES HERSELF, AND WE CAN'T HAVE THAT!
A sophisticated composition for a sophisticated model. Or at least seasick...
CAUTION: NUDITY, NAUSEA...
Rather than draw the model, I often sketch my classmates in life-drawing. They get so intent!
A model clowning--an ephemeral emotional flash
CAUTION: ART-SCHOOL NUDITY
In life-drawing class, the model was tired and settled into a pillow-nest. She looked so feline...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
A pensive leonine woman resting on a tilted rock. A life drawing with certain imaginary spots.
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
Just a startling moment when a woman with backlit hair turned incandescent...
A model who created absurd, impossible poses, and held them heroically...
CAUTION: SILLY NUDITY
Just what it says.
CAUTION: CARTOON BUTT and GRRL BICEPS
Nina the model's weirdest pose yet; she has the original drawing but this copy is close...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
Girl peers out from a satin robe hiding only her face. Look at me! Hide! I know those contradictory feelings.
CAUTION: NUDITY
An elegant, sexy classmate of mine, a fastidious feline island in our sea of grubby manic sketchers...
Girl in a red cap, half-asleep in bed, looking either sexy or she has the flu, like I did...
CAUTION: NUDITY
Evangeline stood before the mysterious portal and shushed us...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
A confrontation between the top predators on this planet: Evangeline and her boot...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
In life drawing class, the model built a sort of green island/nest in the sea of grubby students...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
For two years, I sat at the desk in our co-op gallery, and secretly sketched our bewildered, art-assaulted customers...
A narrative mural on the sexiness of dancers, as I became one--at the moment I lost my old geeky self...
She didn't want to be there. She closed her eyes and went elsewhere. So I painted where she went...
CAUTION: NUDITY
Stayed up late, painting foreshortening. Then I saw a scene in color, motion, 3D, and knew I had to be dreaming: I was visualizing too clearly, THINKING too clearly, to be awake...
CAUTION: NUDITY
I'm a unicorn in a life-drawing class, feeling more naked than the model...
CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY
It's not nice to outline things that don't want to have outlines...
A sketch I made as a kid in a museum, of a Navaho painting of horses who got me hot...
At a family picnic, my sisters and I fish for scholarships and grants. They put down my art, my website...
On a cloud in space I met an ape molding a model of the Earth, glancing at the original far below us. We were much alike...
My friend Chris gets tied up at the office--that’s his job, looking martyred! But when the boss is away...
CAUTION: NUDITY
The mysterious glyphs above the model's head are dream-language, warning me to...
CAUTION: NUDITY
A rather feline runner poised for the starting gun...
I'm more a dream artist than a realist, but one day I set up a mirror and looked in it...
Einstein's tongue got its own poster, why shouldn't mine? But let's see even the Ein Tongue do this...
A life drawing I added a guy to, turning a piece about loneliness sex and socks into a wish fulfillment...
CAUTION: SEX, SOX (BUT UNLIKE CLINTON, NO SAX)
A sudden image of a woman whose other lips not only talked, they wouldn't shut up. Worse yet, they...
CAUTION: NUDITY
Silky, my often-animal anima, leads me into a strange pagan church where we get married at last...
In my drawing class it was antlers and bones and skulls, death death death till I was tired of MY bones...
I couldn't find the motivation to do enough figure studies unless they were sexy, so...
CAUTION: SEX
I dream I'm an otter, and wake into a dream about sculpture--and learn my style's due to my species...
After a day of nonstop art, I'm in rural China. Two women tell me their village declared them dead, killed by demons...
Me as a unicorn boy. Though I got a haircut since then, and most people can't see the horn...
CAUTION: NUDITY
A unicorn in a dance performance--a solo vignette with a spectacular leap. And the dancer knows it...
I'm lost in a valley where unicorns love cyborgs but fear giant ants, who adore unicorns but hate cyborgs, who think ants are cute, but dread unicorns! And while the Three Tribes love and hate, cave-monsters sculpt them all. I set up peace talks between these four vertices of my tetrahedral soul, but what if I get what I want? Peace, love... transformation? What if those aren't cute and New Age?
CAUTION: SWEARING, DRUNK LIONS, CYBORG SURGERY, AND GOGGLE-BARFING
Make silhouettes of your beloved vegetables; then listen to the spaces between...
CAUTION: LEWD SQUASH
These sketches bare my work process: I multitask without planning, in a flow state. I really do “follow my bliss”!
In cave times, while the men were out hunting, it was the women who learned to paint the cave walls to summon...
A figure study teaches me a lesson about the sexiness of brains. And about the unsexiness of no brains...
CAUTION: NUDITY; LIBELS ILLINOIS