CynicalSaint

New career, new stress, back in school, less time! So my fairly low production rate has some excuse this time. As you can see from my uploads, I am working almost exclusively on van Gogh studies now.  vggallery.com has an amazing library of all paintings and drawings. My goal, is to recreate every single drawing.  At a count of well over 1000, that should keep me busy for pretty much the rest of my life, but it's good to have a goal! New uploads this week, and more to come when I can get some pictures taken of the others I have done. Also have planned a very large scale version of The Potato eaters, somewhere in the 24 x 36 in range.  Bu

So, Although I come here often, I glanced at my last journal entry and noticed that I have not updated it in years.  So here goes. No longer in France.  :(  Would give very dear parts of my body and soul to go back. Not doing so much in the way of painting lately, but back on the drawing kick. Mildly depressed by looking at the massive talent on Deviant.  :/ Submitting a bunch of stuff today, only a couple of which I am really happy with, but couldn't hurt.  :)

Well, I have recently recieved some new DVDs here in France, two of which can't help but to inspire. The first is Great Expectations, the art in that movie is so simplistic, and yet awesome.  Seeing the sudden rush of inspiration he gets in the portrait scene gave me some of my own. The second, is If Lucy Fell.  If you haven't seen it, great movie!  Bit of a chick flic which makes it surprising that I like it, but one of the two main characters is a painter, and I just love how they capture the 'painters life'. In response, I have tried picking up the charcoal again.  I have no inate drawing ability, but everyone has said that it comes wi