A simple question, Kevin: I see at your profile that you have been working for MS for several years, and I suppose it hasn't been in anything related to art (or has it?). I am currently making a big effort trying to fit my love for art with my "daily life" as Director of Quality and facilities manager, and several other areas at my charge (I don't know if this makes any sense in English, sorry but I am a Spaniard). So, my question is: how do you manage your time so you can dedicate a bit of it every day to your art? I am stealing time from my sleep, but this makes my art suffer from it, and if I paint when I get back home (at Spain the daily job usually ends at 8 pm and starts at 8am) I am so tired, that it really requires extra strength to start painting/drawing... Just curiosity.
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I began this blog to share my passion ( obsession) with becoming the best figure draw-er/painter I can be and to track my development as a draftsman and painter. - and -- to show friends, family, students and clients what I am up to. If you are studying figure drawing and painting and find frustrations ( and moments of triumph), you are in the same boat as me and I hope you will find hope/empathy/humor/support in what I have produced here.. I encourage any comments and notes to me directly and will do my best to answer any questions you may have. Good luck to you and thank you for stopping by!
If you are having a bad day - draw more! if you paintings are not getting where you want them to be - draw better.. the painting comes it seems to me but the drawing truly matters before the painting ever will!
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I am now 5 years into my classically-oriented art education. I have three years at the Academy of Art in San Francisco - having studied there with Ruben Deanda, Henry Yan, Zhaoming Wu and Tomutsu Takeshima and Tae Park among such great teachers. I have studied the GCA in NYC and with Rob Liberace, Michael Grimaldi, Hope Railey as well as master Glen Orbik down at CAI.. I spent a rewarding year with Anthony Ryder in NM - 2009-10. The fall of 2010 took me to the Guild Atelier in beautiful and wacky Brooklyn - studying w/ Camie Davis. I work hard and want to be as great a painter and draftsman as I can be. Drawing and painting people is probably my favorite thing to do.. I grew up in Washington, DC and spent 15 working in Seattle for Microsoft
I am now an Instructor at the Academy of Art. The energy is great and I hope my students see how much their success matters to me. They probably have no idea ( unless they hunt this down and read it!).
Anthony Ryder, Ted Seth Jacobs, Berni Wrightson, Rich Corben, Rodin, Camille Claudel, Crewsdon (photog), Ron Meuck ( sculptor)
Rembrandt, Jacob Collins, Robert Liberace, Patrcia Watwood, Henry Yan, Zhaoming Wu, Michael Mattesi ( Force Drawing - check out his book!) Juliet Aristides, Charles Reid, Burton Silverman, Frank Frazetta, Rob McGinnis, Ruben De Anda(!), Richard Schmid ( check out his book "Alla Prima" - amazing! William Merritt Chase, John Singer Sargent, Adrian Gottlieb, Camie Davis, Nick Hiltner, Doug Flynt, Alex Kanevsky, Adam Hughes, Milt Kobayashi, Charles Gnass, Charles Dana Gibson, William Merritt Chase.. wait is Norman Rockwell on this list ??? !!! - more to list soon!
8 comments:
Hi Kevin,
These sketches are amazing, like usual!
Happy Drawing! Liz
nice work Kevin--- wish I were there
Found your blog from CA, awesome stuff man =).
Looking really really good. Can't wait to see this stuff in person.
k
sweet sweet stuff, kev! hope you're doing good over there!
Very nice stuff, I especially like the back sketch!
I really love (and envy) your work. Being a figure fanatic myself, I cannot but wonder how you have achieved such a master skill...
A simple question, Kevin:
I see at your profile that you have been working for MS for several years, and I suppose it hasn't been in anything related to art (or has it?). I am currently making a big effort trying to fit my love for art with my "daily life" as Director of Quality and facilities manager, and several other areas at my charge (I don't know if this makes any sense in English, sorry but I am a Spaniard).
So, my question is: how do you manage your time so you can dedicate a bit of it every day to your art? I am stealing time from my sleep, but this makes my art suffer from it, and if I paint when I get back home (at Spain the daily job usually ends at 8 pm and starts at 8am) I am so tired, that it really requires extra strength to start painting/drawing...
Just curiosity.
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