Red Head

I was digging around in my computer files and came across this little digital sketch I did in November 2010.

Microscope 4

Microscope 4
2009/2011
24" by 36"
Acrylic on Panel

This is a painting that I started and finished in 2009 over a period of five months. I wasn't happy with that first version and so I wrapped it up and stored it in my office. It's been traveling with me as I moved from office to office for two years and in December of 2011 I rediscovered it behind some moving boxes. I still didn't like it. I decided to paint over and revamp it. The result is what you see here.

Abstract Woman Meeting Sketch

Another meeting sketch.

Metric Women

Another page of sketches from a meeting about a month ago.
Pen and colored pencil.

Coffee Cup

Doodled this during an art review this morning.

New Paintings for Sale

Today is the "shank pile" blog's 6th birthday!
To celebrate I've just added three new original paintings for sale
over at my DonShank.com Webstore.
All three are acrylic on canvas from 2011.

Happy Birthday Blog!

Arrangement, One

Details:

Arrangement, One
2011
22 in x 28 in
Acrylic on Canvas

New Prints for Sale

I've just added 4 new prints to my Print Store on DonShank.com

More Sketches

Meeting Sketch Pile

Kurt - Table Doodles

I just found this photo of some doodles I did earlier this year on a paper I laid out to protect my table.
Kurt is working on a little abstract painting of a cake.

Collapsible Head

Details...

Collapsible Head
2011
22 inches x 28 inches
Acrylic on Canvas

Cubist Sketch

This is a little sketch of a chair in my living room. It probably helped the cubist angle that my daughter kept moving the chair and cushions around, and of course juggling family needs caused the relatively quick painting to actually span the entire day, so the light was never the same twice.
The painting was done using the Brushes app on my iPad.

M Constructs

Here are some scans from the pile of sketches and doodles laying around my desk that aren't related to Pixar (hence virtually all of it is abstract).

Adobe Eazel

I was fortunate to be in the prerelease testing of the new Adobe iPad apps and they are very cool. I had a lot of fun doing these paintings using Adobe Eazel. The paint engine is this sort of water-colory medium that bleeds and dries and the interface is unique using a five-finger touch. There's also a button to send the image from Eazel directly to Photoshop so you don't have to email yourself a jpeg or something. A new file appears and your painting is on a layer. Pretty nice!

There's also two other apps that connect with Photoshop that are pretty exciting. I recommend checking these out when they become available. From Adobe's website...

Adobe Color Lava, Adobe Eazel and Adobe Nav applications for Photoshop are also expected to be available in early May 2011, ranging in price from US$1.99-$4.99, on the iTunes App Store.

One of my images made it into a promotional video for Eazel.

And here's a little bit more about Eazel, Nav, and Color Lava.

Even More Fine Art!

After 3 years my wife and I decided upon another art collaboration. This new work is as beautiful as our first and we call her Phoebe!

Abstract Breakfast #1

I have so little free personal time these days that my need to experiment comes out in other ways. Last Sunday I made too much pancake batter and started branching out from the Mickey Mouse shaped cakes I was making for my daughter. There's some potential for quite a few variations on this theme. I've already made some pancakes that are radiating ringlets on the same cake as well as mixed in some burnt drips as texture. Hehehe. Oh and we had a fruit salad that I totally forgot to utilize! So many possibilities!

This is the one that started it all...


Abstract Breakfast 1
Pancake Batter and Jam
12" Dish
2011

And check out these cool pancakes!... Jim's Pancakes