Dickensian nap

I know you were wondering—the Dickens URL for this blog is:

http://dickensurl.com/48a7/Thats_the_state_to_live_and_die_inRrrich

(see dickensurl.com for explanation)

In an iPhone program called Brushes, I made this painting. (The daffodils were in Nick and Sarah's apartment; I finished it without them in front of me.)



The program lets you export a movie of every fingerstroke.

For a real expert’s work, see www.jorgecolombo.com/isketches/

Art in progress

My friend Mike Fitts, a kick-ass artist in Charlottesville, recently posted a series of photos on Facebook. The series shows one of his paintings from beginning to completion.

Mike paints in oil on found metal. He fashions metal into a canvas shape around wood framing and paints small objects—often kitschy or vintage—realistically to the point of trompe l’oeil. Below, a painting that will be in a show in NYC later this spring.





and the final painting—the twinkies are actual size; the whole piece is 15 by 21":