Studio update: 9/24

Title: (work in progress)
Size: 24" x 18"
Medium: Oil on canvas

So rather than finishing the self portrait and starting some other high-priority stuff, I've spent the last two solid work days in the studio painting drapery and some really cool podiums/lecterns that I picked up for free by the side of the nearby co-op dumpster. They had just cleaned out the old meeting hall upstairs; the dumpster itself was full of goodies from roughly 1915-1970, mostly documents pertaining to that particular chapter of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (some funky fraternal organization which I know nothing about).

This painting was started the previous day, using cardboard boxes and drapery. The figure is pretty rough presently, but adding the new (old) furniture helped a lot.

Alpha Trinity

Title: Alpha Trinity

Size: 36" x 24"

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Status: In progress

This piece was started on my 25th birthday, on the second day of work the objects were added. The use of those two objects directly references my painting 'David and Goliath' from February of this year. However, I soon realized that there was an uncanny resemblance to a much older painting which I had stood in front of in 2006 ... Masaccio's 'Holy Trinity', painted in 1426, in the Florentine church Santa Maria Novella.

Here's a detail of Masaccio's Trinity. I'll discuss the piece in a future blog post as I bring it towards completion (It will be included in the Spotober group show, Oct. 15th - Nov. 12th)

As a point of interest, Masaccio was 25 when he painted his 'Trinity'.