People

An attempt at a portrait of one of my sisters:



From an old photo of me:

Two scenes, one face

Inspired by hearing the Carter Family on my iPod yesterday:



Not quite abstract:



Based on a photo:

Three today

This one's self-explanatory, I suppose.



A skinny guy doing push-ups.



This is a new version of the one I call "Pathetique", playing off the idea of a guy getting older (look for the white hair on the chest) and feeling kind of glum about it.

Niece and Doorway

Two people

Based on an ad photo, this "file" is named Dreaming but I should probably actually call it Penseur in honor of Rodin:



Can you tell I just made this one up in my head? Not much detail. Inspired by reading Tolstoy.

Drawing from photos

Both of these are based on magazine ad photos.

Two scenes

This one's inspired by a scene in the early pages of War and Peace, which I'm now reading in the new translation that just came out. This character, Dolokhov, bets that he can sit on the windowsill of the room he and his friends are in are drink a whole bottle of liquor while not holding on without falling out:



This one's inspired by my experience in 1990 of swimming/walking into phosphorescence in the Gulf of Mexico, though I've made the characater here a woman: