Comics At The Bacon Free Library

I hang with kiddos at the Bacon Free Library in Natick and draw comics once a month!  Here is a sample comic I drew at the first meeting.

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Left Hand Comics

A student hurt his drawing hand today, so in solidarity, most of us tried drawing comics with our left hands.  Here's my result.

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Fruitful Choices

I'm teaching a comics class at the Tremont School on Fridays after school.  I ask the students for a prompt each week and try to work out a comic based on that for the following week, so I can show them my process.  During this class, a student suggested: A bunch of fruit arguing over who's next to be eaten.

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Midlife Crisis Of The Pasta Persuasion

I'm teaching a comics class at the Tremont School on Fridays after school.  I ask the students for a prompt each week and try to work out a comic based on that for the following week, so I can show them my process.  During the first class, a student suggested: Spaghetti monster who's having a midlife crisis.

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Fakes And Forgeries Class: Guernica 04

Two more stages of my Guernica homage and a final.  If you're in the Newport, RI area, please check out the 21st Fakes & Forgeries Interpretation of Old Masters and New show at Spring Bull Gallery opening on February 4th.  This beaut should be hanging up somewhere.

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Fakes And Forgeries Class: Guernica 03

Plugging along.

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Fakes And Forgeries Class: Guernica 02

Finished drawing and first application of paint.

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Fakes And Forgeries Class: Guernica

I received a gift this Christmas which was enrollment in the Fakes and Forgeries class held at the Newport Art Museum.  I chose Picasso's Gurnica and originally wanted to put the GOP candidates in there, but I might do a straight up copy.  If I have time, I might do a second with political overtones.  I'm working on a 16"x40" canvas and finished maybe 1/3 of the under drawing.  Hopefully it will be included in a show at Spring Bull Gallery.  More to come.

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Teaching Comic Strips At The Museum

I had the chance to meet a bunch of great kids at the Newport Art Museum today for a birthday, where the birthday boy wished to learn about drawing comic books (I had these prepped to teach about comic strips, but could easily translate the concept into comic books. He is a Marvel fan). I prepared the above pages and created Bugging Out yesterday to help teach about making comics. All the kids were really cool and did some great drawings, and a few inked and colored some sketches I did for them. Overall, we all had fun and I really enjoyed interacting with them all.

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Portrait Painting Class Week 3 & 4- Glazing

Here's weeks 3 and 4, glazing color on the piece. The class went well and is over now, I'll post the final piece soon. I'm still rusty in oil painting after not doing it for years, but now I got the bug and hope to do some more pieces this summer.

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Portrait Painting Class Week 2- Underpainting

Week 2 features a graytone underpainting. Meow meow.

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Portrait Painting Class Week 1- Drawing

Hi all,

It's been awhile since I've posted since a lot has been going on. First off, I made the move back home to Rhode Island for the indefinite future and am looking for work and taking a breather. However, I am taking a portrait painting class at the Newport Art Museum, taught by Keith Fox and I am a week into a 5-week program. Here's the results of week one, where I primed the canvas with gray acrylic and sketched out the model in charcoal. More soon and finished MODOK comic soon...

--B