Huffman Fine Art Newsletter - February 2026
Floral Bouquet
Floral Bouquet
Yellow Glasses
Yellow Glasses
Hello to Everyone,
It's been about 7 months since I last posted a newsletter. A lot has
happened and also not so much. In Part 1 of my July newsletter I
discussed how I was no longer interested in marketing my art and
instead was focusing on becoming the best possible artist I can be.
In the ensuing months I have fully retired from house painting and have
been spending time figuring out what that means. Mostly I've been
figuring out my finances and been working on my life and apartment so
that I can focus on my art. Gustave Flaubert the novelist once said "Be
regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and
original in your work." As my daughters can tell you I have been
telling them for years that I need to get my life together. I'm finally
doing it and should be back full time at making art in another month or
so. Hopefully some of out will be violent and original.
In the meantime, I have managed to do a few new paintings. I am still
focusing primarily on my head studies. I have taken to calling them
Facescapes to emphasis my interest in the planes and terrain of the
head. I am lighting them dramatically from below to disrupt what I've
learned when I trained to be an illustrator. As an illustrator there
are rules on proportion and spacing that I wanted to get beyond.
I'm featuring two of my new paintings here. Yellow Glasses and Floral
Bouquet. In both of them I am moving to a new style. I do a drawing in
black sharpie on paper and paint in oils allowing some of the sharpie
to show through.
As always I am very interested in what you think positive our negative.
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