Truman Chambers

I don't think I've finished another drawing this big in all of the 2020s. I sort of lost that part of my practice after I learned to paint well enough. Big paintings are a lot easier to deal with since you can just roll em up and toss em around, but drawing is so much more frustratingly delicate. I also like drawing flat, but I don't have any big tables. Anyway this is me getting over those problems by just making a big drawing across a few smaller sheets of paper. It would be such a nightmare to frame and display this for real, but I don't have to worry about showing my art very much and I do have to worry about fitting it in my closets and on my shelves all the time. "Shy" doesn't even begin to describe it, oil on canvas, 48"x48" Big painting of the summer is done and drying (or, *curing* for the pedants). The other slides are some insignificant paint moments that occured around it. Horses in Love, oil on canvas, 24"x 18" Happy TWENTY-EIGHTH Birthday to my favorite artist/curator/wife whose exquisite beauty is a personal and professional concern of mine. Not only is she a revoltingly talented drawer and thinker, but I also owe much of my artistic progress to her for critiquing my paintings every time I bother her to, and also for being my genuine muse (but in a progressive and feminist way!) Mermaids, all oil on paper on wood panel, 8x8, 8x10, 8x8 An Earnest Favor, 16"x 18", oil on canvas Oil on canvas, 30" x 36" 8x8 acrylic sketch