This painting is from a very strategic modeling session. My wife and I planned out each pose based on our favorite figurative paintings throughout art history. This pose was taken from The Toilet of Venus ( aka ‘The Rokeby Venus’) by Diego Velasquez (1599 - 1660), 337 years before I painted this!
At the end of a fantastic memorial day weekend filled with weddings, sight seeing , great food, friends, movies and fun, Danielle and I thought that a painting would be the best way to top off the weekend. A world traveling friend had brought some new paints and brushes (from China) during the week as well as some clothes from Thailand. Here is Danielle (looking purposefully cheerful for this painting), wearing a fine linen shirt and hiking pants. I was especially pleased with this painting since I have not been painting with watercolors in quite some time. This painting seemed to emanate from that divine source of inspiration that Salvador Dali claims must be present for a masterpiece to be created.
This was a moment of inspiration. We have two couches and they were set up facing each other with a glass coffee table in between. There was a large bowl on the coffee table with three bananas in it. I was sitting there talking with Danielle and thought: “wow, I should capture this moment”. She agreed to stay still and I did my best to draw quickly.
This is one of my all time favorites, it has a long story about the process by which it was created. The head of the Art Department at my school said that he liked it very much because it was sac-religious: comparing the Mother of Christ to a Donut. A pastry. A sweet and tasty treat which was nothing more than a sugar coated hole. I think that this guy might have been more than a little deranged. I chose the subject matter from the page of a Catholic calender in my grandmother’s kitchen. The donuts came in when I needed a background and that was the snack that I was currently eating. Nothing more.
This is a painting for a co-worker, who gave it to her boyfriend as a gift. We work in a large office and our jobs don’t intersect too much, so when I offered to paint her portrait we had to set up a meeting after work. The preparatory sketches were done in a study room at the University Library. I then made this acrylic/watercolor painting based on my initial studies.
Deadlist drugs compared to press coverage and estimated usage
Data visualization on the war
I think that all I have out of these ingredients is the coffee, but it sounds tasty!
Feralo is the creative portfolio of Noah Spahn. Spahn is a painter with degree in Studio Arts from Biola University, a deep interest in several marked periods of Art History, and Artists ranging from Caravaggio to Immendorf.
His work is typically a veiled glimpse into some facet of his current musings. The mediums used vary as much as their application, whilst the human form is generally the vehicle. Themes may include transcendental aesthetics or the rejection of visceral urges amidst the complexities of commonplace social environs. He has also been known to produce the occasional 'automatic painting', the interpretation of which probably lies in the realm of his unconscious.
During his 25 year career as an Artist, Spahn has worked as a commissioned limner, 3D modeler, architectural draftsman, aerosol muralist, portraitist, graphic designer, creative consultant and advertising director.
