A casual meeting about networking in the data center. I don’t paint much these days, but I still draw. My favorite medium is a ball point pen and regular paper. There were 5 of us in this meeting. It’s a big meeting room, so after a while folks start to adopt comfortable poses.
There just isn’t enough time to devote to processes of creative execution; at least not as much as I used to have! I have a few new ideas for social paintings. But I find that I can only develop them over the course of several days. Anyways, I am glad to have the liberty of at least some creative time. These guys were borrowed from some earlier works of Degas.
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 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.
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.
