by CP LeBlanc | Work in Progress, Musings
The muse is fickle and she can depart on a whim in a puff of smoke just as quickly as she arrived. Thus the creative maelstrom is suddenly abated. One looks about a room at pencil stubs, squashed paint tubes, sketches, works and even ideas of the mind unfinished....
by CP LeBlanc | Work in Progress
Just about finished with this Rue Jefferson II. Prepared to dive headfirst into this smaller 24″ x 24″ painting. It took me some time to draw it out until it pleased me- and that is clearly evident by the many erasures. No matter as that will all be...
by CP LeBlanc | Work in Progress
I push onward at a funeral pace. The holidays waylaid me with scant time to paint. Background now laid in fairly well. I debated again my commitment to a series of three paintings with the Rue Jefferson / Festival International motif. The progress evident on this one...
by CP LeBlanc | Work in Progress
I snapped a large number of photographs in the spring downtown during the annual Festival International de Louisiane. From these, I plucked out some of my favorite figures / characters and put them together in scale to create a new, unique image unrestrained by...
by CP LeBlanc | Work in Progress, Musings
The vagaries of life have slowed down the progress on this one but I am resolved to push forward a bit more quickly. The under-painting in near completion with just a bit of tightening up and additional clarity to the glow of whiteness. I will then apply skin tones...
by CP LeBlanc | Work in Progress
At work on a new piece based on a series of photographs that Val took during the White Linen on Julie Street in New Orleans last August. I took some of my favorite characters from the street that night and compiled them together into a new image. It was a very strange...
