Moved to www.dana-illustration.com/blog

Hey Folks, if you're checking this blog out and wondering why I haven't updated in so long, it's because I've moved all of my blogging to a single place on my website at :
www.dana-illustration.com/blog

That's where I'll be updating from now on, and this site will be shut down after a few months.

Veteran Portraits

I haven't updated in a while, so here are a couple of the portraits I've been working on for my Veteran Portrait project. I don't want to release too many shots before the show is ready. Work has been slow, but steady, and hopefully everything gets done for the preview show in November. The full show (planned to be 25-30 pieces) will open sometime early to mid-2013. These are not professional photos, just snapshots in my studio.

Are you a United States

Military Veteran,

or do you know one?

I am currently engaged in an RACC funded project to create a series of portraits of military veterans for exhibition in the 4^th quarter of 2012. I am looking for veterans willing to model for this project, and would only need an hour of time to take photos. All participants would receive a framed print of the final painting.

For more information about the project, please contact me:

Dana Henderson

danaoils.blogspot.com

dhenderson@dana-illustration.com

617.888.3411

Here's a new sketch commission that I recently finished for a neighbor:

Here are the other pieces from my show:

Devil and the Deep opening, Changes to Pricing

Well, here's my long delayed update on the show :  it went great!  We had the medium sized gallery packed for the full 4 hour opening, and I raffled off some great prizes. Was a lot of fun, here are some photos from the event:

Also want to point out that my pricing has increased a bit; I lowered my prices quite a bit in 2011 to see if it would increase the amount of commissions I would receive.  I ended up getting about the exact same number of commissions as previous years, just less money! I guess you can't just will more people with an interest in portraiture into existence. So I'm raising my prices back to a little under what I was charging in 2010 and earlier. Basic price guide is on the right.

Here are some of the new paintings I've been doing for my show opening on January 6th, Devil and the Deep. Hope you can be there!

Devil and the Deep

New Show coming to MP5 in January!  Follow our event on Facebook.

Another update, incredible.

Wanted to share a commission I recently finished for a client.  Wanted it black and white originally, but I convinced them to go with a more faded color palette.  Happy with the light in this one.  Also have some more quick portraits to share.

New Portraits, Mural

Hey Folks, here are my favorite quick portraits from the last month, and a shot of a mid-sized mural I finished at a private residence recently.  Been a while since I made a mural, but this was a pretty simple job and went smoothly.

Will soon be posting some info on an art show I'm helping to curate and participating in. I'm gonna be focusing exclusively on this show for the next two months, and am hoping to create a ton of cool work.

Upcoming Charity Auction, Bather Finish

Have a new piece going up to be auctioned off to raise money for the American Cancer Society.  I'll be at the Artist Reception on Friday Sept 9th from 6-9pm at the Denizen Gallery.  850 NE 81st Ave.  There will also be belly dancers, musicians and henna artists on Saturday and Sunday. Pieces will be bid on at silent auction throughout the weekend. Hope to see you there.

Here is a shot from the piece I'll be auctioning off at the event, and a couple close ups of the process of painting the henna 'head-dress' at the end.

Hospital show

Here are some shots of the portrait show I have hanging at the Providence Medical Center on 48th and Glisan.  So far I've managed to resist pushing people out of windows in order to raise attendance.

Auction Piece, Mayor Visit, New Portraits

You can call off the search parties; I'm back.  First off, here is a selection of some of my favorite 3 hour portraits from the last month:

I'm going to be having a show starting July 17 of 20-25 of these portraits at gallery in the Providence Medical Center on 48th and Glisan...if you're going to take a look at it, hopefully it's of your own accord. I also have an update on the piece I'm working on for the September Auction. Here's my progress so far:

Haven't taken as much time on this one as I would have liked.  Probably will devote more attention to it as soon I put up the portrait show.  Finally, along with several other artists, I met with mayor Sam Adams to talk about my work and the experience of living at Milepost 5 so far.  He seemed nice; busy though, so it wasn't a long chat.  Here's a couple photos of that meeting:

Okay, that's all.  I'll try and update more regularly, but working this keyboard is pretty exhausting.