Your Old Address

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...

A Street Scene

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...

C’est Hip, C’est Hip, C’est Hop

by CP LeBlanc | Musings

Finished this small piece. The results are satisfactory and I am ready to start the larger work for which this was a study. I was apprehensive about stylistically painting these masked figures with my technique (so heavy on facial expressions) hence the need for a ...

A Frame of Reference

by CP LeBlanc | Work in Progress

I needed to quickly create a half dozen wooden floater frames to accommodate a number of small panel paintings for display at The Green Room here in Lafayette. These were initially intended as part of two larger triptychs set into a couple of salvaged wooden door and...

Maybe I Can Paint Over That?

by CP LeBlanc | Work in Progress

The blank canvas- or in this case the blank panel. There is a sort of unbridled fear mixed with excitement each time I face one of these. It is an uphill battle and prime time for my inherent procrastination. Can I do it again? Can I do a better job of it than I did...

New Workspace

by CP LeBlanc | Musings

A second move within the Hub City and I now have a phenomenal studio space to work in. A first for me, that. I now lack excuses and hope to produce a bounty of great work. So many ideas percolating in my noggin. The challenge is my slow work pace / technique....