News from Billy Monday
A Cave Painting, 2009Autumn Update
It’s been a fantastic summer and fall season here in Maryland. Summer was quite temperate by our standards, and the autumn colors have been brilliant.
Apparently I’m not very good at keeping this news section updated. I should get a bumper sticker which says, “I’d rather be photographing nudes!” But it has been a good season and I feel that I’ve made progress as an artist. I’ve also has good success at finding new models, concentrating on finding subjects in more personal ways than the popular internet connections. I have a number of new subjects who will be appearing in my work over the coming months.
Among the exciting things I’ve been able to capture was the wonderful color this fall. Tonya, a new model from West Virginia, climbed to the summit at the Loudon Heights overlook. It was insanely cold on that mountaintop that morning, but the scene was worth the discomfort.
Another stimulating project has been my “Cave Paintings” series. I’ve found a cave which is more-or-less accessible, and a few intrepid souls who would pose for me in there. Some of the results of the light-paintings done in the cave are in my Cave Paintings Gallery. The image shown is from this series.
I’ll be working in the cave throughout the winter, but I also hope to work on figures with spheres in the studio. So I’m collecting crystal balls, paper globes, any kind of sphere I can find. Hopefully the results will be intriguing.