Two of my paintings, The Rose Bloom and Statuesque Nude, are on display right now at Tattoo Boogaloo until the middle of November. If you’re interested in purchasing either of these pieces and you’re in the North Beach area of San Francisco, stop by and let them know!

On a day filled with people’s impressions of Apple’s latest, the two paragraphs at the end of this otherwise-unrelated post by Leigh Alexander is my favorite thing written yet (and dare I say ever?) about the iPad.

Three of my paintings are currently on display at D-Structure in the Lower Haight in San Francisco — two acrylic paintings (Figure on Canvas and Teal Nude) and one watercolor (Nude on a Draped Pedestal).

All three of these pieces are available for purchase, so if you happen to be in San Francisco over the next two months and you’d like to own one of these, now’s your chance. Click on this link for prices and directions to the store.

It’s a new year, and a new design. Happy 2010 everyone!

This redesign is something I’ve been wanting to do for a while, now. The old site may have sufficed, originally, as a humble gallery to display my work, but as my interests diverged I needed to expand, and ended up creating a whole different site specifically for my portfolio work, leaving this site to house my growing body of (so-called) fine art. Well, very quickly that, too, outgrew the original site. A change was in order.

The site now features a Wordpress-powered blog for sketches and news updates, a new store page with prints and original art for sale, and a paintings section with the capacity for many more galleries than before, including entire series of works that previously had no proper home. This also, of course, allows for the expansion of paintings and series not yet painted, so no longer is my work limited by where to put it on the Internet.

Hopefully, this means I’ll be getting work online sooner and more often, and best of all would be if this encouraged me to make more art in general. That would be convenient, because that was my plan for 2010 all along.

With the focus of this site shifting increasingly in the direction of the fine arts, I’ve been needing a new place for all of my actual production work. Well, today my professional portfolio finally has a proper home with the completion of my new portfolio site, Zachary Knoles Illustration & Design.

Over there, you’ll find my professional art: illustration, backgrounds, design, storyboards, etc. Back over here will be my personal work: paintings, short films, and this blog. Maybe it seems like an arbitrary division, to split my work thusly into two sites. But there is a reason. With one site now clearly marked as “the portfolio,” the other one can be used for whatever I want. I find that freedom comforting.