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Whales and the Big Box
Whales are a recurrent theme in the new book I'm working on. Somewhere around the midpoint of drawing this book, I re-read "Moby Dick"...
Orion Wertz
Mar 221 min read
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Kyanjin Ri- One Year Ago
Its been about a year since I trekked the Langtang Valley in Nepal with my friends Bill and Bob. At our easternmost point in the valley...
Orion Wertz
Oct 6, 20242 min read
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Square With Dome
This is a painting I recently completed. Right now it is hanging up in the CSU faculty show. I thought I would do a little post about...
Orion Wertz
Oct 5, 20242 min read
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Under the Bridge
I completed this painting during my "year in absentia." It actually started off as something I worked on in my Painting 1 class while my...
Orion Wertz
Jun 12, 20242 min read
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Year in Absentia
Its been a little over a year since I have published a blog post, and I think the same is true for social media posts. Fall 2023 was my...
Orion Wertz
Jun 10, 20241 min read
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Jerry Salz Studio Visit
This week I was very fortunate to have a studio visit with this well-known art critic. Jerry Salz visited our university as this year's...
Orion Wertz
Apr 13, 20231 min read
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The River is On
Actually, the river has been back on for about a month now according to my in-house fishing guru. It's all about the shad, and "on"...
Orion Wertz
Mar 17, 20231 min read
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Books are Fair
Last week I was able to participate in a book fair at ATHICA (Athens Institute of Contemporary Art). This was my first book fair in...
Orion Wertz
Mar 9, 20231 min read
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Picture This
I am very happy to be included in this painting exhibition which is currently staged at the Lyndon House in Athens, Georgia. Many thanks...
Orion Wertz
Jul 12, 20222 min read
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Bring on the Glop
Paint is fun stuff to play with, and I have recently had some time to do just that. For much of the time my paintings involve fairly...
Orion Wertz
Jun 9, 20222 min read
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A Drawing Class
Closed the books on another Spring semester. As usual I have a bunch of demonstration drawings lying around. Most of them don't really...
Orion Wertz
May 31, 20222 min read
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More Paintings. And a haircut. That's what we need!
Ok, so its been awhile... finally got a haircut after about two years of COVID. Somehow during that time some paintings got done and I...
Orion Wertz
Mar 30, 20222 min read
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Faculty Exhibition
Here's a pic of my brother next to an installation of my drawings in the CSU Faculty Exhibition titled "In Sync." Mia Darcia DeMaar...
Orion Wertz
Feb 18, 20222 min read
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Lumpkin & Israel Exhibition in LaGrange
Recently my brother Ephraim, his girlfriend Julie and I drove up to LaGrange, Georgia to check out the Lumpkin & Israel exhibition at the...
Orion Wertz
Jan 14, 20222 min read
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Party Surveyor
Got through a party scene in the book-in-progress. This section took me a while. I wanted to capture the "party survey." This is a...
Orion Wertz
Dec 29, 20211 min read
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Boxridge Table Talk
Last March I delivered a talk at the CSU Library about the new graphic novel. I had a great introduction from Dan Rose- good friend,...
Orion Wertz
Dec 16, 20211 min read
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Orion Wertz
Oct 22, 20210 min read
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Uglified
I was stung a couple of weeks ago...
Orion Wertz
Oct 10, 20211 min read
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ArmaWaterDilloColor
More goofy watercolor sketches- I spotted this little critter rooting around in Florida this summer, just tightened up the sketch this...
Orion Wertz
Sep 24, 20212 min read
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Progress is Incremental
Finally got a new batch of pages done on the current book. Felt satisfying... All of us probably have trouble juggling at certain times....
Orion Wertz
Sep 19, 20211 min read
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