On January 1st. I managed to do a painting in one sitting. I feel like that was/is a good way to start 2015. I took a short drive and photographed some local orange groves and tried something outside of my comfort zone. I hope this is the beginning of “fruitful” period of painting for this year.
Orange Trees – 6×6 gouache on board
I have been trying my hand at painting again and enjoying it very much. I didn’t realize how much I missed oils until I broke them out again. I also discovered this wonderful stuff called cold wax medium. It allows for some really amazing textures.
Untitled No. 1 – 10″ x 10″ oil/cold wax on wood panel
Untitled No. 2 – 11″ x 14″ oil/cold wax on wood panel
Untitled No. 3 – 10″ x 10″ oil/cold wax on wood panel
Untitled No. 4 – 8″ x 8″ oil/cold wax on wood panel
Untitled No. 5 – 10″ x 10″ oil/cold wax on wood panel
Untitled No. 6 – 8″ x 8″ mixed media on wood panel
Botanical No. 1 – 10″ x 10″ mixed media on canvas
Botanical No. 2 – 10″ x 10″ mixed media on canvas
Botanical No. 3 – 12″ x 12″ mixed media on canvas panel
I can finally post this painting now that I have given it to my friend George at Hypno Comics as a thank-you for his generosity and all around coolitude.
I put more hours in this thing than I care to admit but it feels great to be moving paint around again. Right moving on now.
4 x 4 inches, acrylic on wood panel.
I’m working up an idea for a DareDevil portrait for my friend George as a thank you for his generosity. I haven’t decided if this will be finished in acrylics or oils yet.
DD preliminary drawing
Added the background graphic. I need to fix the horns when I transfer the sketch:
almost ready to paint
I got some good feedback so I tried one more sketch to fix some rough spots such as the slightly elongated head.
final sketch?
Okay one more, now I think I’m ready to paint. Funny how the simplest drawings give you the most trouble.
ready to get paintin’
The transfer drawing for a painting I am working on for an upcoming comic convention.
Transfer drawing
UPDATE: I’ve been having trouble finding the time to get back to this so I thought I’d show a little preview:
the process so far
One of my paintings “Murder of One” has the honor of cover image for the latest and unfortunately, final issue of the Rose & Thorn Journal of prose and poetry. Please visit their website and wish them well in their future endeavors. They also have a facebook page.
Rose & Thorn Cover
I posted this a while back and I imagine that is how they found me and graciously offered me a place in their last issue. They included a brief bio and artist’s statement on their website so check that out if you are interested in that sort of thing.
Thank you Alaine Benard for including me in your swan song. I wish you all the best for you and your fellow R&T staffers.
I finished my Frog Prince digital painting today. Pretty cut and dried. I inked one of the sketches from my May 1st. post in Manga Studio 4 and painted it in Photoshop CS3. I then added him to the logotype, created in illustrator and rendered in Photoshop.
Froglodyte
Final Art for Storytime
close up
My intention for this piece was to get an image of Jimi Hendrix on a bandana that felt like a holy relic for a local art show where the only theme was that the work had to include a bandana. My first thought was Jimi Hendrix was famous for wearing bandanas and is also famous in pop culture as a “guitar god” so why not give the piece a Shroud of Saint Veronica vibe.
Once I had a sketch I liked, it took four attempts to get it right. First I tried bleaching the image into the bandana, fail. Then I tried creating a transparent acrylic transfer, fail. After that I tried drawing the whole thing, bandana and all onto a sheet of archival paper, it sort of worked but did not have the spontaneity of the original sketch and definitely did not have any hint of a shroud vibe, so again fail. Finally I re-scanned the original drawing and painted it digitally and that seems to be working. It’s still not what I saw in my head but at least it is not a failure.
The roots of this piece is an old spot illustration I did for MakeUp Artist Magazine back when Tim Burton first announced he was working on a remake of “Planet of the Apes” so we had a little fun speculating what that would look like. I repainted it (digitally) for an upcoming show of work inspired by Tim Burton and made a giclée canvas print and mounted it on a wood panel. I hope to snap a few photos at the show and post ’em here.
Fun with Tim's monkey business
I’m working on something for an upcoming show so I thought I’d try to capture the stages. Does anyone recognize this guy?
original sketch, pencil 2.5" x 3.5"
Stage 2: gray wash & facial rendering -Medium: AcrylaGouache
Stage 3: lay in hair and background
Stage 4: hair rendered getting closer to finished
stage 5: finished?
