Friday, November 27, 2009
Rip Van Winkle in the Rain
Here’s my first Rip Van Winkle painting. I’m really happy with the colors, contrast and the details. It took much longer than my usual paintings, but I think it was worth it.
Paintings
Friday, October 17, 2008
Not in Kansas Anymore
I barely finished this one in time. In fact, the clear finish is drying as we speak. I had a million ideas floating around in my head and none of them really seemed good enough. Every time I sat down to sketch an idea, I hated the drawing and gave up. We were sitting at Aguila Real eating Mexican food and I just decided to doodle a Sasquatch and this is the result.
I’m really liking the subdued color palette and I got to use my silver paint which had been sitting around for months. At the end, the patterns in the background seemed to start overwhelming Mr. Bigfoot, so I decided to paint over it all with the silver again.
Maybe I just have werewolves on the brain after finishing the Mercy Thompson series, but I had the temptation to add wolf ears to him at the end. Maybe I’ll have to do another one.
Geometric Animism
This is “painting” number two for the Paintpushers show, although I’m not really sure I should call it a painting since it’s digital. This one is a more doodle-based approach. I started by sketching a lot of different shapes and then giving them a little life by adding features and limbs. The end result is way different than what I’ve done in the past, but it was fun to do. The challenge for me is to stop adding details until it loses its simplicity.
I ordered the digital prints of this and “One Lump or Two?” and received them on Monday. They look awesome and I’m really impressed with the quality of the wrapping. The front of the canvasses were wrapped in glassine paper and a piece of cardboard was placed outside the paper. This was all inside a bubble-wrap envelope. Both canvases were shipped in the same box. For once it was nice to not have to wire them for hanging because it was all done (with D-rings and even the little bumper dots on the corners). I’ll definitely be doing more digital prints in the future, but might try paper next time.
Monday, July 07, 2008
Homage to Sawyer
I spent all day yesterday disassembling and re-canvassing some old crappy paintings and boy are my hands sore. I decided I should finish this little painting that I’ve had in the works for a while.The Illustration Friday theme this week is “Sour” so I figured this was a good fit too. More photos can be seen on my Flickr page:
