Another flower, 3/4 view

 

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A flower for dart

  Photoshop, Cintiq and Genius Tablet

Lady of the Forest Underpainting

Here is the under painting I mentioned before. Titanium white and brown oxide oil paints. 

This painting was one of those duh moments where I learned something huge. I went to my teacher for criticism and I was saying there's something wrong about this-maybe the eyes?- I just don't know. My teacher took a look at what I had (it was at an earlier point than this) and he said "Oh well she has no eye-lids." and he just did a stroke of white paint for each eyelid. "Now she is a supermodel." And he was right.

Small Oil

Oil
This started as an in-class assignment for an imaginary book cover. The title we had to illustrate was 'Lady of the Forest'. I wish I had just left it as the under painting in the translucent brown, because it really looked quite striking then. I will see if I still have the picture from then. However this version is growing on me.

I'm planning on neutralizing the bright green leaves and maybe adding a wash to the shadows to make them slightly less rust colored but still hold onto that neat translucent effect. This is on hold for now.

Concept 2

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Concept 1

Photoshop

But a Breath

Acrylic
This started as a study of the back. I've redone it at least four times but I'd still like it to be better. I wish I'd started with one whole reference. Because I used many different references (including losing my original references and finding new ones half way through) for both the head and the back, I believe those are a bit disconnected. I plan to do another from one single reference.

Marko

Acrylic
This is from an old photo of my father. I like to paint with exaggerated and/or unlikely skin colors. There are a few spots that gained some digital artifact and pixelation from the camera or the color correcting I did in Photoshop. This is still a WIP.

Another White on Black Still Life

White conte crayon on black poster paper
This still life was done in class. I loved how that kettle reflected the light.

White on Black

White conte crayon on black poster paper
This still life is of a few items that I've always loved the shape or look of. The sculpture belongs to my mother and I wish I knew who the artist was. I believe the harmonica was my great grandfather's.

Again I'm limited by my skill (or lack of skill) with a digital camera. Someday I will find out where the school keeps it's large scanners.

Charcoal and white conte crayon on acrylic painted watercolor paper

I have a few drawings I like from my last drawing class that I'll start posting. At least until I have more digital stuff.

This is a self portrait. No, I wasn't pouting, my neck was just hurting from the angle I had to hold my head for this nice 3/4 view. Great to know what you look like when you're concentrating, right?

Another Still Life

Acrylic
As you can see I really like color.

Playing around with clouds

Acrylic
Just an excuse to mess with my acrylics really.

Another Still Life

Acrylic
 I may have warped this with the angle I took the picture, but I tried to fix it in Photoshop. Anyone who wants to advise me on better methods of imaging my paintings that don't involve expensive print shop visits or buying a huge scanner, please advise me. ;)

Old WIP

Acrylic
A still life of an apple and an onion. I had a habit of being stingy with my paint. In fact I still have to remind myself to use more than my first instinct tells me to.

I'm going to be posting some older paintings just to get started. Some of them are in storage, but I'll post the ones that I have around.