PHOTOOSHOOOOOOPP

Summer break is here and so is my chance to finally try digital painting again. and I'm not liking the way it feels- every 5 seconds i'm like, this would just be so much easier with paint UGH

but anyways
more later

pen and ink exercises

Not all ink I guess. Check out the Library of Congress photostream on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/

I've rarely found such a great source for reference images. Check them out! Government is good for something after all.

Edith

I'm calling this one done- I dare not paint without the model...

Edith, 11"x14", oil/c

More oil painting practice

Here's a couple paintings I've done in class recently- the square-format torso is finished (pose is over, anyway). The portrait of a wonderful model named Edith is in progress; one more three hour session on Monday.

Reading books by David Leffel has made me think more about the effect of the light, and how important it is. Or more accurately, how powerful it can be when given the proper attention. Also, the importance of the background in a portrait as an integral part of the image. 

Two paintings

 

These area couple painting done in class- the portrait in figure, 2 hours, the second done in painting class in downtown Sarasota from the 3rd floor of a parking garage, also 2 hours. I'm not happy at all with the landscape- I had grand visions of painting a scene akin to Lopez Garcia's Madrid cityscapes....haha. Maybe in a couple lifetimes.

I was also being inspired by the work of Ben Aronson. His landscapes have an awesome sense of space, and his compositions are always unique and inventive. A few of his scenes from rooftops are obviously influenced by Diebenkorn- at once they are landscapes with awesome atmospheric perspective, and at the same time they are obviously flat designs. Great textures as well, check him out!

The Memory Project

"Dariosh", 8"x10", acrylic

 This is a portrait of a young boy named Dariosh- it was done for http://www.memoryproject.org/ - Many thanks to Livy Long, http://livylongart.blogspot.com/, for giving me the heads up on this great opportunity to practice portraiture for a good cause!

At some point in the future we get pictures back of the children holding their very own one-of-a-kind portraits- it's really great. Had a lot of fun doing this one- I'm going to post up some meager process shots for anyone interested in how it came to be.

Sketchbook, p.3

Well that's that for now.