Here's my mask design idea. I'll probably change the ornate gashes. But this is the concept
I got these blank paper masks and started painting some skin texture.
2024-01-27 00:00:05 +0000 UTC
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For me it seems like some of the best ideas come when I don't have time for them. Yesterday I was late for something and rushing out of the house. And then this mask idea just popped into my head. It seemed like the answer to the problem of the painting I'm working on, and to my mask prompt probl...
2024-01-26 01:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Many of the earlier mask thumbnails I did were a little too wild for the purposes of this painting.
The thing about masks is that they are designed to disguise, In many cases they were used to symbolically transform.
I love them all. That's why I drew them.
But...
2024-01-24 23:53:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Some more sketches of this idea. Variations on the mask. I realized that I basically drew the same thing twice. So I think I'm settled on the composition and am going to focus on some of the details. Such as the mask, the hands, the costume, etc.
I'm setting up a date to shoot more re...
2024-01-24 01:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Sometimes I think about how much work goes into this. Not just the painting, but the framing, varnishing, photographing it. All that kind of work. It really makes me want to make work that is worth doing all that work for. Because if you're going to go through all that, you have to believe in it....
2024-01-23 01:04:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's some video from the sculpture night the other night. So many people working on cool stuffs.
Mine's definitely the least fun of all these creations.
I just made a template to help me build other (hopefully) cool stuff off of.
Here's my little mannequin he...
2024-01-21 23:48:19 +0000 UTC View Post
A couple of mask sketches. These are copies from a book. I'm just looking for ideas at this point.
Happy Jan 20th Everybody
Last night I went to Sculpture night at the Hive.
It was great. I feel rejuvinated. I worked on a head mannequin type of thing that I'm going to use for fu...
2024-01-20 23:29:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I have all these painting studies that I did last year that I'm going to start developing. I'm doing sketchbook sessions based on this painting:
I'm starting this one because the idea is strong, t...
2024-01-19 21:09:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Usually I like to edit these things down to 1-2 minutes. And I'll still do that for the social media and what not. But I wanted to show the Choir the whole thing.
I filmed everything with my regular camera and I had my phone set up behind that recording timelapses.
My phone comp...
2024-01-19 02:07:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Well. About a month of development and prep and 2 and a half weeks of solid painting in 4-12 hour shifts. This is the biggest painting I've done in over 5 years. I haven't felt this good about a painting in a long time.
I think this is my best piece ever. I usually feel that way about my mo...
2024-01-18 01:51:51 +0000 UTC View Post
I think I'm done. Signed it last night before bed. I did more looking at it today. I didn't touch it.
I took some pictures in its frame to send to the gallery.
I took it to the photographer tonight in San Pedro. More on that later. I'll have a window where I can add some finishing tou...
2024-01-17 06:42:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I mostly just looked at it. I made small changes where I saw fit. But I spend hours mostly just looking. It’s kind of hard to think of it as “working on a painting” if you aren’t doing a lot of painting. Just sitting and looking. But looking is just as much a part of painting as pai...
2024-01-16 05:49:38 +0000 UTC View Post
I think I’ve put 24 hours of work into this over the last 2 days. I’m trying to find a photographer to take pictures of it. I also have to varnish it. The varnish will take about 2 days to dry. Assuming I find a photographer, that will take a day. Given all that, I think I can only count on 1...
2024-01-15 02:46:25 +0000 UTC View Post
I started putting in details and textures. For the first time since I started this painting, I feel confident that I can finish. The end is in sight. There will be more 8 hour shifts for the next few days. But It's just about zoning in and doing what I need to do.
Very loose first color pass. Just wanted to add some color to everything at this point. It kind of flattens everything down a bit, so I'll have to go back in and bring the shadows and highlights back.
From here on out that's what the process will consist of: Big layers of color, redef...
2024-01-13 01:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm about to prepare my Sta-wet pallet and I'll start coloring this tonight.
Mostly because of tick tick tick at this point. I've got less than a week to finish.
But it also feels like a comfortable time to do it.
Ideally I'd like to have a little more time to ...
2024-01-12 02:07:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I spent a lot of time working on the texture on the "primordial face." I'm trying to get a good texture on it without losing the structure. I made some texture marks on the clay model to help me see the lighting effects on the little nooks and crannies but I didn't get too detailed with tha...
2024-01-11 02:25:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Still making the rounds with the gray scale. It's getting a little more detailed, a little more refined. Started adding some texture to places. The fabric on the figure in the very front is driving me a little crazy. I keep coming back to it and redoing it.
The Frame came today! I put the painting in it to make sure it would fit. It does. And it's cool to get an idea of what it will look like when It's finally done.
I call this part of the process "making the rounds." Because I just keep bouncing around from area to area going over every...
2024-01-09 01:24:31 +0000 UTC View Post
I zoned in to the background landscape today. I love doing landscapes. I think because they can just emerge out of nowhere. It's just natural for me to create random brushstrokes and be able to see hills and cliffs and valleys in it. I always feel like I'm in my zone when working on landscapes. 2024-01-08 02:58:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Light, Shadow, Form
Making progress. Still sticking with the process as stated in the last post. At this point I'm just trying to get the values right. I started on the background a little bit. I'll probably try and finish the background and then go in for details and textures.
I don'...
2024-01-07 01:44:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Painting. Finally.
To be honest I was a little shy with the paint at first. I did all this sculpting and prep stuff and then I thought "I don't know where to start."
So I just started.
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After I started looking at the canvas with the reference photos I took, the ideas started coming into focus for me.
Ideas about the design and about the themes. Also ideas about how to sculpt the reference model.
This was one of those moments where it all just came floodin...
2024-01-05 01:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
After I did all those little thumbnail sketches and color studies, I wanted to make some 3 dimensional references for the painting.
This is not a very straight forward process for me.
Typically when an artist creates reference for a painting, they are working from things t...
2024-01-04 00:32:09 +0000 UTC View Post
We're doing masks! This was another tie breaker vote. I chose masks because it seems appropriate for that to be the first prompt of the year.
It would be awesome if everyone made an actual physical m...
2024-01-03 00:39:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Sketches for the big cave painting. I don't want to describe the idea here because I feel like if I articulate it in words it will loose something.
But I started looking at pictures of insect larvae, eggs, caterpillars etc. and I drew them on toned paper with black and white Prismacol...
2024-01-02 01:44:52 +0000 UTC View Post
The prompt submissions this month made me remember why I love doing them. Good Job Everybody. I like seeing what everyone comes up with every month. But for this one especially I enjoyed the strength and variety of the submissions. Every new one that I opened made me go "yeeesssss."
Well. We did it. This is my prompt submission for inner landscape.
I'm leaning towards the name "Necro Hermit Golden Sunshine."
Or just "Golden Sunshine." Or just "Necro Hermit." I don't know. thoughts?
I know I Just did a 20 minute video about this, but this year was pretty sol...
2023-12-31 22:19:07 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video I do little (sort of) guitar recital, paint my inner landscape painting and recap the significant things that happened regarding my art life this year.
This was a pretty positive year for me and my art.
The most significant things were:
I did some automatic drawing using the thumbnails I did as a loose reference for the gesture.
I didn't think about what everything was. just let it flow through. Then I spent probably 30 minutes looking at it.
What I see, I will create reference material for.