No Class Saturday, February 18th

See you next week, Saturday February 25th.

Cheers

Lil Angels - Bumps

My Portfolio

Download and share my portfolio.

Here (5.5Mb).

Women's Tennis

Color Pencil Triumph

3 Drawings

Goan Geese

Original 9" X 12" sketch can be purchased here for $100USD.

Goblin Shark

See you in class this Saturday, January 7th.

Studies and Revisions

One of the best ways to learn is to study the masters - artists so good, even other good artists look up to them.

I based this study off a painting by the incomparable Alberto Mielgo.



The next best way to learn, to get better, is to go back and fix your mistakes.

I fixed this old painting up some using Photoshop.



By fixing it, I make it better, which makes me better.

See you January 7th!

Happy Holidays!

No class tomorrow or next week, the 31st. I'll see you January 7th!

Orientalism

I usually stick to posting my own work here, but I had to share the wonder that is Orientalism painting.

A few leading artists from that era when Europeans were colonizing the world:

Jean-Léon Gérôme



David Roberts



John Frederick Lewis



Fernand Cormon



Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse

Sarah 2

Oil and Photoshop

Sarah 1

Original 9" X 12" sketch can be purchased here for $100USD.

Miss January 1954

Original 9" X 12" sketch can be purchased here for $100USD.

Compare and Contrast

Sometimes I use Photoshop to alter my final artwork so I can see different possible versions of the same image.

By seeing different outcomes, I am able to learn more about what makes a pleasing final image to me and incorporate those lessons into the next image I create.

My original:


A super-high-contrasty version:


A darker version with slightly more contrast:


While I feel I learned what I needed to learn about creating volumes and space using simple gradients, it is only after playing with the image in Photoshop that I feel I know what it takes to create a more pleasing composition.

1st Painterly Painting

I'm finally feel a lot closer to doing with oil paint what I can do with Photoshop - loose "painterly" paintings that preserve the brushstrokes and emphasize the planes of lights and darks rather than just blindly copying my reference photo.

The first of many more.

Girl on Chair

Girl on Bridge

Original 9" X 12" sketch can be purchased here for $100USD.

Photoshop Study Again

I find using various media and tools helps me understand the process...and subject better.

Photoshop Study

Sketch Dump

See you in class this Saturday.

No class this Saturday

No class this Saturday, October 29th. See you next week, November 5th. Do your homework!!! ;)

Girl on Bench

Original 9" X 12" sketch can be purchased here for $100USD.

Girl in Window

Original 9" X 12" sketch can be purchased here for $100USD.

The Godfather