Showing posts with label Paintings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paintings. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Search and Rescue Color Session 2
This was actually several sessions, just didn't get pictures in between. It's pretty refined by this point.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Search and Rescue drawings
I call these "drawings" even though it's paint. It's the under-painting if you will.
But this process is much more like drawing then painting.
Starting out:
And all fixed up:
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Monday, April 4, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Search and Rescue color session 3
After another long session, which was actually over the course of 2 days, but I failed to take a picture in between. It's nearly done!
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Search and Rescue color session 2
This was a longer session. The hairline and beard are purposely off a little bit so that I could lay it in when the paint was dry on the next session. I put the background in very last and instantly hated it, but didn't have time to fix at that moment. It gave me a week to mull it over, which isn't always a bad thing.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Monday, March 7, 2011
Search and Rescue round 1-3
The funny thing about this goal I made for myself is that it's not difficult for me to create once a week; but it is to haul my camera in to take pictures, upload them, and then post.
It's silly, I know. So I'm late again.
I have never had a harder time laying out my initial "drawing" for a painting as I did with this one. This part usually comes pretty easy for me, there is no color to mess with, I have a decent eye and I've learned how to measure. I'm not sure if I was being overconfident or if I was just off my game, and it doesn't help that I'm not working from the greatest photo, but this sure humbled me.
The first try I didn't get a picture of. It's biggest issue was that I had made the overall face too small, and I had measured one eye wrong, and so then all other measurements made from that eye were also off. It was fixable, but I decided it wasn't worth it since I wasn't pleased with it overall.
I took the thinner and paper towels to it. Heartbreaking after 2.5 hours, I won't lie.
Try #2 seemed to be going better initially. Then I started feeling like something was off and when I stepped back to evaluate I realized the composition was a disaster. As such it was not worth saving again. Here is try #2, before the second thinner attack and a minor breakdown on my part.
Finally, after some meditation to calm myself down and sacrificing Sunday dinner, I got to here:
When I'm feeling like things are pretty good with my drawing, I like to take a photo and look at it that way, that's what the above was for. Being disconnected from the piece for a minute helps me see my errors better.
Then I went back and finished up my under-painting/drawing. I had to put lights back in because at this point there were none left in the leather, and I also went ahead with some black on the shirt and some cool colors behind the face. Having cool colors on the canvas helps me fight my natural tendencies, and keep the warm tones on the skin under control when I start the color.
It's silly, I know. So I'm late again.
I have never had a harder time laying out my initial "drawing" for a painting as I did with this one. This part usually comes pretty easy for me, there is no color to mess with, I have a decent eye and I've learned how to measure. I'm not sure if I was being overconfident or if I was just off my game, and it doesn't help that I'm not working from the greatest photo, but this sure humbled me.
The first try I didn't get a picture of. It's biggest issue was that I had made the overall face too small, and I had measured one eye wrong, and so then all other measurements made from that eye were also off. It was fixable, but I decided it wasn't worth it since I wasn't pleased with it overall.
I took the thinner and paper towels to it. Heartbreaking after 2.5 hours, I won't lie.
Try #2 seemed to be going better initially. Then I started feeling like something was off and when I stepped back to evaluate I realized the composition was a disaster. As such it was not worth saving again. Here is try #2, before the second thinner attack and a minor breakdown on my part.
Finally, after some meditation to calm myself down and sacrificing Sunday dinner, I got to here:
When I'm feeling like things are pretty good with my drawing, I like to take a photo and look at it that way, that's what the above was for. Being disconnected from the piece for a minute helps me see my errors better.
Then I went back and finished up my under-painting/drawing. I had to put lights back in because at this point there were none left in the leather, and I also went ahead with some black on the shirt and some cool colors behind the face. Having cool colors on the canvas helps me fight my natural tendencies, and keep the warm tones on the skin under control when I start the color.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Never Shared
I finished this portrait last spring. I never shared it on my personal blog even though I said I would. I'm not sure why, because I really do love how it turned out.
It is a commission for the National Search and Rescue. Someone from the organization gets a portrait every year. Maybe whoever was president that year? I should probably ask this, because I'm going to be doing the portrait for them again this year, and perhaps every year after that if they'll have me and if I want to keep giving them a great deal.
It is painted on stretched leather. Which at first I was really worried about (and I do think the overall thing looks kind of odd...) but, it was actually really fun to paint on. Similar to the one time I tried linen canvas. I might have to foot the bill and get linen canvas in the future.
Anyway, here it is. Cheers.
(p.s. Proof that my Mom is my biggest fan, she is the first follower of this blog, and was before I had posted a thing.)
It is a commission for the National Search and Rescue. Someone from the organization gets a portrait every year. Maybe whoever was president that year? I should probably ask this, because I'm going to be doing the portrait for them again this year, and perhaps every year after that if they'll have me and if I want to keep giving them a great deal.
It is painted on stretched leather. Which at first I was really worried about (and I do think the overall thing looks kind of odd...) but, it was actually really fun to paint on. Similar to the one time I tried linen canvas. I might have to foot the bill and get linen canvas in the future.
Anyway, here it is. Cheers.
(p.s. Proof that my Mom is my biggest fan, she is the first follower of this blog, and was before I had posted a thing.)
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