Category: Year 2
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Glitter war studies
Ive been working a bit more on some studies for the glitter war painting that Im going to do. I think this is my best composition yet. To start, I took some measurements, and cut the image into thirds (Red lines). The lower third (everything below 1) is ground, the upper two thirds (above 1)…
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I Will: #1
This is my quarter sheet draft of the painting I worked on the past two days. I wrote a lot about it in the post about the studies so I wont go into much detail here on the process. But, I do want to show some of the photos from the process, and reflect a…
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I Will
My last post was a pretty big downer. Im glad I wrote it because its honest. But it also highlighted how inadequate I have been feeling lately. That post was titled I cant. Today, I decided to paint and post again, and I wanted to title this one, I can. But thats not honest. I…
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I cant
Ok. This is just me being real for a very long minute. Tonight, I tried painting, and everything I do sucks. I mean, really really sucks. I know I know… push through… keep trying… dont give up. Sometimes, its really hard to do that. I look at everything I create and it all looks like…
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Abandoned Shed: #1
I dont have much motivation to write up on this one. Which is unfortunate because I liked it. But I did take one photo of the techniques I used. Basically, I painted one color. Then, while that was still wet, I dabbed pigment into it to get some variance. Once that dried, I then wetted…
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Lowrey Waterfall Study: #1
I have this book Start to Paint with Watercolours by Arnold Lowrey. I picked it up a long time ago, and tried the first exercise in the book, with what I felt were positive results. I tried the next exercise in the book, but didnt find the walkthrough terribly helpful. Today, I didnt have much…
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Canton Bridge: #3
I went for another try at that city Bridge. I should probably go out and paint from life, instead of making this up from my imagination, but its really freaking cold outside. I wanted this to read like it was painted here in Canton, Ohio. Even though this isnt a real bridge anywhere in Canton,…
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Canton Bridge: #1 & 2
I guess Im on a bridge kick? I havent practiced urban scenes very much lately, so I decided to give it a shot yesterday and today. On the first one, I messed up on the perspective of the buildings in the background. On the second one, I messed up on the value, and tonality of…
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Scribble Monster: By Winnie (Age 5)
I made this by myself, and you can make a big scribble into a big fun monster. I love how it looks. Winnie
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Creek Bridge: #1
Tonight, the goal was to paint a creek, paying attention to perspective, and atmosphere. When I started, there was no bridge in my mind, but a bloom seemed to suggest one, so I went with it. I dont have a reference sketch or photo for this one, Im just kind of laying down layers and…
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Log Bridge: #1
I wanted to practice figure painting a bit more, so I invented a scene, and tried to paint it. My idea was to try to paint a picture of a guy carefully walking across a log. Its something Ive done more than a few times fishing, but Ive never photographed it, so I had to…
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Fall: #2
Before I start, I should say thank you to Liron Yankonsky for a Video he posted on YouTube recently. The study he did helped me a lot. I really focused on clean washes, and simple composition as a result of watching that video. I decided to paint another autumn tree today. This time I wanted…
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Fall: #1
I decided to put the glitter war painting aside for a week or so, because I was getting a little burned out on it. In an attempt to perform a mental software reset, I painted this today very quickly. My goal was to paint this without revisiting washes. I was successful in leaving things largely…
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Tree Sketches
I wanted to explore some ideas for how I might style the trees in this painting that Im going to do. I think I know how Ill tackle everything else (at least I have a strategy for how I plan to attack it) but I havent decided on a style for the trees yet. This…
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Glitter War Studies: Pegacorn
My brother asked me to paint a picture for his daughter, with two princess castles caught in a glitter war with flying unicorns and rainbows. I did a few studies on it last week, and over the weekend I painted the Pegacorn as a draft. I want to experiment with how to paint that because…
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Glitter War: Studies
My Brother asked me to paint a picture for his daughter like the illustrations I did recently. Im pretty intimidated to paint something for him to be honest, because he is such a talented and accomplished artist. (Did I mention hes the lead VFX artist for Epics Fortnite?) Anyway, I took him up on it…
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Collecting Hay Bales: #1
The last time I painted Plein Air things went terribly. Today, I decided to try again. I drove out on 62, and turned off on Paris Ave where I saw a field full of hay bales. I ended up stopping and set up my easel on the side of the road and got to work.…
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Self Portrait: #1-4
I decided to mix things up. My paintings have been feeling very similar for a while now, so I thought, if I tried something totally different I might stretch my wings a bit. I love fishing. And I especially love fishing at night. So, I decided to paint an illustration of myself fishing. This was…