More Random Paintings

Both Acrylic on Sketch book paper.

'Bao was jealous of prior Twinkie Dreams and was working up to dreaming of red mousies.

Random Painting

So I haven't painted anything all summer.

Yeah, I know, I'm a loser. :P

In honor of Bao, who's only been painted once, I did a short painting of him in my sketchbook. So acrylic on paper. Eh, prob 9x12 notebook.

He got a little skewed, but it has a good feel. And I didn't rip the paper anywhere - woohoo!

Spring Term Class 2012

Taking painting this term. Yay! It's been too long...

First homework was a quick pencil sketch in our sketchbooks, to study a master's painting and focus on the values. So, blocking it in darks and lights I guess. Didn't do too much detail on it, graphite, from 9B to 2h. I think I showed I got the point though, and showed use of extreme dark to light.

Funny thing, didn't realize my printer cropped the pic until I was about 1/3 of the way into it. Drawing it cropped and didn't even notice. Then 'Gee... why didn't he paint that foot?'

DUH

First in class painting, still life, monochromatic. REALLY had a hard time getting into it and it shows. Items kinda floating, background which I usually enjoy pretty 'meh'. Ah well, just takes some time to get back into things. Having a headache the whole class didn't help, but I can't entirely blame it on that. Just a lil' of it.

Homework again - part one was to be a small B&W painting of a food item.

Here's part two - a clothing item.

Pencil drawing - Monet
*looking for it*

And the last two class periods, I worked on a masters transcription of a Van Gogh. Not all that accurate, but I think it still turned out ok.

Next homework - B&W painting on paper, gesso'd paper first. Suppose to use 2 brushes of different sizes and block in values in blocky shapes. Er... kinda failed on the blocky part. But at least I went fast. Maybe 40 minutes, after the gesso was put down. Thats fast for me.

Next we did an inclass painting on paper. Still life, focusing on values, gesso'd paper, done in one class. Wasn't thrilled with what I did, but hey, I completed it. That's fast for me.

Next Homework - was suppose to be a still life. Was looking at 'chinese lions' screen from late 16th c, plus twinkie pic, plus an apple for the still life bit. Warm up to mash-up.

And then darkened a bit on the bottom.

And then the mashup of two masters works.

Ok, failed to really encorporate much of the look of either. But it's done.

This was suppose to be homework, a master's transciption of a Monet using desaturated colors. Failed on the desaturated part (made it even brighter, lol) but did have fun with it.

Went outside for class today and painted landscapes. I tried a tree. Still lives are easier.

And then another masters transcription, 9x12, this was on bristol paper. Had alot of fun with it - I like Monet.

Somewhere in here, I did a few extra credit quick paintings one on sketchbook paper, one on bristol, both 9x12, same subject.
bristol

Sketchbook paper

The final was to be a 2 panel painting, whatever we wanted. I wanted to encorporate the Monet transcription, because I have fun with the transcriptions in general, the kitties, and the gold background from the japanese panel master... and I like comic book like frames.

Bottom left is Bao. Top right is Twinkie. Retweaked Twinkie a few times, but never got her as nicely rendered as 'Bao, darn it.

Pass 1

Pass 2

Final

Fall Term 2011

Ok, not actually taking a painting class this term. Sigh. But am taking color theory, where we play with paints.

Only painted one pic in class - a photo of frankenstein was projected on the wall upside down and we all had to paint it in whatever monochromatic color scheme we desired. It was fun.

Acrylic on bristol paper.

Our final project is a 'response' to an artist viewed on the PBS Art 21 series. This isn't finished (obviously.) It's going to say 'Christmas Shopping Kills'. Heh heh. It's red/green complimentary color scheme, so all colors are from red/green/white/black or any mixing of those.

The zombie was from a pic from the 'Walking Dead' TV series. Really some exceptional makeup that the painting doesn't do justice, but it had the right sneer and really good, sunk in zombie eyes.

Acrylic on acrylic paper.

Ok, and the final version. Text is too small, but oh well. Once committed, kinda stuck.

Summer Term 2011

B&W on paper...

*need to take pic*

B&W still life - spent 2 class times on it (maybe 4.5 hrs?)

Monochromatic still life... 1 class +1 hrs at home. Maybe 3 hrs total.

Homework - Red and Green Still life (12x12 on Acrylic paper)
Proportions got off on box, but oh well.

*Note - Fall 2011, Submitted this to the Fall $25 Show at Rock Creek. It was purchased by someone (who didn't know the artist - names are kept hidden) and the money goes to fund the gallery. * glad someone bought it so the money goes to supporting other shows.

This was the still life we did in class all week. Well, my take on it. The parts I took were a cardboard dinosaur, some fabric, a skull, some leaves... er... I jumbled them all up, colored them whatever. Looks weird but it was fun. Done on loose canvas, its bigger than 24x36 I think.

Here's Twinkie meets Degas. Messed up on various aspects of it. The detail is seriously off, but it has the right 'feel'.

This is my final 'small painting' for the class, from a photo. Meh. Still need to black the top and bottom, and it needs more depth... but I'm tired of it.

The wall of Twinkie!

Not all of her pics are up, but here's the collection starting above the couch in the computer room

Spring Term Painting Class 2011

This was between Winter and Spring Term - done mostly at the airport in Denver. Sorry it's blurry. Colored pencil on black paper.

Spring Term painting homework has begun!

First homework assignment is 2 small paintings, any subject, approx 3 hr total time.

Here's still number one - hopefully I'll have some time before turning it in to work it some more. It's flat.

Next I tried Water color crayons. Neat little things. Twinkie didn't turn out that well, but it was interesting to try. I left the detail off of her - so she's extra blotchy. Not sure how to get it in with those things without using a different media.

Both pics are on 9x12 canvas 'paper'.

Class Two - we did the black and white projection still life, working from a projection that was blurred out, then making it slowly sharper as the day progressed. I like this one, though it's hard. It's fun to reduce the painting to blobs of shadow. It really does help free you up from 'detail detail detail' thinking at the start of the painting. This time, we went the whole class with this, rather than half. I liked having the whole class time for one painting better. :)

Proportionally, there are many bits of this that are messed up. Overall, I think I'm doing better on layout though. And I didn't panic so much.

Back to the short homework paintings. First one was to paint a small classic (girl with pearl earring) in B&W in about 1.5 hrs. Dropped alot of detail and have to move on to assignment two.

Second was suppose to be a still life in B&W with 3 objects and strong light. kinda is. :)

Class Work - Still life close up
This one got weird from the start, but oh well.

Next homework was 2 still lifes. One with a little brush, one with a big brush, 3 objects. These were done in the hotel room in Seattle (still life was sitting in the window sill.) The big brush was a flat - at least an 1". The small was a round - #2? It was the smallest I had that wasn't a detail brush.

Little brush

Big Brush

Here's the unfinished stuff for the week I missed... it's going to be late. :(

Master's copy that is driving me insane

And here it is a bit farther along...

Farmer Twinkie

Draft - two masters merged. An Abstract and a Raphael... Gotta go write the abstract dudes name down... this has a long way to go. It's blotchy and a blurry pic. Had alot of problems with the proportions of the Raphael, which I wasn't expecting. The rounded chubness of the figures was harder than I thought and I totally failed on the face.

This is the start of the series of 3 paintings. Still in Progress. Painting was still wet when I took pic, so there's an odd sheen.

Apocalpyse Twinkie - Twinkie Strikes Back ;)

Here it is again, likely 'done'

And here is picture two - Twinkie Toys

And picture 3, flaming god head twinkie... lol

Ok, really disliked how panel #3 ended up... so I tried it again. Here's the almost finished draft of it...

Final 2 paintings - 'Tiny' Ones.

First is just a still life. Didn't turn out that great, but was painted on clayboard, so that was interesting. Kinda fun. Wish it wasn't so spendy in bigger pieces.

**pic pending**

Painting two is a landscape kinda abstracted (lazy me) on paper board. Never used paper board, so that was interesting. It's tougher than I thought. If I'd known it would hold up so well, I would have started with a dark toned background. Anyway, another learning experience.