Winter Term Painting Class 2011

First class exercise was on paper. Didn't bring that home. Black and white rendition of a classic.

**no pic**

Well, this is Twinkie, so of course it's a classic (LOL.) This was done on a weekend with no painting homework. It's done with water soluble graphite pencils, some inktense pencils, and a tiny bit of color pencil in the eyes.

Had never used the graphite pencils. Biggest thing I learned - on watercolor paper, they suck right in and lock almost immediately like ink. Wasn't expecting that. But I'm not familiar at all with watercolor paper either.



We did two black and white exercises in class. The first was the 'make the still life blurry on the screen' kind of thing where you focus on tone/value first. Painful, but fun.



The second was looking directly at the still life, then painting the bit we chose still in black and white. So I guess doing it 2D fuzzy vs. 3D.



This is an in class still life, unfinished. Had to paint using primary colors, so had blue, yellow, red, plus black and white. Might get to finish it next week.

Trying again on Twinkie pic, this time in acrylics. Still in progress.

Ok, here's the final on the primary color still life. Didn't get it completed, and the still life had moved some so fabric was kinda blown, but time is up on it so it's done.

Now starting the triptych... er... tryphtech? However it's spelled.

Here is unfinished panel one - a revisit of twink from last term. Still need to go back in and do detail work, mostly on big eye/fur.

Here is unfinished panel #2 - to go with the panel above. Twinkie vs. Apocalyptic Mousie. Heh heh.

And here is unfinished panel #3, dreaming Twinkie. LOTS left to do on this one, not even half way there.

And here is the latest update to panel 3. Junk food ditched for mousies. Colors changed (the violet really kept bothering me.)

And Panel 3 changed yet again. I think this will be the final version, I've run out of time.

For the last assignment, we had to do two small paintings. Ok, tiny, but I took the largest size we could do. 9x12.

This is the unfinished first one - simple portrait from an ad.

And here is the finished still life I did. Cell phone pic, so not as sharp. I enjoyed this one. It felt like the objects, even though I strayed alot. And not the orange wasn't rotting, it was a 'blood orange cross' of some sort, so it had red mottling in it.

Really old Stuff

This is the really old stuff archive. I don't have many pics from high school, early college. A few sketches I liked technically, most everything else got ditched.

This is from... er... 1985? Geez. Just a sketch from a clothing ad. Sorry for the glare. Too lazy to take apart the old crappy frame and take a good pic of it.

Fall Term Painting Class... man I suck...

Well, I've started a painting class and man... I have a heck of a lot to learn.

One of the first things we worked on was a 'non representational' painting based on some thumbnail paintings we did. Here's the thumbnail paintings:



Then we did some monochrome in class paintings:




Then we took one of the non representational thumbnails and made it big. erm - mine didn't end up at all like my thumbnail. Grotesque, yes, but it had me laughing by the end of it.



Here's one I started and is still in progress - as 'I'm so frustrated with homework, I'm going to paint the kitty instead'.



And here's an inclass still life we worked on. Not 100% pleased with it, but it's all a learning experience.



Finished triptych - 3 closeups of an object.



Master's copy. Struggled with this alot - never did get the color right and the detail of the woodgrain didn't turn out very well.




Finshed final two panels. Got really cartoon like. The one with cat is acrylic, the one with eyes is inktense pencils.

What I did with my Fridays off - Spring 2010

Closed and open contour line exercise, I believe. This was just before the Spring Term class actually.



Still Life, on newsprint. Charcoal and Conte.



Still Life, charcoal and conte. Kept having issues with distance and seeing the detail in the still life exercises.



Homework exercise, copying a classic. In charcoal, 1st drawing.



Homework Exercise, copying a classic. In charcoal. 2nd drawing.



Triptych Exercise. Learned to never draw something that I have to hold. Charcoal.



Collage Project. Creating a collage, then drawing it in pastel. This was taken in progress.



Homework - surreal. Charcoal and Conte.



This is the finished drawing of the collage.



In class graphite exercise. Very short, unfinished.



One point perspective exercise, 1 and 2.

(looking for drawings)

Skull morph. In class exercise. Charcoal. Kinda got out of control, but had fun with values.




Final Project - revisting the Collage. Minor alterations, drawn on white paper with black colored pencil this time.