This was kind of a practice painting wherein I was trying out a lot of oil technique and just enjoying fussing with the material. So it's not great but it's something and I learned a lot.
2019-10-07 18:41:30 +0000 UTC View PostI spent the day at a street festival up in Issaquah Washington that celebrates the return of spawning salmon. The fair part is just a regular street fair type deal but getting to see the salmon swimming up the fish ladders and the coho fry was super cool. There were a lot of crafty artist type stalls and some. Very good...
2019-10-07 02:11:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Quickish paint of a cute gay doggy. The oil was fun to work with. I need to work on my stylistic choices though.
2019-10-05 02:28:27 +0000 UTC View Post
The first finished oil painting. Actually it's oil over an acrylic underpainting. Which hadn't been turning out well but oil really brought it to life!
2019-10-04 17:28:47 +0000 UTC View PostSo I got started with the new oil paintings and I’ve really been loving them. The only trouble is that they take longer, I have to be very careful of all the animal hair floating around, and I have to stick them in the oven when it’s time for a new layer to dry them out. Other than that, they really suit my kind of work s...
2019-10-04 04:29:25 +0000 UTC View Post
I wanted to tackle this concept again in a somewhat different way. I think perhaps I should have left the mycelium out altogether? I don't know. Art is hard! :P
2019-10-01 22:59:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Tried out my resist and new walnut ink. Still wrapping my head around ink, which pretends to be paint and then becomes semi-transparent as you go >8I It's like one color-one thickness watercolor.
2019-10-01 22:33:34 +0000 UTC View Post
I was sitting here waffling over whether I wanted to get my oil paint stuff busted out (it's just so messy and stanky) and I ultimately decided to start Inktober a day early. It's... OK. I forgot how the ink behaved. I don't have a really opaque holbein so I'm working with this kind of watery higgins and I approached it mmmmm...
2019-10-01 03:31:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Headed out on a birthday thing today (not mine) so no new stuff but here's some gesture drawing and just doodles.
2019-09-29 16:40:19 +0000 UTC View Post
I lost all my oil paint, brushes, water soluble oil and open acrylic in the move. Which just..... I’m trying not to be infuriated, but it was a lot of expensive supplies. This little splurge cost me $240. But it’s all brand new and I’m very excited to paint with oil again!
2019-09-28 03:13:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Pose stolen from a New Masters Academy vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbLVbaGrzBY&t=239s
2019-09-27 21:33:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Baarrf I tried to upload these last night but Patreon was having some kind of flipout and wouldn't post. I've got my fingers crossed it works today.
Spent yesterday gathering reference at the wildlife park. It's not very easy as most of it is in heavy shade, but I got a few decent ones for painting ref and the res...
2019-09-25 15:19:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Four different variations of back and tail markings for the same species. All reffed from various photos.
2019-09-23 19:36:27 +0000 UTC View Post
It was held at this amazing campus—Green River College—which was like all trees. The event was smallish but that was fine. I was hoping to get some slim rough cuts to set in the covers of sketchbooks but there weren’t any so all I got was this pair of amazing turquoise and copper stones for myself. If I want to put ston...
2019-09-22 02:27:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I've got five of these this round. Here's the first.
2019-09-20 02:41:54 +0000 UTC View Post
He ordered 20 of these dudes last MFF so I'm finishing them up before the next one.
2019-09-18 03:55:18 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm feeling terrible and low-energy today but I managed to finish a simple commission for Cad of him and a friend.
2019-09-17 01:15:16 +0000 UTC View Post
I didn’t get the chance to finish any new artwork yesterday but I wasn’t slacking I prepped boards with gesso and made four sketchbooks. Which take longer than they look .-.
i think from here on out I’ll just buy board pre-gesso’d. It’s only a dollar-a few dollars more and to gesso oneself tak...
2019-09-16 19:36:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Pencil sketching. I goofed up the angle on the hips buuuut watever.
2019-09-15 03:12:43 +0000 UTC View Post
I planned and drew out a couple of to-be-painted smallish paintings today but this is the only 'finished' thing--a pencil study.
2019-09-13 04:46:25 +0000 UTC View Post
2 hour speedpaint using up some of the leftover paint from my last big painting. I used a photo I took for ref
2019-09-12 04:33:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Baaarf, I gotta go to the dentist today but here's something I finished up. I think I'll send it to Nekot along with the sketchbook for being such a generous Patron.
2019-09-09 20:51:55 +0000 UTC View Post
I’m FAIR at composition but I’m not great so I got a lot of books on the subject. If any of you are interested I can do a little review of each as I read them. So far “The Painter’s Secret Geometry” is fairly obtuse and is more interesting in a historical sense than useful to a modern artist. “The Simple Sec...
2019-09-07 01:39:05 +0000 UTC View Post
i had to get yet another wire Mac for the larger wire but here it is—a nice handmade sketchbook. I’ll be sending it to Nekot, my best patron.
2019-09-05 23:17:41 +0000 UTC View Post
