Elysian Realm
I decided to varnish the painting because I don’t want to work on it any more. The gloss from the gamvar varnish seemed almost too glossy. I had to let it dry for a couple days and thought maybe I had applied it too thick, so I used Gamsol on a rag to remove the […]
The difficult decision at the moment is whether or not I am finished with the “Tattoo Girls” oil painting. The problem is that I can still see many areas that can be improved, but I’m not really wanting to work on it any more. I have a day off tomorrow so I will see after […]
I managed to paint quite a bit over the last few days. I plan to work on the hair of the brunette, add some touch ups to the background, and add tattoos to the redhead. Then I think I will be done. Tonight I started designing a new spine for the art mannequin. I’m going […]
I had a day off today and I promised myself I would paint. So after I dropped my son off at school I came home and set to task. I got my paints laid out, mixed up some flesh tones in varying values and temperatures, put some linseed oil in a cup, and I started […]
I’m very close to finishing up the dead coloring stage. My patience hasn’t been too great this week and I’ve been rushing through some of the color mixing and painting, which in turn is yielding poor results in some areas. If I can get my head back into the game during the next phase I […]
It’s my birthday. I’m old. And I got in the mood to paint because I want the white of that canvas gone. I started working on the countertop and the reflections, and then I got real motivated to get rid of that cursed blue on the wall. Oh it felt so good to finally cover […]
I jumped back into the artwork this week after a much needed break from the art mannequin. My kid and I were sick for the past 2 weeks and now that I’m feeling better I’m anxious to create. I started off with some drawing on gray toned paper, working from a photo shoot I had […]
After my last post I was thinking about what I said about painting each figure one at a time to completion, and I realized that was a bad idea. The entire point of the dead coloring stage is to get the canvas completely covered so that the white does not interfere with the judgement of […]
After last night’s blog post I thought to myself, “Hey – the wall should be pretty easy to fill in real quick.” So I mixed up a dark, medium, and light blue thinking it would be a nice shadow hue for the background to contrast against the skin tones. I punched it in real quick […]
Technically this is the third day that I have worked on the new painting (day 1 was drawing on canvas, day 2 was roughing in the body, and today was the face). I am using the same process that I used for the previous painting, which is: 1. starting with a general underpainting to try […]