Day 19

Today I went with a carpentry theme, I kept the pallet pretty much on the warm side ochers and siennas. This was done in gouache and took 2 hours. It may be the last still life for the next few days, I really want to try some more fun personal stuff to mix things up.

Below are some completely unrelated drawings.

No Rest for the Wicked

I have really run out of still life ideas due to sleep deprivation, so I went old school. As much as I hate painting still life's these have been good for me, I've learned a lot about light, color, and shadow. This was done in gouache on canvas and it took about 2 1/4 hours.

Study In Light

Didn't think I was going to get this one done in time, Here is todays still life, and its kind of silly. I wanted to again set up the still life to replicate the light that would take place in a final illustration. For the characters I used a small mannequin and just moved it to different locations, to see how the light and shadows changed. This will be interesting to se how this helps the final Illustration, unfortunately it may be several weeks before I can work on the final illustration.

Below are some of the concept sketches I used to layout the initial layout and character poses.

Tiny Little Head Studies

I decided to take a break from still life's and paint some tiny little heads. I am doing this Illustration with hundreds of figures so I wanted to get in some practice with heads. This was a really good assignment for me, I tried to focus on blocking in the features in the first minute or two. Measuring negative space and shapes was a key tool for this one (I guess teaching that Drawing 1 class wasn't a total waste). I did this in gouache and it took about 3 hours or so for them all, but I lost track of time due to watching C-span.

New Years weekend Still lifes

Here is this mornings still life done in gouache and it took a little over 2 hours. I went for the Gorgon/Death/Cutting Instrument motif in this arrangement. I learned a lot about moving color around in this piece.

Below Is from Sunday its a series of anatomical studies in gouache and one Alien. I think I learned the most out from this piece than any of them so far, I really realized that with this gouache you can really push the paint around and hint at anatomical structure and the eye and mind will fill in all the details.

This is From Saturday I wanted to go for the whole secret laboratory look, I don't know that I did the light from the actual set up justice as it was glowing quite a bit more than what I have it here I may have to try this again in the future.

High Elevation Plien Air

This is a landscape I did today on our little Neoburg outing, it is up the street from the KCmuseum on the edge of a cliff overlooking the train yards. This was done in gouac

he and took about 3 hours.

Below is a drawing from the Hyatt Regency hotel on crown center, we rode the elevator to the 39th floor where there was a window overlooking downtown kansas city. I am trying an

experiment with these posts If anyone is getting sick of these let me know and I will stop.

Day 11

Here is the quick painting I did this morning it was done in gouache and took about 2 and 1/2 hours. This is the cropped version the first one had the lamp in it, but it was distracting. I think I'm getting better at color, Im not neutralizing it as bad as I did in the past. I'm trying to put in about 18 hours a day of making art, my gosh its wearing me out, luckily I have a stock pile of moon pies I was given for Christmas they really take the edge off.