Pastels

These are some Pastels that i did recently at our life drawing meetup group. I think they were about 15 min a piece.

Tuesday Night Figure

Here are some pieces I did at our weekly meet up on Tuesday nights. This is one I did in Marker, the one below is watercolor from Halloween.

My Gigantic Plein Air update

I haven't updated my blog here lately I've been really tied up doing senior show stuff and getting ready to graduate. I'm going to try and make it my goal to update my blog more regularly.These are the last of my plein air paintings I had for the semester.

Plein Air after midterm

These Are paintings that I did from marr park near the UCM campus.

This is a pastel I did the colors came out really bright I think it looks a little like a fairy tale.

Latest Plein Aire

This is a quick little master study I did of one of Maxfield Parrish's landscapes/Illustrations. His color usage reminds me of the psychedelic fantasy illustration done during the 1960s. I think it has something to do with with his complementary shadow colors.

This is small painting I did on the UCM farm of some distant rolling hills I wanted to try and capture the roundness of the hills hopefully I did this.

This is a larger version of the above painting.

More Draw-a-Thon

Here are some more images from Draw-a-thon. These are all pastel, I actually think I learned quite a bit in this years draw-a-thon, maybe draw-a-thon isn't all that bad.

The UCM farm

These are some studies I did out at the UCM farm, this was probably my most favorite spot we have painted this far in our class. I tried to keep all these really small in size and quick.

Here are some of many images from Draw-A-Thon

This is one I did on Tuesday Night drawing.

This is a landscape I did from my Colorado trip, It was a giant rocky gorge in the middle of the mountains south of pikes peak. I would of liked to have done an on location painting but it was getting ready to rain.

Plein Air Week 5

This week I focused more on architecture, the first one I did was this gorgeous old rundown Victorian house a little north west of downtown Warrensburg.

This is a painting I attempted of the courthouse in downtown Warrensburg. I think one of the successes of this painting was how I laid down color in a broad manner in the beginning and not really being to concerned with the detail. But when I took it indoors to touch it up I think I tightened up the rendering and ruined it. One success I've hac this semester is limiting my self on time I'm trying to keep these between 1 to 2 hours.

Latest Zombie animations

These are some of the latest zombie animations I have done for the upcoming game that should be out very soon!

7 falls Colorado

This is a landscape I did from reference taken from 7 falls in colorado springs. It is a canyon in the mountains, lined with lots of sharp rocks.

This is the first painting I did on location outside of Denver in the foothills of the Rocky mountains it took approximately an hour.

This is the second painting I did in denver it is 360 degrees from the first one, it also took an hour.

This is a small plateau right off of I-70 in a suburb outside of Denver called Golden. It was done on location in about an hour.

Fall 09 Plein Air

This is the final painting I did at cave hollow, it was a really neat scene I don't think I did it Justice.

This is my first painting in cave hollow, it isn't a real good design.

This is the first painting I did this semester, I was off to a rough start!

Album Art

These are some recent images that I did for album art for a band out of St. Louis. The Full color image was done in oil on illustration board. I then photographed it and tried to desaturate color in areas of lesser interest to help establish a focal point.

This is one below was done in water color on arches paper. I kept everything monochromatic except for the sky. The idea was to do a before and after image of the man using the phone and then a scene after the man had taken off to avoid his pursuers. the way I did this was to do a full panoramic image of the scene then separately paint images of all the different elements (man, car, dust). then i scaned them into photoshop and assembled the elements on top of one another using the multiply command.

My books

Heres some pictures of my books, these aren't all of them I'm kind of in the process of moving.