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.

Dark Eldar Lhamaean

Today was a good day in the studio without safety incidents, this is a Lhamaean from the Dark Eldar (evil space elf like creatures) faction from the Warhammer 40k universe. I did this in my free time, it was done in photoshop.

Below is my morning still life which was done in gouache and took about 2 hours. It is a portrait of a Space Marine Land Raider also from the 40k universe.

Tuesdays Still Life

What a day in the studio, had a lamp fall and explode on me, almost started a fire, and temporarily blinded myself, but I managed to get a lot of work done. This is todays still life I again set up a still life to replicate the lighting situation for an illustration I am working on. I did this one in gouache and minus all the interruptions took about 2 hours.

Week Two, Still Life One

This is todays still life, it is a little strange looking. I tried to arrange all the objects in a fashion similar to an Illustration I'm working on. My hope was that if I could light it similarly to what it will be in the illustration it will help me have an idea how the light will work in the final illustration, we'll see how it works. I did this in gouache in about 2 hours.

This is my painting I did on Christmas morning, I did this on an i-pad using the brushes app and to approximately 2 hours. Below is the painting I did on Saturday, its an image of some of my books, it took 2 hours and was done in gouache.

In Studio Plein Aire

I decided to just do a painting of my work area, instead of a still life, I found it more interesting. I did this in gouache which I found makes me focus more on positive negatives and shape relations. It took about 2 hours.