The Summer

I’ve been a terrible slacker with keeping this up.   Anyways, here’s what I’ve finished this summer:

I did a self portrait sometime in June.  About 80% of this is done w/ my fingers.  You can see the finger prints in the beard.  I’m pretty happy with this.  I learned a lot about blending.  I also did this in one night which was pretty fast for me.

I was low on motivation so I started painting storm troopers.  I’ve played w/ them a few times.  This is the best I’ve ever arrived at.  I’m still working in the layers and colors.  This was a fun painting.

I wanted to follow up my portrait by doing another one.  On this however, i opted not to use any browns.  I was hoping I’d learn something about color.  It was challenging.  In the end the top and the bottom seem like two different parts.  This is where I really started using purple.

I took this photo to compare where I was in the first part of August over the last two years.  Overall the work has changed drastically.

This is a paint over of an early piece.  I did it all in fan brushes.  I really like the presents of the brush strokes.

This too is pretty much all fan brushes.

this was interesting because I painted the background last.  It was sort of a strange process that cost the legs and some of the detail.  Again, I’m trying to bring these elements together into something coherent.  I really like the white lines.

Also, for September, I have 12 pieces up at Kettleman Bagel Company on SE 11th.  Some of this new stuff, is up along with older pieces.  I’m also working on a word project.  I don’t know if I’ll post it here…

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~ by ruleaux on September 17, 2010.