Digital speed paint using a photograph I took in Coral Pink Sand Dunes. I camped there the week of 9/11. I remember watching the star filled skies criss crossed with flights just after the airspace was reopened.
A diary of my adventures in art from painting to 3D animation. I have added work over 10 years so it has become a record of my changing abilities and interests. Contact me if you have any questions.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Tornado speedpaint
After the long haul completing the oil painting alt="plough horse oil painting" I was glad to switch to some speed painting in Photoshop using photo reference.
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Plough horse oil painting
This year has been tough - lots of long hours at work and other commitments that have meant I was not able to do as much art work as I would have liked.
One piece that has being running since April is this plough horse.
It started out as an exercise and I was going to use acrylics.
One piece that has being running since April is this plough horse.
It started out as an exercise and I was going to use acrylics.
I have not worked with them much but liked the idea of being able to layer the paints quickly.
I used a couple of photo references for this - the main one was in black and white. The sketch used that composition.
20 march 2011
I sketched in pencil and I should have spent some time getting this right but I didn't. Next time .........
The next thing I did was started blocking in colour. This was in acrylic.
It was at his point I realised how massive the area was and how much effort it was going to take to make this work.
I stopped at here.
When I returned to work on it I had decided to switch to oils.
I chipped away at it for April and blocked in all the colour. I worked on landscape behind.
05 May 2011
Next I started to work on the furrows. As it was such a big canvas I didn't want to get into too much detail. I marked the lines out then defined
11 MAY 2011
25 MAY 2011
When all other detail was added I went in and added the harness and shadows.
I added a pale wash to push the landscape and sky back and that was it.
03 June 2011
As ever learned alot on this-I should do more prep and make more decisive decisions as I work.
Monday, May 30, 2011
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Dog portrait
With some time off for Easter - two bank holiday weekends - I took a short camping trip. I also ended up dog sitting. Unusually the time off conincided with some unseasonably warm and dry weather. We treked in the Connemara National Park. If your visiting this part of the world do try to make your way there.
This was a photo I took of the dog after a little Photoshopping.
This image is how it started out.
This was a photo I took of the dog after a little Photoshopping.
This image is how it started out.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Lolling Lizard
I have kept working on the vectors and choose a lizard as the next unwilling victim. I ended up with very much the same colour scheme as the last one but it was not intentional.
Lolling Lizard |
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Spring Sheep
Last Sunday was the first really spring day I got to enjoy. There may have been some earlier but as I work in a room with no windows I may have missed some.
The fields were full of sheep and their lambs in sunshine. One of those days when it is just great being there.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Animation Shorts
The creation of an animation short is an interesting exercise. Gone are the days when the cartoon was played alongside feature films in cinemas. Instead these creations don't really have a readily recognisable forum or stage where they can find wide exposure.
The form itself is interesting as it is usually the work of just a small group of people or maybe just one brave soul like students creating course work or a professional looking to explore personal boundaries.
This can mean that the vision is less likely to be diluted and daring it its execution.
The Internet has provided a place to show off these creations with some finding fame on the likes of You Tube.
An example of a personal project is Ryan Woodward used his considerable gesture drawing skill taking it to produce an evocative piece of animation The Thought of You. There are more details on the process on his site http://conteanimated.com/
Thought of You from Ryan J Woodward on Vimeo.
This animation was created as a video for an Australian group the Audreys song Sometimes The Stars.
Sometimes the Stars from The Audreys on Vimeo.
There is an interview with the director Ari Gibson and art director Jason Pamment here
Sometimes the Stars from The Audreys on Vimeo.
There is an interview with the director Ari Gibson and art director Jason Pamment here
Out of Sight was a graduation project by Yu Ya-ting, Yeh Ya-hsuan and Chung Ling from the Department of Multimedia and Animation Art at National Taiwan University of Arts. It is a hand drawn imagining of the world perceived a blind girl.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Mapping St Patrick
One of the great things about the growth in digitisation of library and museum collections means that the collections can be browsed without travel and material that even if you made that journey may not be available to the general public.
As St Patricks Day arrives (17 March) I thought it might be a good time to look at the mapping of Ireland what could be found online . The earlier maps were drawn with little real geographical knowledge and were therefore prone to bias and perhaps exaggeration of a locations size to match its perceived importance.
The earliest map of the British Isles is the Mappa Munde dated 1025-1050, available in the British Library collection.
Ireland - an undistinguished blob- but mapped nonetheless.
Also in the British Library collection is this map on vellum from the 1530s. This has some rudimentary coastal detail. What it lacks in detail it makes up for in character with some nice illustration.
This map in the British Library collection dated in the mid 1500s has more detail with lakes, rivers, mountains and Islands.
In the Library of Congress collection are some later maps showing the growing accuracy of mapping. This map dates from 1598 and also marks St Patricks purgatory in Lough Derg.
And this on this map Loug Derg and St Patricks purgatory are marked together.
St Patricks Purgatory was and remains an important site of pilgrimage.
This is how it appears on google maps today.
You have to look hard to find it!
Happy St Patricks Day !
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