Garden oil painting-Final

Garden Oil Painting

This is an oil painting I did of a garden. Despite the miserable summer weather things are still growing. Had not done any painting in a while and it was good to get back to doing this.    The painting is done on MDF with gesso.  It is large, maybe 20" x 15".  Took about 9 hours. 

Creature 2 - bobob

creature - bobob

I doodled this and thought it would be fun to complete so I kept working on it.  It is a bobob. 

Hand Study

Hand study

Yip I am still trying to keep some studies going.  I have kept sketching with pencil and paper.  The majority of this kind of work I get done at lunchtime.  Here are some hand studies.  I plan to make my way through Loomis for the remainder of the Summer. 

Flight

Flight

This began as a bit of doodle and grew and grew.  I knew i wanted to do something with a lighter palate and this was as good a subject as any. 

I had all the basic stuff down reasonably quickly but the rendering and detailing well that took way longer.  Things definitely got more static as I rendered it further.  It is still a shock how long it is taking me to get to a point where a piece looks finished.  I think if I focus more and have a clearer idea of what I need to get too it would go faster.  On the other hand I am trying to learn as i go so lots of mistakes. 

Armoured soldier

Some stuff seems to reasonably easy ans fast and some stuff well, it is just hard.  Here is an image I have been tossing and turning for over a month now.  It has gone thought alot of iterations.  What I thought was going to be something relatively simple has become an epic. It was supposed to be a study application, just all those machine studies applied in some way.  So  a mech of some type scaling a hill, no an armoured soldier, a hill well maybe not ....

Played with some armour.

 Abandoned that then thought about 

environment a bit more

And then decided no not happy with it >>>

Soap bottle study

Soapbottle study

This is a study of a soap bottle I did on my lunch break. About 40 minutes effort.  Last still life was the parachute guy back at the start of June. I wanted to bring some of the work I am doing to a higher level of finish.  That has proven to take a lot of time and unfortunetly I have a liited amount of time available for this so in the past month studies have taken a back seat.   

Portrait practice 4

Portrait Practice 4

Changed up my process on this one.  I used just a hard round brush and went to town.  Even though I kept the brush small I finished this in about 3 hours or so. Probably a shorter time than if I went to complete using some of the other approaches I have used.  The reference is from National Geographic a great resource. 

Beast 1

Beast 1

I wanted to follow up the horse study with an application.  I had already done a character so I wanted to design a creature that would be in that world too. No fur so I model the muscle. I started off with the muscle study then put some flesh on it.   I suppose I concentrated a lot on the body.  I was going to go with a more canine face but ended up with a large cat type affair. 

Écorché of horse

Écorché of a horse

Écorché de cheval

This is a copy of a muscle study of a  horse.  The study I found here.  I am going to take this and put it in a study to follow.

Orc - Game On!

This just popped out of nowhere.  To be honest I had some time off and decided to do a piece and finish to as polished a level as I could achieve with an eye towards building a portfolio. I worked on the first piece for about a day.  At the end of that I just took a break to doodle.   If was a value piece.   

The next day I continued working on it and got it finished in a surprising short time. It was a real texture fest.  This is a real step up for me, which is great but now the bar is higher...............

Hands study

Hands Study

Followed on an Awesome Horse demo on hands.  Always a tricky subject so the practice was useful. 

Tank engine study

Tank engine study

Still working on mechanics.  This was a study I did mostly as an exercise in patience.  It was just about observation and modelling.  I could have continued to refine but i think I got what I needed from it.  This is a photo of a tank engine.  Massive.