Council meeting Spitpaint

Council meeting Spitpaint

Haven't done a spitpaint in a while.

Self Portrait oils

Self Portrait oils

Did this one as after a burst of doing portrait practice.  Looking very serious.  Entered it in the portrait artist competition run by Sky.  That was used more as a target to spur on the practice and deliver something at the end.  Sky got back with confirmation that I was not successful (no surprise). What they did was send a garbled message to me and about 400 other entrants. I know this because the email addresses were visible to all. What followed was a brief attempt be some of the recipients to get an impromptu show together.  That petered out into a hail of emails from peeps asking to be removed from the list.  The production company  was Storyvault Films. 

Skirmish-2

Skirmish

 Worked on this original doodle.  I was going to abandon it at the point below but pushed on to some sort of finish.  Seems like  I was working on this forever as I don't have a lot of time to paint at the moment.

Digger 1

Digger

Practicing oils.  Really need the practice.  This is about 12"x10" on canvas.  Took about 4-5 hours over 3 sessions. 

Encounter

Encounter

Started off as a doodle.  Not best pleased with it but anyway.

Still Life Speedpaint 2

Still Life Speedpaint 2

A still life speedpaint study inspired by the deviant Art group.  They had some photo refs but as it was still life I worked from real life.  Working from life is different to working from photos. Didn't take a photo of the set up on the day so there are differences between photo and study.  Yip my dog photo bombed.

Portrait 9

Portrait 9

 

 

 

This portrait from imagination for practice.  Haven't had a chance to do much study of late so what will be posted over the next few days is an eclectic mix of stuff.  A lot of it produced when I was fairly tired. 

Portrait Study 21

Portrait Study 21

Another study done in oils 12 x 10".  Still struggling with these. 

Portrait Study 20

Portrait Study 20

Yip As promised I moved back to oils for practice.  This was done in about 2-3 hours. 10 x 12 " or so.   This is one of those times where I realised I was more proficient working in digital than traditional. Hadn't worked any oils since Christmas.  Anyway a few more of these to come.

Portrait Study 19

Portrait Study 19

Last one of these for a while.  Che Guevara.  Going to switch over to traditional media next.