New Mexican Black Bear

Bear (Oils  18 x 12 cm)

This little character I picked up in New Mexico a while back.  It suffered some attacks by a puppy but survived and still resides on my desk reminds me of sunnier times. 

Sweet Pea alla prima

Sweet Pea (oil 12 x 18 cm)

Sweet pea in a glass.  About 1 hour. Glass could have been better!

Gmini 402 alla prima

Gmini 402 in oils

This is the next in the series of small oil studies.  This was a blast to do. It may be because I am Quite attached to this little mp3 player. It is an Archos Gmini 402 which also has a camcorder.  Archos were out there working on mp3 players before the ipod launched.
It has been overtaken by newer models but this one does what I want it to do really well which is play mp3s. It is robust easy to use and I principally use it when I am cycling.

Autumn leaf alla prima

Autumn leaf   (oil on oil painting paper 18 x 12 cm)

The smaller size made this achievable in about 1 h.  I think I will stick to this kind of size for these practice studies.

alla prima orange

I decided to do a series of smaller still life studies to get some more practice in oils. 

Orange (Oil on oil painting paper 30 x 20 cm)

This took about 1 1/2 hours.  after completing this I decided to cut the size of these down to half to get them to a more finished state in a shorter time.  More to come...

Fishermen Photoshop Study

This is another study of an image from the same collection as this.

In contrast with the last study I did not use a value study using overlays to add colour.  This one I painted directly which for me is much easier to control but the trade off is flexibility.  

Final

Reference

Blocking

Colour

Water Carrier - Photoshop

This work is based on an image which is part of a collection donated by the Matson Photo Service to the USA Library of Congress

The collection spans 1898 to 1946 and is mostly black and white images taken in the Middle East.

This is a colourised digital painting in Photoshop based on an image of a water carrier.