Sketches 30

Sketches 30

Keeping this going for better or worse. Really saturated pallet.

Beamish Steam Speedpaint

Beamish Steam Speedpaint

Another speedpaint from the DA group.  The reference is courtesy of Random Acts Stock.  Wheels are still killing me on these.  Need to get a strategy.  Observe and conquer. 

Strategy Agreed

Strategy Agreed

This took quite a while to finish. Lots of stuff to think about and solve.  Not all of it so successfully but I figure if it was hard I must have been learning something.  So on to the next one.

Self Portrait Day 2013

Self Portrait 2013

November 1st rolled around International self portrait day and I had a go again.  I completed a version on the day and posted it on conceptart.org.  Truth be told I did it at the end of the day and was exhausted so not my best effort.  I spent a little more time at the weekend to bring it to a more satisfactory state.    Self portraits are tough.

Rembrandt did a number of self portraits through his life.  They have been put together in this video.  The power of his work is in evidence as for me I get a sense of the man who painted each one of these as he experienced a rise and wane in fortunes.  

Gestures 1

Gestures 1

Getting some figure studies in. The references were from  the Croquis Cafe (NSFW).  Takes a while to loosen up and get into these after a long break.

Moonlight Climb

Moonlight Climb

Messing around with shapes and colours. 

Motorcycle speedpaint

A motorcycle speedpaint of about  2 hours.  The reference is from Speed-Stock on DA.  
The action is captured on Livestream. Wheels are hard to get right.