Simpler landscapes

Seaside

Desert

Trialed simplifying some landscapes for practice.  These were based off photographs.  Trying to refine my process for producing these.  I will try and push the stylisation when I get more confident with it.  

Glowing tree

Glowing Tree

Back to the oil painting.  This is a 12 x 16 inch on canvas based on a photograph.  I did a drawing in pencil followed by sealing it with an acrylic wash putting in the basic values.  

After that layer was a dead layer in oils.  

When it was dry I went back in with oils.  The initial plan was to use glazes but I ran out of time so ended up using more opaque paint followed by one glazing layer and then a final touch up.  

I ended up working on 3 paintings at the same time cycling through the process with each in turn. More on them next week.

Walking and Talking

Walking and Talking

This was an oil painting commission.  Actual size was 76 cm x 61 cm which is the largest canvas I have painted.
As it was such a large canvas I wanted to plan everything out so started with thumbnails.

With a thumbnail selected I went ahead and did a more detailed study with some pose options.  

With all the elements locked down the last thing was to select a pallet.

After that it was out of the forgiving digital world and into traditional media.  A line drawing was made on a gridded canvas 

After that I did a very rough application of value using acrylic paint.  

After that I moved into oils further defining the values with a dead layer .  It was developed beyond this to a full value render - just forgot to take a photo. 

After that I moved into applying colour.  This was done over 2 layers of paint followed up with washes. 

The weasel was mostly white at this point.  

I had to go in and change it to brown - very carefully - total size of figure was about 1 inch.

Magical Powers

Magical Powers

Yeah managed to finish something at last.  This was completed just before the deadline for Unreal Bjornament.  I spent most of the time doing the value work and then had to drop some colour on really quickly so I used alot of filters and adjustment layers to speed things along.  I don't think it harmed the final outcome.  I streamed some of the work on Twitch . 
I did not spend a lot of time on this as I had a lot of painting to get through.  More on that next week. 

Lots of WIPS

Unreal Bjornament WIP

Unreal Bjornament 2 is underway and I decided to take part again.  First topic Magical Powers.  
This is my WIP.  One of many WIPs in progress. 

House 2 pen and ink

House 2 pen and ink

Busy working on a lot of different projects but struggling to bring things to a finish.   Here is a second pen and ink rendering which I did mange to complete. I have some oil paintings in the works.  One is the largest painting I have attempted and I also have some digital work.  

House - Pen and ink

House - Pen and ink

I am working on a lot of things right now but this was a study I did to practice my pen and ink.  This was done with a dip pen.  The trick with these renders is to design the light and dark regions. It got to heavy in the lighter areas.   Was not so successful with this one but it was good practice.