Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Friday, November 14, 2014

Dogwalker

Dogwalker
Messing with some photo bashing and then this happened.  A bit of fun. 

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Doorstep

Doorstep

Tried to stay with the landscape theme but being experimental. 

Friday, November 7, 2014

Landscape Study 12 -After Monsted -Glimpses of the Sun in Sæby Stream

After Monsted -Glimpses of the Sun in Sæby Stream
Biggest challenge when painting landscapes is handling green.  A classic way of breaking up all the green is adding red accents.  This is a symphony of red and green.  Image I worked from was on Elsewhere but links back to Jose Rosarios website

Monday, November 3, 2014

Landscape Study 11 After Andreas Achenbach-Wildbach






After Andreas Achenbach-Wildbach

Some dramatic landscape. The image I studied from is Elsewhere.  Had not seen any of this artists work before.  A lot of moody work.

Friday, October 31, 2014

Guard with spear

Guard with spear
Tried another character.  It came from the same set of silhouettes as cricket guard.  Not as successful I think - a bit generic. 

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Landscape study 10 After Shishkin - Small Oak Trees



Decided to do a few landscape studies.  This work is by Shishkin.   Did not spend a tun of time refining this as I just wanted to get the big shapes in  and then work from there.   There does not seem to be a lot of images of this online and the few that are there vary in hues.  This was copied from an image on a website  Elsewhere .  This has a  great collection of paintings of landscapes at good resolution and believable colours. The original is in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.   Someday.

Big Bear Game Art

  I started creating a series of promotional art for a ficticious game.  This was to practice going through the design process.  I have foun...