Happy Holidays y'all

This painting got accepted into the 'Strokes of Genius' offspring 'Art Journey;People' book.  Due to come out Dec 2014.  Awesome.  Meanwhile, keep on truckn', work hard and make shit happen. :)
'Portrait with Earrings'
16"x10"
oils

Happy Holidays  y'all.

k

Recent studies from life

 from a photo i took

 Levitan copy

Southland show

 

'Southland'
Kwan Fong Gallery
120 Memorial Parkway
Thousand Oaks, CA 91320

Opening reception;  Saturday, October 19 7-10pm.

a sculpt

Done in David Simons portrait class.
http://davidsimonart.com/
Contact him for figure and portrait sculpting classes in L.A.

The search, the dig and the home

 At the end of august beginning of september i went on a little roadtrip to the az/ut border to paint.  A little too much of a drive with too little time but it was magnificent.  I have to remember to plan my trips a little more reasonably. 

This is another drawing i did for the show 'Southland' coming up.  I will have a total of 8 pen and ink drawings, come check it out.

'Southland'
Kwan Fong Gallery
120 Memorial Parkway
Thousand Oaks, CA 91320

Opening reception;  Saturday, October 19 7-10pm.

the scratching curve

18"x12", pen n ink

10"x6"", control of compliments, i'll be adding more color to this but  i wanted to start off with a simple strong statement and work my way yonder.

study i did at the beach.  i kinda dig this like... what? 2 minute study? minus the color mixing. She had beautiful color, i wish this girl didn't keep looking at me like i was all creepy so i could just paint her.

$550, 6"x12", oils

$450,  6"x12", oils

$450,  7"x11", oils

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le semaine

 

 12"x16"study.  Palette knife gallore.

12"x16" study, i experimented with this one by going full saturation everywhere.  It was awful. I got home and toned it down a little bit and this was the product.  I then scraped it. Interesting experiment.

5"x7", study at the beach over the weekend. A little girl and her family liked it alot so i signed it to the little girl.  It was awesome.  She was so rad.

12"x6".... i had a lot of trouble shooting this image.  I'll probably retake the photo at some point so that the contrast and color are more accurate.

Class with V.Zanginian 10"x6"

2 color comps for a larger piece i'm planning.  I'm going to do three more so i don't run into the usual indecision when i paint the final product.  These are great because i'm also altering the composition and the lines i want to make, along with finding out how i want to play with the saturation, value,  color and temperature.  small panel about 8"wide.

Update on the sculpt.

Now time for quality vs. quantity ay?

just a stranger

16"x12", oils

 

14"x10"

pencil

9"x12"

8"X10"

8"x10"

Sculpt wk 2 from D.Simons portrait sculpting class

photo taken of my modeling for M.McDonnell's character class.

Spoils

 

11"x14" study

 11x14"study

I got to take a day in B.Perkins color class, this is a 8"x10" 30min study

 

 8"x10 hr study

 8"x10" hr study

 8"x10" hr study

 

8"x10" hr study

 

8"x10" still life study 

 

How my planned projection is coming along

 

  

a 3/4 scale sculpt i've begun in D.Simons portrait sculpting class.

 

5"x7" study

Overall i struggled alot this week.  But you know, keep on truckin. Work harder, work smarter.

this weeks frustrations

i had to work more this week (modeling) so i had a good deal less time to work on art.  Gotta play ketchup this weekend next week to meet this weeks goals.

 the bottom two are alla prima studies, i think 16"x12", the top is a quick fechin copy. 

 This is an example of bad composition turning into a bad painting due to sheer frustration.

 a 1hr 'en plein air' study.  I suck at these but i'm trying to work it out.  I love doing them, just gotta connect the dots.  A copy this week would do me good.

Some drawings i'm working out.  They are to be done by this weekend/next weekend in full pen and ink glory. (on another sheet of paper, but i work out all my decisions on crappy regular paper before the final drawing.  This is especially good since i can't erase pen and ink so i need to be confident in my decisions).