Showing posts with label Acrylic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Acrylic. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Monday, February 16, 2015
PRINCESS PRINTS
Quick update – Princess Peach and Princess Daisy prints are now available on Society6. Check it out!
Monday, June 9, 2014
PRINCESSES IN THE SHOP
Just a quick post here to say my Princess paintings are now available in my shop! After hanging in the Game On exhibit at Side Street Studio Arts in Elgin, Illinois, their frames got some fresh paint and protective varnish. If you'd like to buy the pair together, email me or message me through Etsy and I'll make a custom listing where you'll save $50.
Saturday, May 31, 2014
IT'S JUST A GAME
New pieces for sale in my Etsy shop!
Three, 5"x7" acrylic paintings done in the style of my recent animal alphabet pieces, based on the families in the Game of Thrones series: A golden "L" on red for the lions of Lannisters. A deep black "S" on snow white for the wolves of Stark. And a crimson "T" on charred black for the dragons of Targaryen.
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| L is for Lion, 2014, Acrylic on panel |
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| S is for Wolf, 2014, Acrylic on panel |
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| T is for Dragon, 2014, Acrylic on panel |
Friday, May 23, 2014
R IS FOR...
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| R is For..., 2014, Acrylic on Board |
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| Details |
Thursday, April 17, 2014
PRINCESS DAISY
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| Princess Daisy, 2014, Acrylic on Panel |
Both are currently in the Game On exhibit at Side Street Studio Arts in Elgin, Illinois. So go check them out and see the other great video game inspired art there! The exhibition ends April 27th.
Sunday, January 12, 2014
PRINCESSES
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| Princess Peach, 2013, Acrylic on Panel |
I'm not a girly girl, pink and princess type, but I've started a series of paintings based on the ladies of the Mushroom Kingdom.
I've chosen to focus on their seriously-not-a-damsel-in-distress stare and intricate hairdos and crowns. I chose iconic images from each game to make into a super flat, wallpaper-like background in the Super Mario Bros. 3 color scheme. And no, those aren't fire flowers in the wrong color or ice flowers behind Peach. I went with something a little more obscure -- they are the flowers in the matching games in Super Mario Bros. 3.
Ready to kick ass, Princess Peach is complete. Daisy will be next (below is the start of the process), and I would like to include Rosalina from Super Mario Galaxy to complete the set.
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| Princess Daisy Process, 2014, Acrylic on Panel |
Sunday, September 29, 2013
F IS FOR...
Here is my latest painting, one of the two I had in the Next Wave Art Salon a few weeks ago in Elgin, Illinois.
I bought a flat Masonite board with the intention of making my own cradle for a nice, deep profile re-using some boards from my old bookcase. That is quite a bit of work when all you have is a handsaw and a sponge sanding block... However the not-so-perfect, woodsy look works so well with the overall energy, painting style and theme of the piece, so it was well worth it.
I'm so happy with how this turned out, there will be more like this, and maybe I'll end up with a whole alphabet. The next one will be "R" with a raccoon tail for some boy I know <3. But for now, this one will be hanging up in the apartment which has accidentally turned out to have a red and blue color scheme. Perfect.
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| F is For..., Acrylic on Panel, 2013 |
I'm so happy with how this turned out, there will be more like this, and maybe I'll end up with a whole alphabet. The next one will be "R" with a raccoon tail for some boy I know <3. But for now, this one will be hanging up in the apartment which has accidentally turned out to have a red and blue color scheme. Perfect.
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| Detail of the hand-cut cradle |
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
IN PROGRESS: UNTITLED 01
Here is a bit of process for the next painting or two. I don't want to give away too much just yet...
Friday, June 7, 2013
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
MORE LIKE A SIX-FOOT TURKEY
"Hold onto your butts."
I'm excited to share my latest project, a fun and interesting one to work on: the design for a model kit box that will hold a tiny dinosaur (rawr).
Tyler Keillor sculpted this little guy in ZBrush with the help of the supporters of his Kickstarter project, the people at ACME Design, Inc. and Exact Metrology, Inc.You can find his whole story here. We went with a design reminiscent of old Aurora model kit box art - painterly and bright - but not so silly or anatomically incorrect...
I created the background painting referencing an image of the Dryptosaurus head that Tyler had sculpted (amazing work!) and made some hand-drawn lettering, evoking a vintage museum tag look for the name of the dinosaur. Finally we included the rendering of Tyler's digital sculpture to show what's in the box, like more modern model kit boxes.
This was such a fun project to work on, I loved building model kits as a kid. My dad and I would always be visiting the model shops on weekends looking for some cool car, plane, spaceship or robot to patiently glue together and painstakingly paint to perfection. We actually ran out of room to display our models in the house. But, I think a certain Velociraptor model from a certain movie resides in my parents' living room to this day..."I'm simply saying that life, uh... finds a way."
I'm excited to share my latest project, a fun and interesting one to work on: the design for a model kit box that will hold a tiny dinosaur (rawr).
Tyler Keillor sculpted this little guy in ZBrush with the help of the supporters of his Kickstarter project, the people at ACME Design, Inc. and Exact Metrology, Inc.You can find his whole story here. We went with a design reminiscent of old Aurora model kit box art - painterly and bright - but not so silly or anatomically incorrect...
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| He looks crazy happy with that tongue sticking out |
I created the background painting referencing an image of the Dryptosaurus head that Tyler had sculpted (amazing work!) and made some hand-drawn lettering, evoking a vintage museum tag look for the name of the dinosaur. Finally we included the rendering of Tyler's digital sculpture to show what's in the box, like more modern model kit boxes.
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| The background painting, acrylic on panel |
Saturday, July 28, 2012
HIVEMIND
Finally! A new painting! Two in fact! They are available in my shop.
Sometimes there is the feeling of bees buzzing around in my head, so much commotion and noise of thoughts and ideas and fears and worries. All of these bees make so much honey that all the gears in my brain get slower and slower until I break. You have to let the bees fly and the honey fall.
This one has made me think a bit about my tendencies to draw people with no eyes, as well as other things...like why have I always had nightmares about bees crawling into my ears?... But back to eyes! I feel that even though the eyes can show a great amount of emotion, they aren't necessary to do so. A twist of the mouth, the position of hands, the angle of the head and motion of hair all can tell so much about the subject. However, I'm also very aware that I am an extremely shy person. It has taken me years to be able to look someone in the eyes while talking with them, and yet I still awkwardly look around, glancing from their face to the window behind them, down to my hands, back to their face, etc etc. I treat eyes like the sun, take a glance, get the general idea and then quickly look away as if I were to go blind.
So, I'm taking advantage of my discomfort with eyes to strengthen my use of other facial features and position to get the emotion across. In fact, it could be that very discomfort that is the reason I tend to not draw eyes; I am uncomfortable looking into someone's eyes, and to draw them you really have to look at them a lot. I could even go so far as to say that, in the case of self-portraits, I don't want others looking at me looking back at them.
Although, this painting is a severe example of having no eyes, I already know that the next set I'm working on will be more subtle. Instead of no eyes at all, the figures are more statue-like. These pieces need the extra emotion given by the eyes, but not the direction and complexity of pupils and irises. It'll make more use of the eyelids than the actual eyes behind them.
Sometimes there is the feeling of bees buzzing around in my head, so much commotion and noise of thoughts and ideas and fears and worries. All of these bees make so much honey that all the gears in my brain get slower and slower until I break. You have to let the bees fly and the honey fall.
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| Hivemind Progression |
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| Hivemind, Mixed media on panel, 2012 |
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| Companion Piece, Mixed media on paper, 2012 |
This one has made me think a bit about my tendencies to draw people with no eyes, as well as other things...like why have I always had nightmares about bees crawling into my ears?... But back to eyes! I feel that even though the eyes can show a great amount of emotion, they aren't necessary to do so. A twist of the mouth, the position of hands, the angle of the head and motion of hair all can tell so much about the subject. However, I'm also very aware that I am an extremely shy person. It has taken me years to be able to look someone in the eyes while talking with them, and yet I still awkwardly look around, glancing from their face to the window behind them, down to my hands, back to their face, etc etc. I treat eyes like the sun, take a glance, get the general idea and then quickly look away as if I were to go blind.
So, I'm taking advantage of my discomfort with eyes to strengthen my use of other facial features and position to get the emotion across. In fact, it could be that very discomfort that is the reason I tend to not draw eyes; I am uncomfortable looking into someone's eyes, and to draw them you really have to look at them a lot. I could even go so far as to say that, in the case of self-portraits, I don't want others looking at me looking back at them.
Although, this painting is a severe example of having no eyes, I already know that the next set I'm working on will be more subtle. Instead of no eyes at all, the figures are more statue-like. These pieces need the extra emotion given by the eyes, but not the direction and complexity of pupils and irises. It'll make more use of the eyelids than the actual eyes behind them.
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