Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Thursday, June 5, 2008
This is done in the style of Van Gogh. I chose a picture of his out of my coffee table book I have at home that includes his biography. I used at least 6 different sizes of repedograph ink pens, but each mark of the repedograph, I created a different mark than the mark on the Van Gogh, creating a surrealistic feeling and completely different topgraphy as Van Gogh's scene. This technique created rolling hills, walls and fences that did not exist in Van Gogh's picture... and buried homes, which left only the roof top exposed. I added the surrealistic sun and cloud formation that points to the windmill and created marks to illustrate lighter clouds. This was fun and wouldn't mind doing more of these.Life Defines Art... Art Defines Life!
Masood the Afghanie Marter... the first to be murdered at the beginning of the was in Afghanistan. This digital image came out much redder than the actual image with was painted with acrylic watercolor on cold press illustration board. This is my favorite medium, as the acrylic medium that is mixed with the watercolor makes the paint sit on top of the paper instead of soaking in. It allows you to push the different colors around the top of your drawing longer to position it. You let each layer dry and add another...these are glazes... thin layers of transparent color which, if let to dry, allow each layer of color to show through, producing a glow.Life Defines Art... Art Defines Life!
Demonstration of a Fall! This work is done in graphite on illustration board. I used a wooden man that is so helpful in life drawing. I drew the men first and then figured out the steps. It was not until I did that, that I could visualize just how the poor wooden man fell.Life Defines Art... Art Defines Life!
Champaign Man! This work is not for sale. This is an example of Fantacy Art. While most fantacy artists make the figures tall and thin, I made mine short and stocky like a true Viking. This was done on masonite over many layers of sanded gesso, in oils. It has been altered in photoshop. The technique is many coats of glazed color, created by mixing a bit of oil color in a small jar with liquin. Baby food jars and small jelly jars are great for this purpose. Liquin comes in a thicker mixture which I use at the start and later glazes are made with the thinner mixture, keeping with the "fat over lean" rule. The result is a certain glow that is not achieved when using mostly oils. This is my favorite technique. I also sealed it with liquin and later covered it with liquin again and fixed some scuff marks as I have yet to frame it and have moved it around the studio enough to scuff it up some. I enjoyed seeing this develop with each layer of glaze.
Life Defines Art... Art Defines Life!
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