Only had an hour to work on it before company came over. So I just got the sun painted and the hedge under the lighthouse and the hill for the castle.
But the sun texture is very cool!
Day N+1 – Sunshine
Tag: Art
Painting – Day 5 Darkness falls.
It did waaay not flow easily today. Not happy with it but its still an improvement so I guess that’s a plus.
I’m going to need to buy some more blue paint before I start to play with the sunlit sky.. Gah and I’ve used almost half a tube of white so far.. oh well.
Kinda weird tho.. I didn’t work on the parts I wanted to work on..
{edit: oops this was day 5}
Painting- day 4
got a good 2 1/2 hours of slapping pigment around.. was nice but eventually aching feet and the palette told me it was time to call it a day.
I got 2 sides of the planet rendered… Not really happy about the empty hillside one… but not really sure what to add to it. maybe something will come to me overnight.
Kinda went totally ocd on the plantlife (thanks wen)
here’s a detail
Anyway.. it’s a good day’s progress i think.. tomorrow I’m seriously going to have to tackle the gears in the planet and figure out how to get things to work together.. oh well.
Painting – day 3
Got a good couple hours in last night. I was originally just going to put in the base colors for the earth and grass and block out the buildings… buuut.. I simply had to paint something instead of just filling in boring flat blocks of color.
I wound up having a great time, put on the headphones and tuned out the universe for 2 hours… bliss!
Anyway here’s a crappy cellphone picture (color corrected in photoshop) (and the trees were still wet so that’s why theyre shiny.)
Art weekend… succcess
Spent the weekend playing around with acrylics with Wendy.
Took the plunge and started on a big canvas.. It’s definitely a big project, maybe a little too big.. but it’s actually been a lot of fun so far..
here’s the (1) initial sketch done as a doodle during a meeting at work. (2) A brief color rough / enlargement done in about 20 minutes on the pc. and (3) finally the first couple of scribbles to get it onto the freshly gessoed canvas.
Here’s a picture of the canvas with more of the sketch transferred.
Further Blues - And wrapping it up for the weekend
The Sun and Moon and the Stars Not a bad start Got most of the base colors for everything laid in..
More painter playing around
Spend some time doing more of the simple illustration type work that seems easy to do for me. Decided to work it all the way out to the end and add a gaudy faux frame etc etc..
I reccommend looking at the full size version so you can see all the details.
Playing with Painter (take 2)
OOPs deelted this accidentally earlier. Lets see if this works.
Finally got around to watching some of my painter tutorials and just getting comfortable with the basic tools of painter. Its way different from Adobe’s suite of tools but its finally starting to feel comfortable.
Eventually I took this into photoshop to do some final tweaky bits and immediately it was noticeable how much extra work it is to introduce the texture in painting with photoshop.
Playing Around With Painter
OOPs deelted this accidentally earlier.
Finally got around to watching some of my painter tutorials and just getting comfortable with the basic tools of painter. Its way different from Adobe’s suite of tools but its finally starting to feel comfortable.
Eventually I took this into photoshop to do some final tweaky bits and immediately it was noticeable how much extra work it is to introduce the texture in painting with photoshop.
Productivity Paint & Pretty Lines
Soo it’s been a fairly productive beginning of November. I’ve got the version 1.0 of the new http://www.beautifulbasics.com up and running. Still need to put up some instructions etc etc. But the core functionality is there and it works fine.
Yaay and It’s actually quite addictive, and embeddable into myspace/facebook etc etc. I’ve got a whole list of secondary features to add to it and minor bugs to iron out.
I’ve been playing with the acrylics again and starting to get a feel for it. Maybe things actually get easier with practice…. nahh. Anyway it was quite fun to just glop paint around and see what emerged. Can’t wait to do it again.
Oh well back to the salt mines.
Happy accident.
It turns out that when you photograph the complete costume you get a reflection of your flash, for an unexpected happy accident bonus.
Neat!
Had a great halloween/birthday weekend. Now back to work and then various other goodies. (fallout 3, fable 2, Warhammer, X3, farcry 2)… jeez come to think about it that’s a serious sequel overload.
Aaand I hope to have some actual painting pix in the next week or two.
Halloween part deux
And the work continues…
After some sanding the mask is given a nice even coat of grey primer.
Then the fun part, painting with acrylics, something that I’ve been experimenting with more and more lately so its nice to get a chance to just go a little crazy. I decided to go for more festive instead of dullish realistic colors.
After a bit more touch up and drybrushing workI grabbed some black ribbon and ran it through the holes and tried to figure out a way that would let me put it on myself, since holding the mask and tying 2 bows on the back of my head turned out to be… problematic. I wound up just holding the mask in place and pulling all the ribbons tight and then taking it off and tying all 4 ribbons together a little closer in than I had been holding it. This gave me a nice knot that i can grab on the back of my head and slide down to snap everything in place. It actually feels quite comfortable, surprising considering its weight. But it pulls tight against the forehead and rests on the frame of my glasses evenly.
Next up I got a small childrens black T-shirt and cut it in half and glued it to the bottom lining of the mask.
Rinse and repeat for the other half of the shirt on the top part of the mask.
Put it together with a black shirt and the hooded robe and you get something like this. (Yeah its blurry I’ll get a better shot tomorrow) The glue still needs to cure and the fumes were burning my eyes a bit.
Halloween 2008
Wheee Arts and Crafts!
So I decided to be cheap creative this year for halloween and make my own mask. Something that will fit over my glasses.
So yesterday I made a thin sheet of Sculpey and placed it on som e foid which I then pressed me noggin into. Wrap some wires around it so it holds its shape and peel it off and slip into the overn, and presto!
Then put some foil on it.
Then Bulk it out
And finally Detail it some more.
Now its in the oven baking. then tomorrow some light sanding to smooth some bits and then some primer and painting.
