Lidstrom!!!

Detroit Red Wings. Nicklas Lidstrom. :D Less than an hour, photoshop.

Xmas prezzies and such

I am alive. And I still paint. So many of the things I've been working on I can't post yet, or maybe ever at all, as they belong to Nickelodeon. But I'll tell you I'm pretty excited about how much better I'm getting at things and stuff :)

Here's some stuff I did over the holidaze.

First off, this is one of the prezzies I gave to my boyfriend. He'd mentioned at some point over the summer that his favorite kid's book was Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel. So, I painted the steam shovel from that book and made him Mike Mulligan. Sorry these pics are all blurry, they're cell phone shots.

Detail! I did it in pencil, acrylic, and oil pastel. It's about 20x15 or so. Pretty sure he liked it :)
This is a commission i did for the lovely Lucy Lott via Brett Seamans. It's... their cat on a horse. Yep. It's on an iphone case now. Which is pretty spiffy. Acrylic.

The Christmas card I made for my boyfriend's family. He said, "uh, just paint them a horse in snow or something". But this summer, when we went to some reunion shindig with the rest of his clan, someone brought their pet pot bellied pig. It was hilarious. So I included that in there.
i was painting buster keaton for my dad. I got a little further than that, called it quits, left it unfinished. Which actually ended up working out in the end.

Had a dream over break involving Paris and lots of lights. It isn't done. If I ever get time to finish this painting, I will. There will be a boat with a girl and lanterns and fireflies and blahdiblahdiblah.

Hope everyone had a lovely holiday/new years etc :)

Fred McDowell

The other day my boyfriend bought a vinyl recording of '"Mississippi'"Fred McDowell. He's a country-blues genius originally from Tennessee who built his own guitar and embodies all that is grunge and black n blues. One afternoon we sat there just listening to this record, hearing his chair creakin' and foot hittin' the old no doubt weathered porch as he kept time. His wife occasionally accompanied. Well, let's just say it's good stuff.

So we had a little show at my studio space in the Hungerford last night, and the night before I was still at a loss of what to paint for it. Carter suggests Fred McDowell and so in about 3 hours, this happened.

Acrylic on cold press ill board. about 8x10.

I haven't painted traditionally in over a month or so. My photo reference was blacka nd white. In fact, I have never found a color photo of the man. So I just kinda guessed what his skin tone was. The first thirty minutes were just me slapping horrible chalky colours around, kinda quagmired in skin tones. Then suddenly it just happened.



God, that's a great feeling. I think I may have pushed the highlights too far in the end. Well, you live, you learn.


Thanks for stoppin' by!

coke girl

two hours, photoshop.

studying skin painting.

....and now I'm off to design some tattoos.

wed night scribbles

i don't know what this is or where it came from but i started scribbling and it happened.
I uh, don't usually paint this way.

i guess she's some version of Ophelia?

twenty minute scribble of some hipster emo guy. he had really blue eyes in the picture.they looked super weird in the painting so i darkened them. probably shouldn't have. but oh well.

digital.

Speedpaint Tom Waits

Tom Waits. One of my favorite musicians. This took about an hour and a half, maybe less, maybe more... about a little over one whole episode of top gear... so a little over an hour??

I had fun.

ps cs 5

Beard Test

'Allo all. Decided to try a new technique. Painting without opacity. For a first shot, it's, well... not bad. But I know I can do better.

Off to try again.

ps cs5
30 minutes.