I was stuck working on some little pencil drawing for the last week, because it was too cold outside to spray them with fixative. But Sunday was nice and warm, so I was able to fix them and work on the next layers.
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Hall House Deer Skull, pencil drawing with white acrylic highlights, 5x7 on bristol paper, finished.
This drawing is mostly pencil, with a little white acrylic paint to bring out the highlights, and that white paint made a huge difference, the drawing looked pretty flat before the whites were brightened. |
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| Thistle Seed, pen and charcoal, 5x7 on bristol paper, unfinished. |
I did the underdrawing for this with copic pen, so the sharp spines wouldn't be blurred by blending the charcoal. Making this look 3D will be my goal, because even the photo looks pretty flat.
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| Torrit Grey Lady, oil painting, 11x14 on a canvas panel, unfinished. |
I've been wanting to paint a figure for awhile now, so I picked a vintage erotica picture to work from. These pictures are old enough that the copyrights have expired, and there are tons that would make beautiful paintings. Also I prefer these "real" figures over the oddly photoshopped anatomy you see in most modern photos. She needs a good name too, but there's time to find the right one.
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| Deer Skull, oil painting on Gessobord, 16x20, unfinished. |
This is the big picture I'm working on now, and it's slowly progressing. I wasted some time drawing in grass in the background and then losing the drawing when I tried painting over it, but I was trying to figure out how to deal with the grass and I think I'm closer now. With a mid-tone background I can draw in the light colored stems of grass and add in the darks around that.
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