Catching Up - 1 Year's work.

This and several future posts will be to catch the blog up on my works for the past year. 

We'll start with The Frog Fish.  This was a mutant drawing that I did for a Paint Pal exchange.  It was airbrushed with Wicked at a size of 5" x 7".   It was finished in June, 2013. 

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Artist Compilation in Progress

I decided to play with a little color after the compilation was done.

This was a project that was done by several artists all over the world.  This was my part of the painting.  It turned out to be part of the dress on the Statue of Liberty. 

Hello Kitty Angel

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My daughter asked me to paint a Hello Kitty picture for a gift for her niece.  This is what I came up with.  I wanted a simple childlike painting, as Hello Kitty pictures are always simple.  I used gesso to give the sun and clouds some texture.  I actually felt like a little kid doing this one because painting with the gesso was like fingerpainting in grade school!  :)

 



Little Angel - Black and White

I wasn't happy with the face on my first little angel painting so I decided to do it again, this time in black and white.

 

 

 

(7" x 5")

 

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Little Angel

I airbrushed another painting today, using my drawing of a little angel. 

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This is my sketch.

 

I then sketched in the details of the little angel with reduced detail paynes gray and started painting in some clouds in the background.

 

 

In the next picture, I started adding some light blue clouds, building the background more.

 

 

I added some detail magenta the underside of the clouds in this next picture, continuing to build the background.  I also came back in and added some more white to maintain the highlighted areas of the picture. 

 

 

In this next picture, I came in and deepened the shadows and darkest areas.

 

 

I came back in with white and brought back the highlighted areas, continuing to build the layers of the picture. 

 

 

The next pictures shows that I worked on the details of the wings and hair.  I used the hair brush to get crisp strokes of white.  Then, I came back in with the airbrush and added highlights to the clouds. 

 

 

I felt that I was lacking depth to the picture and decided to come in with some more blue behind the angel.  This gave the picture the effect that I was looking for.  I wanted the angel to be floating on a single cloud.  I also glazed a little of the blue on the angel to keep the colors uniform.  While this is not a black and white painting, I wanted to keep it semi-monotoned.  I also continued to work on the highlights of the clouds.

 

This is the finished piece. 

 

 

This is a 7 x 5 inch painting using Wicked paint on bristol art paper.  I used my Iwata Micron CMC - Plus and the Eclipse HPCS airbrush and a 10/0 fine liner hair brush.

Such a little angel!  :)

Yoda Man - For Hubby's Birthday

I wanted to create a painting for my husband for his birthday.  Two years ago, we completely remodeled our kitchen, dining room, and living room.  Then last year my daughter bought a house and we gutted the kitchen out and did hers.  He is into cars (a motorhead) and can just about fix or build anything.  My kids granted him the nickname Yoda.  Short for YoDa Man.  

 

I created Yoda with tools using photoshop to get the composition I liked.  LOL 

I hope you like it!!

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First I masked out the character and his tools and freehanded the background until I liked how it looked.  

 

Then I reverse masked the character to protect the background from any overspray and continued to sketch in the basic features of the character with a very light shade of paynes gray. 

(I use wicked paint and this is painted on gesso'd canvas.)

 

Then, I lightly glazed in some color. 

Sorry I mix until I get the colors I like so I don't have a ratio for ya. 

In this one, I am deepening my shadows, lightly building the textures and tones of the picture.

 

I then added some highlighting and deepened the shadows some more.

I removed the masking and added Yoda's hair.

 

Here I added more detail to Yoda's forehead, finished the eyes and painted the tools.

 

Voila, c'est fini!!

(20" x 16")

 

Skull Under Floorboards - Paint Pal Project

 

This is a 5 x 7 painting done for a Paint Pal Project through www.airbrushforum.org.  Artists from all over the world created their own 5 x 7 artwork and then sent it to an assigned paint pal. 

This is my painting, done step by step.

 

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First, I sketched out my design very lightly with detail sepia.  (I use Wicked paint.)

 

 

I keep building my values and detail.

 

Deepening my darkest areas.

 

Then, I glaze over my floorboards with yellow ochre.

I add some more detail and deepen my dark areas more to add depth to the painting to finish.

Here it is matted and ready to be sent to my paint pal.