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.

 



Leopard "Morning Sip"

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Today, I glazed over the leopard with some detail yellow ochre and added some more to the darkest shadows of the cat.   Then I went back over some of the whitest areas and scratched in more hair.

 

I painted the cat's tongue with detail Driscoll's skin tone, a touch of detail crimson and little white to get the shade I needed. The cat in the reference picture had very light eyes with a tint of a celery green color around the pupils. So I took detail moss green and added a little detail white and got the color I needed. The detail sepia I had originally shaded the cat's eyes with was the perfect color so I left it alone.

 

Then, OMG I thought I was going to have a frickin heart failure putting those DxxM wiskers on! I'm thinking that this is where I Fxxk it up. It took me over an hour to get them right.

Il est fini! (It is finished!)

Leopard Progress

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More progress on the Leopard - "Morning Sip" painting. 

Tonight, I went back over the leopard's spots darkening them and the dark areas of the cat's eyes.  Then, I added more shading.  After that I scratched in the fur texture.  So far, it's coming along nicely.  I think I am totally amazing myself.  I just didn't know that I could create something this nice.  I am real happy with it and loving my Micron airbrush.

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Tonight I started working on the shadows of the ripples in the water area.  Adding more texture underneath the water.  I still have to darken the water on the right side of the cat's head. 

 

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So, I came back in and darkend the shades of the ripples and along side the cat's head.  I also took care of the white haze along the cat's head near the water.  Then I started to darken the spots on the cat's coat and deepend the contrast in the eyes, nose and ears.  I still have to bring the cat's spots darker and shade the cat further.  Then I will start on the texture of the fur.  Still going slow.