Friday, December 24, 2010

4x4 Finished (kinda)


I finished the painting somewhere between the night of December 2nd and the morning of December 3rd (at that point all the hours seemed the same HaHa). Eitherway, I am very pleased with it and I think all the late nights were worth it :] Only think I'll do once i get back to school is refine the nose a little HaHa!

Thursday, December 2, 2010

4x4, Day 5...

I worked on the painting straight through another night and even though I initially felt like I wasn't getting anything done, I made some serious and much needed editing towards the end.


I began painting birds perched on top the window grid, as I had planned... but I wasn't pleased with the way they were turning out. So I decided to edit them out and just paint one bird instead of many. I believe in the end, this decision will work better for my painting.



I laid the base coat for the serpent I had intended and replaced my three birds with one humming bird.



Worked on the snake and found out i hated the way it looked. I decided it would be better to edit it out for the mean time and add it later. After i painted over the snake, I realized I liked the painting a whole lot more without the snake. Now I'm just thinking, "that would have been super cliche" :/ So the end result will not have a snake. After this step, i found myself about 90% finished :]

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

4x4, Day 4...

I worked on the face, managing to fix the mouth. However, I didn't take a picture of it before taping it up and painting in the window grid :/




I still have plenty of work to do before it's at the point where I intend for it to be.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

4x4 Continued...

I've decided to do a self portrait instead of an animal like in my previous paintings (which I still have yet to upload :/ ).

My painting at the end of Saturday night...

...and at the end of Sunday night.

Saturday, November 27, 2010

One Step at a Time...

I'm working on a 4x4 foot painting and i've decided to document its creation process. I'll take a picture at the end of each work session and upload it here... this piece is part of the small 5 paintings i did prior which i hope to photograph and post up here as soon as possible :]


(I apologize for the picture's quality)

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Sunday, October 24, 2010

While at Boarders

I spent about 2 hours in a Boarders about 2 weeks ago. My plan was to sketch different animals for my painting class midterm project. Here's what I came up with :]