http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtrnRYaAzXQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oVL9qiHj9w
Two Sundays back I took my traveling paint box to the IAC and used a real paintbrush for the first time in nearly two years.
First attempt. These are painted in oils on a shellacked plywood panels.
Second attempt, two 25 minute poses.
Yesterday, the 40th anniversary of the Moon landing, Tor. com ran a competition with 24 prizes and all you had to do to enter was log a comment on the individual posting for each item. I entered about 5 of them and I was the winner of a gift certificate from Dick Blick Art Supplies! Which is pretty coincidental if you think that it was a totally blind drawing of names or entry numbers as free art supplies is a much better prize for me than the Star Trek Scene-It, a gift certificate from Bud Plant Books, the Watchmen DVD or the Star Trek USB Microphone Communicator. Thanks to Torie Atkinson and all the folks at Tor.com!
The question mark behind the sketch in the title of this post is due to my not knowing when a piece is finished. To know when something is finished I generally have a deadline, just stop working on a piece or overwork it. This is a digital painted piece done in Painter 11 that I spent about an hour on. I started out wanting to do another caricature of Neil Young to use on a label for an American Masters DVD I burned for a good friend who is a major Young fan but doesn’t watch broadcast TV. As a caricature I’d have to rate this as a failure since the exaggeration is so minimal as to be nearly nonexistent. I just elongated his philtrum (the divot underneath the nose) a bit.
Again with the Micron pen in a sketchbook.
2 minute warm-up sketches
15 minute pose.
25 minute pose.
25 minutes.
And again, drawing across the model to the artists beyond.
Sunday we had one of , if not the best model available at the Indianapolis Art Center. I was using a Micron pen, 01 in a sketchbook.
2 minute warm up poses.
15 minute pose. Hitting the outer edges with a Micron 02 for line variety.
25 minute pose.
25 minute pose.
25 minute pose.
