Spacemen

Posted by on Sep 22, 2008 in Process, Vector | 2 Comments

I was playing around in Illustrator last night (something I don’t do so much any more) and I created this spaceman head: Untitled Spaceman  09/2008 It made me think back to the height of my foray into vector art and all the other spacemen I ‘doodled’.  So I thought I would show the ones I ...

Dino

Posted by on Sep 20, 2008 in Vector | No Comments

It occurs to me, nearly everything I have posted recently has been a bit on the scary side.  So here is something less scary I have been working on.  It is an adorable dino and his snake friend. Illustrator with a side of photoshop:

More black and white painting…

Posted by on Sep 17, 2008 in Paint, Process | One Comment

I decided to do another quick painting with the golden open acrylics.  My goal was to do something a big more fast and loose.  Something that took advantage of the wetness of the paint .  So I made this: It is done on an arches watercolor block, hot press i think… Prepped with one coat ...

More of those new paints…

Posted by on Sep 11, 2008 in Paint, Process | One Comment

Another quick test of the Golden Open paints. This one is a bit bigger and I spent a bit more time on it. This surface is pretty rough, I’ll be curious to see how these things work on a smoother surface. On this attempt they seemed not overly dissimilar to the regular paints with retarder… ...

Golden Open Continued

Posted by on Sep 10, 2008 in Paint, Process | 2 Comments

So, last night I painted a quick test with the new Golden Open Acrylic paints on the market.  I liked how they worked.  However, I decided to continue the test and add some regular heavy body acrylics applied on top.  I started off with just some color washes then cleaned up the highlights a bit.  ...