Bowling Pins

Haha.

I think this one is done. I'd like to frame it and put it on the wall. Or frame it and sell it. Or sell it and let someone else worry about framing it.

I added the white to it (on suggestion from my art friend) and I think it really worked out. Perhaps I compromised the orange in the bottom left of the painting, but I think it's okay either way.

Mediums: Mildly Amazing

It's mildly amazing to me how much of an impact mediums can have on a painting. I'm still not totally sold on the stuff (read: I don't quite know how to use it still), but I am coming around to it.

I've used it here and I find that it's easier to manipulate the top layer of paint if you have mediums built into the bottom layers. Paint also comes off easier if you mess something up!

Here's the first iteration of this painting. Today I added paint of varying thicknesses applied with various brushes using these colors: charcoal black, alizarin crimson hue permanent (I still have some Liquitex tubes!!), naples yellow hue, and c.p. cadmium orange. The most amazing part of the work is that I didn't really put that much more paint on the canvas and yet the painting looks so vibrant!

Attempting a Painting

I'm going to attempt a painting based on the hair sketches from the other night.

The method so far includes 1 layer of gesso on each side of the paper (Strathmore Medium 400 Series Drawing paper; 11 x 14 inches), sketch in charcoal pencil, red and lavendar colored pencil worked in over the charcoal, and naples yellow hue mixed with soft gel (semi gloss) applied over everything with a 14 short flat bright brush. I dig how the charcoal smudged when the paint was applied.

If you rotate the piece 90 degrees clockwise, you can kind of see an old man with a cane hiking up a mountain...

Hair Sketch from Last Night: High Heels

Embryonic heart penis in high heels! It kind of looks like a hamster or something...

This sketch was inspired by the same hair configuration as the previous sketch. I added colored pencil to this one.

Hair Sketch from Last Night: Orgasm Personified?

Well, now this is fun, isn't it?