some experiments

Been experimenting with new ways of doing things recently-taking time to fail! What I've learned has to do with layers and painting underneath stuff.
1. painting edge indication and then gradient and textures underneath-

2.painting on watercolor

3.doing simple gradients in a selection and then doing textures underneath

4. sortof like pointillism, very gradually trying to influence the image into reading with small shapes and textures-also some glazes. trying to keep the texture reading through for as long as possible before covering it up.

some new stuff

GOODNESS GRACIOUS its been too long since I've been posting on this thing, well, time to update a bit...
  I'll just post some that I liked over the past 3 months or so. I'll start posting and rambling more and more-for I've learned alot since I last posted!!! or at least think I have!

hyuuh I'm a big angry dude!

Camel! its a camel!

put NOOOOS on my car, this happened I swear

Ride the mammoth to work everyday

theres a lack of vegetation and life after I spilled weed killer in  the pool

house paintings

just some life, or not so life studies around the house :)

some assorted sketches

I have been thinking about the silhouette of stuff lately, just how much can you tell from the outside edge of something? letters are all silhouette, and we tell alot through them

uuuuur the king is about to puke!

I am a shiny knight maaaaan!

tonka ekranoplan haaa

tough girl waa waaa waah

some architectures

always been fascinated by the mood of nice buildings and spaces, just to walk around in an interesting setting is always nice.

there's a place like this underneath the building where I live

the bridge just goes out in the clouds somewheres

been playing with a little 3d too, trying to figure out some good ways of masking so I can get uniform shapes but then still get the variety in the surfaces.

tree and a couple knights

Lately I've been rotating forms in my head and trying to use that as a way to explore and study planes. Its is very fun and worked well when I'd do line drawings, but I was having real trouble as far as painting goes.

an old acrylic got eaten up to make this

Painting is different from pure line drawing in that you explore the opposite functions in a way. As far as a line goes, mainly it serves to go around the edges of forms and planes, and when it goes around the edge of a form, that is a surface that is curving away from the viewer. But in a painting you explore the surface that is facing the viewer. I know I know, line drawing does some of that too. Especially with shading, and paint explores edges that curve away. I think though that line is primarily about edges while paint is primarily about surfaces of planes. So in a way they overlap but cover those ends of that spectrum.

dunno how you see while wearing this

I realize what I was missing while I was painting is that when you rotate the forms and place them in the scene you have to see the light on the surface, and study how it looks. It was easier in line because I could just see the planes and draw lines around them, but in paint you've got that other element of color (value/hue)... I'm not that good at it yet, but i feel better :)

horse butt lol

Horsies

horsey time, I've been having trouble drawing these things because I don't have much experience drawing horses. So I'm trying to fix that with these sort of sketches. I have been watching this wild korean drama called "Chuno"  -it has taken my brain to the joseon setting!

it might take off without him

lonely trail

I tried to do alot of studying on horse anatomy and how their legs move when they run, but it takes a ton of study like that. I really need to internalize the planes. I've been sculpting forms in my head and rotating them around to try to understand better, and it does help. Isn't it weird that our unconscious can bring up countless forms and images all perfectly realistic, but then we struggle to paint (imagination and life)? Maybe study of art is mostly linking 'you' with your unconscious.

yaaarrr