Month of Love: Day 11

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Month of Love: Day 10/Klaymen Buddy

Decided to dedicate the day to working on one of two pieces I'm submitting to a show this weekend, well, Thursday. This is Klaymen from The Neverhood. I have a lot to do the next few days!

Month of Love: Day 9

Today's theme was A Face Only a Mother Could Love. These little monsters are all over my classroom, they're fun :)

Month of Love: Day 8

A few days ago I was down in my basement and saw a woodlouse spider ambling his way across the floor. They're frightening looking things with large fangs and rusty red in color. I named him Peanut :3

Month of Love: Day 7

Not the most original idea, but hey. Today's theme was Love is a Battlefield.

Month of Love: Day 6

Today's theme was open again, so my theme was Caution: Drowning Hazard. This is a reflection upon how many hugs I get when I'm at work on any given day!

Month of Love: Day 5

Today's theme was Love at First Sight. To quote what I wrote on the group blog: The first time I met John was about 4 years ago. I was home for the weekend from college, wandering around the house, when my brother brought home a group of friends to sit around and watch movies and play video games. I shuffled in, sketchbook in hand, and sat in the corner of the room and drew him a few times.
It wasn't until 2 years later we started dating, but I'll never forget the way he glanced at me every now and then as I sat quietly sketching him. 

Month of Love: Day 4

 

Cats do strange things to show you affection... Oil and acrylic on 5"x7" masonite, available for sale.

Month of Love: Day 3

Day three of the Month of Love. Sundays are free choice, not having to revolve around love, but I decided to do it anyway. This is a study of how I might want to stylize the wings in a painting I'm doing for a Sandy Hook benefit.

3.5"x8" acrylic on wood.

Month of Love: Day 2

So far so good. Because of the time restraint, my pieces for the Month of Love will be mostly experimental. Today's theme was Love is Blind, and the concept behind this piece is how some people are blinded by materialism and have their eyes on one thing only.

5"x7" oil and acrylic on masonite available for sale for $100.

Month of Love: Day 1

Cross-posting from Month of Love, a group blog with a slew of other awesome artists. Check it out!

This is 4"x4" oil on masonite, available for sale for $100

A Kick Ass Art Show!

Wooooooooooow it's been a hectic past few weeks. Christmas and New Years is over, day job has resumed now that school is back in session, and lots of painting done and preparation to be done for the upcoming show. Here's a video we all did for it, done by the awesome Mike Falzone!

I've been chronicling some of my latest pieces here, but am going to wait to upload them until after the opening, which is January 26th. If you are in the area, or are able to take a train in Forest to Shore Gallery is located just steps away from the Stratford, Connecticut train station! Hope to see you there!

Start of Nut

Started another small 4"x4" painting tonight. This one I am actually recording while I paint it so I can speed it up for a time lapse. This is my depiction of the Egyptian goddess Nut, goddess of the sky. GALAXY HAIR.

Third Eye Revisited

Wasn't too happy with how the third eye in this piece was rendered, so I revisited it. Added in the wings, made the eye more graphic.

I finished Morrigan tonight. However, I do need to do another coat of cadmium red on the arrows I added in to make them more opaque. Red is so finicky...

Sneak Peek

Here's a sneak peek at a teeny-weeny (4"x4") painting of The Morrigan. Felt like taking an artsy shot, so I did!

Beep beep make way for headway!

Howdy, been doing a lot of painting lately, but not much updating. Here's a new piece I started this week I have yet to properly name. Flotsam? I dunno... It's 18"x24", my usual acrylic/oil combo. It's very minimalist, but I'm loving the hell out of this piece so far!

And here's a closeup of the face:

Hurricane Follow-up

I am absolutely thrilled to have power back! When Sandy hit on Monday, John and I were comfortably watching movies together while I painted when the power went out. I cursed, washed my brushes, and hoped for the best. Four days later while waiting for John to come save me from my heavy case of cabin fever, the lights went back on! Since then I jumped back into painting, the only thing I really missed. Except maybe the heat and use of the percolator...

I waaant to say she's done? It's up for critique, for sure! I love how the hair turned out, but the leaves and flower were tricky. I'm still giving those an inquisitive glare.

Haha, oh man, this looks awful at this stage, but, here it is. There will be glowing magical symbols in this one, a halo around her head. It is so far from being done...

Working on some smaller, 4"x4" pieces for my upcoming gallery show at Forest to Shore. Need to do a beastly sized piece as a focal point as well... Gotta brainstorm!

Rapunzel Again

Finished the face! It's been forever, but hey. The hair will be drawn in, need to render the leaves and the flower and add in more color and glazes into the white to make it more interesting.

Need to do a lot of work in the next 2.5 months for an upcoming gallery show I will be doing with 3 other artists. I'm so excited!

Rapunzel

Had a marathon painting day today! Started a small painting of Rapunzel. I'm all over the place with paintings right now...

Back in the Game

Hey! Been a little while... August was a month full of trial and error, and experimentation. I've reconnected with a few books, stories, and characters I've always--or recently--loved. This painting in particular is revisiting one of my favorite short stories: Kaleidoscope by Ray Bradbury. As my favorite author of all time, I find it very appropriate to illustrate a work of his in the midst of his passing.

This is my first time painting space; very exciting! I've utilized NASA's wonderful archive of photographs to supply reference for this piece. If you have yet to take a look, you should!