I did this little fairy princess sketch for marti from pez-a-doodle, but it was not quite what she was looking for. I did, however, like the sketch… as did she…. so I thought I’d post it here.
She also has some of my artwork on her site right now. The picnicing bug and princess cleo.
I just finished up a background layout that I had originally started in watercolor, but decided to do a digital version. I want to keep working on this style, so I will do some more as time permits.
OK, I posted on a painting I did for Valentines Day because my wife found out about that one. But there was another piece I had been working on that she DIDN’T find out about, so now that Valentines is over, I’ll post that one too. because it’s cool.
I stole the idea from mosaics that I found on flicker…. I liked the idea of constructing a color theme using various photos found. Well my wifes favorite color is magenta, so I took a bunch of pictures of things around us that are in that color range and then arranged them into a mosaic. It is 24″x24″ so I took it to photomation in Buena Park, CA and they printed it out. It came out nice and she really liked it, so here it is. Oh, and I’m going to include a picture of her too… because she is nicer to look at than any piece of art I can make.
I have some canvas panels sitting around the studio that I used for experiments back a while ago. Yesterday I decided to paint over one. It had several areas of the board with small segments of texture… either gesso I applied in swirly patterns or some modeling paste I goobed on in wavy textures …
Anyway, I painted over the whole thing with red acrylic, then painted over a portion of that with some orange that blended in. Then I added some gold squares as a counter to the red.
After looking at it, I decided to border the weak side with a purple design. I thought it came out kinda cool, so I’m putting it up here.
If I were to do it again, I’d be more careful and exact on the placement of the squares and rework the way I applied the purple. But all in all, I like the colors. It has an oriental feel to it … at least to me.
Valentines Day is my favorite holiday. I just decided that last year. But I’m telling you it’s my favorite holiday. I love to do stuff for my wife and this is my chance to go big. So this year I was doing a painting. She of course wasn’t supposed to SEE it before Valentines Day, but I’m a doofus and forgot to hide it. She makes frequent visits to the studio and I should have covered it, but forgot one time. She still won’t get it until Valentines Day, but she already knows at least one thing she’s getting.
I took some pictures of the thing through the process…
Let’s see … it’s 16×20 acrylic on canvas and i’m experimenting with texture and layering colors. Oh, yeah … subject matter … it’s a quirky representation of a ring in her favorite color. Click on the thumbs to see larger versions of the art.
