By Kevin
Filed in Uncategorized, new artwork
Tagged with acrylic, bride, colored pencils, demon, detail, devil, fantasy, Gia, new art finished, oil pastels, paint, work progress
September 3rd, 2010 @ 10:01 pm
I did some tests for dripping paint, and satisfied with the results, I cautiously added red drips to the painting. Whenever one would touch the model, I held up a towel to absorb the excess so it wouldn’t’ drip into it. Since I relied on gravity to create the dip lines, some are not parallel due to the curving of the paper. If I could’ve secured the corner flat, I would’ve, but I wanted the paint to go across corner to corner. It adds an off-kilter feel to the piece, which I think is appropriate.
With that done, I mixed a purple gray acrylic and painted the skull down to the cheeks, leaving the eye sockets and below the cheeks as they were. This gives it more solidity, but still doesn’t pull it too forward in the focus. With the subtle hints of detail in the face, I think it’s right where I want it, so I won’t add anything more to that.
The final stage was fine details in the face and hair. I switched between colored pencils and oil pastels as needed, finishing with a brush dipped in turpenoid to blend it all smooth.
Once the oil had dried sufficiently, I scanned the painting, and have it up and ready in the website here.
Devil's Bride
By Kevin
Filed in Uncategorized, new artwork
Tagged with colored pencils, cowgirl, gouache, Kneely, lasso, new art finished, oil pastels, paint, pinup, work progress
August 22nd, 2010 @ 8:29 pm
I finished up all the details today. I used a mix between colored pencils, brushed oil pastels using turpenoid, and blending with my finger and tortillions. I added a bit of an outline to the skin and gloves to complete the ‘classic pin-up’ style, then refined the hair with gouache paint.
Nothing more I can see to do, so it’s scanned and available now right here.
Yeehaw!
Today I continued the detail work, finishing the piece. I decided the tie was too close to the same color and tone as the chair, so I darkened it more, which also brings out the little cherry a bit more. To complete the tie, I used colored pencils to add a fine diagonal pinstripe along it, helping form its contours, as well as give it a little style. I fine-tuned the face, detailed the hand, and finished the black areas, adding gray for some of the light mid-tones, white for highlights, and more black for deeper shadows. The final touch was filling in the degree on the wall, using colored pencils.
It’s now complete, scanned and ready to view here.
Good Therapy
By Kevin
Filed in Uncategorized, new artwork
Tagged with Amber, colored pencils, comic book, flesh, new art finished, oil pastels, skin, turpenoid, work progress
August 2nd, 2010 @ 7:52 pm
I got caught up in the work yesterday, so I failed to stop and take a picture when I finished blocking in the skin areas. With so few areas and small space, it didn’t take long to do, so I quickly moved into the detail work.
After creating the main contours of the skin with colored pencils and oil pastels blended in, I used colored pencils on top to refine the facial features. I also used more oil pastels to build up more depth and color in the cheeks and nose. I continued down, adding details to the neck and arms, then the thighs (mostly just subtle shadows around the clothing). Before going back to the face for the make-up design, I painted the fingers using gouache. It’s a bit of a trick matching the skin tones to the oil pastels on the arms, especially since gouache dries a different tone than it is when wet (one of many reasons I no longer use only paint in my work). Luckily, gouache is easy to rework by getting it moist again, so I would add a bit of color here and there to mix it on the board until it matched to my liking. Next, I painted the nails green and also the little ribbon showing in her left glove. While this yellow-green mix of paint was still wet on the palette, I painted very lightly some highlight edging on the dress to help bring it out away from the background.
The the paint done, I returned to oil pastels, this time using them with a brush dipped in turpenoid. I painted the eyeliner with black, adding lashes as well. Then I mixed a dark green and painted the make-up. I didn’t realize it is very similar to the character ‘Dawn’ by Linsner until I was adding the highlights to the drips. Perhaps it was in my subconscious, but I really didn’t want to repeat someone else’s work. At least mine has numerous drips and is green, so not a direct copy, thankfully.
I’m content with it today, so I’ve scanned and uploaded to the website, ready to view here.
Poison
By Kevin
Filed in Uncategorized, new artwork
Tagged with colored pencils, complete, Kneely, Medusa, mythology, new art finished, oil pastels, original art, Perseus, work progress
June 24th, 2010 @ 1:46 pm
This morning, the only thing I could see that needed some more work was her right hand, as it was fading into the background. I added a thin outline with colored pencils, and used white oil pastel to bring up the highlights on the fingers. With that done, I feel the whole piece is ready, so I had it scanned (luckily no problems with it being curled), and it is now available here in the store.
Medusa Triumphant
By Kevin
Filed in Uncategorized, new artwork
Tagged with colored pencils, Gia, Io, Jupiter, new art finished, oil pastels, original art, pinup, space, work progress
June 19th, 2010 @ 12:12 pm
I spent yesterday detailing everything, including adding browns and some black to the foreground landscape. I used blue colored pencils in the hair, which proved a bit of a nuisance when fine dust from it drifted into the skin of the face. I was able to clear it off before it ruined anything, luckily. In the future, I may mask off the oil pastels when using pencils to avoid such troubles. That, or I need a little vacuum attachment for my pencils.
I waited until this morning to call it finished, just to be sure I haven’t missed anything. It’s available now here in the store.
Life on Io
I stared at it this morning, looking for what else to do with it. All I could see to do was enhance the color some more in the oil pastels area, bringing in some light yellow for the highlights. The ribs might be a little too pronounced, but to soften it would mean virtually redoing the entire torso. I don’t have that much problem with it, as I think helps show the force of the scream.
So, it is now complete and ready to view here in the store.
Primal Scream
This morning I had an idea of what the painting needed, but since it would be invasive, I wanted to be sure first. So, I used one of the blog progress photos in photoshop and tested it. It looked better, so next step was to take a deep breath and apply it to the original piece. What I wanted to add were two trees in the background. This would break up the blah sky, and also add further depth to the image. It won’t add any more color really, but since the trees will be dull brown, it should help bring out the colors that are already there. I made sure I had a good amount of watered down brown (sepia, actually) gouache, then loaded a big brush and began blocking in the first tree. In case of dripping, I had the board upside down so nothing would get ruined. Luckily the watery paint stayed in control the whole way. By keeping it watered down, it was very transparent, so the foliage would still show. Once blocked in, I went over them again, alternating between streaking the brush and blotting with a towel to give it some texture (but not enough to bring it into focus). The foliage still looked pretty good, but to be sure they were in front of the trees, I used some light green colored pencil and green gouache to highlight bits of them here and there. I considered adding a third tree, but I think it works as is, so I’ll stop while I’m ahead.
It now available here in the store.
Who Are You?
I was wise not to call it done last night. It needed a bit of outlining to bring it out of the background color. The face got a little more refining as well. I’ve scanned it, and it’s now available here now.
Why, Hello!
Since I couldn’t do much with the pastels last night, I started designing the next image. I had a concept in mind some time ago, but it just snapped into place last night. So I’ll be starting that one right away tomorrow.
Today though, I worked on the details of this piece. It was a mix of colored pencils, oil pastels, paint, as well as erasers and even a razor blade to clean edges. Most of the color detail went into the face and hand, with a more broad approach to the back and leg. I decide to add oil pastels to the question mark tattoo so it would blend a bit into the skin. The puzzle piece on the face I left as paint, since it should be make-up, not a tattoo.
It’s now finished and available here now.
Puzzler
