Naked Art » polka dots http://kc-art.com/wordpress Work progress of artist Kevin Clark Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:05:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 work progress – painting nearly done http://kc-art.com/wordpress/archives/1214 http://kc-art.com/wordpress/archives/1214#comments Fri, 28 May 2010 02:59:49 +0000 Kevin http://kc-art.com/wordpress/?p=1214 Last night I started the paint work, getting the face and hair done with gouache. Today, I painted the outfit, first the black top blocked in solid with gouache, then all the red parts with acrylics. I chose acrylics because I knew I’d be painting white dots all over, and the red gouache re-wets and mixes all too easily. This way I was able to get bright, clean lines when I painted the dots (also with acrylics). I finished it up with colored pencils over the black, using grays to create the detail. Hopefully I’ll have time yet tonight to get the textured gesso down on the skin areas so I can begin the oil pastels right away tomorrow…

]]> http://kc-art.com/wordpress/archives/1214/feed 0 Work progress 11/01 – painting http://kc-art.com/wordpress/archives/574 http://kc-art.com/wordpress/archives/574#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:35:59 +0000 Kevin http://kc-art.com/wordpress/?p=574 I started the day masking the image as usual, but instead of setting up to airbrush the background, I unmasked the dress for airbrushing. I used a few tones of bright green acrylic over the entire dress, bringing in the darker tones for the subtle shading to give it shape.
Next, I removed all the masking and began painting. Much of the afternoon was spent painting acrylic white on all the dots of the dress. Then, I moved on to the face, painting the eye lines, eyebrows and lips with watercolors and gouache. I painted the hair next, using various browns. I finished the day painting the cupcake and the body outline…
stage 2 - painting

]]> http://kc-art.com/wordpress/archives/574/feed 0 designing new art project http://kc-art.com/wordpress/archives/569 http://kc-art.com/wordpress/archives/569#comments Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:13:14 +0000 Kevin http://kc-art.com/wordpress/?p=569 Yesterday and today I spent going through photos once again, searching for ideas. I came up with a couple, and decided on this one…
stage 1 - drawing
model -Gia

It’s a take on a classic pin-up style image. As such, I may keep the background white and go right into the painting tomorrow.

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