#90 Oil Colors! or The Secretary Bird

"Fantastic headgear" was the assignment, but instead of giving a person an amazing hat, I gave them amazing hair... or feathers. 

"brak"

So here's some shots of the progress:

Value Study

using a C.F. Payne under-painting technique

"kraw"

Your palette shows a lot about you.

Working with oils again is like riding a bike.  A rusty, decrepit bike. I'm going to have to do lots and lots of practice painting if I want to get the hang of it again!

I looked toward the great Maxfield Parrish  and Phil Hale for how they handled color and form

Phil Hale

Maxfield Parrish

Maxfield Parrish

#84 Christian Bale and other digital things

Pretty happy with how it turned out

It was a pretty fun project! I'm going to draw other silly celebrity portraits in future, definitely.  More of them being traditional probably...but Photoshop painting is still pretty nice.

Here's some landscapes out of my head as an exercise in class.  We weren't supposed to use any reference of any kind...although most people did anyway... I don't understand why these people are in art school!!  Get those creative juices.

I'm redoing the "Dapper Dan" project in Illustrator, and I must say, it's taking forever.  Well... at least it's clean! CLEAN LINES SO CLEAN.  Gonna be worth the time working on this sucker so it's likely I'm giong to be hiding away for the next few days in my art cave.

#66 Designs

Visit Portland?!?  Kay.

Designs for AD TEAM class

Design with not a lot of freedom design wise.  Kind of interesting though.  Non-objective