artwork: paintings
Posting my paintings as I said I would. Like I told yamakasi I photo document all of my work. For me personally, I like the WIPS better than the actual art the majority of the time. XD And that goes for other peoples' art as well. I just find the process of an image coming to life to be fascinating. ^^
Lots of images! I do apologize.
WIP of:
Skeleton Key. Oil and graphite on wood. 2010.
After I do the rough draft on newsprint, I transfer the drawing to wood. Graphite on wood right now.
Detail of before and after shading. For me personally, I love this stage the best. If I didn't have the intent on painting, I would simply make drawings on wood. lol. I love it so much.
After the shading is complete, the drawing is sealed with fixative, then given two coats of acrylic medium and one coat of gesso. The kind of gesso I have has a gritty texture once dry and I like that because it gives the oil a very fine tooth to grip onto when painting. Anyways, these images show the beginning stages of a thin wash of oil paint. I use painting medium to thin it out.
Detail image of the finished stages. I did a very subtle underpainting and left it at that.
WIP of:
Come: let us show them your beautiful lies, the marks you make so cruelly.
Oil and graphite on wood. 2010.
I actually took a photo of this stage! I can't even BEGIN to tell you how horrible the drawing was for me. I started it in the last two weeks of school; I had multiple mental breakdowns where I was crying against my bed, eating massive amounts of chocolate, crying more ... a mess. I had a COMPLETELY different idea and this piece refused to listen. It did its own thing and I am actually very happy that it controlled me. Much better than my influenced idea.
This transfer was a lot easier than skeleton girl. The wood was beautifully smooth and it was just a delight to shade. I love it.
If it were up to me, I would have kept it like this. BUT, I had to do a painting, and the gesso spots to smooth over the scars on the wood made it impossible to keep as is. Graphite on wood.
Gesso has been applied and a thin oil wash. I wiped away the paint from the figures to give it that haunting look.
Before and after of the underpainting. I was going to do the girl's hand but after I looked at it I liked the effect it gave of being lighter than the silenced girl. So I kept it as is.
I really need to get a better picture. Finished product. The shadowing came out much better than I had expected on the center girl and I am grateful for that. lol.
WIP of:
And how I will Long for It ... To Have Them Take Me Away.
Oil and graphite on wood. 2010.
This was the first painting I started, before the other two. I didn't really photo document it from the beginning because I didn't think much of it. lol. Anyway, this was started as the other two. Transfer of drawing, etc. Right now this has the underpainting in burnt umber, a thin wash of green in the background and the beginning of the wet-into-wet process.
I didn't lay any paint into the hair. Burnt sepia was used as the base for the wet-into-wet for her skin. I used a combination of white and burnt sepia for her skin. And I started putting a bit of black-white mixture for around her eye. For some reason it came out looking blue grey instead, which peeved me greatly. lol.
I added another thin wash for the background. Painted her eye, continued with the wet-into-wet for her skin and around her eye. I also added a subtle glaze of burnt umber and sepia for strands in her hair.
Detail of the above image. I was really nervous about doing her eye. Eyes are my main concentration in my drawings, but I was faced with the conundrum of 1. painting layers and details and 2. doing this in color. I have never drawn or painted in color before. Anyways, I used the same process I did for drawing an eye and followed a photoshop tutorial for coloring an eye. XD Worked pretty well for such unorthodox techniques, I suppose. lol.
The background was glazed more but oh my goodness, too bright! I hated how pretty it looked. I do not do pretty or colorful or anything like that. I like black and white. I like dark. So, I left this alone for a while and worked on the other two paintings.
Quite a few changes, which I basically did the day before Final Crit. lol. I added the text with a rubber stamp. Added a much darker green glaze for the background. Multiple glazes on her skin to make it darker, more shadow around her eye and finally on her forehead. The hands have a slight burnt sepia to them but other than that were never touched. I wanted the wood grain to show through to keep that organic, raw feel.
Lots of images! I do apologize.
WIP of:
Skeleton Key. Oil and graphite on wood. 2010.
After I do the rough draft on newsprint, I transfer the drawing to wood. Graphite on wood right now.
Detail of before and after shading. For me personally, I love this stage the best. If I didn't have the intent on painting, I would simply make drawings on wood. lol. I love it so much.
After the shading is complete, the drawing is sealed with fixative, then given two coats of acrylic medium and one coat of gesso. The kind of gesso I have has a gritty texture once dry and I like that because it gives the oil a very fine tooth to grip onto when painting. Anyways, these images show the beginning stages of a thin wash of oil paint. I use painting medium to thin it out.
Detail image of the finished stages. I did a very subtle underpainting and left it at that.
WIP of:
Come: let us show them your beautiful lies, the marks you make so cruelly.
Oil and graphite on wood. 2010.
I actually took a photo of this stage! I can't even BEGIN to tell you how horrible the drawing was for me. I started it in the last two weeks of school; I had multiple mental breakdowns where I was crying against my bed, eating massive amounts of chocolate, crying more ... a mess. I had a COMPLETELY different idea and this piece refused to listen. It did its own thing and I am actually very happy that it controlled me. Much better than my influenced idea.
This transfer was a lot easier than skeleton girl. The wood was beautifully smooth and it was just a delight to shade. I love it.
If it were up to me, I would have kept it like this. BUT, I had to do a painting, and the gesso spots to smooth over the scars on the wood made it impossible to keep as is. Graphite on wood.
Gesso has been applied and a thin oil wash. I wiped away the paint from the figures to give it that haunting look.
Before and after of the underpainting. I was going to do the girl's hand but after I looked at it I liked the effect it gave of being lighter than the silenced girl. So I kept it as is.
I really need to get a better picture. Finished product. The shadowing came out much better than I had expected on the center girl and I am grateful for that. lol.
WIP of:
And how I will Long for It ... To Have Them Take Me Away.
Oil and graphite on wood. 2010.
This was the first painting I started, before the other two. I didn't really photo document it from the beginning because I didn't think much of it. lol. Anyway, this was started as the other two. Transfer of drawing, etc. Right now this has the underpainting in burnt umber, a thin wash of green in the background and the beginning of the wet-into-wet process.
I didn't lay any paint into the hair. Burnt sepia was used as the base for the wet-into-wet for her skin. I used a combination of white and burnt sepia for her skin. And I started putting a bit of black-white mixture for around her eye. For some reason it came out looking blue grey instead, which peeved me greatly. lol.
I added another thin wash for the background. Painted her eye, continued with the wet-into-wet for her skin and around her eye. I also added a subtle glaze of burnt umber and sepia for strands in her hair.
Detail of the above image. I was really nervous about doing her eye. Eyes are my main concentration in my drawings, but I was faced with the conundrum of 1. painting layers and details and 2. doing this in color. I have never drawn or painted in color before. Anyways, I used the same process I did for drawing an eye and followed a photoshop tutorial for coloring an eye. XD Worked pretty well for such unorthodox techniques, I suppose. lol.
The background was glazed more but oh my goodness, too bright! I hated how pretty it looked. I do not do pretty or colorful or anything like that. I like black and white. I like dark. So, I left this alone for a while and worked on the other two paintings.
Quite a few changes, which I basically did the day before Final Crit. lol. I added the text with a rubber stamp. Added a much darker green glaze for the background. Multiple glazes on her skin to make it darker, more shadow around her eye and finally on her forehead. The hands have a slight burnt sepia to them but other than that were never touched. I wanted the wood grain to show through to keep that organic, raw feel.