The background was bugging me, so I added a plate and redid it. So much better now, and the plate was a lot of fun to try to capture with limited time and brush strokes. ~30 mins for new plate and background. I left the naners themselves largely untouched. Work in progress steps: Bananas (wips […]
Category Archives: painting
Night Glow (lighting study) (wips and done)
90 min lighting study of Loca Mocha gazing into a 25/8 convience store. No reference or particular goals for the piece, just a sandbox to play with lighting ideas in. I even saved some WIPs:
The Stranger (wips and done)
His chat handle is The Stranger. For the last three months, he’s been messaging Loca Mocha, Lethal Lemon, and Nimble Melon, helping them find secure data connections and private places to meet. They’ve never met him, but Loca Mocha is about to come close. But is he just a sophisticated Org agent? (Is he even human?) This piece […]
Where we fought the old witch (wips and done)
As promised, indulgent fantasy stuff is back! (Slowly – I caught a bad cold this week which is slowing me down these last few days!) I was eager to start a new scene painting after finishing all those still lifes last weekend. Rolling around my head was this idea that Vince and Airika might go adventuring […]
Metal cup and rattle still life, daylight (done)
Positions unchanged since last time, but this one was painted in early morning daylight coming in from the window behind the scene. I used the previous nighttime version as a base, but corrected a lot of little perspective things (and could probably keep going – ARGH, CIRCLES lol). Painting in daylight means working fast and taking […]
Metal cup and rattle still life, red and blue lamps (done)
This tiny metal cup and barbell were apparently Jim’s toys when he was a baby (which was in the 1980s, not the 1930s, so these outdated toys have always been rather fascinating to me – I was also a baby in the 80s and my toys were plastic and made by Fischer Price, lol) . At […]
Throwback Thursday: Wiggly lines acrylic painting
Circa early 2003. I always thought this painting was hideous, I am so not an abstract artist and WTF is with the clashing colors? This was probably from my gen ed art courses that I did at community college before art school, possibly something color-theory related since it’s made out of colors I’d have never picked […]
Where I met the old witch (wips and done)
After Vince is sent away by his guild leaders and Tren goes into a period of intense study with her old master, Airika is left on her own to get into trouble. Legend tells of an old high born necromancer, sealed away in an elven coffin and buried in the deepest marsh. But Airika doesn’t know that yet, she […]
Now there’s nothing (wips and done)
One of those rare paintings that went well from start to finish. 🙂 Airika: I just thought there was something more, you know? Tren: I’m sorry. I can beat him up if you like. Airika: No… that’s okay. There was something, and now there’s nothing. I’ll live.
Someday you’ll see (wips + done)
… that I am such a fragile thing. (Which is a reference to the SD6 song “Everywhere”, which is awesome yet completely un-Googlable/un-YouTubeable for some reason.) This one started as a sketch that probably wouldn’t have made it to completion it if weren’t for a soft spot in my heart for these two and their […]