Painting the Roses Red
oil painting 15.5"x19"
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WIP Botanicle Bone series
A small series of paintings that morph fetal skeletons with plants. I know the photos are bad. acrylic on wood acrylic on canvas *for the first two paintings: the white makes around the figures is chalk, it is a great tool to use when you aren't sure about composition or any extra details and it wipes off cleanly oil on canvas, this was the first flower skull idea, been working on it for a long time acrylic on wood
Final Year of College: Paintings
"Egg Drop Soup: Birth of the World" Oil painting of girl breaking open an egg and the yolk is spilling out an new world. (physics be damned!) And in the window in the canvas is an egg has is sprouting a mini sculpture of gold wire and handmade kozo paper. And yes that is a real egg, don't worry it doesn't smell. ;) This is an Exquisite Corpse that I did with a very good friend of mine. An Exquisite Corpse is a collaboration between two or more artists. You get your canvas, section off even parts, and you start the painting whatever you want, cover up all but an inch of it and from there another artist can paint from the colors and lines that you've put on it. Basically you are painting blind . :) Steampunk idea. With a man, a bird, and a clock. "Self-Experimentaion" This was a challenge for myself in the following ways: 5'x6' ft oil painting (second largest painting i've done), translucency, reflection, opacity, focus, glass, edges, an...
Oil Paintings
Decide to start sharing some of my work from college years. First round has basic projects in oils. Landscape practice with self-portrait, concept of Pareidolia . Self-portrait, King's birthday suit concept Photo-realism, practice with detail, translucency, focus, depth, and color matching.
To Begin, to begin, to begin....
...but where? I suppose the easiest route is to just throw out some pictures. After all they are worth a thousand words; a thousand more than what i would ever want to write . 4"x8" acrylic on canvas Right now this painting is living its life as a wall....it is only half realized until i figure out what else to fill it up with. Been like this for the past 2-3 years, i dont mind waiting.