Here’s the update on the art that I promised to tell you more about in the last post. I decided to try another oil painting. Only this time do it a little more painterly. If that’s a thing. The Telecaster painting felt a little like a paint by numbers in that I drew the whole thing out first and then colored it in. Yes, there was more to it than that, but it still started from a draftspersons view and then became a painting. I wanted to try a painting as just a painting. And I wanted to do something that fits more with what a lot of people like about my art in most other mediums. I wanted to do a creature. It could be human or animal, it just needed to be a creature. I settled on a bird, a crane that I have done in pencil, and even in Zbrush.
I painted a background of sorts on a canvas board a couple of weeks ago so that it could be ready for last week. And, since I haven’t been sketching as much this past year as I did for those few months the year before, I felt like I needed to sketch out the shape before I tried to put paint to canvas. I’m glad I did because it took a little work to get the shape right. Initially when I started writing this I hadn’t got very far. Then last week I added more paint to canvas and have the shape blocked in and some shading started. I am hopeful that it will turn out nice. So far it is on track for it to.
I have also done a very small bit more on my octopus. Just enough to be surprised that I might be able to get the effect I’m looking for and that it could turn out the way I envisioned it.
Things are a little crazy and busy with the day job right now so I haven’t had quite the time I want to work on things more. And the rest of this month isn’t looking much better. However, I have a cool adventure coming up and expect to have lots more to post about and even art about. It could be an exciting summer.