I completed another painting, as an assignment for Daniel Edmondson's painting course!


Acrylic on masonite, 11" x 14".

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This is a painting that I started some months ago, but then put aside.  I went back to it yesterday, and finished it today!


Acrylic on panel, 8" x 10".

I finished another assignment for Daniel Edmondson's painting course!  This is acrylic on canvas, 11" x 14".  

I finished another acrylic painting today!  This too was completed as part of Daniel Edmondson's online painting course (reference my previous post).


What I liked about doing this painting, was working with a strong overall color for the whole scene (in this case, yellow)...

Here are some acrylic paintings that I've recently completed! These were created as part of the oil painting study course taught by Daniel Edmondson.    (Dan's letting me use acrylics in his oil painting class). The scenes are based on still lifes set up by Dan.  You can visit Dan's artist's website here:  www.danieledmondson.com


The images can be clicked on, to enlarge.  Enjoy!

I'm still exploring dark colors in my newest work.  But this time, the artwork is not digital!  This was created with acrylic paint and soft pastels, on paper.  I call it  "Memories of a Burning House", and basically it's an exploration of color on a black and blue background.  

I tried a different approach to my artwork here, in this newly completed image.  This scene kind of resembles the old style CRT screen resolution, as seen in classic video games.  The inspiration for the content of the scene, was the Atari VCS game "Adventure", as well as the original package art from Electronic Arts' "Adventure Construction Set" (two of my favorite games as a youngster).  The software used to create this was Blender, Painter, and Photoshop.  You can click the image for a larger view.  

I finished the haunted house painting some days ago, but am just now posting it!  

Below is an additional digital painting, which I completed today.  I call it "Bicycling", and it's done in an Expressionist style, inspired by Paul Klee.  It doesn't have a very wide range of values (darks are noticeably missing) but I liked the image being more of a celebration of color.  Every time I tried adding darker shapes or lines, I felt like it was a "dead" area on the canvas.  So it ended as you see it here.  :)

Scary Update #3

Progress on the haunted house painting!  Sorry for the delay, I've been doing more reading than painting lately.  I've been studying the creative process, including reading a neat book called "How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci", by Michael J. Gelb, and also "Cracking Creativity" by Michael Michalko.  Plus, going back to the usual stuff such as "Bruce Lee - Artist of Life" and Paul Davies' "The Mind of God".  It does a person good to set before his eyes the inspiration of others!


My favorite point from Gelb's book was that da Vinci's greatest asset was his ability to tolerate the enigma.  Da Vinci believed that all things are connected in some way, and that all forms and colors that we see in the larger world are also embedded in the smallest discernible speck.  He thus would fearlessly combine dissimilar objects in his mind, in order to hunt down a similarity, or to find a way to combine the objects, to reveal a new idea.  For example, he created the idea of a spiral staircase by contemplating conch shells that he found on the beach.   Da Vinci urged that we stay steadfast in the creative process, saying, "Constancy may be symbolized by the Phoenix which, knowing that by nature it must be resuscitated, has the constancy to endure the burning flames which consume it, and then it rises anew."  I would recommend Gelb's book to anyone who likes a good and thoughtful read.  


Anyway, in the tradition of Leonardo da Vinci, who was notorious for never finishing anything, here's the haunted house painting again, still not finished!  :)  

Scary update #2

The latest progress on the haunted house picture....
This might appear too dark on a lot of peoples' screens.  My monitor is pretty bright, so I tend to make things pretty dark initially.  I'll likely brighten it as it becomes more complete. 


Lots more work to do still!

Trick or treat already

This is my current project, in a very early stage still!  It's an interior of a haunted house.  The software in use is Corel Painter.  I would like for the finished painting to have a considerable bit of texture to it, but I find that using texture in the early stages of the painting is very imprecise, and makes it very difficult to pull  the elements of the painting together (in my opinion).  So I'm switching to the rather flat airbrush tool and will worry about texture in the later stages of the project!  Anyway, Halloween is coming up, so I can't resist creating a suitably themed painting.  :-)  As usual, please click the image for a bigger view!

My own fish magic

I finished this piece of artwork this morning!  I like to think of it as my version of "Fish Magic", after the painting of the same name by the artist Paul Klee (please see my previous post dated March 13, 2011).  I created this digitally, using Blender, LuxRender, Painter, Photoshop and Illustrator.  

I remember my family having neon tetras when I was a kid (what kid doesn't love neon tetras?).  Also I think we had a red tailed shark (seen in the lower right).  The large fish is a tiger barb, and the reclusive orange fish is a female swordtail.  Something important must be happening beneath the waves, what with every fish gathering around the clock.  :)