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A small snippet of a cow based oil painting...

 Painting faces exercise 04 Zorn palette

A further collection of faces painted in oils using the limited Zorn palette, one that consists of 4 colours; yellow ochre, ivory black, Cadmium red and titanium white. This palette was a discovery made by the Victorian artist Anders Zorn, and suites figurative work well but has limits in landscape work as there is not way to mix strong greens/ blues. The paintings measure around the 10” x 12” and are painted on cardboard. Photos were taken off the internet to use as reference and I have no idea who they are.

 still life painting 02

Oil painting sketch of a cactus in a terra cotta pot, painted from life. Sized at 12" x 9.5 on a piece of old cardboard, primed for painting. Painted during June 2021.

 Plein air painting 21

Southampton common, Hampshire is depicted in oils in this landscape plein air painting. It was painted one sunny early morning in June 2021. It is painted on a piece of a cardboard box, sized at 11.5" x 9.5".  

Ancient alien astronaut with damaged space craft - WIP stages

3 stages of the creation of the artwork.

Painted during May 2021 this digital illustration, created using 'Auto sketchbook pro', depicts a sci-fi scene. A long dead alien astronaut is drifting with his damaged ship in to a field of space inhabited with large, long tentacled monsters.

The panel above shows three stages of the creation leading to the completed illustration. In the first panel the original sketch can be seen in a reasonably cleaned up version. Moving to the second panel the drawing has had rough colour areas and details added to indicate tone and hues. At this stage the image is a small size document, with 1200px on the longest edge, and has been done on an android tablet. The next stage is to export the file to a desktop PC, enlarge the image up so that the longest side is now 6000px. This becomes the start of the final artwork where the imagery is reworked/ painted and refined so that it can be printed up to many sizes without loss of quality. The last panel shows the finished illustration, and can be seen in greater detail on this link. 

 

 closeup working progress 20

 A small snippet of a princess illustration...