Jeremy, Julie, Theo, Nolan and Charlie
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Portrait Work
Continuing work on portraits this past weekend. First up is an update on the portrait of Dr. Hinkie. This one is coming along well and I’m pleased with the likeness for so early on in the process. Still a very long way to go on this one but making steady progress. I’m torn on where…
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Two Portraits (with violin)
Continuing to work on a couple of portraits. The first is an update on the portrait of Dr. Hinkie that I shared a couple of weeks ago. I have a couple of studio days of work in on this one now. Obviously there’s still a very long way to go but there’s enough of the…
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Starting a New Portrait – Dr. Hinkie
Haven’t posted here in a bit but I have been busy in the studio. I have half a dozen new paintings started and a couple more panels primed and ready to start. I wanted to document and share the progress on this one in particular though. The subject is the delightful Dr. Hinkie. He has…
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New Diptych Paintings
I purchased these amazing metal dice from SummitDice – they were super friendly and accommodating. I like painting these intricate metal dice, but the one they sent me had a really aggressive patina on it. I took a few pictures and felt it wasn’t really what I was after. While it added a lot of…
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Video: Star-Cut D20
Finished this one off a little while ago and took a video of the final painting process. Should have posted it here sooner but better late than never, right? Here’s the image of the final painting as well. Really pleased with how this one turned out. I feel like I’ve learned a lot recently not…
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Making Progress
First fully body pass in on this Prismatic Glass Star-cut Corner D20 painting. Work in progress.
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Starting Another One
I really love these prismatic glass dice. I have several sets and they seem like they could be used to make an infinite number of possible compositions and arrangements. This one is not just a prismatic cut, but also has fancy “star-cut” corners to give it even more facets and surfaces full of colors. Here’s…
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Plugging Away
Working on another Prismatic Glass D20 portrait. These take a lot of passes to get them dialed in and require a lot of small area detail work to get things dialed in. There’s probably three to five more session to finish this one off but it’s all part of the process. I wasn’t super happy…
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Work in Progress
Continuing in on the Rainbow Obsidian D20 portrait. A lot of good progress made. Still something that I think I can improve with another pass. The 2 and 10 faces don’t have enough contrast between the chromatic number and the value of the obsidian die, this is somewhat true from the source image I’m working…
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A Tale of Two Paintings
Managed to get two days in the studio this weekend. It took a lot out of me, but I really wanted to get some real paint on these two surfaces. Saturday I worked on the Rainbow Obsidian D20 painting. This one had a strong drawing underpinning it and has been much easier to work on…
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Studio Updates: Prismatic Glass and Rainbow Obsidian D20 Artwork Progress
I’ve really enjoyed my time back in the studio. Even though I’m still struggling with my energy levels, I’ve been trying to push through and keep working. This one I worked on last weekend. It’s going to be another prismatic glass D20 portrait. There’s a lot of nice purples and golds in this one but…
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Jade D20 Painting: Texture Building with Impasto Medium
Dead Layer Continuing to work on the Jade D20 painting. After the wipeout there’s a so-called dead layer. I generally work with a monochromatic gradient for this first layer. This allows a chance to get the drawing a little more dialed in and start to mass in the light and dark regions without having to…