Finished Under-painting!!

After 2 months of work I have finished the under-painting. Now on to the glazing and finishing this thing.

Nearly Finished Under-painting

Almost done and here is what's left:

-propaganda posters plastered everywhere
*BB is watching you across the street on the other housefront (BB dark eyes)
-on every commanding corner (most dominant poster)
*Ingsoc @ street level with torn corner (alternately covering & uncovering it)
-helicopter (looking in windows)
*In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a bluebottle, and darted away again with a curving flight.
-willow-herb straggled over heaps of rubble
-repairs
*balks of timber shoring up sides
*patched cardboard windows
*corrugated iron roof (wavy metal roof, like a shanty)
-little eddies of wind swirling dust up in bombsites& torn paper into spirals
-a few feral animals: birds mostly, rat, dog/cat

Welcome to Oceania In Progress Under-painting

The under-painting is largely completed for the 6'x3' acrylic painting. Around 1 to 2 days are left until adding color and glazing. All that is left is a few small rubble areas being completed and repainting Winston in a new pose with a more readable silhouette.

#1 Welcome to Oceania in Progress

Well it has be awhile since I have posted anything, but that doesn't mean I haven't been up to anything :) I am currently in production of a painting series based on George Orwell's 1984. There will be seven large acrylic paintings and the following is some of the preliminary work for the large 6'x3' painting, "Welcome to Oceania."



Preliminary half scale line drawing (1.5'x3').



Underpainting for small color study. Half way done (10"x20").



Color study.



In progress painted line work on final 3'x6' canvas. The composition was flipped. Mainly because of the fact that the main character has the entire world in his way. The other orientation made it appear that he has already conquered everything. Hopefully this large painting will be completed by mid May.

Alex's Long-board Painting Christmas Present

Preliminary mock-up for the real thing. Digital painting over photo.

Rain Forest Final

Rain Forest Digital Painting

This is a digital painting that I am doing for a student friend for his Lode Runner rendition computer game. Only one of the best classic computer games of all time!!

So this is a rain forest setting with some inspiration drawn from Disney's Tarzan. I still have a significant amount of detailing and rendering left. Another hand full of hours are left.

"No Longer A Pretend Artist"

This piece is inspired by a comment that an instructor made during class one day, "When you're a real artist, you'll have to spend money on your supplies." So for now I guess I am just pretend. It started out as a sketch and then a more traditional digital painting in Painter X with the new bristle tracking tech. That just was not working for me and I thought of a street pop artist named Shepard Fairey. So I put my own twist on his style and feel pretty good about how this turned out.

For those of you that do not know, this is one of seven or eight pieces I created for a portfolio series to gain admittance into a higher level degree program. I am currently a Bacheler Arts majors and will be a Bachelor Fine Arts major in painting, drawing and printmaking.