So my life is a living heck right now and there's really nothing I can do about it. I am up until 3 or 4am every single night, and with classes starting at 8am I am starting to go crazy. So, that is why you haven't heard from me in a while...sorry. #Collegegirlproblems. Something good that is coming from this lack of sleep and social life is some pretty fun artwork though. Behold my latest projects:
My first oil painting! Pretty good I must say. Although, this is a horrible picture because I hadn't even varnished it yet, or matted it. Oh well. I would love to try photo rendering again, but it might have to wait until this summer when I will actually have a life and maybe some free afternoons.
An oil liftout of my roommate Diana. Yes, she is Mexican and gorgeous and totally has the best profile ever even though she hates it! This painting is totally overworked, but you know that's okay because it was my first one and I kind of lost control of the upper right hand corner when I started pouring Gamsol on it hahaha. Pretty fun!
A texture study for my advanced watercolor class in preparation for this assignment I am about to show you. I tried to stick to the limited palette I would be using just so that I could get used to the colors.
Took a little trip to the Wildlife Exhibit in the Benson building to get some photo references of baby foxes. I am a sucker for foxes, and doing a texture painting of them was just waaayyyyy too tempting.
Started off with the fallen branches.
I used multiple natural sponges and salt for the texture of the log and the base of the fur.
Almost done! I decided to add some more branches just to add a little more shape and variation.
The finished product. I went in with Q-tips and cotton balls to soften things up, then used some more sponges and water droplets to get that blue smoke texture in the background. Overall I think it came out pretty good and looks really nice. The limited palette I used was Yellow Ochre, Indian Red, Cerulean Blue, and a hint of Burnt Sienna. It's amazing the amount of variation in color you can get with just four different pigments!
So yep, those would be my main accomplishments so far. Figure drawing is going well and computer arts is kicking my butt, no surprise there. Muse is on repeat every day of my life( Madness anyone??? Favorite song ever!) and cookies have become a staple. What more can I say, my life is boring. Until next time I guess. klovesbye
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