Martin Mauseth Hvattum

Big Island, Hawaii

2012-01-31T22:35:00.001-08:00

Just spent 10 wonderful days in the sun on Hawaii with Liz. So great to get out of the city and back into nature, the place really reaffirmed in my mind that a life lived outside in nature is so rewarding. You can just get stuck in the everyday big city grind, it is even obvious to me to "go out and play", I just don't. Not like I am becoming a mountain man anytime soon, but definitely stepping up my plein-air painting the next couple of months.

To be honest we spend most of our time lounging on the beach and falling off surf boards but we managed to do a few paintings. This one is the only one I ended up pleased with, and it was painted on a small beach-park near Hilo, Big Island. The owner of a hostel we stayed at was gracious enough to take us snorkeling in the area, he took us to this spot to paint and it was an amazing place. Hardly anyone around except for some locals, and we even saw a couple of huge sea-turtles basking in the sun.

2011-12-19T17:30:00.000-08:00

The Flying Dutchman / Narrative Painting final

2011-12-15T16:18:00.000-08:00

Fashion history

2011-11-19T16:44:00.000-08:00

Some homework for my fashion history class :)

"A Very Sensetive Ogre"

2011-11-10T13:25:00.001-08:00

Narrative painting hw

2011-11-05T19:24:00.000-07:00

Doing some oils again, so much fun!

I went to the halloween costume carnival here at school last week, and it was really great as always. Did a bunch of figure drawings as usual. My gf showed me some awesome pictures Dax Santi from the illustration dept took so I did a couple of small paintings from two of them. The last one is Liz, although with those teeth in, she looks completely different.

Gouache landscape sketch

2011-11-04T17:30:00.000-07:00

Narrative painting HW

2011-10-12T23:36:00.000-07:00

Don Quixote & Captain Canada!

2011-09-25T15:52:00.000-07:00

Lately I have been doing some pen and ink, comic book kinda stuff. Tried out 24 hour comics the other day with Liz, and although we only lasted for about 12 hours. We did come up with some fun characters for our story along with a few pages of story. In addition, I did this ink and watercolour illustration of Don Quixote and his trusted squire heading out on an adventure!

Malcolm in the Middle

2011-09-08T16:25:00.000-07:00

Been watching this TV show lately. At first it seems like your average family TV sitcom until you realize how crazy it is. Crazy and brilliant satire! Wanted to test out painter, and see if i liked it. So I did these studies of the characters from the show. Painter is so fun, much more intuitive then Photoshop is, although perhaps not as fast and accurate. I'm a bit unsure what program I'll be using in the future, at least my eyes where opened to an alternative approach!

Sketchbook summer 11

2011-08-13T16:50:00.000-07:00

Sketches from museums, magazines, festivals, trains, canals, ditches, parks and the vast empty space between my ears.

(click for larger)

Watercolour landscapes Summer 11

2011-07-13T12:11:00.000-07:00

I've been traveling around to my girlfriends hometown, a bit of Europe and home in Norway this summer. Brought along a compact easel and my watercolour kit and did a bunch of studies on the road. Not much to say about these, other than that they were a lot of fun and I feel the practicing is coming a long. Really great to get challenged by the always changing scenery.

1-2 hrs each
(click the images for larger scale)

Live Drawing

2011-05-18T15:16:00.000-07:00

A little collection of some of the figure drawing I found time for this spring. Some are straight Gouache, the black and white just Charcoal and/or Conte. The drawings are all the way from 1 minute, up to a couple of 20s.

I am spending the summer backpacking around with watercolours and a sketchpad, so I hope to come back strong in a few months with some landscapes and stuff. Really excited to be going to the East-coast, then through a bit of Europe before touching base back in Norway for a month or so :D

The Information Officer

2011-05-16T20:01:00.000-07:00

I have been developing visuals for this book I read, The Information Officer, for the last 6-7 weeks. Doing something on a large scale like this has been new, but interesting. Its great to see how quick you can develop something that already has a context. The story takes place on Malta during the 2nd world war, and I have been trying to keep things fairly realistic. I tried imagining that this would eventually develop into a feature film in the nature of ww2 pictures such as Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers. We had to throw these two presentation boards together for my Advanced Perspective class, and since my classes are over I am gonna stop working on this for a while. It's fun working on something set in a specific time-period, but I think I want to do something a bit more creative and less realistic for a while. Explore some different kind of styles!

(Click on the pictures to see them bigger)

Colournotes

2011-05-02T22:56:00.000-07:00

Here are a few colournotes, trying to work out some general moods in these. Have hardly done any oils lately, and only work with watercolour once a week so it been a while since I have had some fun with colour. Been doing a lot of these, the 5 here are a the once that I find most successful so far. Maybe I'll touch them up a bit one day. Still working on speed, and these are between 3-4 hours on average.

... still working on my Maltese WWII story

Isometric Perspective

2011-04-16T19:37:00.000-07:00

Two quick Isometric sketches to get a feel for some of the elements that will play a part in a WWII story I am currently working on. First one is a crew working on a spitfire, second one is a Maltese airbase after a bombing raid.

Muir Beach

2011-04-12T12:31:00.000-07:00

I went with Liz's painting class to Muir Beach, it was a sunny but incredibly windy day. It's just north of the Golden Gate bridge, and a short bus ride from downtown SF. Still working in watercolour, and I am getting more comfortable with a bigger more loose application. Liz agreed to dress up as an Eskimo, and pose a little bit. Nice to do some figures in the landscapes.

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

2011-04-05T22:16:00.000-07:00

I am taking a visual development class this semester. It has proven very challenging since the concept of focusing on the development aspect over a finished rendering has been new to me. For my first attempt I chose to develop the old folk tale "The Three Billy Goats Gruff". Dealing with stylized animals, or animal drawing in general was a new challenge. I did learn a lot about animal drawing, but I still cannot say I am completely satisfied with what I came up with. I decided to wrap up the project and move on, so I quickly blocked in some compositional roughs and cleaned up my character designs.

I started working on a more comprehensive detective story set in Malta during the second world war. I am very excited about developing that, and hope to post some images from that story later.

Advanced Perspective

2011-04-05T22:06:00.000-07:00

I am taking Advanced Perspective at school this semester. Great class! I am getting much better at perspective and speed. I did not time myself doing these, but if I was forced to guess I would say around 3-6 hours each from concept to finish.

Plein Air Watercolour

2011-03-05T21:49:00.000-08:00

I have had the pleasure of going out Saturday mornings and enjoy painting the beautiful spring in the bay area. As part of the (very official) plein air painting league we even had access to a car one day and did some painting in half moon bay. It was supposed to snow (!) that day, but as you can see from The beach scene below we had a clear yet ice cold day. The other guys did some great paintings, big thanks to Mark David Noel for hooking us up with the ride.
I usually spend somewhere from one hour to close to two on these.

And a watercolour test I did on hot-press paper. Finally found a block of it, instead of individual sheets. Excited to see how it will work with landscape painting.

India Ink

2011-02-05T21:43:00.000-08:00

I have been trying to do figure drawings with india ink and a brush. It's a lot of fun, but quite challenging to pace yourself right. If I go dark fast I don't get enough subtleties, too slow and don't even finish! Hope I can find some time do to a few more like these in the upcoming months. These are all twenty minute drawings.

motorcycles!

2010-12-27T04:55:00.001-08:00

Some drawings I did for fun while dreaming of a motorcycle lisence, winning the lottery and riding around the world!

Some various stuff I did at the end of this semester :)

2010-12-16T23:55:00.001-08:00

Quick studies

2010-10-07T14:42:00.001-07:00

Taking quick studies with Craig Nelson this semester. Great class and a great instructor, but quite challenging. The whole set-up is painting a lot, fast and multiple times. We basically do short studies in class (25-40 minutes) and a bit longer ones for homework (more then one hour, no more then two). I crash and burn all the time, but its fun and I feel like I learn a lot from this class. Although it might not come out so often during class ;)

A few of my homework assignments with titles such as "my studio", "cityscape" and "interesting cropping". In other words we are pushed to paint a lot of different things.

Sketchbook and a couple of digital painiting hw

2010-10-07T13:17:00.000-07:00

Japanesey akvarell

2010-09-21T17:16:00.000-07:00

So I'm right back, perhaps a bit more relaxed then last time (that one painting in the previous post seems a bit frustrated). I went to Japan, climbed a mountain, snorkeled with fish and slept in basements. Brought my watercolors and kind of fell in love with it, it really fits my lazy side (the right one). Hardly anything to carry, and way more spontaneous than oil painting on location.

I'm uploading a few of my paintings from japan, and a couple cityscapes I've done since returning to SF. Been going out weekly to paint, hopefully I can continue doing that.

End of the Road

2010-05-19T12:09:00.000-07:00

Spring semester is over. I'm heading to Japan for 3 months. brb.

Odd Nerdrum painted my mum!

2010-05-13T17:15:00.000-07:00

So some 30 years ago, Odd Nerdrum painted my mum. She grew up in the same city as him, and for a while they knew each other. When he exhibited it, it was too expensive for my grandmother to buy and the painting got lost. Nerdrum got very famous in the following years, - and lately my mum decided to track it down. After a lot of detective work she found it. It is hanging at an art collectors house in Oslo, but she got to go see it and take a photo of it!

I've got to say its a beautiful painting by a beautiful artist of a beautiful mum :)

2010-05-09T18:44:00.001-07:00

Soundtrack:

And all is well...

2010-05-01T12:26:00.000-07:00

since "there is hope in a hanging snore" - Eggen. of finishing my work before the spring show submissions this week. Lately I did a watercolor rendering of this dog we met at the beach, and a pastel portrait of Juan. The more transparent treatment of the portrait comes out a bit hard edged in the photo, especially around the face. Just recently had an awakening about the importance of massing value and local colour first, before playing with colour and planes. So hopefully future portraits will come out a bit more unified.

Soundtrack:
(Old Sage Francis track I recently rediscovered)

The world is full of things I need, that's what theyre telling me on TV!

2010-04-14T14:14:00.001-07:00

Clothed Fig. painting hw. Liz and Ringo in the park. Had a lot of fun on this one, even though it was frustrating at times working so big (20x34, if my memory serves me right). The concept that I found as I was painting was the color red. Playing up the central red shape and bouncing that color around to create an interesting, more subliminal 2nd read and color path. I probably should have planned this approach out a bit more, so I didn't have to rely so much on the underpainting. Especially on the right hand side.

Anywhoo, that probably gets a bit abstract and far fetched, pretty happy with the outcome. Learned a few lessons about fill light I will try to apply in the future, and of course the many little things I could have handled better. Photograph is a bit high contrast, and later I might do a few touch-ups here and there.

Soundtrack:

Stirra ned, stirra ned, stirra ned

2010-04-11T21:28:00.000-07:00

A couple of watercolors and two pastel portraits. Really took an instant liking to pastel, feel like someone opened a door to a completely unexpected medium :) Cool to get a break from oils, while still thinking in color.

The one watercolor is a portrait of the unquestionably genius Mos Def. The other one is supposed to be a shopping bag graphic for Wholefoods.

The fan don't work but the window will

2010-03-18T21:47:00.001-07:00

Tried out pastel for the first time, did one of those really deep meaningful fine art paintings of my girlfriend and went and burned myself out really good. Time to recharge the batteries and win some wet t-shirt contests down in Mexico!

Old-school walkman, brand new mixtape

2010-03-07T21:22:00.001-08:00

dumparumpum

2009-12-18T17:32:00.001-08:00

Another semester over, learned a few things, realized how many things I need to learn. Now bring out Juleribba!

Heads & Hands Final

Ill. 1 final

Golden Section & Geometry final. Self portrait from all angles, would have been cool to expand on this idea and add a few angles. Looks a bit weird in the photos, but you get the idea.

Random inclass work

Ended the semester doing a bit of figure drawing in sharpie and watercolor, in addition to being great rehearsal mediums I kinda like the look.

A little update

2009-11-17T22:15:00.000-08:00

Ill1 homework, editorial illustration:

Focused quite a bit heads lately. Slow but steady improvements.

inclass

Hw: Ringo and Liz.

2009-09-21T22:23:00.001-07:00

So I'm not dead... even stopped sucking the blood of the inicent at night time. School started a couple of weeks ago and have been warming up a bit, hitting workshops and getting the first assignments out of the way.

Corciano, Italy

2009-07-08T15:18:00.000-07:00

So I am pretty much living the painters dream at the moment. Spending the summer in Italy with the Academy, little hilltop village called Corciano from the 13th Century. In between cheap wine and delicious Gelato there is the odd sober moment where I try my best to get some paintings and sketches done. Happy with the improvement up until midterm, color and paint handeling have improved a lot.

Quick studies

2009-06-13T07:00:00.001-07:00

Spent the week in Norway, and in between catching up with friends and family I got some small studies done. Spent in between 1,5 - 2 hours on each of these. Basically a warm up session before I leave to Italy for the summer on Monday. I'll be spending 7 weeks in a small town north of Rome learning about Plen Air Painting, so look out for some landscape updates :D

Life Drawing

2009-05-16T16:04:00.000-07:00

Its the 21st Century and all the motels got wi-fi (traveling these days), so I thought I would upload the last set of work from the semester that I had planned to do before leaving SF for the summer. Did not have any figure drawing classes last semester, so I spent time at the quick studies and clothed figure workshop. So much to work on, but feel like I have managed to boost my learning curve a lot. Hopefully I'll pick up this post in a year from now and have fun comparing.

1,2 & 3 mins:

20 mins:

Three last paintings of the semester

2009-05-14T22:58:00.000-07:00

The first painting of the woman and the chair is a composite from two photos on Masonite board. I tried out Coles Phillip's Fade-away technique on the shawl, which I though was fairly successful. Seeing as the large shape of the figure is of to the left I was spending some time balancing it out with the more saturation, dark value and hue variation to the right of the picture plane.

The second piece is top view of wall street commenting on the near religious view a lot of people have of the capitalist economic dogma of todays america. Even in a time where the system has proven to be flawed people reserve their critiscism to mere details. The centered, strong and powerful composition was meant to build up on that. I believe the idea was a good one, but limited by my own lack of experience this one fell apart in execution. Did learn invaluable lessons on value pattern, saturation of lights/darks and shapes.

The third piece is a painting done for an in-class session on the figure in composition. I photographed the same pose from three different perspectives, then composited the figure together in photoshop without merging them. The idea is that the figure and composition study is of the same surgical nature as a dissection of meat.

Illustrative Digital Imaging final

2009-05-13T22:30:00.000-07:00

Right in the middle of finals week, and as usual the stubble is uncontrollable and my pants are covered in oil paint. However, if I manage to wake up tomorrow morning and hand in my last final, a three week roadtrip is waiting around the corner. - Good things comes to those who wait (or some other cheesy thing people say)

For my final digital painting assignment we had a group project. The brief we were assigned stated we had to work with a mix of an archaic and a futuristic society. Collectively we decided on a mix of 70% Roman culture and 30% Star Wars (that first movie). We were assigned either two characters or an environment, and seeing as I still had not done any characters for this class I was glad to get the choice of our cultures evil emperor and his evil general.

Working with thumbnail character studies was a true eye-opener, and a small example of the ones I did can be seen underneath.

I finally installed my wacom tablet driver, - yeah I have been working all semester without pressure sensitivity (!). And managed to work with looser, more solid brushstrokes on this one. This made the painting part a lot quicker, and even though these were a bit rushed I am very happy with the learning process here.

Emperor

General

Figure in interior

2009-04-21T20:27:00.000-07:00

Painted my buddy Kamil while he was animating some tests for that new Dreamworks feature you'll bee seing in 2020!

Cavemen Redux

2009-04-14T14:49:00.000-07:00

Figure in environment, pretty open ended.

San Francisco Cityscapes

2009-04-12T19:11:00.000-07:00

We had a landscape/cityscape assignment in my composition class. I tried focusing on the designed and geometric aspect of the city, playing up the repetitive and primitive shapes found in our neighborhood and cities elsewhere. Had a lot of fun with these, and it is a revelation to truly understand the importance of composition.

Tried out a square canvas for the first time. My intent for this one was for the eye to move around as much as possible, not creating too strong of an area of emphasis anywhere.

In this one I was playing more with the use of color contrast as a means to lead the eye into a strong area of emphasis, which you hopefully find to be around the person with the umbrella. Again without the eye getting to stuck.

Portraits

2009-04-08T00:09:00.001-07:00

Did a portrait of a couple of classmates. Should have spent a bit more time on the composition, there are a few tight spots here and there. Pretty happy with these though, it was fun to get to spend some time focusing on a face with my brushes. At least they recognized themselves!

Then another in-class painting, been trying hard lately to gain enough experience so as to go ahead and loosen up my brushwork. Thicker paint, and more confident color handling. Have a few happy moments now and again, and felt like I succeeded fairly well in this one

Digital Environment

2009-04-02T22:53:00.000-07:00

Night scene for my digital class. Ended up learning a lot about night lighting, could probably have pushed more blue into the piece. Pretty sloppy linework on this one, really got to work on my sketchbook skills.

Concept Art - Craft

2009-03-01T01:09:00.000-08:00

Just a decade after I lay down my blueprints of flying cars that would drive me to school I got the opportunity to invent again. For my Digital Imaging Class we got to decide between a character or a craft, other then that the assignment was wide open. I chose to do a craft that I imagine would compete as a home-made outsider in some futuristic Rally-Dakar race going around the world. On the ground and through the air. A mix of a T-Ford and a jet plane, with a dash of Il tempo Gigante, Back to the future and Soap Box racing and this little guy was born.

Did a quick little comp, to set him in an environment:

Figure painting

2009-02-24T16:55:00.000-08:00

So I've been taking Figure Painting at the school now for five weeks. Last homework assignment was a master copy, our choice of reference as long as it was full figure. I chose to work from Caravaggio's "Boy with a Ram" Obviously rendering after Caravaggio on an 18x24 is quite the challenge, but it was a lot of fun getting to spend more then 8 hours on a figurative piece. On the other hand, when you really look at the reference for 20 hours you start realizing what a genius Caravaggio was. The subtleties and hue variations this man had, in a time where paints did not come on tubes in every color imagenable, is truly amazing. I think Ill try copying another one of his paintings in... lets say 20 years and see how much closer I'll be!

This second image is a painting from model in class, about 8 hours on this one. 12x16 canvas board. Face turned out nice, need to work some more color in there.

Another painting done in class, tried working a bit losser with some elements. 5 hours on this one.

Third in class painting, thats it for midterms :)

Still life hw. - Composition and painting

2009-02-14T17:57:00.001-08:00

First homework assignment for my composition and painting class. "One non-traditional still life of one or more somewhat mundane and overlooked objects. Make an interesting composition, the use of shadow shapes and positive/negative spaces can aid you in the overall interest of compositional abstract shapes." Basically create something interesting through creative composition, not exciting objects.

Decided to string up my objects with floss and then paint them as if they were hovering mid-air. The final composition turned out pretty bad, the empty area to the left completely kills the painting. On the pluss side my brushwork and color mixing are slowly improving, and I got to try out an interesting wider format. Next homework will be a cityspace/landscape and looks to be very interesting.

In-class composition:

Photoshop Composition

2009-02-14T00:48:00.000-08:00

Digital Imaging Class homework, we had to create a composition in photoshop from 10 different pictures or more. Threw together this little naval battle scene. The reference material i found decided more then I did, but it all sort of came together in the end.

Still Life Homework

2009-01-31T21:34:00.000-08:00

1st painting homework of the semester. Had one week to finish a still life for my figure painting class, not the kind of homework I was expecting in this class. Lucky enough to get Henry Yan as my teacher, watching his amazing demos is reason enough to take his class.

Values and color mixing are still major challenges, but pretty happy with this one. Structure problems on the bowl set aside. Trying out Terpanoid as my thinner insted of just the liquin, and really happe with the results. Easier and more fluid brushwork. Next step is to buy some linseed oil and mix my own medium!

Tattoo, school assignment

2009-01-30T13:25:00.000-08:00

Just started my first digital painting class with teacher Lawrence Valenti. For the first week he wanted us to create a tattoo, graphic or rendered. Knowing very little of tattoos I decided to make something in my own style, a cartoonish homage to my mother country. ;)

Fun fact (!?): In Norway neo-Nazis has taken over the symbolic use of Norse mythology, so vikings and the like quickly have bad connotations. Cartoon vikings still get to play though!

30 Sketches in 30 days

2009-01-20T09:33:00.000-08:00

Spent the winter break back home in Norway, wanted to keep myself busy so I decided to create one sketch every day that could fit in the "daily sketch" section. About one hour a sketch, - some a bit more, some a bit less. Tried to do a lot of different stuff, a few landscapes, sketches from imagination, photo referance, color tests, croquis, pencil. Was really running out of ideas at the end, but at least I got some good practice before my first digital illustration class this fall :)

Swiss Performance Enhancing Substance

2009-01-04T16:57:00.000-08:00

Swiss guy beat the Norwegians in Tour De Ski today... obviously he was full of drugs :)

Still focusing mainly on colors these days. I am working on pushing compliments into the shadows, as well as juxtaposing colors in the image.

Sleeping Girl

2009-01-03T14:57:00.000-08:00

I got this great little biography on the life and works of Alfons Mucha for Christmas. His poster work especially is incredible, some of it you can find here. All I could get with me on the plane home for Christmas was a set of gouache colors, so I got out my paints and decided to do something in his spirit.

Seeing as I keep hearing gouache is just opaque watercolor I decided to work on some watercolor paper I had laying around. This probably wasn't such a good idea cause the rough tooth of the paper made it difficult to achieve the smooth delicate application Mucha does so well. I think Illustration board will work much better next time. For the outlines I worked with Microns, which is ok, but I tend to create rather harsh linework. Next time Ill work a bit bigger so I can get in there with my brushtip pen (This one was done on an A5 piece of paper). Definitly enjoyed working with my gouache set, a lot more fun then the one pass solid application we were doing back in color and design class!

Summer series - Bislett

2008-12-29T06:38:00.000-08:00

Spent the summer back home in beautiful Oslo at the wonderful apartment in Bislett. My god how I dream about that place when I sleep at lower bunk in my shared studio in SF. I guess you got to sacrifice to be an artist. Starving artist and all of that. For a some weeks that summer I worked exclusively on toned paper with coloured charcoal, and this series is part of what came out.

Madlib, El-P
Made this illustration surrounding a few of my favourite music producers and threw in a few elements related to their hip-hop universe

Rock out
Started the series with left over toned paper, a sienna charcoal pencil and my dads old cd cover depicting Jim Morriosn. From there on that deloped into some rock theme, which then led to the illustration above.

Obama Christ
Got tired of musicians and decided to draw a real rock star. Depicting Obama as the saviour seemed to fit the times (even more these days!). Still working on rendering faces, charicatures quickly lose their edge without an instant recognition. I still hope you can pick him out in the end?

Oil Painting

2008-12-29T05:50:00.000-08:00

This semester i picked up a brush and had a go at oil painting for the first time. Took the class Still Life Painting at school with teacher Brandon Smith. Really good painter with a beautiful handling of colour. Having hardly worked in colour before this semester I found it quite a challenge not getting my colours muddy or chalky. But hopefully we learn from our failures and I did enjoy the medium a lot!

Emulation of an artist (Final homework):
Pick a still life artist you like and analys his work method and visual landscape. Work in the methods of the artist, but do not copy a piece he has made. Being from Norway I've always enjoyed Odd Nerdrums work and chose to work in his method. He works very thick with small brushes and rags in the larger areas. At the end of a pass he dries the paint and sands down. Seeing as I did not have time to work on dry paint I skipped this part but tried to stay true to his painting technique. I found painting thick to be constantly exposing my lack of painting experience and kept going back to a thin application.

I found this great Odd Nerdrum referance; derekvanderven. A site dedicated to analysis of his techniques. Be aware that these guys are happy amatuers so don't take everything they write as facts. The site did help me a lot tho, it has changed a bit from when I used it. But as I could see, mostly for the better.

Mine worked out better as a rendering than as a painting in Nerdrums fashion. The coulour scheme worked out better. I achieved this with working a lot with venetian red and other earthly colours. Might have been a bit too ambitious to emulate an artist as sophisticated technically as Nerdrum. I have to say that I do love his rendering and might try to work more in this old renaissance fashion next semester.

In class work
Our classes were once a week from 8:30 to 14:50 in the afternoon. The object of each class was to paint on still life working with different tasks life birds-eye, high-key, reflective objects and so on throughout the semester. This one was the second to last day of the semester and we could compose our own still lifes. I chose a simplistic setup with a blue to yellow-red split compliment. I threw the cube with the letter "H" in there cause this was to be a christmas gift to my sister Hanna. H for Hanna, get it!? ... Hey, poort art students have to improvise

Homework piece (from photo referance)
Second to last homework assignment. My shared studio does not lend itself easily to still life painting, and seeing as I had allready painted my salt and pepper shaker and my only other interesting subject (shoes), were dirty. I decided to work from photo referance I took of my lunch. Had only ever painted from life before this and the photo presented a few interesting challenges. I found it easier to figure out the colours and to stray away from the referance in deciding what would make it into my painting. On the other hand when I ran into some issues with tangents and arias that did not read very well in the photo it was hard to make changes in the painting. So will I work more from photos? I think I will, but only in cases where it is important to capture something I will not get a chance to study in real life, i.e. interesting poses, moving objects, food that is rotting.

Vampire

2008-12-29T05:36:00.000-08:00

Got a bit further on this quick sketch from the other day:
Set the mood ok, pretty happy with the way the light is hitting the vampires face. Still need to work on the softness of light, especially in a night scene like this. Got about halfway done with this one, but now my shoulder is aching and I need to get off the computer, so I am gonna leave it at this.

Photoshop and Photography for Illustrators - Final

2008-12-26T04:46:00.001-08:00

Final Project.
Brief: Illustrate one of the Greek gods through photography and photoshop manipulation.

Had few models and little time, and ended up posing as the warrior god Aries on top of a pile of myself. Tank god this class is over, back to illustrating ;)

Intermediate Anatomy - Final

2008-12-26T04:41:00.000-08:00

Final project for Intermediate Anatmoy. The project was open ended, as long as you proved an understanding of anatomy.

God Jul!

2008-12-21T04:10:00.000-08:00

Open (Arjuna)

2008-11-23T21:36:00.000-08:00

nananananananana

2008-11-10T22:22:00.001-08:00

Oil Painting - homework

2008-11-06T23:04:00.001-08:00

Oil painting - in class

2008-11-06T23:03:00.000-08:00

2 minute studies

2008-11-02T22:12:00.000-08:00

Mob, clothed figure concept

2008-11-02T22:11:00.000-08:00

Knight, clothed figure concept

2008-11-02T22:10:00.000-08:00

Anatomy study

2008-11-02T22:09:00.000-08:00

Head, devices clip art

2008-11-02T22:06:00.000-08:00

Arjuna pseduonym

2008-11-01T20:55:00.001-07:00