Portrait Painting

Final Painting (Acrylic on Tile)

I’ve been pretty intrigued by some great portrait painters lately. And I’ve tried a few myself in water colour and pastels in the past. But I just got this new palette for acrylic paints that keeps your paints from dying out for up to two weeks. So I decided to test it out buy doing a portrait painting, that I knew would take me a while, in Acrylic.

I started out doing a rough sketch on a piece of tile that I had quickly and generously gessoed to cover over the previous sketch I had done on it and decided not to paint. This gave me a nice clean space to work in as well as adding some texture. I then blocked in shapes and colors and moved onto adding more layers of shadows and detail.

The whole process took about 9 hours over a weeks time. The palette I mentioned (which works by placing a wet sponge under parchment paper that you then place and mix your paints on) worked excellently. My Paints are still tube fresh and I plan to use them again this weekend for a new piece. I worked from a photo of a Facebook friend, whom shall remain anonymous, that I thought was very interesting. I would like to try to paint from life one day, but till then I plan to be working from random pictures of people I know.

I had to go back and correct the left hand (stage right) eye as I drew and painted it too high the first time around. I documented parts of the process with pictures as I went, they are below fallowed by the final piece. I think it came out well.

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Art Monkey Show at The Massillon Museum

This weekend is the last weekend of the Dr. Sketchy’s Art Monkey Art Show at Studio M in the Massillon Museum

The Museum is open till 5pm. Check out the show if you get a chance. Below are the pieces I have in it.

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Vine Charcoal were have you been all my life?

Had a good Dr. Sketchy’s session saturday night and talked to some of the other artist, who are much more talented then me, to see what they drew with. I had been trying out hard charcoal, they suggested I try soft vine. So I bought some, and I have to say I pretty much love it. Cant wait to do live sketching with it.

This is a quick sketch form a photo from saturday’s session. it is soft vine charcoal on newsprint.

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New RFK Sketch

RFK is one of my heroes. He was a brilliant, principled, imperfect man, who would have made an exceptional President. He was not revered by all in his time, but divided the nation with his ideas, yet he always thought of the less fortunate first. That is a quality that is sadly lacking in many today.

“… rather than answer these desperate cries, hundreds of communities and millions of citizens are looking for their answers, to force and repression and private gun stocks – so that we confront our fellow citizen across impossible barriers of hostility and mistrust and again, I don’t believe that we have to accept that.  I don’t believe that it’s necessary in the United States of America.  I think that we can work together – I don’t think that we have to shoot at each other, to beat each other, to curse each other and criticize each other, I think that we can do better in this country. ”

-Robert F. Kennedy, University of Kansas, 1968

This Portrait is 8.75 x 6 Charcoal pencil on sketch paper.

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RFK Sketch

Quick sketch of RFK, one of my heroes.

Charcoal on Sketchbook

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Lost Painting

This is an 8×10 watercolour on tile portrait of one of the models from Dr. Sketchy. This was part of the Show at Lockview. Unfortunately this painting disappeared from the show, however the people at Lockview and the curator of the show handled it well and made the situation as right as possible.

So while the original is gone, possibly hanging in someone else’s  house, although who steals a portrait of someone they don’t know, done by an artist who isn’t even that good? Anyway, at least I still have a snap shot of it.

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Dr. Sketchy Art Show

The Akron Dr. Sketchy group will be displaying work at Lockview in downtown Akron from October 29th through some time in December. Next time your feeling like art, good beer and gourmet grilled cheese stop down to check it out. below is one of the pieces I did for the show. And check out some of my previous posts to see the original sketches done at the Dr. Sketchy Events.

And if you are looking to have some fun and draw, check out Dr. Sketchy Events the second Tuesday of every month. Beer, Music, Drawing, Fun.

 

 

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Bar sketching

Sketch of the taps at Retz Laconis II

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Sketchbook Project

I got my sketchbook for the Sketchbook Project in the mail the other day. My theme is “Uncharted Waters”. I decided a map of the Mythical land of Lemuria, the supposed lost continent that once connected Madagascar (of Lemur fame) and India, was a perfect cover. I think I may need to add a lemur to it?

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Dr. Sketchy & other random drawing

Had a good time at Dr. Sketchy’s event last night and thought I would post some of my drawings from it, the I realized I had months worth of sketches to scan in, so thought I would post a big batch of them all at once.

If you don’t know what Dr. Sketchy’s is, it’s like an art school life drawing class, but add music, beer, burlesque models, costumes and lots of fun. Check out their website, or look them up on facebook. It’s an excellent time.

The sketches are most all from those events, or from me just sitting around at drawing people. Most sketches are done between 1 and 15 minutes.


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