Daily Spitpaint: Hippo Crossing A River

Daily Spitpaint: Gun arms

Daily Spitpaint - Fruit Golem Hammer of Destruction

This Pig Was Due

Been trying to fill up my portfolio with new stuff so I went back to some old drawings and finished what I could. A looser painting then the others within that project but definitely showing more if that makes sense. Going to finish a couple more things with this character and finally get to move on to my new old project.

Cache Creek on Memorial Day

Parked myself in front of the valet drive through and thought I get some good reflective light practice in but each car kept leaving. I started with a Camry, shaped into a Porche, and then added some Corvette tail lights and out came this piece of junk.

"Gone in 60 Seconds"

I had a great conversation with a gentleman throughout the piece - good talk Boyd from Vallejo/Pittsburgh/Reno. Great guy and wonderful human being Boyd is. 

After our conversation, however, I didn't get much time for other pieces since the lighting was changing fast and it was just about time to leave so here were a couple more studies.

Goro Fujita Study

Big fan of Goro Fujita's 30 minute spit paints, his work can be found on the link below:

http://chapter-56.blogspot.com/

He did an awesome creature and lighting so I decided to do a study of it, just breaking down the basics to figure out my workflow. I don't seem to have a consistent streamline work process and it's slowing me down - I feel. Plus all the moving that's happening lately and more in the near future, I'm a little rusty. Anyway, here's my breakdown. I actually did a partial study at work using chalk pastels but ran out of time at lunch, a la digital version.

Happy Easter

Just some plein air practicing on the ipad. First weekend of April was free museum passes for bank members so I went to the local Legion of Honor museum and tried to sketch some stuff - what a horrible mistake that was. Way too many people walking in front of my targets and eventually gave up. These two first statues were my first 5 minutes at the museum and in front of the bathroom.

Did a couple of lighting pieces after work parked at the 24 hour fitness gym in Mountain View.

Legion of Honor 

Outside Mountain View 24hr Fitness 

Still hoping I got it

I wanted to do a charcoal drawing to see if I can still do it - haven't actually used charcoal since my fundamental years at Academy of Art. Took a reference photo from the internet and tried to use what I learned about "loose drawings" over the years and apply it to this piece. I only used a vine charcoal, kind of wish I included some white highlights but I got lazy.