Plein Air around CCAD

These are a few plein Air sketches I painted back when I was in university. They were all done with acrylic paint. 

Late Night Work (Process)

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1. The initial sketch. This began on a recycled old painting which already had the colors I was looking for. In this stage, I was trying to capture the overall essence of the piece.
2. The line drawing. This was done over the initial sketch. You know what they say, behind every great painting, lies a great drawing.
3. The line drawing was then placed on top of the initial sketch.
4. I began to paint under the line drawing, trying to separate values, and distinguish the different items in the painting.
5. I Finally rendered on top of the line drawing to a more finished state.
final piece can be seen here

Observational Studies

13x10in

12x12in

These took roughly 3.5hours 

1 Man, 1thousand Faces.

These are all self portraits from observation. I did these over the span of a week after being heavily inspired by figurative artists like Scott Burdick, Morgan Weistling, and Ron Lemen. These each took at most 3 hours to complete. 

Traditional Studies

The Kitchen

8"x11"

DSA Hallway

11"x11"

These  studies were done in acrylic. I intend on doing a lot more of this in the future. These took approximately 3-4hrs to complete.

Desert Series (continued)

More Desert themed spitpaints.

Christmas Card

For one of my final exams, we have to make a Christmas card. So I decided to make a card with an illustration that has absolutely nothing to do with Christmas. I'm thinking of changing the dimensions of the card because that tangency between the edge of the house and the gutter is bothering me. 

This is an idea of what my process usually looks like when painting in photoshop. I usually start with basic general shapes in black and white. Then I gradually make things more detailed while bringing color into the picture. 

speedpaints

piranha tank

pirate lookout 1

pirate lookout 2

purple valley

More 30 min speedpaints from recent days. Still working on shaping, composition, brush economy...

More speedpaints

one man snowman party

purple valley

daemon extraction 1

daemon extraction 2

More 30min speedpaints from the previous week. I need to improve in many areas from composition, to brush economy, and everything in between. more speedpaints can be found on my tumblr page. 

Speedpaint Blues

daemon extraction 3

death of red

red

thanks to the Daily Spitpaint group on fb, I've been drawing a lot of things that are way out of my comfort zone. It's quite challenging I tell ya. On the bright side, If I keep doing this for at least a couple years, who knows what'll happen?

More speedpaints

30 minutes as usual. 

Today's Quicksketches

flying house

flying house 2

Both took 30 mins.