Paintings: 2008 Archives

This board curved a bit during painting, so this is a rotten, stretched photo. *sigh* I'll get another picture sometime once it's been flattened.

This is not at all my style, nor even what I intended. But I was so tired after Rusted Harlequin that I just wanted to finish it and move on. So here it is. Bleh.

Urgh. This painting was the bane of my existence for the last three weeks. But at least it is done. There are things I really, really hate about it. But overall I guess it's okay.

This was inspired by an opening scene in The Crow: City of Angels, where the camera moves between the smoggy lit city to the underneath the clear water. I tried two versions, using different techniques, but I think Version 1 is my favorite. Version 1

This was inspired by an opening scene in The Crow: City of Angels, where the camera moves between the smoggy lit city to the underneath the clear water. I tried two versions, using different techniques, but I think Version 1 is my favorite. Version 2

Photo courtesy of deviantArt's Little-spazStock.

She got a DailyDeviation the other day for one of her other photos and - well - I just had to paint *something* from her gallery. This one turned out really nice (I guess all those abstract texture pieces *are* helping - LOL). I think it looks better in person (of course), but I love the circuitry-esque pattern that peeks through all over.

I like this one. I think it plays to my strength: patterns. My inspiration was some stupid Pottery Barn flowery bedspread with lots of cream and green. I don't do flowers, but this is my take on I liked from that color scheme.

If you can't tell, I painted it in reverse. Which was a bit of a pain. Next time I try this technique, I think I will buy some thin tape and mark it that way. Woulda been way easier.

Okay, I really hate this one. The orange got too dark and there is way too much of it. But as I am planning a copper rust painting next, I figure I learned a bit in the orange-yellow areas that will help me there.

This didn't turn out quite like I intended. I can never seem to get the right purple from acrylic - this is quinacridone magenta mixed with ultramarine blue, and it's pretty close but doesn't quite reach the luminosity I want.

Still, I think it is nice enought not to paint over. :)

This was done with a traditional underpainting. You can see the stages here: deviantArt

I have been trying to learn how to paint more... well... spontaneously, but after 3 failures I was feeling pretty low, so I did this one with a method I was more familiar with from my days painting in oils. The good news is that for once I really did manage to get a good mimic of an oil painting - it has the same depth and sheen and brightness. Which I think is a first for me in acrylics. So that's good at least. But i haven't given up on spontaneous painting yet. I just won't post those pictures.

Some more ornament paintings from my holiday vacation. I prefer the gold one I posted previously, but I think the red one here is okay.