feelin' fruity

Another still life study for y'all. Learnt that orange gets muddy very quickly when you add black... needed to use reds and purples instead.

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the animated gif:

the setup:

Spent the day doing a digital study of local Fitzoy, Melbourne artist Joseph Zbukvic. He lives 100 meters from me and is just a great bloke and fantastic watercolour master Click here for his website

Joseph if you are reading this, I owe you a beer mate. Learnt a lot from doing this one.

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speed value

Quick impressionist speed sketch after dinner.

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Colour Scribble

The King receives his monthly internet bill. :D

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Phew.... busy weekend.

Apologies for the lack of posts this weekend; I spend the past 2.5days sketching and photo-retouching for Wacom in their booth at the Melbourne Digital Life Expo.

Back now in my comfy chair... more art coming soon! Stay posted.

Oasis

Having some fun with colours and girls. :D

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it's friday

On a friday night even the rain can't stop you feelin' good.

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John Singer Sargent Studies

Spent the last couple of days with my nose in a book of John Singer Sargent's later portraits. Couldn't resist some digital master studies. Hope you enjoy them, I've certainly learnt a lot while painting them.

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and another one

quick 2.5 hour study tonight. Might finish it.... might move on to the next.

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Enviro Study

Spent today studying more natural lighting setups. Here's one of the pieces that came out of the session.

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Sleevie Wonder

Some jacket studies from today; placement of folds, pockets and buttons.

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Drills drills drills

Get the value down, turn the form and get out! :D Enjoy.

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Sketch and Release

Seems like ages since I've just drifted off and sketched a huge page of figures in ink. It's been good to take a break, try some new mediums & content, then come back to something familiar. Enjoy.

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Freedom!!!

That's right! I'm breaking away from the computer and getting some vitamin D. :D Here's some watercolours for you to point and laugh at. Enjoy!

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Value Options

This blog is meant mostly to showcase my polished work, but there are occasional times where I'll share some jewels of information that I pick up on my life long journey into this thing called art. :D

Here's some rough, rough value sketches I did today after going back and revisiting some books about painting nature and building a strong composition. It's a great quick exercise that'll teach you about some of the options you have when creating a piece.

These are all the same scene with 3 main tones shifted about (foreground, midground and background) to give a different mood and highlight to each piece. They are all possible scenarios in reality depending on time of day and lighing.

The top row have the light value in the Background.
The middle row have the light value in the Foreground, with the dark value either in the mid (right image), or background (left image).
The last row has the light value in the mid ground highlighting the bridge element.

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