Posts tagged painting
Hazel Eye
Jan 17th
A watercolor I did tonight of Jeff’s eye. I wanted to try to capture his interesting colors, and practice facial features so I can get better at drawing and painting people.
The Weeping Willow
Jan 17th
My first watercolor. I drew the tree first in pencil, then I took acrylic paints and watered them down for the color.
Given to my best friend as a present, I had to wait a couple weeks to upload this one. :P I finished it a little while before I started my nachos.
Nay-choz!
Jan 11th
Well its been a long time.. but I finally got around to oil painting again. Our kitchen/dining room is a little bland, so I decided to paint a picture of our favorite food to hang in there… nachos! The photos are a little shiny because the paint was still wet, but once its up in a frame I’ll get the photographer of the house to take a good one.
It took me about an hour to open up all of my oil paints.. I got them back in.. 1997? When I first started taking oil painting classes in high school. So the caps were goopy and hardened on there pretty tight.
I decided realism would be a little too difficult for one as rusty as I, so I wanted to go with a fun, bold, colorful, almost impressionism-style look. Kind of reminds me of something you’d see hanging up at Quiznos. Here’s my concept art! I spent aaaaboooutttt… 30 seconds creating it. Amazing huh?
I started out with just an orangey-red background as a base. Then starting from the outside and working my way in, I did the chips. Then put the cheese on them. This part looks a little… I have to do it… cheesy! I’m serious. I think the cheese came out looking a little goofy. So I went with that look and made it even more crazy and squiggly looking. Then I added the sour cream, which covered up some awkward looking cheese spots, and then the rest of the toppings: tomaters, olives, and jalapeños.
Now to see if I can find a frame the right size!
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