Still Life Daily Painting

This painting is a painting that I’d done a while ago and had the video in my Video Reserves in case I didn’t put anything new up for a while. I’m still committed to my B90x project and new posts will be coming soon, but I wanted to take a little break and show you guys something else. This painting is a still life of a shallot that I had in the kitchen and I placed it on the table and decided to paint it from life. It’s done in acrylics on canvas board and it’s a really good, quick painting. At the time I’d done this one, I had done a couple others that I’ve posted on my YouTube Channel. Check out the making of this painting in the post below

Still Life Daily Painting - Acrylic Time Lapse Painting

Making of Bob Dylan Acrylic Painting

B90x - 90 Day Art Challenge - No. 7 - "Redd Foxx"

No. 7 of the challenge is a portrait of Redd Foxx. Now, this picture isn’t your everyday Redd Foxx picture, it’s not a take from Sandford & Son or a younger picture of him but I chose this picture among the rest because this seemed the most honest; it seemed the most sincere which made it interesting to me. Now I know the rules I set up for this challenge are for me to complete a piece of art everyday but admittedly, this piece took me a couple of days to do. Somehow, I found it difficult to capture his likeness in the initial sketch and because of this, I kept going back over the sketch time and time again. If I got stomped, I’d step away from it and do something else, then return until I captured his likeness to my satisfaction and then began to paint. The total paint time for this piece was 2 hours and 11 minutes and I did it entirely in one sitting. I chose to complete this picture in color as opposed the to black and white other monochromatic format because I found plenty of color references and it allowed me to practice painting color from a black and white picture much like I did the “Felix” painting. 

B90x - 90 Day Art Challenge - No. 5 & 6

For the fifth and sixth installment of the B90x series, I decided to try something totally different from what I normally do and paint landscapes. These weren’t as easy as I expected them to be and they both have things that are great and things that are not so great. Both images came from imagination. Painting them from a reference may have made them easier, but I wanted to exercise my creative muscles for these and just go for it. Will I do more landscapes? I don’t know, but it was fun trying it out.

B90x - 90 Day Art Challenge - No. 4 - Bob Dylan

Final Portrait

No. 4 of the B90x Challenge is a portrait of Bob Dylan. I chose to do this portrait in blue as opposed to black and white or in color because the original photo was in black and white and I figured a painting in the same would be boring. I didn’t do it in color because I wasn’t sure what color to make the shirt and I figured a monochromatic portrait in blue would be fun and a little different. I chose blue at random. Though the portrait is blue, my palette consisted of ultramarine blue, cerulean blue, alizarin crimson, cadmium red, white and raw umber deep. Each of these colors played a very important role in this painting. I went ahead and did a sketch before painting and this cut my painting time in half. Things went much smoother compared to the little girl portrait and Jim Kelly. I’ll probably continue to work this way for a while.

Sketch

B90x - 90 Day Art Challenge - No. 3 - "Jazz Man"

I call this piece “Jazz Man”. It’s the 3^rd installment of the B90x series and it is a portrait of the great Sonny Rollins. It is done in Pen and Ink on Carton Board from a photograph. I’m very excited about this piece, it was completely relaxing to do and I had lots of fun. The spontaneity is very much like jazz itself. I didn’t record this drawing in an attempt to really relax and get into the image and it definitely turned out well. I began with a light sketch and began cross-hatching with my pens. The hardest thing about this drawing was getting the board to accept the ink (it’s more for painting and pastels). All in all, I’m very proud of this drawing and can’t wait for the next.

B90x - 90 Day Art Challenge - No. 2

This is the 2^nd painting in the B90x series. This portrait was by far more challenging than the last. It probably shouldn’t have been, but I made it difficult for myself by not sketching before hand. Over all, the portrait is very nice. It turned out somewhat different from what I’d imagined but I think the style of this painting and the expression on the child’s face gives the painting character and life.
Check out this making of this painting below:

B90x - 90 Day Art Challenge - No. 1

 

For the first painting of my 90 art challenge, I chose to paint Jim Kelly in acrylics. I decided to go head first into this painting and approached it much like I would an oil painting; blocking out areas of color and building up the composition and I have to admit, I had a hard time but a fun time nonetheless. It is a 6” x 8” painted on Carton Board which is this card board like surface that is supposed to have resin embedded in it to make it durable. I may post a review of this material sometime in the future. 

Being my first painting of the series, I can quickly see what I need to improve on. There are things that I like about it and things I don’t. For example, I love the brush strokes of this piece, but because I chose not to pre-sketch, the proportions need some fine-tuning. Because of all this, I have decided to make this same picture, my final painting to see how much I’ve improved over the course of the 90 day period. My next painting will be posted tomorrow, so stick around.