Fauvism, an art style developed in the early part of the twentieth-century, emphasizes strong color, bold strokes, and representational or realistic practices used early by the impressionists. Well known painters from this group were Henri Matisse and Andre Derain. I’ve been wanting to embrace and achieve, to some skill, digital painting for quite some time [...]
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“Andrae Gonzalo Blue” small portrait series (8.75″x5.75″ wax crayon on card stock) My exploration of having Andrae Gnzalo as a subject and muse can’t be contained or limited to just one drawing. For one thing, there’s just too many great facial expressions and bow ties! Working with Andrae, I’m creating a series of small crayon portraits. [...]
Today’s POTD is of two books that I own. I’m an avid reader and am pretty obsessed with John Grisham novels and any book about the Tudors. My interest in the Tudor era started a long time ago when I was in elementary school, and my preference for Grisham was something I probably picked up [...]
(post #3 in an ongoing conversation with Andrae Gonzalo. See Andrae’s first post here.) In post #2, I talked a bit about my decision making when it came to choosing a reference photo for this large 10”x24” crayon portrait of Andrae, and about some of the decision making behind creating the composition. A big part of this [...]
Today’s POTD is of Andrae Gonzalo making yet another face on the season opener of Project Runway Allstars Season 2. Emil and I don’t have a cable television service (by choice), so after some struggle and with the help of a friend, I was able to get the video to stream on our tv from [...]
(post #2 in an ongoing conversation with Andrae Gonzalo. See Andrae’s first post here.) Why Andrae? The reasons for choosing Andrae Gonzalo as my muse for a series of portraits are countless. To the observer, the first guess may be because of Andrae’s celebrity status due to being part of the eclectic cast of both [...]
“Rose in Blue” (5″x7″ on canvas paper), was inspired by a photo taken by my good friend, Sarah Trumbauer, of Sarah Trumbauer Creatives, a Maryland based artist who attended the Corcoran with me. Although we both trained as Studio Artists, skilled at graphing, Sarah became inspired and worked primarily in color photography. I admire her [...]
(post #1 in an ongoing conversation with Andrae Gonzalo. See Andrae’s first post here.) I was twenty-seven years old when I rediscovered Crayola crayons. Wax crayons are iconic, and just about everyone has a connection to them. With a permanent place on elementary school supply lists, crayons carry connotations of colors, creativity, imagination, whimsy, and childhood. A [...]
If you saw this previous post about the customized toy I created for Studio B Animation/DHX Media Animation Director Jayson Thiessen, then you might be pleased to know that for the past three months I’ve been creating a whole army of customized pony toys. These have been mostly for sale, and a few were also created [...]
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