Awnya

Saturday 15 August 2009

Isabella & Dave

A present for Eoin's Birthday.
Acrylic, Dulux Paint.

Finished!

I gave it to Sinead. They have the same hair, why not!

Saturday 18 July 2009

Work in progress..

Acrylic, watercolour, gouache, promarker.

Trying a new style. These kind of paintings are very "in" now. Did I achieve that comic book, graphic design style?
Need to add more streaks of red on the bottom left. It's turning into white too quickly.
Got to do something about that God awful shadow.
Arms need to look like there's actually fat inside them.
Don't touch the lips, I'll only ruin them.
*Must remember; streak of watercolour, brush water ontop then rub in white acrylic(sometimes with a hint of colour) with finger.

Man Vs Nature

Oh it feels good to finish a painting.
Promarkers and polychrome pencils. Next time, start with white pencil first, then black!

Monday 15 June 2009

Glen walk

Look closely, there's a horse!

Usually, I hate blurry photos because it's such a cliché, an amateurs attempt to seem "arty" but there's something about this that made me want to hold onto it. It's almost nostalgic.

Along the glen walk there's a steep descent into a small forest, along with a river passing through. I found a tree knocked over full of fungus. I absolutely fell in love with it. I might try and paint this sometime or print it on canvas and manipulate it in some way.

Experimenting with taking photos with flash but using objects such as a leaf to block the light hitting a certain area. It gave a good spotlight effect.

The photo on top had it's levels changed on the computer to give a green colour and on the bottom it was achieved by placing an ivy leaf at a certain angle infront of the flash. I prefer the second by far. I need to get out of the habit of using the computer to change a photo. It feels like I'm cheating.

As I came to the end of my journey, I was graced to see the most beautiful sights nature has to offer- tree knobs.