Titus

Dinosaur

Dinosaur King and Dino Dan

Ice Age

Dinosaurs: Babies and Eggs

La Brea Tar Pits documentory

Dinosaurs Alive

I'm painting Titus now, he's watching movies and shows just like Verity did while I painted her.  This one is going much faster than hers, Titus sits still a lot better than his sister, of course he's two years older, so its not a surprise.  I skipped the underpainting this time because I'm working on a panel I'd already painted on, so I just did a basic alla prima start on the drawing.

Portrait of my father

Under-painting

Block-in (first color layer)

Layer 2

Layer three... almost done!

Verity

(Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs)

                                                                   (Dora the Explorer)

                                                                        (A Bug's Life)

 (Tinkerbell)

(Bolt)

(Bolt, again and Madagascar 2)

(Shrek the third)

Well, I'm starting an ambitious little project this week.  Little because it's only 12x12, ambitious because I'm painting a wiggly four year old from life.  I'm posting after each session and including the movie she's watching.  I had to change the lighting around, while I really liked the back lighting, every time she wiggled  or made a face (which she does a lot of) the shadows kept shifting making it even more difficult. I'll keep posting pictures as it progresses. Wish us luck!

Drawing Becky

Becky: charcoal pencil and white chalk, 9x12ish about 2 hours a piece. I'm trying to close the field and get a smooth finish without having the toned paper show through like I'm used to.

Serenity on the easel

Layer 2 out of four. Here I've started using medium and I'm beginning to develop the detail, especially in the dress.
Here is my current piece. I just finished the block in stage, so layer 1 out of 3 or 4, although with the detail on the kimono, it will probably be 4. This layer is strait tube paint, with little detail. My model is a friend of mine, who has sat for me before. She is sitting once a week and then I'm using photos and the kimono, to work when she is not there. It's 24x36, I'll probably work on it through January.


This is from the last time Melissa sat for me, about 5 years ago.

Portrait of Dan Mitchell

I painted my father in law this summer, which was great because I seem to paint women most often, so it was a great change of pace. I'm going to have to re-post pictures, because I ended up fiddling with it a little more since I took this. It's 18x24, my usual oil on linen affixed to a board.

Portrait of my mother

Here's one I did a while ago, but haven't posted yet. My dad, about two years ago asked me to paint a portrait of my mother for him. He paid me with a shed. Of course my mom is a very busy woman and so it was at least a year after the shed was built that she finally came to sit for me.

Her request was that I paint her looking straight at the viewer, so that "the eyes will follow people around" Also, I painted it to correspond a portrait painted by my great- grandmother of my great-aunt Hannah. ( shown above, sorry for the glare)It is 16x20.

Here are a couple videos that my friend Sharon took while I was painting