TODAY'S FEATURED POST
be loose, be bold and be yourself.
I spend the most part of October traveling in Europe for different art shows. A week in Portugal for the fantastic THU 2024 event, a short week in Turin for the View Conference and a unforgettable week at Lucca Comics and Games in Tuscany. During those weeks I did a ton of portfolio reviews and talked endlessly about art, my own, my colleges art and just about art in general. And I was thinking about…
YESTERDAY’S POST
less is more
September 19, 2024 - Dug a little deeper into the high key overexposed painting thing again this week. I’ve been wanting to do a portrait of Kevin, our other mastiff for a little while now. He’s such a sweet old boy. Had it in my head to do like a “night lighting” portrait of him. He’s blind, and his eyes have that cloudy look to them that i think could look cool in that lighting scenario. But then a couple days ago, I snapped a blown out photo of him sleeping, and was drawn to the abstract vignetted quality of it, so I decided to give it a shot. Here's where we're at so far. Gridded this out because I really wanted to make sure I got the shapes as close to the reference as I could. There's so…
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