A small acrylic painting inspired by Swedish traditional Folk Costumes… and forest doves.
A small acrylic painting inspired by Swedish traditional Folk Costumes… and forest doves.
The most wonderful aspect of God is his heart to give good things to his children. He does this through those who are led by their hearts and make an effort to reach out to others. The world is so full of need and regardless of what beliefs you have we should all do more to help those less fortunate than ourselves. I have another website now set up for the purpose of transforming paintings
Acrylic on Canvas - 24 inches high by 18 inches wide
My Illustration Friday entry... yes, that's me. yes... those are my toes.
A brand new painting that I finished this week... let me know what you think. OctoPete.
-MC
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Brand new painting... minted last night!
I know it's not Halloween but I just felt like painting this little guy.
Yay. I just finished the final illustration for the Art Blocks for Ghana project. I decided to make a few minor changes to the final, for example the clouds don’t looks as cartoony as I initially planned them to be when I created the color comp. I wish the background were a lot smoother than it is though…but I’ve already changed it twice and I’m scared the third time would just make the whole thing look too muddy.
As you can see I was taking shots of the progress for you but unfortunately my camera ran out of battery during the process so I couldn’t document all of it…boo.
“Fly Home” Acrylic on 8×8″ wood panel.
I wanted to have fun with this one so I chose to do it in a really playful style. I also chose really bright and fun colors because that’s the first thing that pops into my head when I think of Ghana or Africa in general for that matter.
I hope this little guy finds a really awesome home to live in! I hope you guys participate in the auction this coming March 2011.
Let’s help build a fantastic children’s home for the kids in Ghana! YAY!!!
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My Good Friday was amazing. I was very blessed to be part of the Careforce Church Good Friday service serving the god I adore with the gift he gave me. The Holy Spirit worked the room as our pastor Rohan Dredge gave a powerful message of the sacrifice on the cross. The musician and actors were brilliant as usual and the technical crew created the atmosphere that matched the message. It was
Acrylic and ink on canvas - a comment on South African courts and those who benefit from the wholly ineffective system.
I agree with Casey... E is for elephant.
However, I'm partial to pink elephants.
Party on!
—Michael
Andrew is a happy fireman. He turned up to collect his painting as fast as he turns up for a fire. Andrew accidentally stumbled upon the painting on Ebay while his wife was looking for dog paintings...go figure!Andrew is a Lieutenant of Silvan Fire Brigade and now happy owner of a painting with a real story behind it. The money raised will bless the CFA. More details on that later.
The beginnings of the morning 9am paintingCareforce Church Black Saturday Remembrance Service9AM Service - Bid on Painting "Stepping Forward" No111AM Service - Bid on Painting "Stepping Forward" No26PM Service - Bid on Painting "Stepping Forward" No3These 3 Acrylic paintings were painted live on stage at Careforce Church Mt Evelyn during the Black Saturday Remembrance Services on Sunday 7th
I have been busy painting a bunch of new characters for my up coming shows. Here is one of my acrylics called "Zombie Twins".
Forgive me, for I have been a negligent blogger. And I do not intend to get much better.
I've started a new series of paintings though. I call them "Bad Dog Confessions".
-Claire
2.5 x 3.5
Derwent Coloursoft on board
ebay
I like this! This is Coloursoft's "brown black" color. Its almost as soft as the Derwent Drawing pencil, but noooooot quiiiiite. Close though.
They're still not Polychromos, but they're pretty good.
And I like this color. I want to do a couple more then do a final "side by side" thing to compare.
I sure wish I had my CPSA lightfast book so I'd know which ones were lightfast. If anyone who does know wants to tell me, I'm all ears (thanks to Katherine I already know the Poly black is good, which is a relief). I have a feeling most or all of these muted colors will be OK. Notice though I'm not testing Graphitints because somewhere I heard they were fugitive. Again, if anyone knows for sure and feels like sharing...
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2.5 x 3.5
Polychromo pencil on board
I'm back to my Polychromos! That last one, the Cretacolor, just irked me enough that I had to go back to my faves. You know how when you go on vacation and sleep in hotels and try all new things, then you come home and sleep in your own bed and go "Ahhhhhhh"...well that's how my Polychromos feel to me.
I did this with just the Dark Sepia one.
You can hardly tell that's a pear underneath all that yarn, but yep, its there.
So check this out: (click it to make it bigger)
Look at how greenish the Polychromo sepia looks compared to the others!
My favorite "non black" here is the Chocolate Derwent Drawing pencil, by far.
I do like the Cretacolor Dark Sepia COLOR, but hate working with the pencil.
My favorite pencils to work with are still the Polychromos, but I can deal with the Derwent.
There's one more I want to try before the jury is all in. I need to do some Coloursofts and see what I can do with those, then I'll make my decision.
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2.5 x 3.5
Coloursofts and Polychromos on board
on ebay
I know I said I was going to do black and whites. And I am! I just had to do this first.
Yesterday was such a contrast to the day before, with the terrible storm and wind and rain and all. The sky was blue, and there were these amazing gigantic fluffy clouds all over. They were still kind of ominous, with grey underbellies, but they also had the most beautiful pinks and lavender colors in them. I just had to do a little piece about them. Or try, anyway.
I don't do as well with pastelly colors for some reason. It probably looks OK to you, but I fussed with it a lot. I'm not a pastel person. I like grey and taupe and black and cream and olive and plum and...well, you get the idea. Even as a kid. (Although I was forced to have a pink bedroom. Well, at least until I got up the nerve to ask my parents to let me paint one wall blue-violet (the rest was white) which they thought was the height of teenage rebellion, and which they also thought gave them lots of "cool" points for allowing me to do. Enough said.)
Anyway, this is my little homage to the "post-storm sky".
And I find that the Polychromos work well with just about every other type of pencil. I like to start with the Coloursofts or Graphitints and then do some Polychromo on top.
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2.5 x 3.5
Graphitints and Polychromos on illustration board
ebay auction
There's a stand of Italian Cypress tress in the yard behind me. All Winter I've been watching them bend and sway in the wind. Its kind of mesmerizing some days, others its scary. So anyways, I finally decided to use them as inspiration for a yarn piece.
I started with Graphitints then filled in more with Polychromos. I like using the two together.
This last week I didn't get much done. Well, I did, but it was nothing I could blog about. And I didn't have time to do any yarn. Or anything else for myself. I was cranky!
Next up is a series of tests about "black and white", or more specifically, "monochromatic" pieces, done with different greys, sepias, blacks etc. I'm doing a piece that will be in black and white, but want to warm it up some. I'm not sure I want to use sepia. I know the Polychromo "soft blacks" are impossible to find now, so that's out. I love my usual Polychromo regular black (like the yarn in the last post), but its a very cold black. I just want to explore some options. So hopefully in the next couple of days I'll have something to show.
Stay tuned!
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It was a lovely service (enjoyed having the bread & wine) and your painting added a very powerful punch to the message.