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A new book just hit the shelves, last week. Buddy's Bedtime Battery by Chirstina Geist (published by Random House) is my latest book and I want to take you behind the pages to see how the project progressed.
It's always exciting to get the first printed books in the mail. After months of a studio full of art boards in progress, wet paint and gallons of coffee (not part of the painting process but very necessary), the final product is a welcome payoff. Buddy finally arrived!
Now, let's look at how Buddy arrived. After reading the story manuscript and creating sketches for the characters, a full length book dummy was created. When the book sketches were finalized, the painting process began.
I created a production line of boards with images of each page. I taped the edges with low-tac tape to keep that area clean and white. Then, an underpainting with brown acrylic paint was washed (thin layers) onto the boards. I usually do this when the final art is created with oil paint. The acrylic and polymer layers sealed the paper board from the oils and gave me a good (light and dark) value study to follow.
At this stage, the studio was full of artwork covering every flat space to be found. I have a drying rack for storing work in progress but I like to see everything laid, side by side.
Here is the title page. The towel area on the left was used for copyright and publishing information. The title was placed on the wall, above the bathtub. Notice the pajamas are visible, just below the towel. I often use elements and story props to hint at what's coming on the following page(s).
Here is one of the illustration spreads. One of my favorite images of the book.
This was my table, somewhere under the shingles of drying illustrations. The images were at various stages of completion so Buddy's hair looks really dark on the bottom image, etc. I worked on several paintings at a time and all art started to finalize toward the end of the process....which is also called..."the deadline" (If all goes as planned). It was a fairly long process and sometimes hard to see the end when spending days painting little parts, adjusting colors and adding detail. But eventually, it all came together and a package with the final art of Buddy's Bedtime Battery traveled to Random House.
Then, months later, I get to see the book on NBC, being read to millions of TV viewers. How COOL is that? So exciting! ...So surreal! ...Yay, Buddy!
...deep breath...now, back to the drawing board. :)
Once upon a time, I was an art student, then I was an artist, and then an illustrator. Always in watercolour. However, I've had a painting block for nearly four years and one of my things for this year is to pick up things I've neglected - mostly for unavoidable reasons.
Actually, my biggest painting block is with oils - it was my first love when I was a teenager and yet I've only been able to make myself paint one (still unfinished) oil in 25 years. Yes, over two decades. That's some block.
When I was taking photos for my first newsletter, I included a work in progress, Aunty Pat. And I was taken with the light in this picture, as it made a nice portrait. I hunted out some old brushes and paints and set to work before my stupid neurosis could take over. So my studio table was cleared and refilled and a little canvas started.
Here is where I made the first basic error - putting in a warm, creamy brown background, which in hindsight, would have been better as a cool grey or blue. At the time though, it was enough just to be actually painting again and to my surprise, feeling quite happily at home with it.
It went quite well to begin with, until I looked at it later and realised the light was all wrong; in the photo, the light falls from the right, so I painted her that way. But the background is lit from the left. I had forgotten the most basic thing I'd been taught, 'always look for the light'.
The next day, I set about correcting it and while it was now pedantically accurate, I had lost the freshness of the paint strokes. However, this was not about doing a perfect picture, it was an exercise to get me painting regularly again.
In putting down a similar background colour and tone, I found it almost impossible to get Aunty Pat's furry (or rather, woolly) head standing out as sharply as I wanted, without bringing in too much white. And then I added too much black (which I rarely used in the past and now I know why) to her foreground ear and it just looked messy and dead, colour wise.
But I persevered, and finished it. I don't like it. I know it's the thing nowadays to be terribly pleased with anything one has created, but I had an old fashioned art training, which taught me strict self criticism, in order to be able to improve. And at the end of the day, I broke my oil painting hoodoo. And that was what it was all about.
I'm going to write this one off to experience and do it again.
I did sign it though.
I envy people who can just pick up a brush and sail away happily. For me, it has been like not being able to eat my favourite food: it is, as they say, complicated and may even sound odd. Nonetheless, my inability to 'just paint' has been very real and frustrating. Like being able to swim well, but not able to enter water and still wanting to swim.
I'm off to spend some kindly given Christmas money on some decent brushes, paints and a couple of canvases. I've got a lot of painting to catch up with. Twenty five years, to be precise.
If you haven't signed up for my newsletter and would like to see the other photos of Aunty Pat, as well as read my tips for getting equal length limbs, you can find the archive here. (You're not obliged to sign up, just click the link for the January newsletter)
I'm revisiting an old piece with this oil painting. Originally this lady pilot was a digital sample for my portfolio. I'd love to do a series of these WWII era vehicle paintings. The image is 36 x 24 inches.
An oil-painted animation by Josh Shaffner made on a 40"x60" panel.
Rough block-in.
Refining areas...
Starting to add color.
Lovely end result of demo....
Tools of the trade...
Then we got a turn. My initial block-in/underpainting.
Initial color application.
How far I got in our 2.5 hours...
Then our final critique. Compared to our
first week, I think we made amazing progress! In the meantime, I have a teensy bit more of a feel for this thing called oil paint....
I'm trying out a new camera and varnished the painted area after this photo. It looks richer now and I'll try to update the picture with a new one tomorrow.
This was the first wooden palette I ever owned and it has seen me through quite a few paintings. I may put more colorful globs around the edge, but right now I think she's finished.
Second week of the oil-painting portrait workshop...
This week, we were shown several different approaches to underpainting...
Shadow patterns, silhouettes, vine-charcoal drawings... Shown with the hope that one will 'work' for us in any given situation.
(I still don't know what I'm doing....)
(Oil paint is stupid!)
Charcoal is a little more familiar...
I want to do one of these a day until I get a better feel... Given my current schedule, it's a little bit wishful thinking, but something I'd like to aspire to.
Here is a portrait painted earlier this year of Cardinal Edwin O'Brien, which was sent to the North American College in Rome a few months after the portrait of Pope Francis.
This could really use a few more coats of paint, but it was just a small experiment for fun.
Did my first oil painting since college in the
Dan Dos Santos workshop this past weekend. (You can see a day-by-day report on the
TLCWorkshops blog if you'd like to follow along with the intense fun).
Here's a step-by-step (at least when I remembered to take a process shot):
I went into the workshop with some initial thumbnail ideas based on a photoshoot of my niece.
After getting my thumbnails critiqued, I finished mocking-up a comp in photo shop -
-substituting some elements I shot at the workshop.
Spent the rest of the day finalizing a sketch and then transferred it onto gessoed illustration board.
Here's the cleaned up drawing on the board, spray fixed with workable fixative and ready for paint.
Dan helped me out by showing the start of a colorful underpainting.
Paint applied, sprayed with water, dabbed off with paper towels - until it became a colored, textured surface to work on.
(after this, I forgot to break to photograph it in steps)-
The end of the first painting night - basic color down. Steep learning curve in using a different medium than my norm (watercolor).
And here's after another coat the second painting day. Interesting process. We'll see what it may or may not lead to?
The Spyglass - oil on canvas 16" x 20"
Not many posts for 2012. It was quite a busy year and I'll have to write more about it later. Some of you may remember the above painting in it's pencil stage earlier this year. Below, just for fun, an acrylic painting experiment done for a blog background. I believe it's a castle in Ireland. Happy New Year everyone!
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By: Kayleen West - Children Writer/Illustrator,
on 8/6/2012
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Here is another painting I have listed for a charity auction. This is a BIG one! Help my painted pumpkins help others who have less food than ourselves.
Please visit http://www.acrossaday.com for details.
NOTE: 100% proceeds of this particular painting will be donated with the
exception of P&H, tax if applicable & Material cost. Shipping is the responsibility of the winning bidder.
Silent
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
A recently completed oil painting on board. Thanks to my cousin Paige who modeled for me.
Oil painting commission: Dog Portrait - Bear Cox
Animal owners are pretty fussy about their animals and I
have been reluctant to do animal portrait commissions for quite some time.
Someone asked me recently if I would and I relented. This portrait was for a
special 21st gift. I have to say I did enjoy doing it and maybe will consider
future commissions. My fee for a portrait this size is
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Today’s Day 2 of Art Camp and I think we are moving to half day camps. Although I would love to go all day making art and experimenting with new mediums, the Woog seems to lose interest after lunch and Ocee seems to be a bit fussy in the early afternoon. So, we’ll just focus on about 4 hours a day of art. Ocee didn’t make anything this morning due to napping plus today’s mediums were not a good fit for him. I might try something after his afternoon nap.
Today we finished up our boot paintings from yesterday:
And we did some scratch board art:
The Woog is giving this piece to a friend who will be coming over on Saturday to “make a music video.” Not sure what that involves.
While doing this piece I heard this about 50 times “Momma, that lady is really freaking me out.”
Tomorrow we’re devoting the day to Junk A Doodles!
With only a week and a half left of summer vacation, this week was declared “Art Camp” in the studio and today was Day 1. We started off the morning with the Woog visiting my oil painting class. I painted while she sketched and looked at the techniques of the other women in the class. I even let her paint a little on my painting. We then came back to the studio and watched (pretty much in fast forward) a video of the biography of Pablo Picasso. We then started with the art!
First was oil painting of the Woog’s red cowboy boot (still in progress):
We had to “erase” her’s a couple of times until she got the hang of it. Ocee slept during this part of camp. probably better that way. I don’t think a 6 month old oil painting would have been a good idea.
Then when we couldn’t do anymore to our pieces until they dried some, sowe moved onto oil pastels:
Ocee join in after his nap. He took to the oil pastels fairly well by stabbing the paper with them
Tomorrow we have another full day of it so stay tuned!
Day 5 of oils and I went in to scrap the entire piece. The piece I’m currently working on is not something I’d ever hang up in the house, so I decided to take the day and just experiment with “gooping” (that is the official term I believe Van Gogh used – j/k) the paint on and mixing it on the canvas. Using different brushes and getting a really loose technique going. Next week I’ll start on a new painting. I also experimented with some brighter more electric color. It’s not much to look at, but here’s how it looked by the end of class:
Day 5 of oils and I went in to scrap the entire piece. The piece I’m currently working on is not something I’d ever hang up in the house, so I decided to take the day and just experiment with “gooping” (that is the official term I believe Van Gogh used – j/k) the paint on and mixing it on the canvas. Using different brushes and getting a really loose technique going. Next week I’ll start on a new painting. I also experimented with some brighter more electric color. It’s not much to look at, but here’s how it looked by the end of class:
Remedy: With Ted's eye lying on the floor, Sarah hoped Mum had a remedy for poor Ted.
I did a few sketched for IF this week. I haven't had time to do any entries lately as I have been working soley on book illustrations. I was going to have a break from oil and work in watercolour but decided to paint one of the skectchs in oil.
"We will tie the string to a door handle now , it won't hurt a
Day 4 of oils and making more progress. Nothing spectacular but I can’t wait to move onto another piece where I plan to built up more color and texture and actually do a piece I’d hang in my house. I won’t have another class until the end of July but hopefully I’ll be able to finish it then.
If you missed my giveaway post yesterday, check it out!
Day 3 of oils and I’m just doing a still life I set up and photographed in the studio. Didn’t get too much done yesterday on it but here’s the work in progress. Thought I’d do one more still life and maybe try a landscape next time. Looking at it now, I can see my star is off a good bit so I’ll tackle it next week.
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