Indolence

“I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.” - Bern Williams

Now that I've finished working on "Poppi" (A completed pic is coming, I promise) and I'm just waiting for it to dry I seem to have hit a streak of laziness...er, I mean indolence. In the time that I've been waiting on "Poppi" to dry I've completed two sketches; gave up on painting one before I started; and began painting the other, just to quit after 30 minutes. However, in those 30 minutes I learned that it is extremely difficult to paint small faces with a knife. And the face looks even worse when you scrape the paint off and the dyed canvas reveals the flat, distorted remnants of a once-promising piece of art.

Poppi - Update 4 - Almost Finished!

Okay, all that's left is to paint Poppi's shirt, and fix his right eye. I added a little bit of a highlight around that eye that ended up being too much of a highlight. So I need to soften that up a little bit and maybe give a little highlight around his left eye socket. That should do it!

Poppi - Update 3

So I got some time to work on "Poppi" tonight and thought I'd go ahead and post the progress. Still a little uncertain how well this painting is going to turn out, but I like the progress so far. Tomorrow I'll start the eyes and mouth .

Poppi - Update 2

Here is the second version. I went back over the initial paint I put on the canvas to give the face fatter strokes and more direction, which I hope helps to give the face some form. I still have plenty of work to do on the nose, but I think I'm starting to like the way it is turning out.

Poppi

This is a piece I started last night, and I'm not sure exactly how it's going to turn out. The reference photo for this piece is a man known as "Poppi" on an island in the Bahamas (thanks to "LisaLucky" at Wetcanvas! for the photo). This is the second installment in my series of paintings to hone my portraiture skills and I fear it's going to be a long, uphill battle to master!

Blue Trombone

This is a piece I just completed for a friend. The "guidelines" I was given simply required that it be a jazzy piece, with cool colors and extra points for having a trombone player in the painting.

It is the first piece I've ever done with a palette knife, and the second oil painting overall. All-in-all, I'm pretty pleased with the way it turned out!

The Start of Something Good?

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