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One Year/100 Paintings

January 10, 2019

One Year 100 Paintings - #101, Self Portrait. For this painting, I used Procreate on the iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil and a self-portrait photo. I was going for a loose painting to capture the expression in the photo. I made a pencil sketch on a gray toned background and decided to leave the faint lines of the pencil sketch in the final painting. This was the last painting I worked on for the project and though my original plan of painting 100 acrylic paintings was not possible, I combined paintings of different mediums, digital and traditional to complete 100 paintings for the project in 2018. I am happy to say that I received a new Guerrilla Painter 5 x 7 pocket box for Christmas from my wife (it was on my wish list) and I’m excited to get out and try it in the field.

I have recently left my job of many years to pursue a new position and hope to work as a freelancer while doing so. I will be focused on starting a new career in 2019 but I want to continue to work on my creative pursuits in the process. My creative goals for this year are to paint more Plein Air paintings and continue to improve my digital painting and urban sketching skills. I also plan to use my new MiNT InstantKon RF70 to shoot more Instax Wide film and get to really know this camera. I will post samples of my photos after I’ve gotten a chance to try it out more.

What are your creative goals for 2019?

In One Year/100 Paintings, Urban Sketching Tags One Year 100 Paintings, One Year/100 Paintings, plein air painting, painting practice, Painting, procreate app, procreate painting, MiNT InstantKon RF70, Instax Wide, instax
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One Year/100 Paintings

December 12, 2018

One Year/100 Paintings - #96 - live portrait painting at Zoll Studio made in Procreate on iPad Pro with Apple Pencil.

In One Year/100 Paintings, Artwork Tags One Year/100 Paintings, One Year 100 Paintings, Painting, procreate app, procreate, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil
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One Year/100 Paintings

October 27, 2018

One Year/100 Paintings #80 - Portrait painting made during figure drawing session at Zoll Studio. Two hour study painted in Procreate on 12.9” iPad Pro with Apple Pencil.

In Artwork, One Year/100 Paintings, Digital Painting Tags Figure drawing, Painting, Procreate App, 2018 Creative Project, applepencil, 2018 Creative Goals, One Year 100 Paintings, Digital Art, Procreate, Drawing, #oneyear100paintings
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One Year/100 Paintings

October 21, 2018

One Year/100 Paintings - Figure painting in Procreate on iPad Pro from live model.

Figure painted with Procreate on iPad Pro

Figure painted with Procreate on iPad Pro

In Digital Painting, Pinhhole Photography Tags Digital Art, Sketching, Apple Pencil, Procreate App, Ipad pro, Drawing, Painting, One Year/100 Paintings, Procreate, #oneyear100paintings, Figure drawing
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ONE YEAR/100 PAINTINGS

October 16, 2018

One Year/100 Paintings #34 - “Pear” using photo reference from Unsplash.com. Painting made using watercolor mixed with white gouache in Moleskine 8 x 5 watercolor album.

In One Year/100 Paintings, Artwork Tags One Year/100 Paintings, #oneyear100paintings, watercolor, gouache, Painting
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One Year/100 Paintings

July 3, 2018
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#30 - One Year/100 Paintings - The Village - white gouache mixed with watercolor in pocket Stillman and Birn Beta series sketchbook. Study from a Morguefile.com reference photo on lunch break.

In One Year/100 Paintings, Artwork Tags 2018 Creative Project, 2018 Creative Goals, Painting, #oneyear100paintings, Gouache, Art Project, Watercolor, Artwork, One Year/100 Paintings, Sketchbook, Stillman and Birn
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One Year/100 Paintings

March 5, 2018

#14 - One Year/100 Paintings - Camera Still Life - 4 x 4 acrylic on canvas board. Another camera still life that is similar in style to the previous one. This is a 620 roll film camera from my collection of over 150 cameras. 

In Artwork, One Year/100 Paintings Tags One Year/100 Paintings, acrylic painting, 2018 Creative Project, Painting, still life
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One Year/100 Paintings

January 18, 2018

#2 - Virtual Plein Air - Mapcrunch view of Kulusuk, Greenland, 5 x 7 acrylic on canvas panel

In Artwork, One Year/100 Paintings Tags One Year/100 Paintings, virtual plein air, Painting, acrylic painting
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Painting With Coffee

March 27, 2017
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Week 12 - Painting doodles with coffee. I have seen numerous photos on Instagram of people painting with coffee and also painting at coffee shops, and I thought I'd give it a try. At the beginning of the week, I mixed up a batch of coffee paint using instant coffee at a super concentrated strength.  I cracked open a brand new Strathmore Visual Watercolor Journal and began my coffee paintings. I didn't make any sketches with pencil, I went straight in with the coffee concoction and just made doodles roughly based on a few photos, with some of them just being images that came out of my head. 

I mostly painted on my lunch break at work, able to complete two doodles a day due to the amount of time it takes for the sticky coffee paint to completely dry. Painting with the coffee was very relaxing, as the scent of the strong coffee mixture wafted through the air around me as I painted. The first painting of what appears to be a wild man, or as one of my friends described it, a rock star - developed after starting to paint a face. I tried to loosen up a bit on the next painting of my cat by adding some drips, but my painting doesn't really look like a cat, instead more like a cat/racoon. I looked on instagram and YouTube for inspiration and tips on painting with coffee, and there are far more talented coffee art painters out there than I could ever hope to be.

As I look over the paintings from this past week, I think that I should definitely have made them more loose with coffee drips, splatters, and a couple of coffee cup rings. I still have my coffee paint mixture, perhaps I'll go back and create a few more paintings using those techniques.

Next up in Create-A-Thon 2017 - Mixed Media art using Prang Professional Watercolor Pans, Derwent Aquatone Pencils, Pocket Brush Pen, and Uniball Signo White Gel Pen.

In Artwork, 2017 Create-A-Thon Tags Coffee, Coffee Painting, Coffee Art, Coffee Doodles, Painting, Watercolor, strathmore visual journal, create_a_thon2017, Create-a-thon, 2017 Creative Project, Artwork, sketches, doodles, Sketchbook, sketching
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Gouache on Black Paper

February 12, 2017
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Week 6 - Reeves brand gouache from A.C. Moore on black sketch paper. I was inspired to try this technique when I watched a video demonstrating it on YouTube. I packed up my small traveling ArtBin that I take to work with all my tubes of Reeves gouache, metal paint palette, a few small brushes, pencils, pens, eraser, and collapsible water cup from Faber Castell. I also carried with me my backpack filled with the usual things and for this week, a small black paper sketch pad to use for the gouache paintings. 

I intended to work on the paintings on my lunch hour this week, but one of the days I spent fiddling around with the new set of magnetic adapters for my Slate, which is always in my work backpack.  Another day we all went out for lunch. I finally spent about two lunch hours working on just one painting that I was not really happy with when it was finished. That painting did inspire me though to create a revised illustration based on it with my iPad using the Procreate app.

One evening in my studio I painted a self portrait with white gouache going straight in with a brush without sketching myself first. I was happier with that result though it's not a complete likeness. Today I created two paintings, one from the art mannequin that I have and another from a silver Halloween skull from my anatomy collection. I liked the way the mannequin painting turned out, with the skull painting being more distorted and abstract.  

Kind of hit or miss with the gouache paintings this week, but not every sketch or painting is going to turn out to be a great work of art. I found the exercise challenging because I had to think about painting in the lights on the black paper, leaving the bare black paper as the shadows, opposite of the way I normally work. Although challenging, I enjoyed the exercise and may incorporate it into a future project.

Next up in Create-A-Thon 2017 - Paint or draw the same subject in 5 different mediums.

In Artwork, 2017 Create-A-Thon Tags 2017create_a_thon, Create-a-thon, sketch, Gouache, Black Paper, 2017 Creative Project, Painting
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