Prometheus: Beginning a New Commission Painting
This is an exciting day for me. Today I’m starting actual easel work on a new, large format, commission painting that has been [...]
This is an exciting day for me. Today I’m starting actual easel work on a new, large format, commission painting that has been [...]
When making the color pass over a monochrome underpainting of hair, I use a slightly different approach. Rather than using straight, opaque tube [...]
As promised, here is a brief overview of how I approach painting flesh tones over a completed monochrome underpainting. This approach uses straight [...]
The painting is finished! When last we saw our astronaut, she was painted in full color with the exception of her flight suit. [...]
As much fun as the Earth, the Milky Way, The moon, and the space stations were to paint, and as lovely as they [...]
I did finally finish the underpainting, and after a few days the paint had dried sufficiently that the effect of the reflective glare [...]
Well, it’s been ‘another few days’, and the underpainting is still not finished. My attention for the past week or so has been [...]
Once I have a final to-scale drawing for the composition finished, the next step in my process is to transfer that drawing to [...]
I was asked whether or not I do sketches for a composition before I hire a model or go looking for additional reference [...]
In 2003 I did a painting of a woman astronaut aboard a space station looking down at the Earth far below. ‘How Far [...]