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 [...]
Painting Color Over a Monochrome Under-painting Part 2: Hair
When making the color pass over a monochrome underpainting of hair, I use a slightly different approach. Rather than using straight, opaque tube [...]
Painting Color Over a Monochrome Underpainting – Part 1: A Face
As promised, here is a brief overview of how I approach painting flesh tones over a completed monochrome underpainting. This approach uses straight [...]
Ad Astra! A finished Painting.
The painting is finished! When last we saw our astronaut, she was painted in full color with the exception of her flight suit. [...]
Now for the Fun Part…
As much fun as the Earth, the Milky Way, The moon, and the space stations were to paint, and as lovely as they [...]
Stars Above, Blue Skies Below
I did finally finish the underpainting, and after a few days the paint had dried sufficiently that the effect of the reflective glare [...]
A Quick ‘How Far We Can Go’ Progress Report…
Well, it’s been ‘another few days’, and the underpainting is still not finished. My attention for the past week or so has been [...]
Time For Some Under-painting….In Spaaaaaace!
Once I have a final to-scale drawing for the composition finished, the next step in my process is to transfer that drawing to [...]
Brainstorming a Project
I was asked whether or not I do sketches for a composition before I hire a model or go looking for additional reference [...]
How Far We Can Go
In 2003 I did a painting of a woman astronaut aboard a space station looking down at the Earth far below. ‘How Far [...]