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 colors as I would for the flesh-tones where I need complete control [...]
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 tube colors applied opaquely, as opposed to my approach to painting hair [...]
My Current Flesh Tones Palette
I've had quite a few people ask about my flesh tones palette. There are probably nearly as many ways to mix flesh tones as there are artists to mix them, and none is necessarily better [...]
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. I took two different approaches for the shirt and pants. I painted [...]
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 are on in their own right, in this painting their real value [...]
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 off the brushstrokes was reduced enough for me to get a pretty [...]
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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 the surface I will be painting on. These days I paint on [...]
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 material. The answer is, yes. Lots of sketches. Usually, in the process, [...]
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 We’ve come’ was about humanity’s incredible achievements in science and engineering, in [...]
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 colors as I would for the flesh-tones where I need complete control [...]
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 tube colors applied opaquely, as opposed to my approach to painting hair [...]
My Current Flesh Tones Palette
I've had quite a few people ask about my flesh tones palette. There are probably nearly as many ways to mix flesh tones as there are artists to mix them, and none is necessarily better [...]
A New Commission
For the past several weeks, I've had a really cool project in the works that I'm excited to finally be able to share. I was contacted by a gentleman who told me that the recently [...]
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 tube colors applied opaquely, as opposed to my approach to painting hair [...]
My Current Flesh Tones Palette
I've had quite a few people ask about my flesh tones palette. There are probably nearly as many ways to mix flesh tones as there are artists to mix them, and none is necessarily better [...]
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. I took two different approaches for the shirt and pants. I painted [...]
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 are on in their own right, in this painting their real value [...]