Bio-Organic part II

Here’s some progress on Bio-Organic

And here’s more. As you can see, I’ve worked out where the masses and shades are going to be.

And here’s a detail shot of the foreground :

ButterflEye

Lately I’ve been noticing a sad lack in my work of what I think of as ‘Dark Traditional’. So I decided to do something about that.

After the line work was done over the newly dried tinted paper, I used Indian Ink to wash in some gradated tones.

Then I added some vein-like structures on the wings to make them more interesting.

Finally I add ink droplets to the painting, which I’ve been looking forward to doing since I started to think about the image

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The Tower Part II

This is the start of the painting I have done of the Tower. Starting from a base coat of Lemon Yellow, then worked a little Coeruleum and a darker yellow into the lemon yellow, to make it a greenish-gold. I then worked up the dark masses with a mix of ochre and burnt umber, and darkened them further with a dash of Ultramarine. I worked white into where the sky and water will be, but I’m leaving them vague until the next layer. Given the drying rates of this paint, that might be a week or so; in the meantime I may start other projects.

The Tower Part I

Here is the sketch for this idea, provisionally called The Tower. Though I originally never intended for this to be anything more than a sketch, I have since decided to use the idea as the basis for an oil painting.

The Sinister Minister part II

So here is the shaded version of the Minister.

No doubt you’ll notice that the lightning strikes and flames have been left white. Partly that’s for contrast, and partly because I was going to colour them in red and yellow as an extra strong contrast. I’m not sure I want to do that any more (I’m afraid that it’ll wreck the atmosphere of the painting): it’s times like this that I wish I had a decent scanner/image editing software combination, so I could try it out before committing to changing the paper version. I really don’t want to have to redo the whole thing.

Anyway, the best thing I’ve always found to do is to leave it for a while, and have a look again in a week or so.

The Sinister Minister

So, recently I’ve been having urges. Urges, to draw dark, boldly liney drawngs with dark subject matter. I begin this one, which I’m calling The Sinister Minister, with the below line drawing.

I’ve now progressed to the inked version, at least the stage where the lines and solid blacks are in.

Next up is the shading stage, which is definitely going to be the meat of the painting . I take my time and spit-shade all the mid- and light-tones, and leave some areas white for contrast. That’s going to have to be the next post, because it’ll take me a whole long ass time.